Bulletin Daily Paper 04/16/11

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Playoff time Blazers set for Mavs

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No charges in Trono shooting By Sheila G. Miller The Bulletin

Stephen Trono

The Bend woman who allegedly mistook her husband for an intruder and shot him multiple times last July will not be charged, her lawyer said Friday. According to attorney Jon Springer, the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office decided last week that it will not file charges against

Angelicque Trono, 40, who shot her husband, prominent local developer Stephen Trono, 61. “We have so far not issued any charges,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Traci Anderson. “We are still in the middle of formulating that final decision, but so far there is not sufficient evidence to go forward.” Anderson said she expects to issue a decision next week.

According to Bend Police, around 12:30 a.m. on July 29, Mathew Trono, then 18, called 911 to report that his mother, Angelicque, had accidentally shot his father, Stephen, six times with a .22-caliber revolver. She later told officers she’d been startled awake and sent her husband to investigate. When he came back into the house, she said she mistook him for an intruder. See Trono / A7

By Peter Whoriskey The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Facing recession-weary audiences across the country, President Barack Obama frequently highlighted the possibilities of job training for the unemployed. The new fields of green technology, advanced manufacturing or clean energy would require new skills that job training programs could provide. More education would bolster the workforce and the economy. And at a community college “summit” in October, Obama touted the colleges’ Inside role in provid• House passes ing workers Ryan’s budget with skills to take advanfor 2012, tage of new Page A3 opportunities. “These are places where workers can gain new skills to move up in their careers,” he said. “These are places where anyone with a desire to learn and to grow can take a chance on a brighter future for themselves and their families.” But details that emerged this week of the spending compromise between the president and congressional leaders show federal funding for job training programs took a significant hit — more than $870 million in all. Included are cuts to occupational training grants at community colleges, green jobs classes and a program to help low-income older people acquire work skills. Although some liberal groups decried the reductions, they noted that the budget deal essentially fended off much deeper cuts to job training programs proposed by Republicans. See Budget / A6

Facebook shows its stuff

Facebook employee Jay Park explains to a tour group the details about the many computer servers inside the facility on Friday.

By Vikki Ortiz Healy Chicago Tribune

Photos by Rob Kerr / The Bulletin

Prineville Data Center employee Sam Viles adjusts cords on a cart as a group tours the facility on Friday during the grand opening ceremony. A manager said last week the facility had about 47 employees, including contractors.

TOP NEWS INSIDE LIBYA: Cluster bombs hit civilian areas, Page A2 Correction A Washington Post graphic comparing the spending plans put forward by the president and by House Republicans, which appeared Thursday, April 14, on Page A2, inadvertently swapped the key colors for the two plans. A corrected version appears on Page A6.

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By Jordan Novet The Bulletin

PRINEVILLE — Facebook’s Prineville Data Center has a new status update: User data is now flowing. At a grand opening ceremony held inside a tent beside the data center Friday, Facebook leaders said the center’s construction is on schedule. “And it’s now handling millions of status updates,” Tom Furlong, Facebook’s director of site operations, told the crowd, a mix of about 75 media members, public officials, Facebook employees and others. Prineville Mayor Betty Roppe and Crook County Judge Mike McCabe thanked Facebook for making friends with the city and county. State Treasurer Ted Wheeler said it’s exciting for Oregon

to be involved with Facebook, which, he said, “has changed everything,” in terms of both business practices and personal relations. Directing his words to Facebook’s delegation, Wheeler said, “We hope that you will help friend other businesses” and encourage them to locate in Oregon. Sen. Ron Wyden and Sen. Jeff Merkley, both D-Ore., gave congratulatory words via a taped message, as did Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River. “Facebook, we are writing on your wall, ‘Welcome to Oregon,’ ” Wyden said. Speakers at the event gathered around a podium in front of the stage and, with their hands, together depressed a “Like” button in the Facebook style roughly the size of a long microwave, which then illuminated with white light. Laughter and

applause followed. The data center has already come a long way. It has been under construction off state Highway 126 just east of the Prineville Airport for 15 months, said Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook’s vice president of technical operations, and only now has started to allow user data to flow through the servers. “Today is obviously a big day for us,” he said. It’s “a significant milestone for the growth of our business.” A quarter of the data center’s servers are serving Facebook users, Heiliger said. The rest are in development. The arrival of the data center comes at a time when the area needs it. Unemployment in Crook County has hovered between 15 and 19 percent since 2009. See Facebook / A7

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CHICAGO — In the two years since her father was deported, 13-year-old Elisabeth and her three younger siblings have settled into an after-school routine while their mother, Maria Lourdes works long hours at a beauty salon. The family shares a cramped bedroom in a Waukegan, Ill., apartment. When school friends wonder why her father is no longer in the picture, Elisabeth has learned to change the subject. “I don’t answer,” she said. “It’s such a long “I cry every story.” Friday After Elizabeth’s father when I was deported, hear the the family moved briefly stories. to Mexico. But It’s not just domestic discord led Maria a moral Lourdes to re- issue here. turn to WaukeTo me, gan with her children, who it’s basic were born human here and are U.S. citizens. rights.” She, like her husband, is — Elena undocument- Segura, ed, but has ap- immigration plied for a visa advocate to remain in the country. Now, the four children carry on in America as best they can, just like a growing number of young people who were born in this country and have seen one or both parents deported. Those who work with such children say they’ve seen an increase in the cases. Churches, schools and advocacy groups are left scrambling to help once-stable households deal with poverty, foreclosures and other problems that come when socalled “mixed immigration status” families are split up. The separation creates an “angry generation” of children who feel traumatized and disaffected but still choose to stay in the United States. See Deportation / A3

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This school bus brought to you by a pizza parlor By Catherine Rampell New York Times News Service

Cash-hungry states and municipalities, in pursuit of even the smallest amounts of revenue, have begun to exploit one market that they have exclusive control over: their own property. With the help of a few eager marketing consultants, many governments are peddling the rights to place advertisements in public school cafeterias, on the sides of school buses, in prison holding areas and in the wait-

ing rooms of welfare offices and the Department of Motor Vehicles. The revenue generated by these ads is just a drop in the bucket for states and counties with deficits in the millions or billions of dollars. But supporters say every penny helps. Still, critics question whether the modest sums are worth further exposing citizens — especially children — to even more commercial pitches. “I have a 5-year-old who doesn’t understand what ads are,” says Megan Keller, 30, of Provo, Utah, who

says her son Collin, a kindergartner, sees seductive posters for sugary cereals every day in the lunchroom of his public school. “I don’t like that he thinks, ‘Oh, this is good because it comes from my school,’ and I’m having to explain to him why that’s not true.” Because Utah will soon start selling ads on the sides of school buses, Keller has decided to transfer Collin to a nearby charter school that has sworn off commercialism. See Buses / A6

Matthew Staver / New York Times News Service

A school bus advertises for Next Care at Smoky Hill High School, in Aurora, Colo.


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