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OREGON LEGISLATURE
Pot lawsuit —Nebraska
Hemp ru es
and Oklahomadon't want Colorado marijuana crossing their borders — so they've sued.A4
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By Jasmine Rockow The Bulletin
Glodal warming — ls cutting emmissions to halt the temperature increase at 2degrees C going far enough?A3
While Abraham Lincoln ran for his second
slo
presidential term, a grand piano was being built in Baltimore.
Somehow it traveled across the country and
By Taylor W.Anderson
A plloto Storif —Howgrain
found its way to Bend
becomes spirits.B2
Senior High School's
SALEM — The Oregon Department of Agriculture is nearing a deadline
The Bulletin
auditorium. After near-
And a Wed exclusiveTraffic and time slow in Guadalupe, Arizona, a town rich with native traditions. beutibulletiu.cum/extras
ly 35 years of concerts, recitals and near-death experiences, it became time for a change. Thursday evening Bend High said goodbye
to createrules forhemp
growers that will give the state regulatory power over a third cannabis in-
its new concert piano at the Holiday Choir Con-
dustry that will be legal in Oregon but illegal at the federal level. The rule-making process has been slow, with
cert. The used, 7-foot
newly written draft rules
Yamaha grand piano
coming more than five yearsafterthe Legislature legalized hemp A review of the rules shows the state still needs to make chang-
to the old and unveiled
EDITOR'SCHOICE
replaces the school's
Was school attack in Pakistan a tipping point? By Declan Walsh New York Times News Service
LONDON — Only a
week ago, the Red Mosque seemed a nearly untouchable bastion of Islamist extremism in
ANALYSIS Pakistan, a notorious
old, 9-foot Knabe, a piano built in America during the Civil War that's seen its share of drama and abuse over
interference if farmers
concert's audience reveled in the Yamaha's robust sound during accompanist Stephanie King's solo performance of Chopin's "Fantaisie-Impromptu."
get seeds in the ground in spring 2015.
dustry in Oregon while other states have already
had successful growing seasons. SeeHemp/A4
MacSween said it was
such poor repair."
sight never seen since the Taliban insurgencybegan
MacSween and his students raised the
in2007.
$32,000 needed to
Whathas changed is the mass killing of schoolchil-
purchase the Yamaha
assault on a Peshawar school Tuesday, Pakistan's leadership had been consumed bypolitical war games, while the debate on
law, which as written threatens to stifle the in-
choir teacher Luke
insults at the chief deric — a
matized the country. Inthe months before the shocking
quicklychange thehemp -ee
as the old piano was,
has a lot of oomph to fill this space, but it was in
murderedby Pakistani Taliban gunmen in a violent cataclysmthat has trau-
rules, the department now needs the Legislature to
at Classic Pianos in Portland. As beloved
of protesters stood at the mosque gates and howled
dren, at least 132 of them,
After taking what ad-
vocates call a cautious approach to writing the hemp
Meanwhile, the Knabe sits in silence
turned when hundreds
abad known forproducing radicalized, and sometimes heavily armed, graduates. On Friday evening, though, the tables were
areprotectedfrom federal
n
the past 150 years. The
time for an upgrade. "It's reallybeautiful, and has this brilliant sound, a really unique sound," he said recently, while sitting in the middle of Bend High's spacious auditorium. "It
seminary in central Islam-
es toensure license holders rt
in a variety of ways. They went caroling and sang musical telegrams called Valegrams for Valentine's Day. They earned a $5,500 grant from the Grammy Foundation. People who donated more than $100
IN CONGRESS
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Accompanist Stephanie King plays the Bend Senior High School's new grand piano during a holiday concert at the school Thursday.
Opening the door for hemp By Taylor W.Anderson The Bulletin
SALEM — Amid a
to the choir got a plaque with
new piano. Once enough montheir name mounted on the ey was raised, Bend High's piano. Money earned from the choir traded in the Knabe. Central Oregon Symphony, Piano technician Randy
technician school from his
which holds concerts at the
Potter is sad to see it go. He
rived in Bend in the 1980s.
school, also went toward the
runs a business and piano
home in Bend. He and other
local technicians have been servicing the piano since it arSee Piano/A4
fight that is spreading to Congress from the 18 states that have legalized hemp production, unlikely partnerships between congressmen have formed in Washington, D.C. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, a Portland liberal Dem-
militancy was dominated
ocrat who has spent four
bybigoted and conspiracy-ladenvoices, like the
decades working to change federal drug policy, paired
clerics of the Red Mosque.
Now, unitedby grief, rage and political necessity, Pa-
Employmentmaybefactor incollege ratings
kistanis from across society
By Nick Anderson
are speaking with unusual force and clarity about the
The Washington Post
militant threat that blights their society. For the first
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said
time, religious parties and
Friday that it is considering a college-rating system that
ultraconservative politi-
would measure whether
cians havebeen forcedto publicly shun the movement
graduates earn enough money after leaving school to be substantially above the poverty level.
by name. And while street
demonstrations against militancy have been relatively
In response to those who
with Rep. Thomas Massie,
a Kentucky Republican, among others, to createa
worry that ratings could be skewed in favor of colleges with many graduates who
multiple of the full-time minimum wage projected over a
strike it rich, the Education
Coupled with analysis of longer-term earnings after
to figure out whether former students are able to "pay their
provision into the 2014
former students have enough
bills, pay their student loans and begin to get on in life"
Farm Bill that separated
time to settle into a career, the department said, that
soon after they leave school.
Department is weighing a proposal to set an earnings benchmark for recent graduates and former students that it calls "substantial
employment." That could be 200 percent of the poverty level or a
year, the department said.
information could be a basis for rating a school's "labor market success." Ted Mitchell, undersec-
retary of education, told
major shift in the federal
reportersin a conference call that the department is trying
government's view of hemp early this year.
"We'renot outto m easure colleges that make people rich," he said. SeeRating/A4
The two helped put a
marijuana and hemp for research purposes, effectively creating an outlet states could use to create
hemp programs. SeeCongress/A4
small so far, they touched
several cities in Pakistan, including a gathering of students outside the school in
Peshawar. Protest leaders believe the public will support them. SeePakistan /A6
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