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Walden arrives to rally Oregon delegation By Andrew Clevenger The Bulletin
TAMPA, Fla. — With the Republican National Convention in full swing Wednesday, Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, made the rounds, not to step into the spotlight but to rally the OrInside egon GOP. • Mitt Walden, the Romney deputy chair gets ready of National for his big Republican speech, A4 Congressional • Paul Ryan Committee, says Obama has risen into is ‘adrift,’ House leaderA5 ship since his friend John Boehner, ROhio, became speaker of the House in 2011. For Walden, Mitt Romney’s choice of House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan for the Republican vice president spot is high praise for the way Republican leadership in the House has conducted its business. And Ryan agrees. “(Ryan) said the other day on a conference call with my colleagues that this is really confirmational of how the House has led, that his selection really confirmed that the House was where dynamic new leadership was emerging,” Walden said Wednesday during an interview with The Bulletin. See Convention / A4
Judah, a 5-month-old puppy, sits in his kennel at the Humane Society of Central Oregon.
Troya, a 3-year-old labradoodle, and Judah are owned by Jeff and Lisa Penter of La Pine.
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Correction In a story headlined “Getting away from our roots,” which appeared Wednesday, Aug. 29, on Page A1, incorrect dates were listed for the recently canceled Bend Roots Revival. The event was scheduled Sept. 27-30. The Bulletin regrets the error.
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Revenue forecast brightens for Bend • Stability in housing market seen as key to Central Oregon’s recovery By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
SALEM — Central Oregon continues to be dragged down by the slow housing market, but state economists are forecasting significant improvements in the region by late 2013. “Bend and Central Oregon are really bouncing along the bottom,” state “Bend and Central economist Mark McMul- Oregon are really len said Wednesday after presenting the state’s bouncing along revenue forecast, a pro- the bottom. jection made quarterly to We’ve seen some state legislators. “We’ve seen some im- improvements, provements, along the along the lines lines of the housing mar- of the housing ket, but so far, nothing market, but so too drastic.” Because Bend was hit far, nothing too harder, it’s taken longer drastic.” to recover compared to other cities of similar — Mark McMullen, size across the U.S. since Oregon state economist the downturn. “Of course, (it’s all) tied to the housing market. It was just so extreme there,” McMullen said of Bend. But with the housing market showing signs of stabilizing, the state economist said the belief is young, working-age individuals will once again eye Bend as a viable place to live. “With improvements in the job market, the hope is we’ll see the flow (back to) Bend and it will help accelerate growth,” he said. “Most of our models are saying that will happen in late 2013 or early 2014.” See Revenue / A5
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Lisa and Jeff Penter listen as members of the Deschutes County Dog Control Board question the responding sheriff’s deputy during a hearing Wednesday evening at the Deschutes Service Center Building about photos the deputy had taken of the Penters’ dogs, which are believed to have killed a chicken.
• Two labradoodles from La Pine will be going home after the county dog board finds their owners not liable for the death of a chicken By Scott Hammers The Bulletin
Two dogs implicated for recently killing a chicken in La Pine will be going home, a rarity for animals brought before the Deschutes County Dog Board. The three-member dog board ruled Wednesday that a 3-year-old Labradoodle and her 5-month-old puppy found standing over a dead chicken Sunday were most likely let out of their fenced yard by unidentified persons. As a result, owners Lisa and Jeff Penter could not be held responsible for the death of a chicken roughly 36 hours after they discovered their dogs were missing. State law sets strict penalties for dogs that kill livestock due to the negligence of their owners. First-time offenders must be adopted out, relocated or put down, and a second-time offender faces a mandatory death penalty. Lisa Penter said she was relieved, and is planning to get a lock for her gate as soon as she gets her dogs home.
John Larrity, an attorney with Deschutes County who helps oversee the dog board’s meetings, said the board does not drop all charges against a dog believed to have killed livestock very often. However, he said given the Penters’ credible explanation of how someone must have let their dogs out, a full acquittal seemed the only way to resolve the case. Exactly what happened to the dogs over the course of three days last weekend remains a mystery. The Penters told the board they arrived home in La Pine late Friday after going to the ZZ Top concert at the Les Schwab Amphitheater in Bend. Lisa Penter discovered two of their dogs were missing early the next morning, and began checking Craigslist for reports of found dogs and making fliers to post around her neighborhood. Because the dogs were incapable of jumping over their 4-foot fence and there were no holes in the fence, Lisa Penter suspected the dogs had been stolen. See Dogs / A5
Bin Laden posed no threat, a SEAL team leader writes By Joby Warrick The Washington Post
Osama bin Laden hid in his bedroom for at least 15 minutes as Navy SEALs battled their way through his Pakistani compound, making no attempt to arm himself before a U.S. commando shot him as he peeked from his doorway, according to the first published account by a participant in the now-famous raid on May 2, 2011. The account, in a book by one of the SEAL team leaders, sheds new light on the al-Qaeda chief’s final moments. In the account, bin Laden appears neither to surrender nor to directly challenge the special forces troops who killed his son and two associates as they worked their way to his third-floor apartment. A White House narrative of the raid had acknowledged that bin Laden was unarmed when he was killed but suggested that he posed a threat to the U.S. commandos. See Book / A2
Pre-Columbian ruins spark modern-day protest By Anne-Marie O’Connor Special to The Washington Post
MEXICO CITY— Mexicans are taught to revere their pre-Columbian roots. So some archaeologists are outraged by what they view as the government’s failure to safeguard the nation’s Mayan palaces and Aztec pyramids.
A recent decision by the government to erect a glass and steel facade on a portion of the historic Fort of Guadalupe in Puebla in time for the Sept. 15 Mexican independence celebrations was the last straw. The archaeologists have occupied Mexico’s prestigious National Museum of Anthropology, telling museum-goers that taking lib-
erties with federally protected buildings was becoming commonplace. The late-summer tourists who flock to the Chapultepec Park institution are greeted by banners, petitions and angry anthropologists with megaphones. A barefoot Mayan-speaking researcher in a white tunic blows into a conch shell to announce speeches in
the lobby. The occupying scientists have also declared: Admission is free. Archaeologists are tweeting about “aggressions against patrimony” and using Facebook to decry tacky tourist development and New Age spectacles that they say will ruin the ruins. See Protest / A5