August 08, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Autopsy: Teen who fled police had heart condition
• Bend’s room taxes down, county’s up
• Bill Clinton to have Denver role
• Conquer the list
• Correction
• Demand is high for solar energy tax breaks
• Dispatches
• Drop off school supplies in Madras
• Family Calendar
• GO! Magazine
• Hundreds attend service for fire chief
• Independent Party backs GOP candidate
• McCain calls for probe of DHL
• Median prices, sales mostly down in July
• New solar awnings installed at UO campus
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend Fire Runs, Stolen Vehicles and Pets
• Olympia mobile park residents become owners
• Oregon man’s killer given a life sentence – plus pizza
• Pharmacist, medical examiner testify about patient’s meds
• Planning commission applicants sought
• Redmond to get Phoenix-Mesa flight in October
• Region’s income growth slows
• Restaurant Guide
• RV maker cuts staff
• Seeing the world - and your hometown - through new eyes
• Sliding away a summer night
• State drug use called higher than average
• State hospital patients get their outings back
• State’s ambitious solar-energy initiative may find its way east of the Cascades
• The Bulletin seeks two new columnists
• Thunder, lightning, then fires
• UO museum breaks ground on new wing
• Verizon finalizes Unicel purchase
• White supremacist group founder indicted
• Youths saw more alcohol ads in 2007

BUSINESS

• Bend’s room taxes down, county’s up
• Business Calendar
• Central Oregon fuel prices
• Citigroup to buy back $7 billion in securities
• Correction
• Dispatches
• Jobless claims hit a six-year high
• Lexus ranks as the most trouble-free car – again
• Median prices, sales mostly down in July
• Partners in powder
• Pending home sales rise slightly in June
• Planning commission applicants sought
• Redmond to get Phoenix-Mesa flight in October
• Region’s income growth slows
• Regulators subpoena Bank of America
• Retail sales report mixed for July
• RV maker cuts staff
• Six-figure bikes: Luxury excess or works of art?
• Small bites
• State’s ambitious solar-energy initiative may find its way east of the Cascades
• Stocks fall on worries over financial sector
• Toyota takes a hit in tough economy
• Verizon finalizes Unicel purchase

SPORTS

• Bend High volleyball camp starts Monday
• Bend's one shot at Olympic glory
• Big Sky Park
• Course beats up field at PGA Championship
• Elks clinch playoff spot
• Extreme Calendar
• For one local, it’s ‘Oregon or Bust’ at Portland’s Red Bull Flugtag competition
• Former Bend pole vaulter earns honor
• Gaston to return as Toronto manager
• Golf Scoreboard
• High algae levels force advisory at Odell Lake
• Injuries put damper on Americans’ medal hopes in men’s gymnastics
• Juniper pool closures scheduled
• Look out below
• Metolius-Windigo
• Mirror Lake
• Olympics set to start, and no one knows what we can expect
• On the Air
• Packers trade Favre to Jets
• Phillies strike deal with Cubs for LHP Eyre
• Rays acquire reliever Bradford from Orioles
• Roddick picks up an easy win in L.A.
• Scoreboard
• Skating through Oregon
• Tigers end skid with win over White Sox
• Unlikely partners in Olympic spectacle
• U.S. men’s soccer team wins its Olympic opener

OBITS

• Eric Dowling was key to WWII’s Great Escape
• Erik Darling was ’60s songwriter
• Ken Going
• Robert Hazard

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death Notices
• Elizabeth "Betty" Belle Brooks
• Zachariah Steigman

NATION & WORLD

• China rebuffs Bush’s criticism
• Detroit mayor jailed after bond violation
• Fingerprints yield more telltale clues
• For patient pain, drug treatment divides doctors
• Gates endorses $20B aid to Afghans
• High algae levels force advisory at Odell Lake
• Karadzic plans to deny genocide
• Migrant-packed SUV rolls, kills 9
• Nixon announces resignation in 1974
• Own a house on Forest Service land? Be ready for higher rent
• Pakistani coalition moves to make Musharraf resign
• Russia plows ahead in Arctic ‘cold war’
• Search goes on in deadly copter crash
• Shape is the key in nanomedicine, scientists report
• Stem cells created for 10 diseases
• Storm season expected to become busier
• Unlikely partners in Olympic spectacle

FEATURES

• Autopsy: Teen who fled police had heart condition
• For patient pain, drug treatment divides doctors
• Pharmacist, medical examiner testify about patient’s meds
• Small bites

ENTERTAINMENT

• A fair for all
• ‘All-Play’ fumbles
• Art exhibits
• Art in the High Desert planned for Aug. 22
• Blue Turtle Seduction returns to the area
• Books can capture the joy, sweetness of summertime
• Deschutes County Fair attendance up
• ‘Double Vision’ show features two artists
• Eugene Symphony to hold auditions
• Fairly fun
• Go Jonny Go
• Mosley Wotta celebrates CD release
• Music releases: David Banner
• Music releases: NAS
• Music releases: O.A.R.
• Music releases: The Grascals
• Music releases: The Hold Steady
• Of paints and jewelry
• Out of town
• Parents’ Guide to Movies
• Planning ahead
• Reception planned for Grace Bishko
• ‘Six Feet Under’ creator’s next project: digging up the undead
• Small bites
• Space Hoax plays Silver Moon Brewing
• Story times, library youth events for Aug. 8-14
• 'Summertime' in Sunriver
• Sunny heroine makes ‘Nim’s Island’ a treat
• Sunriver Music Festival season includes classical concerts and more
• Talks, classes, museums & libraries
• Tapas with a view
• The Sweet Harlots get busy all around Bend
• This week
• Tiger Army returns to the Domino Room
• Yin and yang

RESTAURANTS

• Tapas with a view

OPINION

• Bend Infrastructure First plan would be bad for city
• Cut speed limit
• Don’t govern by clique
• Energy ‘leadership’
• Move the festival
• No secrecy for sex offenders