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• Internal audit looks atdistrict attorney's ITsystem, performancemeasures,cashhandling
audit. About four months into his
By Claire Withycombe
in an internal audit that it
ommended in February
The Bulletin
may be time to reconsider
Four years after former Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty switched to an independent
how the now separate IT
that the district attorney's office could work more with
computer system for his office, the county determined
Mono BasinSagegrouse
A video released bythe Islamic State shows off its miliary prowess — andexperts are alarmed. bentidulletin.cem/extras
By Tyler Leeds The Bulletin
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new study shows that Central Oregonians understand
dimate change is affecting the planet, but residents are more aligned on what to do about it than what's driving
the change. The survey, which came out of Yale University's Project on Climate Change
By Michael Doyle
Communication, is intend-
McClatchy Washington Bureau
fornia raisin production
ed to provide the first-ever detailed look at climate change public opinion on the county level. The results are based on
might be in jeopardy following a heated Su-
from across the country
preme Court argument
and a model that predicts
Wednesday. With a blend of skeptical
opinions based on demographic characteristics.
questions and scornful
One of the academics involved in the study, Peter
WASHINGTON — A
decades-old program for managing surplus Cali-
asides, conservative justices in particular voiced doubts about the program,
which can require raisin handlers to set aside a portion of the crop for a
reserve. By keeping some raisins off the free market, the program is supposed to stabilize prices. "Central planning was thought to work very well in 1937," Justice Antonin Scalia said, "and Russia tried it for a long time." See Raisins /A4
13,000 survey responses
Howe, an assistant professor at Utah State University,
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"The main reason we wanted to do this project is because decisions about
howto respond to global warming are not just hap-
relevant information about
howthe public thinks about these issues," said Howe, who teaches in Utah State's
department of environment and society. As is the case nation-
ally, a majority of Central Oregonians believe global waHI11Ilg 1s occurrlQg and
support taking steps to reduce its impacts, including designating carbon dioxide as apollutant. However, as is also
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has proposed expanded performance measuresand evaluating the responsibilities of its information technology department. SeeDA transition/A5
ensure certain items are in
"good order" and to serve as oversight of outgoing elected officials, according to the
Elizabeth Marino, who runs
OSU-Cascades' socialscience program and coordinated the recent conference. SeeClimate change/A5
Use offood stampson the rise in somestates By Carla K. Johnson and David Mercer
Using data from a2008-14 nationwide survey,Yale's Climate ChangeCommunication project has measured how people viewclimate change. Herearethe percentages of people in Central Oregon's three counties (compared with state andU.S. averages) who believe in global warming, who areworried about it in some fashion andwho support certain policies to address it.
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the enrollment increases were not huge, ranging from I percent to 6 percent over two years, according to an Associated Press
analysis. SeeFood stamps/A5
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LOS ANGELES — The
cardiac surgeon had unknowingly spread a staph infection from the rash on
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his hand to the hearts of at least five patients by the
time Los Angeles County health investigators learned of the outbreak.
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humans and if the scientific
taught reflect the data from the survey pretty well," said
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and we wanted to give local decision-makersmore
true nationally, locals are more divided over whether warming is caused by
The Bulletin
auditor, David Givans, rec-
around the world.
pening at the national level,
TODAY'S WEATHER
The county's internal
trict Attorney John Hummel
of county offices undergoing leadership transitions to
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EDITOR'SCHOICE
skeptical of raisin rules
resources.
the county on information technology as well as consider implementing more measures to evaluate its performance.
term, Deschutes County Dis-
os in enra re on e wor is warmin
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appear
departments of the DA's office and county could share
The county's audit committee reviews the operations
CLIMATE CHANGE
— The Obama administration won't list the bird that lives on the Nevada-California border as endangered.B3
Justices
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Investigators didn't ultimately tie any deaths to the 2012 outbreak, but four
patients needed additional surgery because of the infection.
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of the case came a year later in a little-noticed
appendix to the health department's 350-page annual report. It referred only to "Hospital A." Even now, the name of the hospital
remains secret. SeeHospitals/A6