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ELECTION: POST-DEBATE
Debate win resets race, say Romney backers
Opponents ask judge to delay pipeline
By Nia-Malika Henderson
By Dylan J. Darling
The Washington Post
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The reviews are in: Mitt Romney won the first debate and the presidential race has entered a new phase, supporters of the Republican presidential candidate — and even some Democrats — say. Inside Dogged by • Moderator criticism from Jim Lehrer his party and draws by flagging criticism for poll numbers his debate in key swing performance, states, RomA4 ney pulled off a clear victory in the first debate Wednesday night, according to several viewer polls, besting President Obama by a wide margin. According to a CNN/ORC International poll, 67 percent of viewers thought Romney won the debate, with 25 percent judging Obama the winner. Obama and Romney met in Denver over 90 minutes, a matchup that left Republicans crowing and Democrats in despair over what some viewed as a lackluster performance by the president, who spent the debate letting many of Romney’s challenges go unanswered. See Reset / A4
Opponents of the Bridge Creek water pipeline project are asking a federal judge to put construction, expected by the city of Bend to begin Wednesday, on hold. Central Oregon LandWatch filed a request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction Wednesday with the U.S. District Court in Eugene in a bid to stop the overhaul of the drinking water pipeline. “The city’s decision-making should be corrected before it does anything on the ground,” said Paul Dewey, executive director of the Bend-based nonprofit. The $20.1 million project would replace two pipes that draw water from Bridge Creek west of town with one pipe. City spokesman Justin Finestone said tree roots are growing into the old pipes, sending pieces into the water flowing through them. If there is a construction delay it will cost the city $24,000 per day, according to documents filed last week by the city with the state Land Use Board of Appeals. See Pipeline / A5
Correction In a wire story headlined “Romney goes on offense,” which appeared Thursday, Oct. 4, on Page A1, an error appeared on the jump page. The report by the Washington Post should have stated that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney claimed President Barack Obama would cut $716 billion from Medicare to pay for the Affordable Care Act. The Bulletin regrets the error.
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Staff member Travis Graves keeps an eye on youth detainees Thursday during a school session at the juvenile detention facility in Bend.
Jail plan’s effects ripple to neighboring counties • Juvenile detainees from Jefferson and Crook counties may be moved elsewhere By Mac McLean The Bulletin
Deb Patterson isn’t looking forward to the 234-mile road trip between Prineville and The Dalles she and her fellow corrections officers will have to make at all hours of the night once a plan to reduce overcrowding at the Deschutes County Jail moves forward. “Have you ever had to drive down the Maupin Grade at 3 a.m. when it’s snowing hard?” asked Patterson, director of the Crook County Juvenile Department. Last week, the Deschutes County commissioners approved a plan to reduce crowding at the county jail by moving adult inmates to the juvenile detention center on Northwest Britta Street on July 1, 2013. Juvenile detainees will then be moved into a new detention center the county plans to build over the next nine months that will be about half the size of the existing detention center. Patterson and Jeff Lichtenberg, the Jefferson County community justice director, say they worry the new facility won’t provide enough space to house their county’s juvenile detainees. Jefferson and Crook counties lack their own juvenile facilities, and rent beds from Deschutes County. That means transporting those detainees to either the Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facilities juvenile detention center in The Dalles or to the Klamath County Juvenile Detention Facility in Klamath Falls, trips twice if not four times the distance officers cover when transporting detainees to Bend (see graphic at right). See Jail / A5
Longer drives to house detainees Corrections officials in Crook and Jefferson Counties will have to spend twice if not four times as much time on the road when Deschutes County moves forward with its plan to reduce its capacity to house juvenile detainees. HOOD RIVER
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Deschutes County officials are considering converting classroom space in the county’s existing juvenile detention center into a place that can house adult detainees while reducing space for juveniles from a capacity of 24 to 12.
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Many states fall short of federal sex offender law
Another option under consideration is converting this building at 1128 N.W. Harriman Drive into a juvenile detention center. The project would create 13 cells that could hold a total of 14 detainees.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Nearly three dozen states have failed to meet conditions of a 2006 federal law that requires them to join a nationwide program to track sex offenders, including five states that have completely given up on the effort because of persistent doubts about how it works and how much it costs. The states, including some of the nation’s largest, stand to lose millions of dollars in government grants for law enforcement, but some have concluded that honoring the law would be far more expensive than simply living without the money. “The requirements would have been a huge expense,” said Doris Smith, who oversees grant programs at the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration. Lawmakers weren’t willing to spend that much, even though the state will lose $226,000. See Offenders / A5
Security plans apparently not followed in Libya attack By Michael Birnbaum The Washington Post
BENGHAZI, Libya — Amid the chaos of the attack on the U.S. mission in this coastal city last month, neither the militia charged with guarding the compound nor American diplomats appeared to follow plans for what to do under assault, according to Libyan officials and guards, as well as docu-
ments found in the wreckage. In addition, at least three Libyan guards hired to defend the compound said in interviews that they had met with American officials to express concerns about lax security, and two said they had done so on Sept. 11, the day of the attack. A directive, dated Sept. 9, two days before the attack, specified that mem-
bers of the 17th February Martyrs Brigade, a Libyan militia, would call for backup from within their own ranks in case of attack, the documents show. In practice, three Libyan officials said, the designated militia asked another ultraconservative Islamist militia to join in the response, and the fleeing Americans do not appear to have trusted those Libyan guards with de-
tails about their movements. The directive and a year-old contingency plan for responding to an attack were found by a Washington Post reporter this week in the debris of the U.S. mission in Benghazi, where Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in last month’s assault. See Libya / A4