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TODAY'S READERBOARD More court analysisHow Chief Justice Roberts is pulling the court right — with the help of his liberal peers.A3
By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
Summit1031 —Decision time nears for the jury.C6
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SALEM — The Oregon Senate Revenue Committee passed, in a party-line vote, a $215 million tax hike and steeper cuts to the state's pension system late Friday in an effort to reach what's been
coined the "grand bargain." With the legislative session expected to end soon, lawmakers aremaking one final push to strike a deal that would both raise taxes and cut the state's pension. Republicans want steeper cuts to the Public Employees Retirement
System; Democrats push for tax hikes. A deal would mean more money for public primary and secondary schools and mental health and senior programs. But both measures passed out of the committee on party lines: Democrats for and
Republicans against. Both measures head directly to the Senate floor for a vote by the full chamber likely early next week. Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said if the revenue measure passes, that triggers the vote on PERS.
Democrats need at least two Republicans to vote to raise taxes. The two Republicans on the revenue committee signaled an uphill battle. Sen. Larry George, R-Sherwood, took issue with describing the deal as a compromise. SeeSalemIA5
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Shock, awe and grief at 9/11museum
In this undated historical photo, the coveted Fire Engine No. 1 (second vehicle from left), an American LaFrance Type 45 triple combination car currentlyin Washington state, is pictured with Bend's other fire engines in front of the old fire hall on Minnesota Avenue (currently the downtown restaurant Brickhouse).
It's been a goal years in the making, but finally on Friday, the Bend Fire Historical Society raised enough money — and then some — to buy back a circa-1919 fire engine from the Poulsbo,
By David W. Dunlap
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New York Times News Service
NEW YORK — "You thought it was as bad as it would get, and then it got worse." Alice Greenwald, director of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center,
The historical society hosted a one-day tournament at Broken Top Club, and Bend firefighter and fire history chairman Nick Thomas said the nonprofit raised almost $2,000, putting it over the $D,000 needed.
was recalling a feeling common among Americans on Sept. 11, 2001. But she was also describing how the galleries depicting that day's events will unfold for visitors. Where much of the underground space is astonishingly vast and serene, the historical exhibition, contained within the volume once occupied by the northtower,is cramped and irregular. Deliberately labyrinthine, it is meant to jar those who see it. Rounding one corner, a visitor will suddenly come upon the rear end of Engine 21 ("Keep back 200 feet," it
still commands), looking merely like an old fire truck that has seen a lot of action. A few steps more into the gallery, however, and it is revealed as a mechanical carcass. The cab, all its trim and livery burned away, resembles a skull. Transitions like this — by turns shocking and calming, distressing and heartening, awe-inspir-
ing and grief-inducing — compose the memorial museum. See9/11 /A4
The plan is to send a few volunteers, with the gas also paid for Rob Kerr /The Bulletin
Bend's No. 3 fire engine sits on the golf course Friday. The No. 2 engine currently sits next to the fire department's North Station.
by donations, up to Poulsbo on Tuesday and bring the truck back Wednesday, perhaps in time for Thursday's July Fourth parade.
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LOS ANGELES — Researchers have unraveled the genetic code of a wild horse that loped across the frozen Yukon about 700,000 years ago, making it the oldest creature by far to reveal its DNA to modern science. Until recently, experts believed it was impossible to recover useful amounts of DNA from fossils that old. The previousrecord holder for oldest genome belonged to a po-
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lar bear that lived more than 110,000 years ago. The horse sequence, described this week in the journal Nature, amounts to a dramatic increase in how farback scientists can peer into the biochemical history of advanced life. The DNA was extracted from a 6-inch slice ofa fossilized horse leg bone that was found nine years ago. Under normal conditions, DNA begins to degrade soon after death. But this bone was preservedin permafrost at
Thistle Creek in Canada's Yukon Territory. Dating techniques revealed that the animal lived in an epoch when woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats and giant beavers shared turf with ancestral humans. The work "opens great perspectives as to the level of details we can reconstruct of our origins and the evolutionary history of every animal on the planet," said study leader Ludovic Orlando. SeeDNA/A5
By Branden Andersen The Bulletin
July normally starts with a bang; this year, expect some heat with it. Just as Americans are breaking out the fireworks, state and federal authorities warn that forests in Central Oregon, after a week of rain, are again ready to burn. And experts say we need to watch out for a heightened risk of dehydration and heat
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stroke as the temperature climbs. The U.S. Weather Service is forecasting near-record temperatures in Central Oregon for the first week of July. On average, the beginning of the month typically yields temperatures in the low 80s. This year, Bend can expecthighs in the upper 90s and lows around a warm 60
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