January 28, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• As Portland mayor returns to work, his spokesman quits
• Bend city manager selects police chief
• Billions for broadband, but where would it go?
• Brewing ambition
• Cash awards given to local organizations
• Citigroup nixes order for new corporate jet
• City officials try to juggle bus service with funding
• Confidence waning as more jobs vanish
• Correction
• Culver dissolves police force of one
• Cuomo subpoenas former Merrill CEO
• equal pay bill, his first
• Eugene company plans wood-fired power plant
• Ex-AIG exec sentenced to 4 years in prison
• Forest Service looks for options in Sisters after land sale failure
• Hedge fund manager surrenders in Florida
• Italian exchange student expected to survive shooting at Portland club
• Kids in the hall
• Learning how motors work
• New school to be a lesson in sustainability
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log, Pets
• Obama pledges to sign
• ODOT to focus on 2 plans for U.S. 97 in north Bend
• Oregon gas prices seem to be stabilizing
• OSP arrests suspect in rape of 16-year-old
• Raiders of the lost freezer foods
• Recovery isn’t likely in 2009, scholars forecast
• Redmond man sentenced to life in prison for 1986 killing
• School year and sports equipment on short list for trimming
• Science lesson increases ‘motor’ skills
• Shares plunge as Delta reports $1.4B loss
• Storm wreaks havoc on Plains, East Coast
• VA agrees to settle in data theft case
• Weyerhaeuser supports teacher training program

BUSINESS

• At conferences these days, it’s all work and no play
• Bestsellers
• Billions for broadband, but where would it go?
• Brewing ambition
• Business Calendar
• Clinton’s climate envoy worked on Kyoto negotiations
• Culver dissolves police force of one
• Fireside red set to reopen Feb. 10
• Forest Service looks for options in Sisters after land sale failure
• Geithner to set limits on bailout lobbying
• Holder gains support of crucial Republican
• If authors pay the tab, publishers flourish
• Mom's crafts help with son’s medical bills
• New school to be a lesson in sustainability
• Raiders of the lost freezer foods
• Recalls
• Recovery isn’t likely in 2009, scholars forecast
• Redmond restaurant moves to Sisters
• Regulators chided in Madoff hearing
• Take the expense, fear out of taxes
• Thrifty tips for your Super Bowl festivities

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Bill Martin, Quail Run Golf Course
• Bobcats need pair of OTs to top Lakers
• Buffalo scores 10 goals in romp over Edmonton
• College basketball
• Cougs knock off Cowgirls in IMC
• Ex-Husker Frost joining Oregon as receivers coach
• Golf Scoreboard
• Hockey
• Madras wins big conference showdown
• Mexican soccer fans turning to voodoo to beat United States
• NBA basketball
• NFL football
• No. 11 Texas wins again against Baylor
• On the Air Sports in Brief
• Prep Scoreboard
• Scoreboard
• Serena reaches Aussie semis
• Skiing
• Storm remain perfect in IMC
• Unlike U.S. selection, Europe has a Ryder Cup choice
• Ward works to solidify his place in NFL history
• Wie is playing for the first time as a card-carrying pro

OBITS

• Allen Zwerdling, 86, theater journalist
• John Updike explored longings of suburbia

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Al Dyson
• Death notices
• Doris M. Henke
• Elnora Emma Rodgers
• Marjorie Lucille Lutz

NATION & WORLD

• Allen Zwerdling, 86, theater journalist
• Big-name petitioners lost out on pardons
• Billions for broadband, but where would it go?
• California woman becomes a mother - 8 times at once
• Clinton sees opportunities for progress with Iran and North Korea
• Concussions: The lifelong ramifications for athletes
• Europe to rich nations: Help us on carbon trading
• Gates: No more nation-building; new goals set for Afghan war
• GOP unswayed by Obama"s pleas
• Homeland Security orders broad review of U.S. border with Canada
• Interior chief hints at reversing late rulings on energy
• John Updike explored longings of suburbia
• Man upset over job kills self, wife, 5 kids
• Mixed response over Blagojevich recordings
• Mugabe looks to shun leaders of opposition
• Obama’s outreach to Muslims promises new path in Mideast
• Pilgrimage could disrupt Iraq elections
• Space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing 7 in 1986
• What economists think of the plan: promising, but possibly pork-laden
• Where millions of trees are no longer our friends

FEATURES

• Gilchrist School gets health center

ENTERTAINMENT

• Bestsellers
• Bruce Springsteen announces world tour
• Calendar
• Even old dogs can learn new tricks on the TV series ‘Fetch Me a Beer’
• Fireside red set to reopen Feb. 10
• Inauguration pianist: ‘We did the right thing’
• Movie Times
• Redmond restaurant moves to Sisters
• ‘Star Trek’ creator, wife’s ashes space-bound

OPINION

• Flawed campaign bill is worth considering
• Reform is more than hospitals
• The United States should embrace universal health care
• Will Obama save liberalism?

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• ODOT to focus on 2 plans for U.S. 97 in north Bend