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The developer of River’s Edge golf course, homes and the Riverhouse Convention Center in northwest Bend is poised to drop a lawsuit against the city in exchange for a seven-year extension
ity in the city sewer system that is freed up as a result. Access to the city sewer is necessary for new construction, but the limited capacity of the city’s system threatens to stall development in some areas. See Developer / A6
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The Bend City Council will hold a hearing this week on a development agreement. Only a small portion of River’s proposed extension of the River’s Edge lots, out of a total 388 residentia Edge — the convention center l lots that were approved and 39 residential development agreement — has been develope will expire soon, and the proposed conditions include d. The River’s Edge total of 269 in exchange reducing residential lots for a seven-year extension to a of its development agreemen t.
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AFTER GRAND PRIX, REST FOR THE HORSES, THEN A RACE TO THE FINISH
Property tax pain isn’t over for some • Elderly homeowners are being dropped from the state’s 2-year reprieve, and it’s likely to worsen By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
SALEM — When lawmakers gave more than a thousand seniors a two-year reprieve from paying their property taxes during the last legislative session, they made it clear they knew the lifeboat wasn’t big enough. There would be other seniors who would be booted from the Senior and Disabled Property Tax Deferral program. Joan Hornbeck, 71, of Redmond, was one of them. And now, she feels like she’s drowning. Her savings account has been depleted from $3,000 to $500 to cover the unexpected spike in property taxes. There’s not enough cushion, she said, to cover her insurance deductible if something happened to her or her 86-year-old disabled husband. “The point is, we put our whole life into this home,” she said. The program’s goal is to allow seniors to stay in their homes longer. When the house is sold, the taxes are paid back to the state. Hornbeck has teamed up with a group of other seniors to push state lawmakers to cast a wider net. See Reprieve / A4
competed in the beginning jumpers class earlier in the day. Saturday’s competition featured the challenging Sheri
Some hear echoes of 2000 after slide of Internet stocks
Allis Memorial Grand Prix. The High Desert Classics finishes today, with the Mini Prix at 2 p.m.
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yatt Alger, 13, and his mom, Kim Curry, both of Portland, clean off Pretty in Pink at the end of the day
Saturday after participating in the Oregon High Desert Classics at J Bar J Boys Ranch in Bend. Alger
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CAMPAIGN 2012
Little dissent, lots of sniping over foreign affairs By Peter Baker
“Iraq has taken off the table the most profound foreign policy differences.”
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A presidential race that’s really close and deeply divisive is entering the final 100-day stretch before Election Day in November. And, despite the posturing of their campaigns, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney still show little divergence over
— P.J. Crowley, a Clinton and Obama national security official
foreign policy goals, disagreeing more over who has the most credibility wielding American power. In his latest broadside against the incumbent’s foreign policy,
Mitt Romney blamed President Barack Obama for the Arab uprisings last year, arguing that he could have headed them off by pressing the region’s autocrats to
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reform first. On Saturday, Romney explicitly sought for the first time to turn the Arab Spring into an issue. In an interview with an Israeli newspaper to set up his visit to Israel this weekend, Romney discussed the revolts as a problem rather than progress. See Foreign policy / A5
LONDON OLYMPICS
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Burning issue: Where’s the fire? The Olympic flame, iconic for the summer and winter games, is out of sight from throngs of fans who hoped to catch an inspiring glimpse. Lit Friday night, the cauldron sits low in the center of the stadium in London, invisible from the outside. It will be moved today to a corner, visible only to fans lucky enough to have tickets to track and field, which starts Friday. Guess the rest will have to see it from afar, on TV. — From wire reports
• Full Olympics coverage in Sports, Pages D1, D4-6
Paralytics may soon write using their eyes By Emily Underwood
Olympic opener was a TV hit An opening ceremony starring a Beatle, a queen and Mr. Bean proved irresistible for viewers in the U.S., with a record-setting 40.7 million people watching NBC’s Summer Olympics opener. Love it or hate it, Nielsen reported Saturday it was the most-watched of any summer or winter games, topping the 39.8 million who watched Atlanta in 1996 and the 34.9 million who watched the colorful first night from Beijing in 2008. NBC hasn’t escaped criticism, though, for not broadcasting the opener live, just as it didn’t Saturday’s swimming race that awarded America’s first gold medal of the games, to Ryan Lochte. And the network took heat for apparent selective editing of the ceremony.
SAN FRANCISCO — Another couple of days like this and the great tech bubble of 2012 might recede into history. Several companies that were supposed to be the foundation of a new Internet era plummeted last week as analysts and investors downgraded their dreams. There were parallels to the crash of 2000, when the money stopped flowing, the dot-coms crumbled and Silicon Valley devolved into recriminations and lawsuits. Shares of Facebook stumbled to a new low Friday after its first earnings report revealed a murky path to any profit that would justify its lofty valuation. The heavily promoted $100 billion company on the eve of its May debut is now a $65 billion company — and headed south. See Internet / A7
People “locked in” by paralyzing disorders such as Lou Gehrig’s disease have long relied on blinks or facial twitches to build sentences one letter at a time. But they soon might be able to take advantage of a simpler, faster mode of communication, new research suggests. With the help of an old optical illusion, people can train their eyes to write and draw in cursive on a computer screen as quickly as they can write with a pen. In addition to providing a new medium for self-expression, the technique challenges traditional ideas about the limits of human vision. Here’s how the discovery began. In 1970, illusionist and cognitive psychologist Stuart Anstis of the University of California, San Diego, was playing around with a common visual trick when he stumbled on a strange phenomenon. See Eyes / A4