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He covered foreclosures — then he faced his own Andrew Moore describes how buying a house in Bend with a conventional 30-year loan, 20 percent down and manageable payments can become a foreclosure. It can happen to any family, as Moore — The Bulletin’s real estate reporter until Friday — found out firsthand. Read his story on Page F1.
Challengers using TARP votes to tar incumbents
BREWHAHA Oregon beverage artisans object to OLCC’s grounding homemade beer and wine
New York Times and McClatchy-Tribune news services The vote in 2008 to bail out Wall Street was framed as the only way to avert an economic meltdown and relieve financial institutions of their most toxic holdings. For many in Congress, it turns out that the vote itself was poisonous. Nearly two years after Congress approved the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Bush administration’s $700 billion program to rescue the banking system at a moment when it appeared close to collapse, lawmakers from both parties who backed it remain haunted by the vote. Republicans for months predicted that a public backlash against the Democrats’ big health care law would be the defining issue in this year’s congressional campaigns. But the bipartisan TARP vote has become a more resonant issue in a year when anti-incumbent, anti-Washington sentiment is running strong. See TARP / A8
Area inches toward one source for all health care Clinic in Redmond seeks to join St. Charles; ‘one-stop shopping’ is the hospital group’s goal, but critics debate the consequences By Betsy Q. Cliff The Bulletin
In one of the first concrete steps toward creating a new health system in Central Oregon, St. Charles is negotiating with several groups of physicians about employing them and acquiring their practices. One group, Cascade Medical Clinic in Redmond — among the largest primary care practices in the area — said the doctors there hope to be employees of St. Charles Health System in the next few months. If the deal goes through, it would be the first such acquisition by St. Charles. A couple of years ago, the hospital ignited a firestorm in the medical community by negotiating with a specialty group of physicians in Bend for a similar arrangement, though that deal fell apart. Employing a group of primary care physicians would move the hospital closer to its goal of creating an integrated health system, one in which all health care a patient needs — from doctors’ visits to tests to hospital stays — can be provided. That system would use the same medical records, adhere to the same standards of patient care and, in some cases, use the same administration and billing personnel. Bend Memorial Clinic, with about 100 providers, lab services and imaging equipment, is currently the closest thing in the region to an integrated health system. Typically, a fully integrated system would include inpatient hospital services, which BMC does not. See Health care / A6
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Motherland changed as spies ‘slept’
By Benedict Carey and John Markoff New York Times News Service
By Clifford J. Levy New York Times News Service
MOSCOW — Some complained they could not scrape up a single grapefruit or tangerine in the markets. Others pined for contact with friends in the West, which was off-limits forever (the KGB made absolutely certain of that). One recalled his dismay upon returning in the 1960s and visiting a Moscow factory: “What a dreadful mess.” Only a few years later, he dropped dead, as if he were never able to readapt to Soviet life. Like those before them, the sleeper spies who were deported to Russia last week in one of the biggest espionage exchanges in decades will probably miss the United States, picket fences and all. But what perhaps most distinguishes this affair from its Cold War precursors is what awaits these Russians in their motherland. Russia, in more ways than it may want to admit, has developed a desire for the suburban comforts of America. See Spies / A7
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Old law, new interpretation • From Oregon’s Liquor Control Act: “No person shall brew, ferment, distill, blend or rectify any alcoholic liquor unless licensed so to do by the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. However, the Liquor Control Act does not apply to the making or keeping of naturally fermented wines and fruit juices or beer in the home, for home consumption and not for sale.
Jeremy Holbrook of the Central Oregon Homebrewers Organization fills a keg modified to heat water in his backyard Saturday. The heated water will be added to barley in the middle keg, converting starches in the grain to fermentable sugars.
By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
he Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s new interpretation of an old law has put homemade beer and wine in the spotlight, effectively banning judged competitions, home-brewing club tasting nights, and even the taking of a six-pack of homebrewed beer to a neighbor’s barbecue. At issue is ORS 471.403, a statute that forbids the production of alcoholic beverages by anyone not licensed by the OLCC. But it “does not apply to the making or keeping of naturally fermented wines and fruit juices or beer in the home, for home consumption and not for sale.” Citing the new interpreta-
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tion of the phrase “home consumption,” the Oregon State Fair has canceled this year’s beer and wine competitions. The wine competition has been a fixture at the fair for 31 years, the beer contest for 22 years. Rachel McIntosh, director of open class exhibits for the Deschutes County Fair, said that unless she’s explicitly notified by the OLCC that beer and wine contests are out, the county fair will be accepting entries for the fair later this month. “Somebody’s opened a can of worms,” McIntosh said. “We’ve done this for a long time, and it’s probably been a law forever, but somebody opened the can and stirred the pot.” See Home brew / A5
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Computer scientists are developing highly programmed machines that can engage people and teach them simple skills, including household tasks and vocabulary. Above, Bandit, a creation of the University of Southern California, can interact with autistic children.
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LOS ANGELES — The boy, a dark-haired 6-year-old, is playing with a new companion. The two hit it off quickly — unusual for the 6-year-old, who has autism — and the boy is imitating his playmate’s every move — now nodding his head, now raising his arms. “Like Simon Says,” says the autistic boy’s mother, seated next to him on the floor. Yet soon he begins to withdraw; in a video of the session, he covers his ears and slumps against the wall. But the companion, a 3-foot-tall robot being tested at the University of Southern California, maintains eye contact and performs another move, raising one arm up high. Up goes the boy’s arm — and now he is smiling at the machine. In a handful of laboratories around the world, computer scientists are developing robots like this one: highly programmed machines that can engage people and teach them simple skills, including household tasks, vocabulary or, as in the case of the boy, playing, elementary imitation and taking turns. See Robots / A5
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