July 08, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Bend seamstress takes fashionistas for Le Loop
• Blaze near Cultus Lake is quickly contained
• Business Calendar
• Campaign to recall Portland mayor begins
• Despite shift on climate by U.S., Europe remains wary
• Empty boats had been lost, officials say
• Everything In Its Place
• Literacy group has reached 17 schools
• Meetings scheduled on proposed pipeline
• Natural gas prices to drop in Oregon
• News of Record: Bankruptcies
• News of Record: Police Log, Bend fire runs, Pets
• Ninja training with a touch of green
• Oregon vets may benefit more under new GI Bill
• Park & Recreation building set to open
• Private investigator says accused wasn’t driving in fatal crash
• "Horrendous’ mosquito season? It depends on your location
• Room-tax collections continue to decline
• Settlement applies to some Oregonians
• Smoke may be visible from wildfire training
• Studies see dilemma with forest carbon storage
• Summer camps and programs
• The Shire buyer purchases another Bend development

BUSINESS

• Anxieties, uncertainties abound with staggering federal deficit
• Auto parts maker files for Chapter 11
• Bend seamstress takes fashionistas for Le Loop
• Boeing revising its flight plan
• Business Calendar
• Consumer loan delinquencies rise
• Enduring the hills
• Everything In Its Place
• Fashion tips don’t fall short for vertically challenged men
• Former AIG executive cleared by jury in $4.3B stock seizure
• IRS suspends some small-business fines
• Meetings scheduled on proposed pipeline
• Most grocers are OK with the variety 6 pack
• Natural gas prices to drop in Oregon
• Now’s the time to raise your profile at work
• Park & Recreation building set to open
• Room-tax collections continue to decline
• Royalty deal may save Internet radio
• Settlement applies to some Oregonians
• Stocks drop sharply on falling oil prices
• The Shire buyer purchases another Bend development

SPORTS

• Armstrong within a second of yellow jersey at Tour de France
• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bend falls in opener of road series
• C.O. golfer advances in PNGA Amateur
• Cycling
• Football
• Game is being changed by more injuries
• Golf
• Golf Scoreboard
• History lesson
• Hockey
• Juniper name best “muny” in state
• Local rider makes a nice holiday haul during ‘Cowboy Christmas’
• Major League Baseball
• Mt. Bachelor passes good for free ticket to Tradition tourney
• On the Air
• Redmond boy makes quarters of Oregon Junior Amateur
• Scoreboard
• Swimming
• Volunteer drivers needed for local cycling event
• Women

OBITS

• Author Vasily Aksyonov was Soviet-era dissident
• Bowman thrilled audiences with his sharpshooting skill
• Doi studied the workings of the Japanese psyche
• Philadelphia newsman went to jail to protect paper’s sources

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Death notices
• Dorothy Ann Robbins Medved
• Frances A. Rieman

NATION & WORLD

• A new chapter for U.S., Russia?
• Addressing climate change from the rooftops (literally)
• Ahmadinejad claims mandate as struggle for power ensues
• Anxieties, uncertainties abound with staggering federal deficit
• Bar association gives Sotomayor its approval
• California teen nears the finish of his long global sea odyssey
• Clinton meets ousted Honduran president as mediator is named
• Former AIG executive cleared by jury in $4.3B stock seizure
• In 1853, Commodore Perry leads mission to open trade with Japan
• Meetings scheduled on proposed pipeline
• Merkley sees funding solutions in climate bill
• Palin faces new ethics complaint
• Police: S.C. killer should have been behind bars
• Running of the bulls kicks off in Pamplona
• Tensions in China’s other restive region
• Trading military humvees for mules, U.S. troops train for Afghanistan

FEATURES

• Calendar
• California teen nears the finish of his long global sea odyssey
• How long will our tables teem with fishy delicacies?
• Ninja training with a touch of green
• "Horrendous’ mosquito season? It depends on your location

ENTERTAINMENT

• After 39 years, a final countdown for Kasem
• Calendar
• ’Idol’ finalists arrive in Portland with feeling
• Media spectacle? Perhaps not, but everyone was there
• Movie Times
• Music and mourning at Jackson’s funeral
• ’Warehouse 13’ a summer treasure trove

OPINION

• Americans are returning to cities, but what’s behind the new trend?
• COCC deserves another vote
• Truth in food labeling
• Why the Legislature’s tax hikes shouldn’t go to voters