June 11, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Agencies call local counties ‘distressed’
• Baker City Council fires city manager
• Bend sees rise in median home prices
• Business Calendar
• Business owners here relieved as tax bills stall in Senate
• Case prompts plan to allow charges of fetal homicide
• Facts and figures
• Grand jury clears officers in fatal Portland-area shooting
• Health Datebook
• How can 100 calories of cola be worse than 100 calories of hamburger. The answer lies in how your body processes the liquids in your diet
• La Pine High students receive scholarships
• Moving of pole is taking awhile
• News of Record: Permits
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs
• No tax hike this time, so deficit is looming
• Orphaned cougar cub thriving at Oregon Zoo
• PERSONAL SHOPPER
• 2 plead not guilty in airport baggage thefts
• Railroad: Wheel crack caused derailment
• Redmond middle schools to keep band
• Rodeo rules
• Sheriff’s deputy under investigation is fired
• Slow-going big-rig stopped by spikes
• State Senate OKs closure of School for the Blind
• Their first, but not their last
• Utility turns sewage into fertilizer
• Victoria to stop sending untreated sewage to sea
• Watershed council backs designation of Metolius
• Wickiup commuter lot on list for upgrade

BUSINESS

• Agencies call local counties ‘distressed’
• Anti-pollution efforts in D.C. may cost extra for Oregon power users
• Bend sees rise in median home prices
• Business Calendar
• Business owners here relieved as tax bills stall in Senate
• Chrysler deal closes; Fiat takes the wheel
• Deficit close to $1 trillion
• Fed accused of threatening BofA CEO
• Fed survey sees signs recession is easing
• Former Apple exec tapped as Palm CEO
• Holiday double-charges resolved, Starbucks says
• How to talk down a credit card rate hike
• Moving of pole is taking awhile
• News of Record: Permits
• N.Y. Times reportedly taking bids for Globe
• Oregon gets federal help on employment
• PERSONAL SHOPPER
• Tough times churn out ‘forced entrepreneurs’
• Treasury targets executive pay
• Watershed council backs designation of Metolius
• Wickiup commuter lot on list for upgrade

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Be mindful of weather on the trail
• Bend man cited for numerous wildlife violations
• Bryant misses chance to put Magic away
• Eaton leads at NCAAs
• Electricity on Crystal Creek
• Elks get easy win in second game of season
• Fly-tying corner
• Football
• Former Madras baseball star picked by Mets in MLB draft
• Golf
• Gone fishin’
• Green drakes showing up on the Metolius
• Hunting & Fishing Events Calendar
• Major League Baseball
• On the Air
• Soccer
• State-Metro baseball series set for Saturday
• Triathlon

OBITS

• Mother of 11 adopted kids dies in fall after cancer fight

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Charlie Eugene Graham
• Death notices
• Eugenia 'Jean' Lynne Abel
• Marion LaRue Myers

NATION & WORLD

• Anti-abortion leader weighs turning clinic into memorial
• Anti-pollution efforts in D.C. may cost extra for Oregon power users
• Biggest obstacle to health care reform may be how to pay for it
• D.C. shooting suspect has anti-Semitic past
• Deficit close to $1 trillion
• Economy pushing cost of drugs out of reach
• Fed accused of threatening BofA CEO
• Fed survey sees signs recession is easing
• Former Georgia Tech student convicted of video terror plot
• Iran’s Guard warning of reformist revolution
• Iraq releases 3 U.S. contractors in slaying case
• 5 key countries agree on N. Korea sanctions
• Old videos reflect Sotomayor’s positions
• Schoolkids vow to save ‘Ellis Island of the West’
• Spotlight is on a candidate’s wife - and the change she represents
• Timothy McVeigh is executed for Oklahoma City blast in 2001

FEATURES

• Anti-abortion leader weighs turning clinic into memorial
• Are you running out of heartbeats?
• Area screenings help patients with balance
• Before you order at a restaurant, make sure the meal isn’t mondo
• Biggest obstacle to health care reform may be how to pay for it
• Bone marrow
• Care coordination is a problem for OHP and uninsured kids
• Do you know what’s in the pool water?
• Feeling bloated? Avoid these foods
• Health Datebook
• How can 100 calories of cola be worse than 100 calories of hamburger. The answer lies in how your body processes the liquids in your diet
• Look hot in those jeans again
• People
• Understanding options key to good treatment

ENTERTAINMENT

• Advertise on NeighborImpact trucks to benefit nonprofit
• Calendar
• Community Datebook
• Controversial Miss California ousted over contract
• History vs. history
• Jenny, Bryan raise their new sextuplet co-stars
• Movie Times
• Oregon Dressage Society event to double as food collection site
• Pitt buys painting at top modern art fair
• Professor Huck wins COCC award
• ‘Slumdog’ child star gets new home
• Spears’ ‘Circus’ tour returns to States

OPINION

• Bend-La Pine’s sensible facility naming policy
• Challenge of bipartisan health reform
• OLCC’s ‘town hall’ solved nothing
• U.S. must stop burning coal and increase energy efficiency