Bulletin Daily Paper 05/05/12

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Bend Marine honored as top combat captain By Duffie Taylor The Bulletin

Marine Capt. Casey Brock, a Mountain View High graduate, was recently named the 2011 recipient of the Leftwich Trophy, the corps’ highest award for ground combat captains. Brock, 34, was selected from Brock among 5,500 Marine captains leading ground forces last year. An outstanding leadership award, the Leftwich Trophy is presented annually to one captain in memory of Lt. Col. William Groom Leftwich, who was killed in action in Vietnam in 1970. Both Brock’s father, Lt. Col. Mike Brock of Bend, and mother Dianne said they didn’t anticipate their son would follow in his father’s Marine Corps footsteps. “His dad is a retired colonel, but Casey has taken it a whole level,” said Dianne Brock. “People say to me, ‘How could you send your son off?’ But if you knew our son, you’d know we don’t send him anywhere.” Casey Brock says his success is rooted in his father’s example. “I think it was less about following in his footsteps careerwise and more about following the type of leader and man that he is,” he said. “I hope that I have done that in a small way.” In his 11 years of service, Brock has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Thailand and the Philippines. Between March and October 2011, Brock commanded a company of 190 Marines in one of Afghanistan’s most dangerous districts, Sangin. Brock’s commanding officers’ endorsement detailed his exceptional leadership abilities there, both in military and civilian capacities. Ambushed by machine gun fire during a June patrol, Brock maneuvered his squad through a mud-churned field, returning fire and eventually dispersing the enemy. See Marine / A8

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CENTURY DRIVE

Highway open during repaving

A sign warns motorists of potholes on Century Drive. Work to repave the road will begin soon after Memorial Day.

• The road to Mt. Bachelor will get new asphalt, but the Pole Pedal Paddle won’t be affected

• Receiving $1.9B over 5 years, Oregon must prove it can cut costs through coordinated care By Lauren Dake The Bulletin

Photos by Joe Kline / The Bulletin

Deterioration of the asphalt on Century Drive is visible as a car drives by on Friday morning. The upcoming $10 million project to replace the top layer of asphalt is funded by the federal government.

SALEM — Oregon was thrust into the national spotlight this week when the Obama administration showed support — to the tune of $1.9 billion — for the state’s efforts to overhaul the health care system. The money will come to the state over a fiveyear period, with the first $620 million this year. Gov. John Kitzhaber called the deal a “defining moment for health care transformation in Oregon.” Now, the state is on the hook to show it can reduce Medicaid costs by 2 percentage points within two years, or risk losing the funding. The upfront investment will go toward creating the infrastructure for coordinated care organizations. The organizations, known as CCOs, aim to lower health care costs by focusing on prevention and avoiding crises. They will start by targeting the state’s 600,000 residents on the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s version of Medicaid. This week, applications were due for potential CCOs that want to exist by this summer. Fourteen Oregon-based entities applied. See Health / A6

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entury Drive is set to be repaved for the first time in more than 20 years, with work due to begin shortly after Memorial Day.

The Oregon Department of Transportation project comes just as the road formally known as state Highway 372 linking Bend and Mt. Bachelor prepares to host an array of cycling and running events over the next four months. While the Pole Pedal Paddle on May 19 will not be affected by the construction, event organizers are planning to use the highway on at least 12 days between the start of construction and the target deadline of October. Spokesman Peter Murphy said ODOT is committed to keeping construction-related disruptions to a minimum not only for events, recreational riders and runners, but also for motorists who use the highway to reach lakes and other attractions in the Cascades. Flaggers will be in place to ensure safe passage for racers and event participants, he said, while motorists and recreational road users may experience some delays. See Century Drive / A4

Century Drive paving plans A 17½-mile stretch of Century Drive will be paved this summer for the first time since 1991. At the intersection with Forest Service Road 41, an underpass will be installed, allowing cyclists and pedestrians access to a future Forest Service Welcome Center.

By Brad Plumer The Washington Post

If the same percentage of adults were in the workforce today as when Barack Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 11.1 percent. If the percentage was where it was when George W. Bush took office, the unemployment rate Inside • How job would be 13.1 percent. creation That helps explain a seeming fuels the contradiction in the unemployeconomy, ment numbers — the rate keeps C3 dropping even though job creation has been soft. In April, the U.S. economy added a mere 115,000 jobs, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Friday. In a normal month, that would not even be enough to keep up with new entrants into the labor market. But in this economy, it was enough to drive unemployment from 8.2 percent down to 8.1 percent, the lowest point since January 2009. The explanation is a little-watched measure known as the “labor force participation rate.” That tracks the number of working-age Americans who are holding a job or looking for one. See Labor / A8

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“The highway is open. It’s going to be a little messy, sure, but the end result is going to be a great highway.” — Peter Murphy, ODOT spokesman

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Biggest, brightest ‘super moon’ shines tonight

What makes a ‘super moon’ The biggest moon of the year will light up the sky tonight.

By Amy Hubbard Los Angeles Times

According to NASA’s calculations, tonight is the night when the moon will hit your eye like a big pizza pie, to paraphrase Dean Martin. It’s “super moon” time. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is letting its enthusiasm show in a new video on the subject. “The timing is almost perfect,” it notes. At 8:34 p.m. Pacific time, May’s full moon will reach perigee — the closest point to Earth in its elliptical pattern — and “only one minute later, the moon will

line up with the Earth and the sun to become gloriously full.” For a bunch of scientists, that’s pretty poetic talk. The moon will appear 14 percent larger than other full moons of 2012. “The swollen orb rising in the East at sunset will seem super indeed.” Anthony Cook, astronomical observer at Los Angeles’ Griffith Observatory, is a little more measured in his view of the upcoming phenomenon. It will be 30 percent brighter, yes, but that’s 30 percent brighter than the moon is when it is at apogee — the farthest point in its elliptical

orbit around the Earth — he said. But, not one to spoil the fun, Cook said that careful, observant moon watchers could recognize the super-ness. The best time to do this is when the moon is close to the horizon. The “horizon illusion” makes the moon appear bigger, Cook said, “because you’re comparing it to more familiar things.” So tonight, try to catch a glimpse of the super moon when it’s most likely to appear maxed out — just as it’s rising.

DOUBLE TROUBLE A full moon will arrive at perigee, when the moon is closest to Earth

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Tonight’s moon 14 percent bigger 30 percent brighter Note: Drawing not to scale

Because of the oval shape of the moon’s orbit, full moons vary in size: up to a 31,060-mile difference

Source: NASA © 2012 McClatchy-Tribune News Service


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