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LOS ANGELES — All it took was a tweet. A famous rapper’s Twitter feed posted a phone number for the Compton station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, urging his more than half-million followers to call. Within seconds, every line on every phone at the station was jammed. Legitimate emergency calls for help were blocked for almost three hours by a deluge of pranksters. Sheriff’s officials denounced the tweet by The Game as irresponsible. But now authorities are facing a tough question: Should those who send tweets be held liable for the problems their messages cause? A summer marked by riots in England and flash-mob violence in several U.S. cities has officials debating how much they should — and legally can — crack down. See Crime / A4
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When the city of Bend asked voters to approve a $30 million road bond measure in May that included several major improvements to Reed Market Road, representatives of the nearby Old Farm District couldn’t support the ballot initiative even though they wanted it to pass. As representatives of one of Bend’s 13 neighborhood associations, the Old Farm District was considered by the city’s attorneys Inside to be a pseudo• Neighborhood gover nmental or homeowners agency under the association? What’s purview of the the difference? city. That status Page A5 prohibited it from advocating for the bond measure. Likewise, neighborhood associations, which are made up of unpaid, volunteer community members, weren’t allowed to support candidates for public office. The groups also were required to comply with state public meeting and records laws. But tonight Bend city councilors will consider a change to the city code that would better define the relationship between the neighborhood associations and city government. While the proposal is not considered a major change, Bend Communications Manager Justin Finestone said it would give the neighborhoods more autonomy while limiting whatever liability the city might have had in the past. “This kind of gives (neighborhood associations) a little more freedom to be more active in their community,” Fine-
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Nobody familiar with American medical care in the 21st century should be surprised that a 73-year-old woman can be minutes away from getting a painful collapsed vertebra filled with liquid plastic and it’s impossible to say whether the procedure works, or how. It may be that Marcia Henry could get as much relief from injections of local anesthetic, from physical therapy or just from more time to heal as she will from the $3,137 “vertebroplasty” she’s about to undergo at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. “The studies have been contradictory. Which one trumps which one? We don’t know,” says interventional radiologist Mary Jensen as she sits in a dimly lit Xray viewing room and watches a colleague lay out a tray of instruments in a procedure suite next door. “It leaves the treating physician in a dilemma.” American medical care is rife with such treatments, whose usefulness is uncertain not just to the doctors who deliver them but also to the patients who receive them. These days, however, many people are pinning their hopes on “comparative effectiveness research” as a way to solve the dilemma of how best to treat this and hundreds of other common problems in day-to-day medicine. See Treatment / A4
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stone said. “Cutting those formalities gives neighborhood associations more of a chance to advocate.” Bend’s neighborhood association program was established in 2001. The associations, with the financial support of the city, represented specific geographical areas in town, and served as the eyes and ears of those community members
to the Bend City Council. Unlike homeowners associations that require members to pay dues and abide by strict rules, such as not parking an RV in a driveway, neighborhood association membership is free and only requires living, working or owning property within the particular boundaries. See Neighbors / A5
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Oregon State Police troopers are more at risk of getting hurt or killed when helping stranded motorists than being shot by a criminal. Trooper Colin Tracy suffered serious injuries Friday when assisting a motorist with a flat tire. The jack slipped, trapping Tracy. He suffered injuries to his face and will undergo surgery. Over the past 13 years, trafficrelated incidents were the most prominent cause of law enforcement officer fatalities, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. In 2010, 50 officers were killed nationwide in traffic-related incidents. The midyear report for 2011 shows there have already been 45 fatalities. Statistics are not broken down to indicate how many officers were fatally injured in crashes or while assisting motorists. “I told my wife I don’t want you to worry about me getting shot,” said Trooper Chuck Allen, public information officer for the Nevada Highway Patrol. “If anything, I will be injured in a car crash when I’m on duty.” Oregon, along with neighboring states California, Washington and Nevada, requires troopers to provide roadside assistance. Idaho troopers are not required to stop, but are encouraged to do so. Troopers help change tires, jump-start cars, direct lost motorists and facilitate calls for towing or gasoline. “We’re not allowed to drive by disabled motorists without stopping to help,” Allen said. “An officer may be on a timeline, but he’s required to let dispatch know.” Lt. Gregg Hastings of the Oregon State Police said trooper deaths and injuries from roadside assistance have been increasing in Oregon, but are still a rare occurrence. “The greatest danger to us is other motorists on the roadway that may travel off the highway and collide into an officer,” Hastings said. A move-over law was established to help protect officers and service vehicles on the side of the road. See Troopers / A4
School lunches come full circle in working-class Colorado city By Kirk Johnson New York Times News Service
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Kitchen workers prepare burritos for schoolchildren in Greeley, Colo. Last year’s factory-made burritos had 35 ingredients; this year’s scratch-made offerings have 12.
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GREELEY, Colo. — The idea of making school lunches better and healthier has gathered steam in many places in recent years, but not equally for every child. Schools with money and involved parents concerned about obesity and nutrition charged ahead, while poor and struggling districts, overwhelmed by hard times, mostly did not. This gritty middle-sized city in northern Colo-
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rado, where 60 percent of the 19,500 K-12 students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, is trying to break the mold. When classes start Thursday, the district will make a great leap forward — and at the same time back to the way it was done a generation ago — in cooking meals from scratch. Factory food took over most U.S. schools in a rolling, greasy wave of chicken nuggets and preprepped everything over the past few decades. See Lunches / A5
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