Bulletin Daily Paper 06/10/12

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Richard Nixon, according to the men whose reporting helped bring down the president, “was far worse than we thought.”

Local school clinics in danger of closing

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Ethan Reed, 10, gets a physical exam from pediatric nurse practitioner Pam Lundy on Wednesday. Ethan’s mother, Charlotte Reed, said the school-based clinic at Ensworth Elementary was a great help because it was too late to schedule an exam with Ethan’s regular pediatrician before Boy Scout camp. “I had heard on the radio about the school-based health care, and we got Ethan in right away, and it was great,” Charlotte Reed said. “It was very thorough.” By Hillary Borrud The Bulletin

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based clinic. But by the time it opens in 2013, the Deschutes County Health Services Department may be forced to consider shutting it down. Five school-based clinics opened in Deschutes County over the past decade. It began with La Pine, where a health center opened in 2004 at the campus where the elementary, middle and high

schools are located. Most recently, a clinic opened at Redmond High in 2011. There are also clinics at Bend’s Ensworth Elementary and Bend High, and M.A. Lynch Elementary in Redmond. Even as the clinics expand, there are already questions about their future. County officials said during budget discussions last month the school-based clinic program needs to reduce its dependence on money from the county general fund and come up with a longterm financial plan. The program draws 33 percent of its money from the general fund and 54 percent from the state, said Elaine Severson, the School-Based Health center program supervisor. The Health Services Department asked for $200,000 more from the county general fund to add staff at the Sisters clinic and a full-time supervisor for all

five clinics. But the county budget committee raised concerns about committing to that much in the long term and only gave the clinic program $8,000 to hire an on-call nurse as a full-time employee. The program will still hire a full-time supervisor, using contingency money. Health Services Director Scott Johnson told the county budget committee last month that it will become clear in the next two years whether the clinics can take advantage of new money available through federal health care reform to remain open. “Without that, we’d need to evaluate 24 months from now how many of the centers to keep open,” Johnson said. While there are questions about the funding, there is little question they are popular in local communities. See Clinics / A4

Just 4 in 10 Americans think their own actions affect the country’s energy problems.

We know how to save energy; we just don’t By Matthew Daly The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — When it comes to saving energy, people in the United States know that driving a fuel-efficient car accomplishes more than turning off the lights at home. But that doesn’t mean they’ll do it. A new survey shows that while most of those questioned understand effective ways to save energy, they have a hard time adopting them. Six in 10 say driving a more fuel-efficient car would save a large amount of energy, but only 1 in 4 says that’s easy to do, according to the poll by the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. People also

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Officials say ‘super cop’ fears never materialized By Lauren Dake

Years later, a theory: Nixon was even worse As Sen. Sam Ervin completed his 20-year Senate career in 1974 and issued his final report as chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, he posed this question: “What was Watergate?” Countless answers have been offered in the 40 years since mid-June ESSAY 1972 when a team of burglars wearing business suits and rubber gloves was arrested at 2:30 a.m. at the headquarters of the Democratic Party. Four days after, the Nixon White House offered its answer: “Certain elements may try to stretch this beyond what it was,” press secretary Ronald Ziegler scoffed, dismissing the incident as a “third-rate burglary.” History proved it was anything but. Two years later, Richard Nixon would become the first and only U.S. president to resign, his role in the criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice — the Watergate cover-up — definitively established. Another answer has since persisted, often unchallenged: the notion that the cover-up was worse than the crime. This idea minimizes the scale and reach of Nixon’s criminal actions. See Watergate / A6

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are skeptical of carpooling or installing better home insulation, rating them as effective but impractical. On the other end, 8 in 10 say they easily can turn off the lights when they leave a room, and 6 in 10 have no problem turning up the thermostat in summer or down in winter, although fewer than half think those easy steps save large amounts of energy. The public looks to large institutions for leadership in saving energy, believing that individuals alone can’t make much of a difference. But even those who support conservation don’t always practice it. See Energy / A3

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Yes, Cindy Shriner’s Subaru Impreza gets nearly 30 mpg. But she still keeps her home at a balmy 73 degrees year-round. “I’m terrible,” the Lafayette, Ind., woman says.

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The good-grade pill • Kids are using drugs not to get high, but to get higher SAT scores

in a neat line on the armrest. He leaned over, closed one nostril and snorted it. Throughout the parking lot, eight of his friends did the same thing. The drug was not cocaine By Alan Schwarz or heroin but Adderall, an New York Times News Service amphetamine prescribed for He steered into the attention deficit hyperhigh school parking lot, activity disorder that Inside clicked off the ignition the boy said he and his and scanned the scraps • A new age friends routinely shared of school of his recent weeks: to study late into the pranks, A7 night, focus during tests crinkled chip bags on the dashboard, soda and ultimately get the cups at his feet and on grades worthy of their the passenger seat, a rumpled prestigious high school in an SAT practice book whose affluent New York City suburb. owner had been told since The drug did more than just jolt fourth grade he was headed to them awake for the 8 a.m. SAT; the Ivy League. it gave them a tunnel focus Before opening the car door, tailor-made for the marathon the boy recalled recently, he of tests long known to make or twisted open a capsule of orbreak college applications. See Stimulants / A4 ange powder and arranged it

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SALEM — Opponents feared that giving tribal police officers authority off the reservation would grant them more power than any other law enforcement in the agency and create “super cops.” Sheriffs lobbied lawmakers to reject Senate Bill 412, which passed last year. They voiced concerns about how tribes would follow public safety laws and pointed out that nontribal officers would not have authority on the reservation. But, since tribal police throughout the state were granted that authority in January, those concerns have not materialized. “The worry that they would be off the reservation, serving warrants in Bend or in Madras, has not occurred,” said Jefferson County Sheriff Jim Adkins, who works closely with the Warm Springs Police Department. “They are too busy. It’s like me going into Bend to enforce the law. I don’t have time.” Warm Springs Police have made more than 40 arrests involving nontribal members on the reservation. Granting jurisdiction over nontribal members was an important part of the law for Warm Springs. It’s not a departure from what was taking place before, since the Warm Springs officers were deputized, or given arresting authority, by both the Wasco and Jefferson sheriff’s offices. “It puts it on the books, so if the (sheriff) administrations change, they can’t pull our deputization agreements,” said Stan Suenaga, the Warm Springs public safety general manager. See Tribes / A4

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