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TODAY'S READERBOARD Photo winners —Aunt
river's car i moves as sae ena e
Julie and Cowpoke Jed take
the top spot. Seethe photo and runners up.B1
Natural gas's next step? — The U.S. trucking industry
By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
SALEM — People who can't prove they are in the country legally could still obtain a driver's card under a
measure that passed the state Senate on Tuesday. Proponents of Senate Bill 833 said granting a four-year driving card would ensure that undocumented drivers on
the road have passed qualifying tests and would help them travel to work. Opponents said those in the country illegally should not be granted driving privileges
and pointed out that they can't legally drive if they don't have documents. The measure passed by a 20-7vote in the upper chamber, prompting very little
dlscusslon. Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Eugene, noted the card could not be used as identification for, say,
hopping on a plane. SeeDriving/A4
is moving to makethe switch, with potential wide-ranging benefits to consumers.A3
Bills in D.C.
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Wrenching job —Dilie Nerios wants people to get the
hydropower
help they need. But signing
people up for food stamps can be a delicate process.A6
By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
NFL draft —A sure thing?
letter suspect released with
WASHINGTON — At a time when agreementon energy policy can be hard to find in a highly polarized Congress, legislation that could double America's hydroelectric output by 2025 is moving through Congress with broad bipartisan support. Hydropower is already the largest producer of
charges dropped.A2
renewable energy, generat-
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Twitter hoax —Hacked post from the Associated
Press' account sends stocks tumbling.C6
Iu national news —Ricin
And a Wed exclusiveNevada hogfarmer, a visionary yet controversial entrepreneur, turns Vegas buffet waste into hog food ... and hogs into Vegas buffet fodder.
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Delving online lives of Boston suspects
Type I burn boss Rod Bonacker of the Deschutes National Forest moves along the edge of a prescribed burn Tuesday south of Bend.
New York Times News Service
It is America's first fully interactive national tragedy of the social media age. The Boston Marathon bombings quickly turned into an Internet mystery that sent a horde of amateur sleuths surging onto the Web in a search for • More clues to the news suspects' on the iden t i ty. And case and once the
A part of the South Bend Hazardous Fuels
Thursday and Friday if weather is favorable.
Reduction Project, the daylong burn located off
Stock said no burning is planned for today be-
China Hat Road between the forest boundary
cause winds would blow smoke toward town. prescribed fires, go to www.fs.fed.us/r6/central-
Kevin Stock, assistant fire management officer
oregon/fire/conditions/prescribed-fire-news.
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policy). These posts instantly became dots that people began trying to connect. Some details ratified the views of those former friends and neighbors who said they were utterly shocked at the brothers' possible involvement in such a horrifying crime. SeeBoston /A5
For more information about the fire and other
near where subdivisions and forest meet, said
suspects, search fo-
cused on Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the brother's social media postings provided a rich vein of material to mine and sift. There are more than a thousand messages on Dzhokhar's Twitter account in addition to a profile page on VKontakte, a popular Russian social networking site; and in Tamerlan's case, a list of favorite videos on YouTube and what appears to be an Amazon wish list belonging to him (Amazon would not confirm whose list it was, citing its privacy
Firefighters burned 2D acresout of400 acres in the project, he said, and may burn more
and Horse Butte had the goal of reducing fuels By Michiko Kakutani
for the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District.
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Carol Callahan, right, and Lava Lake Resort owner Joann Frazee stock and prepare the Lava Lake Lodge & Store for business west of Bend. This weekend is the opening of trout fishing season on several Central Oregon lakes. Saturday is the official opening for the lodge and store.
ing roughly 7percent of the nation's electricity. Parallel bills in the Senate and House of Representatives seek to increase that by opening canals and conduits belonging to the federal Bureau of Reclamation to small projects of five megawatts or less. "I am eager to advance an all-of-the-above energy strategy," Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., told members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Tuesday. "We could double hydropower in this country without building a new dam simply by investing in new technology." McMorris Rodgers' introductoryremarks came before testimony from officials with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the Bureau of Reclamation. "Hydro is kind of the lowhanging fruit, if you will, of renewables," said Jeff Wright, director of FERC's Office of Energy Projects. The Pacific Northwest is already a leader in hydroelectric generation, according to the Energy Information Administration. In 2011, Oregon generated 80 percent of its electricity from hydropower facilities, second in total generation to only Washington state. The Bureau of Reclamation manages nearly 47,000 miles of canals throughout the West, noted Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., who introduced the Senate bill that would open the canals to small hydroelectric projects. See Hydropower/A5
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System findssuccessinkeeping hospital bedsemp By Annie Lowrey New York Times News Service
CHICAGO — On a stormy evening this spring, nurses at Dr. Gary Stuck's family practice were on the phone with patients with heart ailments, asking them not to shovel snow.
TODAY'S WEATHER Sunny High 65, Low 35
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The idea was to keep them out of the hospital, and that effort — combined with dozens more like it — is starting to make a difference:Across the city, doctors are providing less, but not worse, health care. For most health care pro-
viders, that would be cause for alarm. But not for Advocate Health Care, based in Oak Brook, Ill., a pioneer in a new approach known as "accountable care" that offers financial incentives for doctors and hospitals to cut costs rather
than funnel patients through an ever-greater volume of costly medical services. Under the agreement, hospital admissions are down 6 percent. Days spent in the hospital are down nearly 9 percent. The average length of a stay has
declined,and many other measures show doctors providing less care, too. This approach is one small part of a growing effort by providers to hold down costs without restricting needed care. See Care/A4
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