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One way the 80TH PERCENTILE Bend Fire RESPONSE TIMES 80 percent of calls are responded to Department within this time, shown in minutes measures its performance is 12 by response 9:59 9:97 9:10 992 9:22 times. The 80th percentile response time is a common measure used bythe department. Source: City of Bend
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utes,59 seconds in 2011, up from 9 minutes, 22 seconds in 2010, accordStatistics released by the Bend ing to the department. The remainFire D epartment o n Th u r sday ing calls took longer. showed that it took firefighters and Fire Chief Larry Huhn said those medics longer to reach people who response times could continue to inneeded help in 2011 than in the pre- crease because unless the city finds vious four years. a way toincrease revenue tothe Fire The Fire Department responded Department in the next two years, to 80 percent of calls within 9 min- there will be layoffs. The Bulletin
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"If we don't get extra funding above our base rate over these next two years, we're going to have to lay off up to half a dozen people," Huhn said in a n i n terview this week. "We've lost 10 people through attrition over the last three years." The department has approximately 80 employees, Huhn said. See Fire/A6
By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
SALEM — Oregon Democratic lawmakers made history Thursday when they selected Rep. Tina Kotek as their nominee to hold the speaker's gavel, putting her in line to be the nation's first
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openly lesbian House s peake r . Democrats broke the historic 30-30 split in the House by gaining four seats in the recent election, giving the party a 34-26 edge over their Republican counterparts. In the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions, Rep. Arnie Roblan, a Democrat from Coos Bay, shared the speaker duties with Rep. Bruce Hanna, a Republican from Roseburg. Roblan and Hanna were hailed for helping their parties avoid partisan breakdowns that were evident in other states. Roblan said he's confident Kotek will keep the spirit of bipartisanship intact. "She's thoughtful," Roblan said. "She comes from the Portland area and sometimes people in rural areas get nervous about that. But she listens intently to the needs that exist across the state." Kotek, 46, will work closely with Rep. Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, who was selected last week to be the House Republican Leader. During McLane's first legislative session, his desk on the House floor was next to Kotek's desk. SeeSpeaker/A6 Kotek
By Jackie Calmes New Yorh Times News Service
Many Americans must be wondering: What is all this about a "fiscal cliff"'? And why did it receive so little attention during the presidential
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he intersection of Brookswood Boulevard and Powers Road reopens today at 1 p.m. with a new roundabout. Another intersection with a new roundabout, at Northeast 18th Street and Empire Avenue, is scheduled to reopen Tuesday. Both intersections had been closed for four months while the roundabouts were built. The new roundabouts were part of the general obligation bond approved by voters in May 2011. The bond authorized $30 million in
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WASHINGTON — Paula Broadwell was a rising star who seemed destined for a
When Awilda Jimenez started forgetting things last year, her husband, Edwin, felt a shiver of dread. Her mother had developed Alzheimer's in her 50s. Could his wife, 61, have it, too? He learned there was a new brain scan to diagnose the disease and nervously agreed to get her one, secretly hoping it would lay his fears to rest. "The scan was floridly positive," said her doctor, Adam Fleisher, director of brain imaging at the Banner Alzheimer's Institute in Phoenix. The Jimenezes have struggled ever since to deal with this devastating news. They are confronting a problem of the new era of Alzheimer's research: The ability to detect the disease has leapt far ahead of treatments. SeeAlzheimer's/A4
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Retired Gen. David Petraeus shakes handswith Paula Broadwell in this July 2011 photo. Revelations of an affair between the two caused Petraeus to resign as CIA director and has led to investigations of other military leaders who may have engaged in unethical behavior.
policy. A West Point graduate who excelled in triathlons, she was pursuing a doctorate at Harvard University and had found a mentor in Gen. David Petraeus, an iconic U.S. military leader. But in 2007, Broadwell was asked to leave the doctoral program at Harvard, where she had first met Petraeus a year earlier, because her course work didn't meet its demanding standards, according to people familiar with what happened there.
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What Broadwell did next w as a signature feature of her resilience and drive — and what detractors say is her tendency to overstate her credentials. Broadwell, 40, eventually leveragedherunfinished dissertation into a best-selling biography of Petraeus, a project that gave her almost unlimited access to the general when he commanded U.S. troops in Afghanistan and later when he was director of the CIA. See Broadwell/A5
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Well, it's ' The complicated — the sonation's fiscal called clrff crisis that is. And could hit most solu tions are posch o o ls hard,A4 litically painful. In a rare show of bipartisanship, or mutual protection, both parties ducked the debate until after the election. What follows is an attempt to demystify the issue that President Barack Obama and thelame-duck Congress now are struggling over, and perhaps will occupy them right through the holidays. • What is the fiscal • cliff? • The term refers to • more than 8500 billion in tax increases and across-the-board spending cuts scheduled to take effectafterJan. 1— for fiscal year 2013 aloneunless Obama and Republicans reach an alternative deficit-reduction deal. Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, coined the metaphor "fiscal chff" last wmter to warn of the dangerous yet avoidable drop-off ahead in the nation's fiscal path. It stuck. • If we go over this • so-called cliff, what happens? • Taxes would rise for • nearly every taxpayer and many businesses. Financing for most federal programs, military and domestic, would be cut. Many economists say that while annual budget deficits are too high, these new taxes and spending cuts would be too much deficit reduction, too suddenly, for a weak economy. SeeCliff/A4
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