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Community officials push for changes to transit rule By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
SALEM — Local officials are hoping a state transportation rule they’ve said prevents economic development in Central Oregon could be changed. For many community officials, making changes to the state’s transportation rule is at the top of their list for this legislative session. The rule, meant to minimize
traffic congestion, requires identified funds for road improvements before allowing more businesses near busy roads. Officials said it’s too difficult to pay for road improvements before the nearby land has been developed. In Bend, it slowed the city’s progress in developing Juniper Ridge. Now, there is more than one approach on the table to changing the rule. See Transit / A5
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Tax credit fight is looming Cutbacks, fierce lobbying expected as state faces $3B shortfall By Nick Budnick The Bulletin
SALEM — In the last two years, Oregonians paid an estimated $10 million to filmmakers for making movies in Oregon, $1.2 million to subsidize certain firms’ investments in e-commerce, and more than $4 million to encourage trucking com-
panies and individuals to use clean-burning diesel engines — all in the form of tax credits. These are just a few examples of the dozens of tax credits set to expire over the coming six years, thanks to a law passed by the 2009 Legislature to put the state’s income tax breaks under a microscope.
And the state’s bleak fiscal prospects — it faces a roughly $3 billion gap between projected income tax revenues and costs — mean that tax breaks such as these are set to be a hot item before the 2011 Legislature. Sen. Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, co-chairwoman of the new Joint Committee on Tax Cred-
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By Scott Shane New York Times News Service
WASHINGTON — Julian Assange, the flamboyant founder of WikiLeaks, is living on a s u p p o r t e r ’s 600-acre estate outside London, where he has negotiated $1.7 million in book deals and regularly issues defiant statements about the a nti-secrec y group’s plans. Meanwhile, the young soldier accused of leaking the seWikiLeaks cret documents founder Julian that brought Assange, top, W i k i L e a k s is living on and Assange to a 600-acre fame and notoestate, while riety is locked Bradley Manin a tiny cell at ning, who is the Quantico accused of Marine Corps leaking secret Base in Virgindocuments, ia. Pfc. Bradley remains in jail. Manning, who turned 23 last month in the military prison, is accused of the biggest leak of classified documents in U.S. history. See WikiLeaks / A5
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The Deschutes County Circuit Court will be scrapping a longstanding tradition next month, moving misdemeanor and felony cases into the same courtroom for the first time in 25 years in an attempt to improve efficiency. Court Administrator Ernie Mazorol said the change is being made in anticipation of additional cuts when the next state budget goes into effect on July 1. The current two-year budget cycle cut 9.3 percent out of the court’s budget, he said, while the next budget could trim another 5 percent, or around $400,000. Mazorol said trying misdemeanors and felonies in front of the same judge should mean the court will need fewer people to handle the administrative duties, like organizing court schedules and moving documents from one courtroom to another. It may take courthouse staff as much as a year to adjust to the new system, Mazorol said. See Court / A5
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Change of venue may improve efficiency for court Misdemeanor, felony cases to be heard in the same courtroom at Deschutes Circuit Court
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its, expects to hear from businesses, individuals and lobbyists asking that their tax breaks be spared. For her, it will be all about the dollar signs for Oregon’s budget. “Everybody with a tax credit that can’t come in and show something pretty compelling in terms of return for the taxpayers is going to be in trouble,” she said. See Taxes / A4
— Judge Michael Sullivan, Deschutes County Circuit Court, on efforts to improve the court system for the public
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Sad development: Kodak takes Kodachrome out of the picture Shutdown of last processor signals end of an era By Eric Adler McClatchy-Tribune News Service
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The 1963 Zapruder film of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was shot on it. So, too, were the portraits of Sir Edmund Hillary on Mount Everest, a famed 1985 National Geographic cover of a
beautiful Afghan refugee girl, and probably a generation or two of your family’s vacation slides. So when Angie Jennings, of Prairie Village, Kan., learned that Kodak would stop making the film in 2009 and that the last Kodachrome processing machine would shut down at the end of
2010, she knew what to do. In September, the 45-year-old art photographer trekked with her mother, 72, up a lush hillside in China’s Fujian province. There, visiting the tea fields of a dear friend, she stood on the rise of a winding path. “That was the point I pulled out my Leica loaded with Kodachrome,” Jennings said. See Kodachrome / A4
Bill Thomas and Angie Jennings, at Crick Camera Shop in Kansas City, Mo., have been longtime users of Kodachrome film. Keith Myers / Kansas City Star