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Faster golf —Howto pick up the pace of play ... andhow that can benefit your game.C1
The $250 million Tumdlr man —A mother's advice to leave school never paid off so well.A6
• Death toll is mounting, and two elementary schoolsarecrushed • Photos from the devastation • Deadliest tornadoessince 1900 • In the path of a 1999 twister, A5 The tornado passing across part of Oklahoma City Monday.
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disease research.A3
By Lauren Dake
approve a measure extending a tax on hospitals and nursing homes. The normally noncontroversial tax is being blocked by Senate Republicans, who hope they can leverage the
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Apple's tax tactics —The company's elaborate offshore web allows it to avoid paying $44 billion, and the Senate has
questions.C6 Odituary —Ray Manzarek's keyboards set the moodfor The Doors andsome of rock's most enduring songs.BS
SALEM — Billions of dollars in federal funds floated to the state to overhaul the health care system could be on the line if lawmakers don't
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measure to make deeper cuts to the state's pension system. Sen. Richard Devlin, D-Tualatin, one of the lawmakers charged with crafting the state's budget, said he can't
really fathom what it would mean if the provider tax measure failed. When the state pushed ahead with its health care reforms,the federal government floated $1.9 billion to
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Oregon last year, with the promise the state would start providing better health care at lower costs. Slashing the tax would likely make that impossible. See Hospital tax/A4
Cast your vote today
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Drop sites:Ballots must be received bycounty elections officials no later than 8p.m.
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list of drop sites is atwww.
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Or, call your county clerk: • Deschutes: 541-388-6546 • Crook: 541-447-6553 • Jefferson: 541-475-4451
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By Zachary A. Goldfarb and Juliet Eilperin The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — The White House offered a new account Monday of how and when it learned that the Internal Revenue Service had improperly targeted conservative groups, saying that some senior officials were informed of the findings but that President Barack Obama was not. The assertions came as the White House struggled to contain a political uproar over the IRS, which targeted conservative organizations for extra scrutiny, as well as over the administration's aggressive pursuit of journalists in leak investigations and its handling of the deadlyattacksinBenghazi, Libya, in September. White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler told White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and other top officials about the IRS findings nearly a month ago, press secretary Jay Carney said Monday. Ruemmler decided the information should not be transmitted to the president because the IRS inspector general's report was not finished, he said. "The judgment of the White House counsel was that this is not a matter that she should convey to the president," Carney told reporters during a tense news briefing. See IRS /A4
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Doctors were not sure if Jovany Medina would ever walk again after the up-and-coming amateur boxer took a blow to the head in March 2009 that left him in a coma. He stayed at St. Charles Bend for three months and continued to undergo therapy after returning home. Now Medina is working full time at Central Oregon Seed.
Ballot returns:County clerks announced the following ballot returns as of Monday: • Deschutes: 25.3 percent
• Crook: 30.8 percent • Jefferson 34 4 percent
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MADRAS — When Jovany Medina gets up each morning and goes into the kitchen for breakfast before his shift at Central Oregon Seed Inc., he sees a bookshelf filled with trophies, medals and photos of himself in boxing gear and graduation gown. It'd be understandable if the Madras man wanted to turn away, pack up all those trophies and ribbons and fill the bookshelf with something else. But the 23-year-old, who four years ago suffered a massive brain injury during a state boxing match, loves to look at them.
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ac ' He will never box again, but Medina wants people to know: "I'm back." And it's true. It's hard to tell that four years ago Medina was in a coma and doctors were saying he may never walk or talk again. Today, his speech in both English and Spanish is strong, with a nearly imperceptible slur. His mother says sometimes his memory fails him, and he has a couple of noticeable scars. But like he says, he's back. "I'm back to normal," he said, wearing his Central Oregon Seed uniform, while at home for lunch Wednesday. "I can do the same stuff I used to do." See Medina/A4
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Election worker Franklin Yates takes ballot envelopes from a motorist last fall while working in the election booth near the Deschutes County Clerk's office in Bend. Consult the information above for current ballot drop-off locations.
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