THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2012 • THE BULLETIN
Dogs Continued from A1 The Penters have sold Labradoodle puppies for as much as $800, she said, and it wouldn’t be difficult for anyone with a desire to steal a Labradoodle to find their home. On Sunday evening, several miles from the Penters’ home, Marc and Robin Mirrasoul let their chickens out of the coop to wander around the yard while they went out to dinner. When they got home, they found two strange dogs in their yard eating one of their chickens. The Mirrasouls herded the dogs into a kennel on their property and called the Sheriff’s Office. With no animal control officers available Sunday evening, the dogs stayed in the Mirrasouls’ kennel overnight, and on Monday were taken to the Humane Society of Central Oregon shelter. Addressing the board
Wednesday, Robin Mirrasoul requested leniency. Had the dogs she found among her chickens had collars, Mirrasoul said she would have taken it upon herself to locate the owners and not bothered with reporting the incident to the Sheriff’s Office. “Sometimes dogs do stupid things because they’re dogs,” she said. Lisa Penter said she couldn’t understand how the dogs could have made it from her home to the Mirrasouls’ without someone picking them up in a vehicle. Though their homes are only 4 to 5 miles apart as the crow flies, it’s roughly a 10-mile trip on foot, including a crossing of the Little Deschutes River. Jeff Penter said he would make arrangements to pay the Mirrasouls for the loss of their chicken. — Reporter: 541-383-0387, shammers@bendbulletin.com
JOB LOSS RATE BY CITY POPULATION SIZE
-12% -15%
Portland
U.S. median
600K OR MORE
-7% -7.9%
Eugene Salem
U.S. median
-7%
Bend Medford
100K-200K
-12.6% -10%
-9%
U.S. median
-6%
-7.7%
-3%
50K-100K
-16.7% -13%
50K OR FEWER
0%
-18%
Portland
4.1% 4.7%
600K OR MORE
U.S. median
3.3% 1.8% Eugene Salem 0.7% U.S. median
100K-200K
Bend Medford
50K OR FEWER
6% 4% 2% 0%
50K-100K
3.1% 2% 2.6%
JOB GAIN RATE, RECESSION THROUGH TO PRESENT, BY CITY POPULATION SIZE
U.S. median
TAMPA, Fla. — Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., accepted the Republican Party’s nomination for vice president on Wednesday with a declaration that President Barack Obama, elected only four years ago on a promise of hope and change, had failed and his opportunity had been squandered. Ryan said that Obama’s is “a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed.” Ryan’s selection was a big gamble for presidential nominee Mitt Romney, given the House Budget Committee chairman’s authorship of a controversial budget that would overhaul the federal Medicare program — the preservation of which is an issue where Democrats have frequently bested Republicans in the past. “Our opponents can consider themselves on notice,” Ryan said. “In this election, on this issue, the usual posturing on the left isn’t going to work. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.” Ryan’s nomination will put more pressure on the Republican ticket to articulate and defend its own economic vision, rather than simply stoking the electorate’s disappointment and dissatisfaction with Obama. Ryan, however, stuck to broad themes rather than gritty specifics in a speech that marked the first time that many Americans have seen and heard the vice presidential nominee. Again and again, delegates rose to their feet and cheered, as Ryan warmed to the tra-
ditional running mate’s role as aggressor. His home state governor and long-time friend, Scott Walker, wept. “I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power,” he said. “They’ve run out of ideas. Their moment came and went. Fear and division are all they’ve got left.” At 42, the congressman from Wisconsin is the first member of Generation X to run on a presidential ticket. He reflected his cohort’s anxiety that the Social Security and Medicare cannot be sustained long enough to take care of them in their retirement years. “I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old — and I know that we are ready,” he told the delegates. “I’m going to level with you,” he said. “We don’t have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.” When he laid out his first major fiscal proposal three years ago, many in the upper ranks of the party were skittish of its particulars, especially the transformation of Medicare from a governmentfinanced system to a voucher program. Having passed the House twice since then, the Ryan budget now represents the epicenter of conservative Republican philosophy, calling for a dramatic shift in government’s priorities and sharp reduction in the scope of its mission. But many of its individual provisions remain unpopular with the electorate at large, and Democrats have made it clear that they intend to make the Ryan budget a major element in their case against Romney.
-9.1% U.S. median -5.9% Corvallis
The Washington Post
2.8% 3%
By Karen Tumulty
Continued from A1 Overall, the forecast included a mix of good and bad news. Oregon seems to have escaped the need for more budget cuts over the next year. But the future doesn’t look as promising. State economists were more optimistic about nearterm tax collections than they were three months ago, projecting that the general fund and lottery will take in about $80 million more than they predicted last quarter, according to the Associated Press. That’s enough money to pay for everything in the budget, plus a $55 million cushion. The long-term outlook is less rosy. Economists dialed back their projections for the two-year budget cycle that begins July 1, 2013, and the three that follow, raising the specter of more tough budget cuts as the costs and demand for government services rise. Experts now project the Oregon general fund and lottery will earn $16.6 billion during the 2013 cycle — down $590 million from their estimates one year ago. With elections looming in November, House lead-
The Oregon Office of Economic Analysis released its quarterly revenue forecast Wednesday, which includes information on the overall health of the state’s economy. Employment data show that Bend was stung harder than other cities in its population range.
