September 16, 2008

LOCAL & STATE

• Before voting, research Palin, farm subsidies, Alaskan handouts
• Bend seeks new planning officials
• Bend toddler is battling rare degenerative illness
• Boy shoots self in leg near Redmond
• City, county debate urban renewal district
• City planners OK shelter zoning
• Coming back, with a friend
• Democrats blast rape victim ad
• Deschutes County lays off 6 employees
• Downtown Bend shop is on the market — for a buck
• Drunken driving down for Oktoberfest
• English garden
• Fire destroys historic Southern Oregon home
• Jefferson County tracks sex offenders
• Lazy shade of summer
• Local experts say investors should keep focus on the big picture
• Maintaining health through down times
• News of Record
• News of Record: Deschutes County deeds
• Planes join search for missing man
• 3 rivals challenge Walden’s record on rural issues
• Rivals shed no light on dim economic future
• School district shuns cell towers, lease fees
• Seeking harmony in the union of weddings and farmland
• Site of ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ film opened for a day of tours
• ‘So much is at stake’
• Suspicious fires burn in west Eugene
• Voters league plans transit forum

BUSINESS

• A lifeline for AIG from state
• AIG finds itself in a race for cash
• Bend seeks new planning officials
• BendBroadband CEO featured at breakfast
• Business Calendar
• City, county debate urban renewal district
• City planners OK shelter zoning
• Deschutes County lays off 6 employees
• Downtown Bend shop is on the market — for a buck
• How will Wall Street crisis affect average Americans?
• HP to cut 24,600 jobs
• Incentives help revive slumping truck sales
• Local experts say investors should keep focus on the big picture
• Maintaining health through down times
• Market’s big plunge deepens worries on Wall Street
• News of Record: Deschutes County deeds
• One beneficiary of meltdown: homebuyers
• Oregon jobless rate jumps in August
• Planes join search for missing man
• Seeking harmony in the union of weddings and farmland
• Smart Home is green, modular and high-tech
• State fines Gordon Smith’s food plant for spill
• Washington Mutual shares are battered
• You’ve got paper mail ... on your private Web page

SPORTS

• Bigfoot 10K race director needed
• Brewers fire manager Yost in midst of NL playoff race
• Climbing festival comes to Smith Rock State Park
• Cocco earns berth in Oregon Classic
• Community Sports Calendar
• Community Sports Scoreboard
• Cowboys top Eagles in high-scoring affair
• Ducks quarterback out 2 to 4 weeks with knee injury
• Election set for Bend Little League South
• Go light with backpacking foods
• Horse abandonment expected to increase
• Locals perform well at Pendleton Round-Up
• MBSEF conditioning program offered
• On the Air
• Oregon Select Baseball teams sweep tourneys
• Pilot Butte Challenge coming soon
• Scoreboard
• Seahawks stunned after two losses
• Sox power past Rays, narrow gap in AL East race
• Surf’s up in C.O.
• Triathlon near Portland needs volunteers
• UO baseball sets open tryout session UO baseball sets open tryout session
• Volunteers needed for swim program
• WebCyclery movie night is tonight
• WebCyclery Thrilla Cross Series under way
• Work group hitting the trails Wednesday
• Youth basketball registration starting
• Youth volleyball registration deadline

OBITS

• Rick Wright, founding member of Pink Floyd

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices

NATION & WORLD

• Best Buy to acquire music service Napster
• Constitution Day is a teaching moment, but we have a lot to learn
• Elkton considers school switch
• General Motors formed in Flint, Mich., in 1908
• IAEA at ‘dead end’ on Iran nukes
• Ike misery will last for weeks
• In Iraq, Gates praises Petraeus
• NATO-Georgia commission is inaugurated
• Pakistani troops fire on U.S. forces
• Police ID body found near McNary Dam
• Prince William to train as Royal Air Force pilot
• Rail inquiry focuses on texting, signals
• Rick Wright, founding member of Pink Floyd
• State fines Gordon Smith’s food plant for spill
• 10 states to make polluters pay
• Witchcraft accusation incites soccer game riot
• You’ve got paper mail ... on your private Web page

FEATURES

• Bend toddler is battling rare degenerative illness
• Careful cutting key to a great ratatouille
• Coming back, with a friend
• Congregation gives Jewish families new option
• Don’t feel like fussing with crust? Try this tart
• English garden
• If you want to be worth your salt, add a little cinnamon
• Interior design show mixes wacky with traditional
• Inventor takes the odor out of front-loading washers
• Maintaining health through down times
• Nurse shortage leaves Oregon students at risk
• Paint color is best low-cost home upgrade
• Proper shoe maintenance can extend life of footwear
• Pumping up and pairing up flavors
• Relax when it comes to wine pairing
• Review faults security at state hospital
• Smart Home is green, modular and high-tech
• ‘So much is at stake’
• Store it correctly or lose it quickly
• Sweet summer raspberries
• What does a kitchen-tool merchant keep for herself?
• White tableware dresses up or down, suits any occasion
• Yam I am . . . or not. Sweet potato confusion

ENTERTAINMENT

• A little bit country, a little bit rock ’n’ roll
• Best Buy to acquire music service Napster
• Calendar
• Correction
• Faces to watch this fall
• George Takei boldly goes ... down the aisle
• Jolie, Pitt keeping up the good work
• Local tumor survivor to appear on ‘Oprah’
• Movie Times

OPINION

• Bad convention
• Before voting, research Palin, farm subsidies, Alaskan handouts
• Five Buttes mess
• Leave daughter alone
• Palin’s record
• People matter more
• The hurt in the carbon hunt
• What happened?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Voters league plans transit forum