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The Bend Police Department's new speed signs not only Tiny drains —These'or-
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Bend dedicates new park on river By Scott Hammers
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lead on its cause.A3 By Branden Andersen• The Bulletin
4 days of school —Proponents say students do just as well, and teachers have more time to keep up.A4
Senior concierge — An errand service in Central
Oregon aims to takethe pressure off caregivers.D1 'Supef agefS' —These vital people in their 80s and beyond
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And a Wed exclusiveA reporter remembers the 1963 case of Emmett Till, a black teen killed for whistling at a white woman.
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iving on the corner of Brookswood Boulevard and Southwest M ontrose Pass Street,64year-old Patrick Davis has had concerns about the busy road that runs past his home. Brookswood Boulevard has a speed limit of 35
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partment deployed three speed-catching units on July 27 on the city's popular roads, including Newport Avenue, Third Street and Brookswood. Although the equipment has only been in use for a month, Bend Police spokesman Lt. Chris Carney said the department is
happen." In an effort to combat speeding areas around town, Bend Police De-
already starting to see useful information. "We're putting them out and seeing what driver habits are like around the city," he said. "Which streets are the worst? And, what time? It's all what we're looking at." SeeSpeed /A4
Percentageof recordeddrivers exceedingthe speedlimit The Bend Police Department's recently acquired speed signs not only tell drivers how fast they're going, but also record that data. Crime analyst Nancy Watson provided The Bulletin with data collected near 5 intersections in Bend that show what percentage of drivers exceed the
posted speed limit, and howmanycruise through in specific speed ranges throughout the day. EASTBOUND GREENWOOD AVENUE ATN.E.FIRST STREET Speedli mit:25 mph;Me asured July26-Aug. 7;Readings:87,733
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At Thursday's dedication of Miller's Landing Park, Charley Miller said he'd once looked forward to livmg in one of the townhomes his family planned to build on the park site before the real estate downturn hit Bend. As the economy slowed, the Millers and partner Brooks Resources Corp. backed off their development plans for the 5-acre site on the Deschutes River that had been one of the earliest homes of Miller Lumber, the company founded by Charley Miller's grandfather in 1911. Then, Kristin Kovalik with The Trust for Public Land pitched an alternative idea, Miller said — a park — and was relentless in her push to convince the Millers to sell. SeePark/A4 H
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WASHINGTON — State civil service rules originated a century ago to prevent incoming governors from replacing state workers with their political supporters. Now a handful of governors are working to change those rules, saying they make it difficult to hire and retain the right employeesand to fire anyone — even the worst underperformers. "I've got a $20 billion operation I've got to run, and you can't run it with your managers' and your executives' hands tied," North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said in an interview with Stateline. McCrory, a Republican who worked for 28 years for Duke Energy, wants publicsector employment to be more like employment in the private sector. But some experts say significantly altering the current civil service system may bring back the widespread cronyism of the early 20th century. Rick Kearney, a professor of public administration at North Carolina State University's School of Public and International Affairs, worries the changes will make public employment a less attractive option for highly skilled workers. "The whole idea was to take politics out of the public bureaucracy and make it merit-based through job protections and objective
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WASHINGTON — U.S. spy agencies have built an intelligence-gathering colossus since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but remain unable to provide critical information to the president on a range of national security threats, according to the government's top-secret budget. The $52.6 billion "black budget" for fiscal 2013, obtained by The Washington Post from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, maps a bureaucratic and operational landscape that has never been subject to public scrutiny. Although the government has annually released its overall level of intelligence spending since 2007, it has not divulged how ituses those funds or how it performs against the goals set by the president and Congress. SeeSpying/A6
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