Corvallis
Ryan assails Dems’ ‘fear and division’
Revenue
Bend hit harder during recession, seeing slower recovery
U.S. median
GOP CONVENTION: DAY 3
Source: Oregon Office of Economic Analysis
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ers from both parties used the mixed economic news to press their ideas for improving the economy. “This forecast shows we need to do more to plan for the long term,” said Rep. Tina Kotek of Portland, the No. 2 Democrat who’s in charge of the party’s campaign effort. “The more we can equip workers with the knowledge, skills and versatility needed for the jobs that will come as the economy grows, the better Oregon will be positioned to thrive in the coming years.” Republicans and Democrats are currently tied in the House, and both parties are jockeying to pick up at least one seat to get full control of the chamber. “We’ll continue our efforts to improve Oregon’s business environment to help attract and retain employers, while taking the same, fiscally conservative approach to the state budget that has prevented deeper cuts to programs that are important to all Oregonians,” said Rep. Andy Olson of Albany, the Republican leader in charge of GOP campaign operations. — Reporter: 541-554-1162, ldake@bendbulletin.com The Associated Press contributed to this report
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Protest Continued fromA1 Just when government officials were hoping to make money on the hype over Dec. 21 marking the end of the world, as some say the Mayan calendar predicts, archaeologists are threatening to shut down the party before it has begun. “Our national monuments are being violated,” said Felipe Echenique March, head of the union that represents the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the government agency charged with protecting historic sites. “Public archaeological sites are deteriorating. We are resisting this destruction.” Authorities were largely silent until last week, when the agency’s archaeological council said in a communique that it “categorically denied the claims of union groups pursuing political aims.” Echenique said authorities called him into the attorney general’s office Thursday and accused him of depriving the Anthropology Museum of more than $400,000 in revenue since the protest began in late July. Spokesmen for the attorney general’s office said they were unaware of the conversation. “We do have a political aim,” Echenique said. “We want enforcement of the federal laws that protect patrimony.” In recent days, protest banners have spread to the former palace home of Spanish conqueror Her-
nan Cortes in Cuernavaca, a historic fort in Puebla and a church in Nuevo Leon, aimed at what one bulletin called “the enemy in the house”— ineffectual leaders of the INAH. Archaeologists have come from Michoacan to protest the ongoing construction of a museum on a pre-Columbian base at the complex of circular pyramids at Tzintzuntzan, or “place of the hummingbirds,” the capital of the Tarascan people until the Spanish conquest. “They should not build this in an archeological zone. There might be important tombs below,” said Celia Gutierrez Ibarra, a 33-year state historian and author who stopped by to sign a petition calling for the protection of historic monuments. “This is a very healthy protest,” she said. “You can’t make changes to historic sites to make them more touristfriendly or let officials turn pyramids into Disneyland. This patrimony does not just belong to me, or to Mexicans, but to the whole world.” Chihuahua historians came to protest the removal of a row of colonial buildings in Hidalgo del Parral by local authorities who thought a less cluttered plaza was better for tourism in an act of “misunderstood overnight modernity,” a furious preservationist told Proceso magazine. INAH architect Carlos Huitz pointed to protest posters showing gothic-style ceil-
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ings that have been grafted onto traditional arched brick ceilings during the reconstruction of colonial convents in Oaxaca. “Local authorities saw these someplace else and just decided to copy them,” Huitz said. “These don’t belong on these convents. They didn’t care.” At a time when a debunked theory of ancient Mayan scripture announcing the end of the world in December is drawing droves of tourists to Mexico, Cancun is to host a “light, peace and world harmony” spectacle at the Mayan “Ruins of the King” palace complex during the fall equinox in September. “The people who approved this are totally corrupt, shameless bandits,” Echenique said. “The 2012 movement is exploiting the ignorance of the people to earn millions of dollars. This has about as much to do with the Mayans as Luciano Pavarotti had to do with Chichen Itza.” The protesters claim victories. Earlier this year, protest leaders sent letters to representatives of Paul McCartney, begging him not to hold a spring rock concert at the base of Chichen Itza - a famous pyramid in the Yucatan that has been the site of concerts
by Placido Domingo, Pavarotti and Elton John. The McCartney Chichen Itza concert never materialized, although McCartney played in May at the capital’s Estadio Azteca and to 200,000 people at a free concert in the Zocalo. “These are not profit centers,” scolds the movement’s website, under a photo of Chichen Itza and Teotihuacan, where workers drilled into the pyramid for a controversial but potentially lucrative light show that fizzled under pressure. But alongside the state commitment to preserving Mexico’s past, there is pressure to earn revenue and a history of uneven local application of laws to protect its archaeological treasures, analyst Jorge Chabat said.
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