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TODAY'S READERBOARD

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esc u es

• 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,

• Obama

was recently in Bend for a sustainabili-

talks

ty conference climate ho s ted simulchange,A2 taneously at OSU-Cascades and other universities

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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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CHICAGO — President care law has had a sur-

prising side effect: In some states, it appears to be enticing more Americans to

apply for food stamps, even as the economy improves. New,

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makingit easier for people to enroll in government benefit programs, including insurance coverage and food stamps. In most affected states,

... and areWORRIEDabout it

54% 47/o 61/o 57% 52%

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

... and areworried it will harm FUTUREGENERATIONS

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Hos ital shield in event of outbreak By Melody Petersen Los Angeles Times

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.

Requiring utilities to produceat least 20%RENEWABLEPOWER

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humans and if the scientific

taught reflect the data from the survey pretty well," said

HEALTH CARE SIDE EFFECT?

Gauging pudlic opinion

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

... but what would we do about it>

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

And a Webexclusive-

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

I a nsi ion scl'u inize

Investigators didn't ultimately tie any deaths to the 2012 outbreak, but four

patients needed additional surgery because of the infection.

The only public mention

Enacting aCARBONTAXif revenueis refundedto every U.S.household

45% 48/o 45% 44/o44/o Source: Yale/George Mason Centerfor Climate Change Communication

David Wray/The Bulletin

Q» Weigh in: Take an excerpted version of the Yale survey at demlbulletin.cem/climate

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


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