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bendbulletin.com TODAY'S READERBOARD Dedtors deware —oebt collectors have started using a new tool to track people down and seek payment: Facebook. But regulators are casting a wary eye on the practice. A3
ee ssrainaci ou 0 'ree a ' • City managersaysBendbudget hasstabilized after 5 years,but servicesremainstretched By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
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Bend City Manager Eric King told city councilors and other officials Friday that the city budget has stabilized after a tumultuous five-year period since the start of the recession.
During that time, the city reduced itst s affby nearly 20 percent, or about 110 jobs, through a combination of layoffs and attrition, King said. "I thinkthe good news is the city is well-positioned financially," King said. The city spent
the last five years building its reserve accounts and evaluating its infrastructure needs. "It's nice to come here, head held high, a little different from years past in that we're not in that free fall we had been." Yet although the budget
forecast is calmer than in recent years, city officials still face many long-term budget problems, and the city might have tofurther reduce services in some departments. King asked the budget committee members andcity councilors
Friday for direction on how to structure the 2013-15 budget. The City Council and budget committee members said they want city workers to prepare a budget that does as much as possible to prevent service reductions in the Police Department, Fire Department and street maintenance program. See Budget/A8
Border patrol —Agents watch, wait at an outpost deep in the Chihuahuan desert.A6
EDUCATION
Bank truSt —How much has our trust in banks changed over the years? It depends on which country you live in.AS
A Phntn Stnrif —Central Oregonians pitched in for a day
• I(itzhaber's budgetcalls for a reduction in funding for special needsprograms
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A Sunriver legend — Jim Ramey is retiring as perhaps the most respected golf superintendent in Central Oregon history.C1
By Ben Botkin The Bulletin
At the drive-in —Thetransition to digital projection is threatening to put many drivein theaters out of business.CS
ln national news —A federal appeals court rejects President Obama's appointments to the labor board.A2
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Beinggay nowess of a novety in Congress By Jeremy W.Peters New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — When Mark Takano ran unsuccessfully for Congress twice in the early 1990s in California, his opponents tried to smear him as a "homosexual liberal" and a "nutzoid." One of them even had pink fliers printed that asked, "A congressman for Riverside ... Or San Francisco?" When he ran again last year, he won by almost 20 points. "Flash forward 18 years," Takano said recently, "and the very macho building tradesmen are behind me. I'm getting pictures with them in their hard hats." For decades, the words
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Jared Bowling, 4, plays at a sensory table in Blake Langleiers' early childhood development preschool classroom at the Alyce Hatch Center in Bend. The class, with seven students and five adults, is part of the High Desert Education Service District's programs for children with special needs.
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Career andtechnical education (compliance)
Education Service District is one of19 in the
state, offering programs that school districts often can't. Its
core service region covers Deschutes and Crook counties, but it
also provides services to Jefferson and outlying counties. The
programs, geared toward kids or the school districts
themselves, are varied (and
Sherman Attorney services, career andtechnical education
Gilliam Career andtechnical education, special education servicesJ
Wasco Career andtechnical education
Umatilla Attorney services Wheeler Career andtechnical education, migrant education, special education services
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Attorney services, career andtechnical education, driver's ed, early childhood special education, Healthy Beginnings, migrant education, professional development support, special education services, SubFinder program
Deschutes andCrook The following departments contain multiple services: administrative services, children with special needs, school improvement, technology
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Attorney services, professional developmentsupport
Harney Professional developmentsupport, special education services Lake Career andtechnical education, professional developmentsupport, special education services
Malheur Attorney services (phone consultation only)
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In Central Oregon school districts, employees of the High Desert Education Service District help students with a variety of circumstances. They work with special needs children who have learning challenges such as autism. They help children with physical needs get the right equipment, whether it's a grip to better hold a pencil or high-tech software to allow visually impaired students to read lessons.They offer early childhood special education classes for preschoolchildren to prepare them for the classroom. The state funding of and role of education service districts await discussion in the upcoming legislative session. There is no shortage of ideas about education service districts, both in funding and the role they play in regional education planning. The High Desert ESD is one of 19 education service districts in Oregon. The primary aim of ESDs is to provide services and programs to school districts on a regional scale that would be difficult or more expensive for a school district to do on its own. Gov. John Kitzhaber's budget proposal calls for taking $120 million from the state funding for education service districts in the next biennium and investing that money into six regional centers that would train teachers. That would be a 28 percent funding cut for education service districts. For the High Desert ESD, it would amount to a cut of $4.9 million in funding for those services for the 20132015 biennium. That reduction would impact the services provided to the most vulnerable populations, said John Rexford, superintendent of the High Desert ESD. The bulk of ESD funding for school services — 65percent — goes to education programs for special needs children. Education service districts also provide other services, such as technology and attorneys. "When people don't know a lot about us, they assume we'rejust another bureaucratic layer, and I think that's a misperception," said Paul Andrews, deputy superintendent of the High Desert ESD. By law, schools must provide the services to special education students, regardless of what is provided by the ESDs. SeeDistricts/A4
"gay" and "Congress"
were usually seen together only in stories of scandal and shame: an arrest after an illicit proposition in an airport bathroom, accusations of trawling for sex on a phone service. When Gerry Studds came out 30 years ago, the first congressman to do so, it was only after an affair with a 17-year-old congressional page was revealed. But in the 113th Congress there are six openly gay and bisexual members in the House — a small but tangible sign that their presence at the highest levels of government is no longer something only whispered about. SeeGay/A4
Havana's hippesthangout,Sloppy joe's,isback By Peter Orsi The Associated Press
HAVANA — A half-century later, Jose Rafa Malem remembers the balmy breezes blowing through the bar's arching porticos, the grain of the tall wood stools, the whiff of Pedro Domecq brandy on his father's
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breath. And how could he forget the tangy ground-beef-andtomato-sauce sandwiches synonymous with what was then one of Havana's hippest hangouts, playfully dubbed Sloppy Joe's? "I ate so many, I got tired of them," said Rafa, a 59-year-old Havana native
who grew up to become a bartender. Soon, Rafa will be able to relive those boyhood memo-
thirsty celebrities such as Rock Hudson, Babe Ruth and Ernest Hemingway. It's part of an ambitious revitalization project by the Havana City Historian's Office, which since the 1990s has transformed blockafter block of crumbling ruins into rehabilitated buildings
along vibrant cobblestone streets. The efforthas helped finance Cuba's socialist present by drawing tourists fascinated by its pre-socialist past, from colonial palaces of the 18th century to celebrity hangouts of the 1950s.
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