Bulletin Daily Paper 06/26/11

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A NEW NORMAL?

To those with 4 jobs, add 1 more: job juggler

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Ruth Jenkin, with two colleagues, in 1984.

WOMEN OF THE LAW

By Hannah Seligson New York Times News Service

When someone asks Roger Fierro “What do you do?” — which he knows is shorthand for “Where do you work?” — he laughs. Then he says, “I do everything.” Fierro, who is 26, has four jobs: working as a bilingual-curriculum specialist for the textbook In Business publisher Pear• Should we get son; handling used to 10% estate sales and online marketjoblessness? ing for a store • Job-seeking that sells vintips for teens tage items; setthis summer, ting up an online store for a Page G1-2 custom piñata maker; and developing reality-show ideas for a production company. So far this month, he’s made about $1,800. Whereas most 9-to-5ers have some kind of structure in their lives, each workday can be wildly different for him. And he’s not alone. Some portions of the population — especially young, creative types like actors, artists and musicians, not to mention recent graduates — have always held multiple jobs to pay the bills. But people from all kinds of fields are now drawing income from several streams — and often, not enough income. See Jobs / A4

Then-Officer Sandi Marsh, in 1980.

County jail Capt. Ruth Jenkin and Bend Police Chief Sandi Baxter were hired the same year. Now, they’re retiring. In 32 years, a lot has changed. “In 1979, there weren’t that many women in law enforcement,” Baxter says “… Looking from the outside in, it was a big deal.”

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With the Legislature’s approval of 14 education-related bills last week, supporters hope the string of legislation will help reform IN THE Oregon schools from kindergarLEGISLATURE ten through college. How quickly these changes will reach Central Oregon’s school districts, and how deeply they will be felt here, • Summaries of the 14 bills, remain open questions. Page A7 Some of bills call for changes already happening, while others • Legislature will have some effect in the future, analysis: however distant. Local school leadWhen will the ers praised the legislation while exend come? pressing reservations about how it Page B1 will all come together. Perhaps most prominent in the bills — all of which Gov. John Kitzhaber has said he will sign — is a change that makes the governor the state’s school superintendent and does away with the current elected position; the governor instead would appoint a deputy in charge of education. Other bills expand online charter schools, allow students to transfer out of district, tack $25 million onto the K-12 state budget and require districts to offer full-day kindergarten within four years. See Education / A7

Diabetes’ rapid rise makes it a ‘defining global health issue’

By Elisabeth Rosenthal New York Times News Service

By David Brown

Those little boxes that usher cable signals and digital recording capacity into televisions have become the single largest electricity drain in many American homes, with some typical home entertainment configurations eating more power than a new refrigerator and even some central airconditioning systems. There are 160 million so-called set-top boxes in the U.S., one for every two people, and that number is rising. Many homes now have one or more basic cable boxes as well as add-on digital video recorders, which use 40 percent more power than the set-top box. These set-top boxes are energy hogs mostly because their drives, tuners and other components are generally running full tilt, or nearly so, 24 hours a day even when not in active use. See TV boxes / A5

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Capt. Ruth Jenkin, pictured in a corridor at the county jail where the women’s cells are, was among the first women hired to work here in 1979. Back then, the jail was located in the old courthouse. The photo from 1984 at top shows Sgt. Jenkin between Lt. Mel Newhouse, left, and Lt. Jim Stroup. She was promoted that year to lieutenant, and in 2001, she made captain.

Born and raised in Bend, Police Chief Sandi Baxter said she knew in high school that she wanted to get into law enforcement. She was the first female officer to be hired in Bend. The family photo at top shows Baxter shortly after she joined the force. A handwritten note on the back reads: “Officer Sandi Marsh, Bend, Oregon Police Department, November 1980, Age 24.”

By Hillary Borrud • The Bulletin n March 1979, Ruth Jenkin went to work as one of the county’s first female corrections deputies. But first, she had to put on a uniform handed down from male employees at the Deschutes County jail. That same year, Sandi Baxter was hired as the first female officer at the Bend Police Department. Early in their careers, the women sometimes received different treatment than their male counterparts. For Jenkin, the male employees at the jail initially didn’t think women could work with male inmates. And in Baxter’s case, people she dealt with in the community sometimes questioned why the police department would send a woman

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to deal with a potential crime. Thirty-two years later, Jenkin, 60 and now the captain of the jail, and Baxter, 55 and now the chief of police, are retiring. They paved the way for women in local law enforcement, rising through the ranks of their agencies. Yet although the number of local female officers and deputies has increased, women remain a relatively small fraction of each force. In Redmond, a third longtime female law enforcement employee retired in May. Susan LaChance, who couldn’t be reached for comment, retired as a community service officer supervisor after working for the Redmond Police Department since 1983. See Women / A6

Some home entertainment systems, including DVRs, eat more energy than refrigerators.

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Educators praise the 14 bills passed, but some changes, like interdistrict transfers, could be problematic By Patrick Cliff and Erik Hidle

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Vol. 108, No. 177, 50 pages, 7 sections

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Votes that pushed us into the red Forget the rhetoric, and (for now) about Obamacare, Medicare or the Wall Street bailout. An analysis of votes since 2001 shows that three-fourths of current members of Congress voted for at least one of three policies that contributed to fully one-third of the $12.7 trillion swing from projected surpluses to real debt: the Bush tax cuts, the Obama stimulus and funding for two wars. See a chart of the overlapping priorities on Page A4.

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Nearly 10 percent of world’s adults have diabetes, and the prevalence of the disease is rising rapidly. That number has more than doubled in three decades, jumping to an estimated 347 million, a new study says. And with the numbers climbing almost everywhere, experts said the disease is no longer limited to rich countries and is now a global problem. “Diabetes may well become the defining issue of global health for the next decade,” said Majid Ezzati, chair of global environmental health at Imperial College London, one of the study authors. The study’s findings predict a huge burden of medical costs and physical disability lying ahead in this century, as diabetes increases a person’s risk of heart attack, kidney failure, blindness and some infections. See Diabetes / A8

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