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Smartphone sodrietyResearchers sayan app designed to help recovering alcohol› ics shows signs of success.A3
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By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin
TV for kids —It’s not a wasteland youjust haveto look hard for the good stuff.D1
• Attracting international students to OSU-Cascades,B1
Bend city councilors’ in› boxes are overflowing with emails this week from sup› porters and opponents of the
a city councilor’s ear about the project are finding a cool
Oregon State University-Cas›
reception.
cades Campus plan for a new location in southwest Bend.
City officials acknowledge the council will likely be
But people who want to bend
asked to hear an appeal on
earin
the university’s plan for the
on Thursday that Mayor Pro
involvement with the OSU
first phase of the new cam› pus, and that means all city
Tem Jodie Barram, who is a
advisory committee, she was
member of a subcommittee of the OSU-Cascades Campus
on a committee that recently
self if the City Council hears
tor in Bend, as The Source
an appeal on the university’s land use application. Capell
Weekly newspaper’s woman of the year.
councilor communications
on the topic must be on the record. One city councilor’s ability to rule on the issue has al› ready been questioned. City Councilor Mark Capell said
selected Becky Johnson, an Expansion Advisory Commit› OSU vice president and the tee, might have to recuse her› highest-ranking administra›
said in addition to Barram’s
See OSU /A4
Immigrant 'dreamers'
Even though deportation is deferred, they’re still finding other difficulties.AS
WashingtonmudslideDespite the area’s risks, resi› dents say, they love thequiet, small-town atmosphere.A4
REDMOND
ime ors
s o c o meo
Firefighter mementos returned tofamily
Senior travel —A fitter generation, better able to cross items off of its bucket list.D2
Ukraine —Congressap› proves $1 billion in aid.A2
By Leslie Pugmire Hole The Bulletin
It took more than a month to sort and pack the house, filled with 80-plus
And a Wed exclusive-
’Skill builders’ are enrolling in college for a boost in the workplace, not for a degree. beetlbenetie.cem/extras
years of accumulation that
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started during the Great
Depression. "I must have taken six trailer loads to St. Vinnie’s,"
said Don Scoggin of Red› mond, recalling the work
EDITOR'SCHOICE
involved last year when his
m other, Marian,could no longer live on her own. "Ap›
Schools aim for zero-cost textbooks
parently I missed that stuff
inabox." A folder of memorabilia from Scoggin’s father, Fay› et, was discovered recently by Joseph Darnell of Red› mond inside books he had picked up at a localthrift store. Hoping to reunite the photos, certificates
Joe Kline/The Bulletin
and scrapbooks with their
Nick Haley changes a studded tire on a car while working at Nelsen Tire Factory on Thursday in By Carrie Wells
Bend. The deadline for removing studded tires is Monday. Those who don’t get their winter tires
The Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE
owners, Darnell, 35, turned them over to The Bulletin.
After a story appeared in the newspaper March 21,
Hold›
ing a whiteboard, the University of Maryland, College Park students scrawled their complaints and posed for a picture. "My name is Justin and
I spent $114 on ONE text› book," a student wrote.
"My name is Jeff and I spent $736 on textbooks," wrote another.
The images, posted online by the Student Government Association
in recent months, are designed to highlight the rapid rise in the price of college textbooks over the past decade. This semes› ter, the University System
of Maryland is exploring ways to bring that cost to zero with "open-source" electronic textbooks›
the latest experiment in changing the way students across the nation are taught.
removed beforeApril could face a fine of$190.
the items were returned to
the Scoggin family. "I stopped by the U.S. Marketstorewherethey
know me and someone asked, ’Are you related to
As deadlinenears, health signupsshow disparity By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Robert Pear
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s~oothly functioning New York Times News Service on Cover w ebsite, run Oregon,B3 by competent WASHINGTON The online insurance marketplace managers, has in Oregon is such a techno› successfully enrolled so many logical mess that residents patients that officials are of› have been signing up for fering to sell their expertise to health coverage by filling out states like Maryland, which is forms by hand. In Texas, po› struggling to sign people up litical opposition to President forcoverage. Barack Obama’s health law is The disparities reveal a so strong that some residents stark truth about the Afford› believe, erroneously, that the able Care Act: With the first program is banned in their open enrollment period set state. to end Monday, six months But in Connecticut, a
• The latest
after its troubled online ex›
changes opened for business, the program widely known as Obamacarelooks lesslike a sweepingfederaloverhaul than a collection of individual
ventures playing out uneven› ly, state to state, in the labora› toriesof democracy. The White House said
under Medicaid
the guy in the paper this morning, the one who died?’ I said I hoped not, thinking she meant someone had just died," Don said. He picked
figures the
law’s backers hail as a suc›
up The Bulletin and saw the
cess. But those numbers may not reveal much.
tional numbers is misguided,
teenage face ofhis father, Fayet Scoggin, on the front page along with the image of Hoy Fultz, his father’s boss during his years as a Redmond firefighter. Fayet Scoggin died in 1974 at age 46, one of two Redmond firefighters who died in the line of duty. He
Federal officials do not
know how many of those who selectedplans were previously uninsured, or how many actually paid their premiums.
Thursday that more than 6 million people had signed up for private plans, a significant political milestone for the
Independentexpertswarn that the intense focus on na› and that it will take years to
suffered a heart attack at
Obama administration. In›
fully assess the law’s impact, much less deem it a success or
home after being overcome with smoke inhalation at a brush fire the daybefore. SeeFirefighter/A5
dependent analysts estimate that an additional 3.5 million Americans are newly insured
a failure.
SeeSignups/A5
Unlike electronic ver›
sions of textbooks sold by publishers, open-source textbooks are made up of
materials gathered from various sources and are
not protected by copyright. They are often designed
Spotters fight fatigue in hunt for jet lost at sea
to be interactive, with links to source material
By Kristen Gelineau and Rob Griffith
and multimedia elements.
The Associated Press
The materials are licensed
openly, so anyone with an
OVER THE SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN They
Internet connection can access them.
stare out at a punishingly un› broken expanse of gray water
A pilot program, which the university system
that seems, at times, to blend
into the clouds. Occasionally,
they press their foreheads against the plane’s windows so hard they leave grease marks, their eyes darting up and down, left and right, look› ing for something anything that could explain the fate
man-madeequipment cannot. But they are also subject to
of the missing Malaysia Air› lines plane.
search area to its distance from
The hunt for Flight 370, which vanished on March 8
plagues it. But for all the fancy the peculiarities of the human technology onboard the planes brain. They canplaytricks. and vessels scouring the swirl› They can blink at the wrong
during a trip from Kuala Lum› pur to Beijing, is complicated in just about everyway imag› inable, from the vastness of the
land to the brutal weather that
ing waters, the best tool search› m oment. They can,and often ers have are their own eyes. do > grow weary.
Those eyes can spot things
SeeSpotters/A6
estimates is saving 1,100
students a combined $130,000, is the latest in a shift on the nation’s
campuses toward digital learning. SeeTextbooks /A4
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