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• I(ate Brown wants universal voter registration
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justices haveagreed to take up gay marriage during this term — meaning we maygetananswer for all 50 states.A2
Topping a list of 13 bills that Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown will push in 2015 is one that would
add 300,000 voters to the state's registry and eventu-
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to its rolls. Under the law,
eligible voters wouldn't have to do anything to
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register to vote. The state
would do it for them using records the Department of Motor Vehicles has on file.
idea for France is ridiculed
Brown is proposing the law again this year. Opponents are wary of costs and sayvoters should take initiative to register if they want to be involved in
the votingprocess. Supporters saytheprocesswould continue a century-long progressive approach to elections in Oregon and
By Matt Apuzzo and Steven Erlanger
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WASHINGTON — The
arrests came quickly after
Rick Roy, owner and brewer at Steens Mountain Brewing, stands in his brewing facility — and home — in Burns on Thursday. Roy started operating his nanobrewery after realizing there were no local beers available from Burns.
seamlessprocessesforvoting in the country.
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
There was the Muslim man suspected of making anti-American statements. • Pakistan
The Middle protests E astern groFrance,A2 cer, whose shop, a tipster
said,had more clerksthan
it needed. Soon hundreds of men, mostly Muslims, were in U.S. jails on immigration charges, suspected ofbeing involved in the attacks. They were not.
After shootings last week at a satirical newspaper and a kosher market
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these old homesteads," says
BURNS — Rick Roy al-
ways kept the hops in the back of his mind.
Roy, 54, who spent several
years brewing his own beer when he lived in Colorado.
An avid hunter and fisherman — and a bit of a beer
"I kept those locations in
connoisseur — Roy occasionally found wild patches of the plant, a key flavoring ingredient for many beers, in remote parts of Harney
the back of my mind, just in
County after he and his
Brewing Company, the smallest brewery in the state according to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission's latest numbers, is up and running in Burns, a rural ranching community of ap-
case."
Lovers of good beer should be glad he did. Roy's Steens Mountain
family moved to Burns 16 years ago when he took a job with the Bureau of Land
Management. "In my travels, I'd run into
hops growing out there at
proximately 2,800 people 130 miles east of Bend. Working on a half-barrel system, Roy
half-barrel at a time, every
sold.55 barrels of beer-
that uses a 3-barrel or small-
about 17 gallons — mainly in October of last year, his first month of selling, according to the OLCC's most recent
er system — is run out of a 900-square-foot, 112-yearold house he and his wife own just two blocks west of
report. For comparison, De-
downtown Burns.
Saturday," says Roy, whose nanobrewery — a brewery
When fracking goes bust
Roy, with the help of his breweryin the state behind wife and 10 children, brews the Red Hook/Widmer/Kona/ and bottles all of Steens Omission alliance, produced Mountain Brewing's beer and sold about 77,000barrels in the two-bedroom house in Oregon during that same with equipment, for the most pertod. part, he made himself. schutes Brewery, the largest
"When I brew, I brew a
By Lydia Depillis The Washington Post
WELLSBORO, Pa.-
The sand trucks barely rumble along the quaint
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in Paris, France finds itself grappling anew with a
main street in this town
question the United States
is still confronting: How to fight terrorism while protecting civil liberties? The
answer is acute in a country that is sharply critical of U.S. counterterrorism
policies, which many see as a fearful overreaction to 9/11. Already in Europe,
counterterrorism officials have arrested dozens of
people and France is mulling tough new anti-terrorism laws.
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Navajo Nation faces aleadership crisis By Julie Turkewitz
sage of power. Conspicuously New York Times News Service absent, however, was one key FORT DEFIANCE, Ariz.player: a new president. Crisp suits. A roaringband. The Navajo Nation, a semiBeaming first-term lawmakers. autonomous sovereign state The inauguration held here this
that suffers from chronic
weekfor the newest government of the Navajo Nation held the trappings of a typical pas-
poverty and unemployment, is now facing what many are calling its greatest political
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Deschene, whom many tribe
get from one end of town to
by a requirement that its pres-
members thought could successfullylead the Navajo, was disqualified for his lack of fluency, prompting a fight that led the tribe to postpone its 2014
another. But the trucks also came with business: Mining companies had started drilling wells all over the rolling hills surrounding
presidential election twice.
Wellsboro, extracting the
ident be fluent in the Navajo language, which is prized as a cultural legacy and for its vital role in transmitting military secrets during World War II.
One candidate heading into
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