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Real-life superheroes? — These costumed crusaders are mostly interested in philanthropy, not crimefighting.A4
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u ua omes aco so By Joseph Pitzler The Bulletin
The former Fuqua Homes factory, a 125,000-square-
Gun availadility —Astudy shows easyaccess increases the chance of suicide or homicide by firearm.A3 Apple —30 years after the Mac was introduced, it's still a trendsetter.C6
And a Wed exclusiveBattle over data privacy moves inside cars with 'black boxes.' bendbulletin.cem/extras
EDITOR'5CHOICE
County jails embrace profitable
Manager explains
• New owner wants to see it running again
Deschutes BreweryTasting beer is serious business for these experts.GO!
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foot industrial space vacant two years, has been sold to a
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The buyer, Murray Road I LLC, was formed in December by Bradley Kent, a hedge fund manager, and his wife, Melissa Kent.
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to fire chief
Brian Fratzke, of Fratzke Commercial Real Estate,
By Shelby R. King
it back online. The building on Murray
Bend, represented the buyer
The Bulletin
and seller, PCB-ARC Inc., a
Road, where Fuqua Homes
subsidiary of PlainsCapital Bank, of Texas.
A disconnect between Bend police command staff and department employees, lack of effective leadership, a failing strategy for implementing change and a workforce
Bend firm that plans to bring
Inc. built manufactured and modular homes for more than 40 years, sold for $2.7 million, down from a list price of $4 million. The deal closed Dec. 31, according to
Bradley Kent said Fratzke pitched the idea of renovat-
ing and leasing the former factory, off Boyd Acres Road.
Deschutes County records.
SeeFactory/A4
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
The former Fuqua Homesfactory was recently bought and will be
reluctant to voice con-
renovated and leased to industrial tenants.
cerns to management were the red flags that led Bend City Manager Eric King to fire Police Chief Jeff Sale. "The positives were very much overshadowed by his style and approach, the lack of buy-in starting at the top and going all the way down," King said. "I
no eI ameamin Ou
understand ... when some-
one is trying to advance change, and I have a high tolerance for that, but that
isn't what this was about." SeeChief /A5
e-cigarettes
Police chiefs throughtheyears 1979-1996:
By Timothy Williams
Chief Dave Malkin retired
New Yorh Times News Service
LAFAYETTE, Tenn.-
in1996 after
As city governments and schools across the country move toban or restrict the
17 years as the chief to be clos- psve er to his family Msiidn in California.
use of electronic cigarettes,
one place increasinglywelcomes the devices: the rural county jail.
1996-1999:
Chief Bob Glynn retired afterthree years on the Bob Glynn job. 1999-2008: Chief Andy Jordan served as the chief for nine years before retiring Andy in the wakeof Jordan a scandal involving Deputy Chief John Maniscalco who retired after a state investigation cleared him of wrongdoing for his part in a July 4 incident on Awbrey Butte involving his girlfriend.
Though traditional
cigarettes are prohibited from most prisons and jails because of fire hazards and secondhand smoke, a growing number of sheriffs say they are sellinge-cigarettes to inmates to help them
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control the mood swings
of those in need of a smoke as well as address budget shortfalls, which in some
jails have meant that guards are earning little more than
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
fast-food workers.
The trend stands in contrast to laws approved in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and otherbigcit-
The Pine Meadow Ranch diversion dam on Whychus Creek, south of Sisters, is set to be removed and replaced by a water pump this year. See the full story on Page B1.
ies, which since December have become the first in the
2008-2011:
United States to regulate the sale and use of e-cigarettes.
County jails in at least seven states havepermitted the sale of a limited selection
of flavors of e-cigarettes to inmates. They have quicklybecome one of the most sought-after items in jail commissaries. And although federal prisons ban e-cigarettes, the inmate
market has so much potential that Chinese and Amer-
ican manufacturers now produce "jail-safe" versions made of plastic instead of metal.
SeeE-cigarettes/A4
Correction A story headlined "Bend Police chief fired," which appeared Thursday, Jan. 23, on PageA1, contained anincorrect figure for former Bend Police Chief Jeff Sale's severancepaypackage.Thetotalis $41,781.36. The Bulletin regrets the error.
Rate Of uninsured adults begins to fall By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — It may just be the start of a new
trend. The uninsured rate dropped modestly this month as expanded coverage rolled out under President Barack Obama's health care law, a
major survey released Thursday has found. The Gallup-Healthways
The closely-watched poll combines the scope and depth found in government surveys with the timeliness of media sampling. Pollsters interview 500 people a day, 350 days a year. The survey can be an early indicator of broad shifts
in society. The health care results were based on more than 9,000 interviews, about
the uninsured rate for U.S. adults dropped by 1.2 percentage points in January, to 16.1
been expected to come down as the Affordable Care Act
groups are far more likely to be uninsured than the popula-
was implemented," said Frank Newport, Gallup's
tion as a whole.
percent. That would translate
to roughly 2 million to 3 million people gaining coverage.
editor-in-chief. "That would
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nonwhites. Traditionally both
The survey found no appreciable change among young
2011-2013:
Chief Jeff Sale was the first police chief hired from outside the Jeff Sale Bend Police Department in more than 30years. Sale, hired from Cheney,Wash., was fired this week, 10days after the department's Public Information Officer, Lt. Chris Carney, resigned before hecould befired for having sex, on duty andoff, with several city employees.
Major elements of the health care law took effect with the
new year. Virtually all Americans are now required to get covered or risk fines. SeeCoverage/A5
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Baxter department, first serving as aninterim chief until January 2009 before being namedthe chief until she retired again in 2011.
adults ages 18-34. Members of • Moody's downgrades its outlook that coveted, low-cost demofor health insurance companies, graphic have been ambivalent citing uncertainty under the about signing up so far. Affordable Care Act, AS Women saw a decline of 1.9 percentage points, about three be the most reasonable times greater than the 0.6 perhypothesis." centage-point drop for men. The biggest change was Uninsured rates also fell all for unemployed people, a along the income ladder, with drop of 6.7 percentage points. those making $36,000-$89,999 That was followed by a 2.6 seeing the greatest drop, 1.8 percentage-point decline for percentage points.
nine times as many as in a standard national poll. "The uninsured rate had
to take over the
Related
Well-Being Index found that
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