Bulletin Daily Paper 6/29/12

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JUNE 29, 2012

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Chief justice’s defining ruling By Adam Liptak New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts has a favorite quotation from one of the giants who preceded him on the Supreme Court. Assessing the constitutionality of a law passed by Congress, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. once wrote, “is the gravest and most delicate duty that this court is called on to perform.” In finding a way to uphold President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law on Thursday, Roberts performed the task with exquisite delicacy. That he did was a surprise from a judge whose rulings and background, including legal work in the administrations of President Ronald Reagan and the first President George Bush, suggested a conventionally conservative worldview. See Roberts / A6

Ruling means Oregon’s reforms can press ahead By Betsy Q. Cliff and Lauren Dake The Bulletin

The landmark Supreme Court decision on the health care law will allow Oregon to continue pressing forward with reforms. The state has been aggressively implementing many of the provisions in the 2010 federal law, some of which were already written into state law before the passage of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation. With the decision, the court

preserved the largest expansion of the nation’s social safety net in more than 45 years, including the hotly debated core requirement that nearly everyone have health insurance or pay a penalty. Local and state leaders primarily expressed pleasure at the result Thursday. “This is very good news for Oregon. It’s very good news for the country,” Gov. John Kitzhaber told the Associated Press.

Kitzhaber said the state has already set up much of the infrastructure to implement some of the provisions at issue in Thursday’s decision, including the Medicaid expansion and health insurance exchange, an online marketplace that will allow individuals and small businesses to shop for coverage. Regardless of the decision, many of the reforms under way in Central Oregon would have continued, said Jim Diegel, CEO

of St. Charles Health System, the area’s largest system that includes St. Charles Bend hospital. “Now (the state) can move forward with more certitude that some of the funding will be there.” Had the entire Affordable Care Act been overturned, federal funding for the Medicaid expansion and insurance exchanges would have been at risk. See Oregon / A6

its Summer Ski 2012

Judge denies dismissal motion in rape case

three-day event today.

By Sheila G. Miller

The Pine Marten

The former Central Oregon Community College instructor accused of raping two young women will stand trial in July after a judge denied a motion to dismiss the charges on grounds of prosecutorial misconduct and that the man’s constitutional rights had been violated. Thomas Harry Bray, 38, has pleaded not guilty to 11 felony and misdemeanor counts related to two alleged rapes in Feb- Bray ruary 2011. In one incident, a 24-year-old woman accused Bray of violently assaulting her in his downtown Bend apartment after she met him on Match.com. In a separate incident, a former student he briefly dated alleged he had raped her and strangled her with a ligature. Bray’s attorney, Stephen Houze, on Thursday argued that two separate issues in the case were serious enough to result in dismissing some of the charges. First, he urged Deschutes County Circuit Court Judge Stephen Tiktin to dismiss the charges associated with the Match.com date because, he said, the District Attorney’s Office had not complied with a court order to produce the woman’s Google search history. See Bray / A5

Summer skiing starts today

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t. Bachelor begins

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and Summit lifts will be open, weather permitting, from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, Saturday and Sunday. The weekend will also feature music, T-shirt giveaways and barbecue. For more information and prices, visit Mt. Bachelor’s website at www.mtbachelor .com. At right, private ski and snowboard camp participants walk near West Village Lodge

camps at Bachelor. For

Tomato breeding for color exacts toll in lost flavor

a weekend weather

By Gina Kolata

forecast, see page C8.

Plant geneticists say they have discovered an answer to a near-universal question: Why are tomatoes usually so tasteless? Yes, they are often picked green and shipped long distances. Often they are refrigerated, which destroys their flavor and texture. But now researchers have discovered a genetic reason that diminishes a tomato’s flavor even if the fruit is picked ripe and coddled. See Tomatoes / A5

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