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By Erik Hidle The Bulletin
REDMOND — New federal rules regarding lease agreements are keeping the U.S. Forest Service from moving its air dispatch center to the Redmond Airport. The airport currently houses several fire suppression services for the federal government. Administrative offices, the local air tanker base, a smoke jumper base, Redmond Hot Shots and the area
supply cache all work out of offices and hangars at the air field. But the air dispatch center, an interagency command center that plots how to fight fires, remains in Prineville. And it doesn’t look to be coming to Redmond any time soon. “The Forest Service came to us a while ago with the idea of moving the dispatch center to Redmond,” said City Manager David Brandt. “They want to do a lease, but un-
fortunately we don’t have a building designed that will work right now. And until someone finds a way to fund that design, we are stuck at that point.” In the past, the federal government took on the cost of a design phase. If a lease agreement was eventually reached, the cost would be folded into that contract. But an insurance policy had the federal government on the hook for the cost even if it changed its mind
on the lease agreement. That way, the city kept itself from paying for a design phase, which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, with no tenant to move in. “And they have changed the way they do that,” Brandt said. “They don’t want to make that agreement. We would like to help them out but we can’t, with good fiduciary responsibility, take that on.” See Dispatch / A5
•Staff members urged the DA to drop a grand jury investigation of the release of job applications By Hillary Borrud and Scott Hammers The Bulletin
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Patrick Johnstad, 21, of Redmond, soars above his friend Josh Watts, 13, also of Redmond, while skateboarding at the Redmond Skatepark on Sunday afternoon. In skateboard parlance, the trick falls into the category of an “ollie” — the act of jumping over something or someone on your board without using your hands to propel the board into the air.
Data users keep a closer eye on their megabyte budgets By Brian X. Chen
An iPad owner checks out the options for streaming Netflix movies in Los Angeles earlier this year.
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TV news pioneer Wallace dies Mike Wallace, who pioneered and then dominated the popular TV newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” died Saturday night, CBS announced. He was 93. Wallace, who had triple heart bypass surgery in 2008, died in New Haven, Conn., his colleague Bob Schieffer said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Story on Page B5
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Everyone knows how long a minute is. And your cellphone carrier keeps close tabs on how many you have used this month. Now, in the smartphone era, more people are being forced to think about how many megabytes of data they are using. But what, exactly, is a megabyte? If a sampling of pedestrians on the streets of New York is any guide, most people have only a vague idea. One said a megabyte was “the amount of something we have to use the Internet.” Miranda Popkey, 24, was closer: “It’s a measure of how much information you store. If there are too many of them, I can’t send my email attachment.”
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A megabyte is, in this context, 1,000 kilobytes — or about the size of a photo taken with a decent digital camera, or roughly one minute of a song, or a decent stack of email. Therein lies the problem: Counting things like minutes and text messages is fairly easy, but there is no intuitive or
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natural way to gauge data use. The carriers say they are doing their best to help customers keep tabs on their data diet. But the potential for confusion — and unexpected charges — is growing as people upgrade to faster devices running on faster networks. See Data / A6
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Opposing sides use different tactics in gay-marriage fight By Lornet Turnbull The Seattle Times
SEATTLE — There was a time when gay rights supporters fought fire with fire, when they staged operations with names like “Bigot Busters” — showing up in parking lots, fairs and festivals — places where their opponents were collecting signatures with the goal of mixing it up. Now, as the campaign to put same-sex-marriage legislation on Washington state’s November ballot gets under way, those wishing to repeal it are making petitions available in hundreds of churches, businesses and private homes across the
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A 1,550-page report recently released by the Oregon State Police provides new insight into the events surrounding a grand jury investigation launched last year by Deschutes County District Attorney Patrick Flaherty to determine how nine job applications were released to The Bulletin. The report is the product of an OSP investigation of Flaherty’s conduct during the episode, an investigation that ultimately cleared Flaherty of criminal wrongdoing. The report includes interviews with multiple people who describe Flaherty’s determination to press ahead with a grand jury investigation over the objections of those around him and his conviction that others were conspiring Flaherty against him. In an email Friday, Flaherty did not respond to specific questions about the report, and said he considers the matter closed. “Many of the witness statements in the OSP reports are neither credible nor accurate,” Flaherty wrote. “At the Attorney General’s request, the Washington County District Attorney’s Office reviewed the OSP investigation and concluded that the grand jury investigation was appropriate and that the other allegations were frivolous.” During the nearly eight months between May 2010, when he defeated longtime District Attorney Mike Dugan, and January 2011, when he took office, Flaherty developed a cool relationship with many within the county and his own office. He advised several deputy district attorneys he did not intend to keep them around once he took over, prompting the deputies to form a union and initiating an ongoing dispute with Deschutes County over how much authority the District Attorney has to choose his own staff. See Flaherty / A4
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state, while their opponents have turned not to parking lots and community events, but to the Internet, hoping to “log” as many supporters as the other side can collect signatures. Zach Silk, campaign manager for Washington United for Marriage, a broad coalition seeking to defend the same-sex-marriage legislation, said the campaign rejected the more direct, face-to-face strategy as negative. The coalition instead has chosen to focus on urging people to show their support by completing and returning postcards available online. See Gay / A5
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