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daps By Tyler Leeds The Bulletin
EUGENE — A fed-
By Taylor W. Andersone The Bulletin All still alive —Bend,
eral judge in Eugene heard arguments Thursday disputing
Republicans are a long shot to pick up five seats and win a majority in the Oregon House of Represen-
Mountain View andSummit boys and girls soccer teams will all see postseason play.C1
tatives, so all eyes are on three close Senate races that could decide whether Democrats hold full majori-
impact a city of Bend water project
Plus —UoandosU basket-
ties in both chambers again next session.
in the foothills west of town will have
the environmental
ball season previews.C1
on the Bridge Creek watershed.
Stabbing —ABendwoman who was stabbed byherson Wednesday isingoodcondition at St Charles Bend.B1
Central Oregon
OREGONSENATESEATS Democratic seats lnotopforreelection
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EDITOR'SCHOICE
States
backtrack on student tracking By Jeffrey Stinson Stateline.org
WASHINGTON — Do
you know where your student is? At school'? On the bus'? Paying for lunch in the cafeteria'? Principals in thousands of the nation's schools
Republican seats not opf o r reeiectionl
are opposing the $24 million pipe-replacement project, arguing the U.S. For-
TOSSUP RAGES
And a Web exclusiveRecent attacks in NewYork andCanadamay signalthe rise of a newDIYterrorism promoted by the Islamic State. bentibnlletin.com/extrns
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Seats np for re-election thatieanntrong gepohrroantl —
LandWatch and WaterWatch of Oregon
est Service did not adequately investi-
gate how it will affect
DISTRICT 3 Sen. Alan Bates, D-Medford, is in a rematchagainst DaveDotterrer, a Republican challenger from Ashland, who lost by 275votes in 2010. DISTRICT 8 Sen. Betsy Close, R-Albany, is challenged byfour-term state Rep. Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis, for the Willamette Valley seat.
Tumalo Creek and the fish within its wa-
DISTRICT 15 Sen. Bruce Starr, R-Hillsboro, is in a rematch with Democratic challenger ChuckRiley from Hillsboro for the district west of Portland. Starr won the seat by morethan1,800 votes over Riley in 2010.
Forest Service and
Source: Oregon Secretary of State
tersbeforeissuing a special use permit. Attorneys for the city of Bend contend new monitoring tech-
nology will result in improved conditions, as the city will now
Andy Zeigert i The Bulletin
be able to restrict the
Polls show Gov. John Kitzhaber with a lead over Republican challenger Dennis Richardson. Pair a pos-
amount of water tak-
en during sensitive times, an ability the
sible Kitzhaber win with Democrats holding the House and Senate, and Oregon would have another two
current system lacks.
years of uncontested Democratic control. That makes keeping at least their 16-14 lead in the
Senate important for Democrats, and holding ground or winning a 15th seat crucial forRepublicans.Iftheraces stay close in the waning days before the election TLtesday,
there are three seats that could change Oregon politics next session. In Oregon, Republican
voters on average have had
a 3 percent higher turnout in midterm years than Democrats in the last two decades,
thoughin2006 the difference was 0.1 percent. That could be a crucial statistic in Southern Oregon, where Sen. Alan Bates, D-Medford, is in a rematch
See Water project/A4 a Republican from Ashland, lost by 275 votes in 2010. This time around, Dotterrer
has raised and spent twice as much as during his unsuccessful run in 2010. He has outraised and outspent Bates
by more than $200,000. There are 1,200 fewer Democrats in the district this year
against Dave Dotterrer for
than in 2010, but an increase
the District 3 seat. Dotterrer,
of more than 3,400 unaffiliat-
ed voters makes it difficult to
predict the race.
Christmas radio's big bucks
Jim Moore, a political
scienceprofessoratPacific University in Forest Grove, said unaffiliated voters who
don't align with either major party tend to split along lines similar to the differences in
registration between Democrats and Republicans. See Election /A4
By Ben Sisnrio New York Times
know the answer because radio frequency chips are
WEST ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — It was still two weeks before Halloween when WEZW-FM,
embedded in students' ID
cards, or their schools are equipped with biometric scanners that can identify
portions of a student's fingerprint, the iris of an eye or a vein in a palm. Such technologies have become increasingly common in schools, which use them to take attendance, alert parents where their
children get off the school bus or speed up lunch lines. But those tools, which
are supposed to make schoolssaferand more efficient, have become a flash-
point. Several states are now banning or restricting the use of the technology in schools, as worries over student privacy have risen amid breaches of government and commercial computer databases. This year, Florida became the first state to
ban the use ofbiometric identification in its schools.
Kansas said biometric data cannot be collected without student or parental
the easy-listening standby of Cape May County, pushed the
What Cook's coming outcould m ean By Jenn McGregor
Laboratortes CEO Jason Gren-
The Washington Post
fell-Gardner is public about his sexuality.
"So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me." And with that, Apple CEO
around the country were expected to go eggnog-and-mistletoe. Even in the age of Pandora and Spotify,
workplace discrimination against LGBT employees. "The fact that Apple is so
incredibly ubiquitous and successful — they just posted their
the all-holiday format
essay inBloomberg Businessweek published Thursday. Cook's acknowledgment of his sexual orientation could lend to better work-
by a now openly gay leader,
has remained one of radio's most enduring andprofitable gimmicks, with hundreds
sends a tremendous message,"
of stations luring
place conditions for LGBT employees.
said Todd Sears, a former investment banker who founded a global LGBT leadership and strategic advising firm. See Cook/A6
listeners with loops of
Jim Wilson/New YorkTimeafile photo
Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, publicly came out as gay in en
ther, until now." There are a few other CEOs
of publicly traded companies who are gay: Trevor Burgess,
nearly 500 stations
their stories and to reduce
In an eloquent, thought-
denied my sexuality, I haven't publicly acknowledged it ei-
each other last week, and by December
gay rights advocates, both to help inspire others to share
licly come out as gay.
wrote that "while I have never
within minutes of
And that's important, say
on the planet, became the first CEO in the Fortune 500 to pub-
ful and powerful essay in Bloomberg Businessweek published early Thursday, Cook
in Birmingham, Alabama, activated their holiday playlists
But there are no CEOs of
companies nearly as large or economically significant as Apple who have publicly said they are gay.
Tim Cook, leader of perhaps the world's most admired company, head of the globe's most iconic brand and chief of one of the most valuable companies
Christmas button. Not to miss out on the merriment, two rival stations
the chief executive of Cl Finan- gay CEO of a publicly traded cial, became the first openly ban k , for instance, and IGI
most successful quarter of all time — and that it has been led
"Feliz Navidad" and "Grandma Got Run
Over by a Reindeer." See Radio/A6
consent. New Hampshire, Colorado and North Carolina said the state educa-
tion departments cannot
TODAY'S WEATHER
collect and store biometric data as part of student
records. See Tracking /A4
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