Bulletin Daily Paper 02-18-15

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Serving Central Oregon since190375

WEDNESDAY February18,2015

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bendbulletin.com TODAY'S READERBOARD

SWEARING-IN IN SALEM

SOUTHEAST BEND

Brown aims to

POrtS SIOWdOWn — Central Oregon businesses arehaving to find ways to copewith the shipping snarls.C6

Stripes for the new two-lane roundabout at Reed Market and 15th aren't due till spring — but driving it now is still doable. Girls dasketdall — Summit trails early but recovers from the slow start for a 51-39 win over Ridgeview.C1

rebuild trust By Jonathan J. Cooper The Associated Press

SALEM — Oregon's incoming governor, Kate Brown, plans to call for

Scandal in Israel —You'l never guess howmuchBenjaminNetanyahu spendson takeout.AS

efforts to restore trust in

Secrecy inCuda —The

an ethics

government when she rises to the state's top job after

likely successor to Castro keeps a low profile.A6

scandal that

prompted the resignation of John Kitzhaber.

And a Wed exclusiveCon artists are using jury duty to scare people into handing over large sums of money. benttbulletin.cem/extras

Brown, currently the secretary of state, is being thrust ahead with little

notice. She'll be sworn in today in front of a joint Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin

EDITOR'5CHOICE

Obama's legacy isin the hands ofjudges By David Nakamura and Juliet Eilperin

Cars drive the new two-lane Reed Market roundabout Monday. It's been open since November, but weather delayed the striping between the lanes, so for now, drivers are figuring it out on their own.

By Jasmine Rockow

Inside striping would have

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required the city to close

A lack of lane lines in the two-lane roundabout at SE Reed Market Road and 15th

the roundabout, said Ryan Oster, manager of the Reed

Street in Bend might have some drivers nervous.

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construction begins on the north side of Reed Market.

New reundadeuI -'

The city pays a fee every

Market Road project.

"We will have internal striping that designates lanes

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to restore the public's trust

Oster said. There has been one acci-

in government," Brown's office said Tuesday. "And she'll speak to her bipartisan approach to helping Oregon's working families

dent in the roundabout since

make ends meet."

cost and do it all in one shot,"

once we do permanent strip-

in November after delays due to early wintry weather.

ing in the spring," Oster said. Despite unseasonably

The weather also prevent-

warm weather, the city is

ed the city from painting permanent lane striping, so temporary striping was put down on the roundabout's entry and exit points, but not

waiting to paint until other

15th streets is under con-

it opened in November. The Dec. 24one-vehicle accident

construction projects in the

struction. Once concrete is

was caused by inclement

Reed Market Road area are finished, Oster said. The

poured in the spring, Oster said, the city will have the

south side of Reed Market Road between Third and

road and the roundabout

weather, accordingto John Beck, traffic officer withthe city of Bend.

inside the roundabout itself.

permanently striped before

See Roundabout/A4

WASHINGTON — Pres-

deportation. Instead, the

administration abruptly postponed its launch plans after a federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked implementation of the White House initiative.

In a decision late Monday, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that

the deferred-deportation program should not move forward while a lawsuit

filed by 26 states challenging it was being decided. Though Hanen did not rule on the constitutional-

ity of Obama's November immigration order, he said there was sufficient merit to warrant a suspension of the new program while the case goes forward.

Navigating anewloundadout The new roundabout at SEReedMarket Road and 15th Street features double lanes of entry and — in all but one case —single exit lanes.

Here's how it works for motorists:

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• As you approach the roundabout, choose your lane. If you're going left or straight, stay left. If you're going right, stay right. • Enter the roundabout when your chosen lane is clear. • Always yield to the center lane, as well as to pedestrians and cyclists. • Allow large trucks to use both lanes. • Use your blinker if you need to change lanes. • Use your blinker to exit.

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Here's how it works for cyclists:

ture. After taking the oath, she'll give a speech that will mark her first public discussion about her goals as governor. "She'll lay out a series of immediate reforms needed

paint, "So to save taxpayers money, we try to bundle the

The roundabout opened

Greg Cross / The Bulletin

session of the state Legisla-

time crews come out to

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ident Barack Obama's new immigration program was supposed to begin accepting applications today from thousands of illegal immigrants hoping for relief from the threat of sudden

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SeeBrown/A4

OREGON LEGISLATURE

Carbon bill advances amid scandal By Taylor W.Anderson The Bulletin

SALEM — Oregon

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• Decide whether you want to act as a pedestrian or a vehicle. You may walk your bike andusethe crosswalks as a pedestrian would or you may ride, choosing a lane as a vehicle would. If you do, ride defensively, becausemotorists might not see you.

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Republicans lost a battle Tuesday against a bill that seeks to lower greenhouse gas emissions by requiring oil companies to change gas blends or buy credits to offset carbon output, as the bill passed the Senate on a 17-13 vote.

The program is being

The one double-entry, double-exit route

touted as a way to combat

Thenorthboundroute en 15tb Street is the one unlike the others. It features a double entry and double exit, to ensure there's no bottleneck if a train is crossing ReedMarket. If you're entering northbound • • on15th Street, choose the right lane if you'll be turning right onto Reed Market or going straight on15th (as shown onthe sign at left), but choose the left lane if you're going west onto L[FTLli4[ IQjiILli4[ Reed Market or trying to flip back southbound on15th.

the state's biggest portion of greenhouse gas emissions, which accounts for

m ore than 50 percentof Oregon's total emissions, according to data from the U.S. Environmental ProGreg Cross/The Bulletin

tection Agency. SeeCarbon bill/A5

All told, Obama's immigration actions are project-

ed to benefit as many as five million immigrants, many of whom could receive workpermits if they qualified. The effects of Hanen's procedural ruling rippled through Washington and underscored a broader challenge to the president as he seeks to

solidify the legacy of his administration.

Along with immigration, the fate of two of Obama's other signature initiatives

The hottest topic of the 2016campaign: Robots? By Jim Tankersley The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Presi-

dential candidates have been arguing for more than two decades now about whether free trade is hurting middle-class workers. In 2016, they might launch a similar debate about

robots and computers. As campaign demons go, automation might be the new outsourcing. Technological advancements are making it easier for

true in traditional blue-collar

bastions of middle-class work, such as manufacturing, and increasingly in higher-skill white-collar sectors such as accounting. companies to buy software or Experts divide sharply on machines to handle tasks once whether this is good or bad for performed bypeople. That's the U.S. economy. Techno-op-

timists predict big breakWhere almost everyone throughs that create good jobs agrees is that the phenomenon that would be as unimaginable is growing and that helping today as "auto worker" was in already strained middle-class the late1800s.Pessimists fore- workers adjust to it calls for cast an economy where only big policy debates over educaa small slice of workers have

tion, entrepreneurship and the

the skills and education to stay

social safety net. SeeRobots/A5

ahead of the automation wave.

— a landmark health care

law and a series of aggressive executive actions on climate change — now rests in the hands of federal judges. SeeObama/A4

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