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Passengers queue up Tuesday at the Alaska Airlines counter at Redmond Airport, next to the vacant space once used by Allegiant, which pulled out of Redmond in May 2012. The airport expected a 13 percent drop in revenue but so far has had less than half that.
hostage by R owan terrorists. Nearly 10 years ago, it was a son drowned in the Deschutes River. Gordon Rowan was among thethree Americans killed at the In Amenas oil field in Algeria last week. He was 58. Jay Rowan, Gordy Rowan's nephew, died Aug. 9, 2003, after tumbling over Awbrey Falls while tubing with a buddy. He was 20. Gordon's brother, John Rowan, 61, lives in an assisted-living community in Redmond; John's wife, Judy, 59, also lives in Redmond.
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ESPNholds Te'o story, then loses it By Richard Sandomir and James Andrew Miller
New York Times News Service
On Jan. 16, a fierce debate raged inside ESPN. Reporters for the network had been working for almost a week trying to nail down an extraordinary story: Manti Te'o's girlfriend — the one whose death from leukemia had haunted and inspired him during a triumphant year on the field for Notre Dame — might be a hoax. Some inside the network argued that its reporters — who had initially been put onto the story by Tom Condon, Te'o's agent — had enough material to justify going public. Others were less sure and pushed to get an interview with Te'o, something that might happen as soon as the next day. For them, it was a question of journalistic standards. They didn't want to be wrong. "We were very close," said Vince Doria, ESPN's chief for news. "We wanted to be very careful." ESPN held the story, and then lost it. That afternoon, Deadspin, the sports website, reported that the girlfriend did not exist. She had never met with or talked to Te'o over the many months he thought he was in contact with a thoughtful, gravely ill Stanford alumna named Lennay Kekua. Deadspin strongly suggested that Te'o was complicit in the fake tale and had exploited it to bolster his bid for acclaim. SeeESPN/A4
When Redmond Airport lost one of its four airline carriers last May — less than two years after taking on $25 million in bonds to increase the size of its terminal nearly six-fold — it braced for as much as a 13 percent drop in revenue. Mid-year budget projections are painting a rosier picture for the nearly 100-year-old facility. But a depressed economy and sizable debt payments could still force the airport to dip into its reserves. "Getting a new facility meant new expense, a higher cost of operation," said Jason Neff, Redmond city finance manager. "Then we had the debt for the building on top of that. The recession hit, flights were lost and we tightened up the budget quite a bit." The mid-year numbers show a drop in revenue closer to 5 percent since Allegiant Airlines left last summer, according to Airport Director Kim Dickie. The city owns the airport, but it operates as a self-supporting enterprise fund. In addition to passenger facility charges and carrier fees, the airport generates income from parking fees, rental car commissions and from leased land it owns surrounding the airport. A yearlong project to remodel the airport terminal, begun in2008, enlarged the building from 24,000 square feet to 140,000 but coincided with a wider economic free-fall. State and federal grants funded roughly half of the $40 million expansion, a bond issue in September 2009 raisedthe difference. The bond payments were structured to increase in 2012-13 by $336,256 annually. "Previously, we were just paying interest because that's the way the loan was structured, to ease into the payments," said Neff. "Now we're paying on principal and our payments should level off at about $1.7 million." SeeAirport/A4
By Annie Sweeney
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The airport expected a sizable drop in boardings when Allegiant pulled out in 2012. But the dip was less than anticipated. The chart
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Cyanide killings can be baffling
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Police find themselves in largely uncharted territory investigating such a rare method for murder, though Chicago, of course, is home to the nation's most infamous cyanide case — the 1982 Tylenol killings, which remain unsolved. But in a handful of other cases across the country, detectivesand prosecutors have embarked on probes of cyanide homicides that were each intriguing in their own way. SeeCyanide/A5
Cut spending'? One program showshow hard it can be By David A. Fahrenthold The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — It took up just three lines in Congress's last big appropriations bill, on Page 123 of 487. But it is a legend, a wonk's campfire story. The government spending that nobody could kill. "For payment to the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation ...
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$450,000, to remain available until expended." This is the great survivor in the vast ecosystem of federal funding: a 20 year-old program that gives out cash prizes for science. President Barack Obama has called it inefficient and redundant.Both Obama and the House GOP — people who agree on almost nothing — have tried to eliminate it.
Each time, however, it has been saved by a powerful friend in the Senate. Now, Washington is bracing for another crisis over spending: It will begin in earnest next week, as Republicans press Obama for spending cuts in exchange for raising the national debt limit. But the Columbus foundation,
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based in Auburn, N.Y., shows that both parties are still struggling to turn their hard-nosed rhetoric about austerity into action. After all, it would be hard to imagine a less painful cut than this one: a program with two full-time employees and bipartisan enemies. And yet, it lives. SeeSpending/A4
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