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Oregon Guard holds back some bonuses
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WASHINGTON — When Chelsea Wells joined the Oregon National Guard in 2007, the 17-year-old high school junior was promised a $20,000 recruitment bonus for agreeing to serve as an intelligence analyst. She received half of the money shortly thereafter and was told she’d get the rest after three years. She has yet to see the second $10,000. Worse, the National Guard wants the first
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$10,000 back. Six Oregon guardsmen have come forward with similar problems, according to U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, who said Thursday the pattern “looks a lot like either complete incompetence or bait-andswitch for the young men and women who are being encouraged to sign up and serve their country and risk their lives. And I think that it’s absolutely outrageous that it’s been mishandled.” See Bonuses / A4
Chelsea Wells has been denied her bonus three times.
SPRAYING DOWN FOR INVASIVE SPECIES
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Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty denied a conflict of interest in the handling of a grand jury investigation earlier this year, and told the Oregon State Bar on Wednesday that he did not discourage another attorney from cooperating with the bar investigation. Flaherty’s comments were contained in his response to questions the bar raised in June. The Oregon State Bar is investigating an anonymous complaint Flaherty told accusing Flaherty of trying to the state bar settle a score through a criminal there was investigation of Deschutes County no conflict of Counsel Mark Pilliod. Flaherty iniinterest in his tiated a grand jury investigation in investigation. late February after Pilliod released job applications from recently hired deputy district attorneys to The Bulletin in response to a public records request. The anonymous complainant also claims it was a conflict of interest for Flaherty to convene a grand jury for a case in which the potential victims are employees in his office. See Flaherty / A5
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Wanderlust Tours naturalist Jeff Gartzke sprays canoes to rid them of invasive species at the company’s warehouse in Bend Wednesday.
Even small boats can create big problems By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
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SALEM — When it comes to invasive species entering Oregon’s water-
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WASHINGTON — What happens if President Barack Obama and Congress don’t strike a debt deal? On Aug. 3, the nation would find out, with Obama forced to Inside make a set of extraordinarily dif• Where Dems, ficult choices about what to pay Republicans or not pay. By then, the governstand on the ment’s savings account would be major issues, nearly empty and the president Page A5 would be relying on daily tax revenues to pay the nation’s bills. There wouldn’t be enough — in fact, there would be a $134 billion shortfall. As Obama decided what to pay, he would choose among Social Security checks, salaries for members of the military and veterans, unemployment benefits, student loans and many other government programs, according to administration officials and an independent analysis by a former senior Treasury Department official in the George H.W. Bush administration. To protect the nation’s creditworthiness, Obama would have to balance those priorities with the imperative of making payments to investors in U.S. government bonds — which range from domestic pension funds to the Chinese government. See Debt / A5
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ways, kayaks aren’t the boats making the biggest waves. But the owners of smaller crafts are expected to pay a fee before launching, just like the owners of larger, motorized boats, which contribute more heavily to the state’s invasive species problem. Unlike kayaks, motorboats are often tied to a dock for weeks at time, giving species time to
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In state, registered motorboats do not need to get a permit. The $5 fee is included with boat registration. Since it’s tied to boater registration, the permit is not transferable. For out-of-state motorboats, permits cost $22 ($20 permit, $2 agent fee). For paddle and nonmotorized boats, 10 feet or longer (canoe, kayak, drift boat) the cost is $7 and applies to both resident and nonresidents. Nonresident motorized boaters can transfer permits. If a kayaker owns three crafts, only one permit is needed as long as only one kayak is on the water at a time. The fee for not having a permit is $30 for nonmotorized crafts and $50 for motorized crafts. Permits can be purchased online at Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s website: www.dfw.state.or.us/online_license_sales/ index.asp.
Police sort through suspect’s account in killing of boy By James Barron And Al Baker New York Times News Service
NEW YORK — For a couple of hours Monday night, Leiby Kletzky, 8, sat in a car in a parking lot outside a catering hall in Rockland County, N.Y. The windows were rolled down. More than 400 people were at a wedding inside the hall, including the man who had driven Leiby there, Levi Aron, 35. No one
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latch on and grow. They also have more spaces where invasive species can cling and hide. The aquatic invasive species prevention program, which went into effect last year, requires the owners of all boats to acquire a permit to help fight the problem. See Boats / A4
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noticed the little boy sitting there on the warm night. And no one knew then that Borough Park, Brooklyn, was mobilizing to find him. Leiby was 35 miles from home, where his world was defined by family and religion and community and Aron’s by dead-end jobs and marriages that fell apart. They encountered each other on a sidewalk in Borough Park, one a lost child who needed
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directions, the other an adult from nearby Kensington who indicated he could help. On Thursday, three days after they met on the sidewalk, the police were trying to sort through Aron’s account of how he had met the boy, and what had happened during the undetermined time that they spent together before the boy was suffocated and dismembered. See Slaying / A4
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Levi Aron, 35, says he hears voices.
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