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SALEM — Newspaper edi torial boards across Oregon have endorsed Dr. Knute Bue hler, the Bend based Republi can candidate for secretary of state. On Wednes Buehler day, he added Portland's al ternative paper, Willamette Week, to the list. Many of the same newspa pers supported his opponent, incumbent Secretary of State Kate Brown, when she ran in 2008. The editorial boards at The Oregonian, the state' s largest daily newspaper, and Willamette Week, the alterna tive weekly newspaper, both of Portland, concurred on Buehler. "It's not rare for them to agree," said Jim Moore, a po litical scientist at Pacific Uni versity, in Forest Grove. "But it is rare for them to agree on a Republican candidate." Moore said it's unlikely, however, that widespread agreement by editorial vot ers will influence ballots in Buehler's favor this late in the
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Photos by Rob Kerri The Bulletin
The 20,000-pound well head apparatus is the center of attentionWednesday at the AltaRock Energy geothermal site near Newberry Crater. Workers handle a fiber optic line that malfunctioned and postponed initial stimulation.
• Geothermal probes will soon start shifting the ground beneath Newberry By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
ometime this weekend, someone sitting in front of a computer monitor inside a trailer high on the north west flank of Newberry Crater should see a flicker of light indicat ing an earthquake happening right beneath their feet. The earthquake will be cause for celebration, a sign the 30-plus year effort to tap Newberry for geothermal power is moving in the right direction. Wednesday marked the begin ning of what project engineers
Earthquakemonitoring The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has created a website that allows the public to monitor earthquakes at the Newberry test site. Go to
Bend city councilors said Wednesday night they will leave the new noise ordi nance alone for now, despite concerns from musicians and concert venue operatorsthat • Exactly the law is hurting business. what Two musicians and Wesley does the Ladd, one of the owners of The Horned Hand, presented a list or d inance of suggested changes to the say?AS City Counctl on Wednesday night. They asked the city to require decibel readings with every noise complaint, to take the readings from the lo cation of the complainant and to standard ize the warning and citation process. As the ordinance is currently written, "it just leaves a lot of officer discretion," Ladd said. In the past, police officers who respond ed to noise complaints simply asked The Horned Hand to turn down the music and did not issue citations, Ladd said. He has saidpoliceofficersissued The Horned Hand a citation for violating the noise ordinance
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and geologists call "stimulation," an attempt to deliberately and carefully crack open the earth by forcing water down a well 10,000 feet deep. Stimulation is scheduled to continue over the next month, ideally opening up interconnected reservoirs of tiny cracks — creating small earth
quakes in the process — where 20 million gallons of water can be storedin the superheated rock. Drawn to the surface through a separate well, the boil ing water would create steam to spin electricity-generating turbines. See Geothermal /A5
The Oregonian, Roseburg's News Review, The Daily Asto rian, Daily Courier in Grant' s Pass, Eugene's Register Guard and The Bulletin also urged voters to pick Buehler. Willamette Week's en dorsement followed similar themes that editorial boards at other newspapers have focused on.
Two large holding ponds take up much of the surface of the Alta Rock Energy site near Newberry Crater.
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TOP NEWS STING: FBI arrests man in New York bomb plot, A3 IRAN: Officials outraged at media blackout, A3 TODAY'S WEATHER
In BoyScouts reports, a pattern of molestation By Jason Fetch and Kim Christensen Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — The thousands of men expelled from the Boy Scouts of America on suspicion of molesting children came from all walks of life — teachers and plumbers, doctors and bus drivers, politicians and po licemen. Theyranged in age from teens to senior citizens and came from troops in ev ery state. As the Scouts long have said, the files suggest no single profile of a predator. But a close look at nearly 1,900 confidential files opened between 1970 and 1991 revealed a pattern: Many suspected molestersengaged in what psychologists today call "grooming be havior," a gradual seduction in which preda tors lavish children with attention, favors and gifts. In hundreds ofcases, Scout leaders al lowed the boys to drive cars, drink alcohol or look at pornography. See Scouts /A6
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Players for Voukefalas, an amateur soccer club in Greece,warm up before a match wearing their pink practice uniforms. The cash-strapped team found a way to pay its bills, with help from the world's oldest profession.