August 03, 2009

LOCAL & STATE

• Attentive but a bit detached, Walden keeps rural focus in health debate
• Bend City Council to revisit open burn ban
• Building slump causes Portland city layoffs
• Fire pumps smoke into Rogue Valley
• Flight school files FAA complaint on Redmond Airport
• Follow these tips to help avoid dog bites
• Grass seed surplus in Willamette Valley
• Health reform tops town hall with Merkley
• House explosion investigated
• Lightning keeping fire crews active
• Like Mother, like son
• Lyle Lovett lets loose
• Man dies in crash in Milo McIver State Park
• Meet Smoquay
• More thunderstorms expected in evenings
• News of Record: Civil Suits
• Night work continues on the Bend Parkway
• Parole basics
• Pets calendar
• When your house cat dashes out the door, don’t panic
• Your Pets

BUSINESS

• Bend City Council to revisit open burn ban
• Flight school files FAA complaint on Redmond Airport
• Is a trustworthy Web site even possible?
• Navigating by ear and other tech tricks to be on display
• Rorschach’s inkblots elicit an emotional response on Wikipedia
• With clunker program in flux, local sales still up

SPORTS

• Alexandra the Great! Filly beats the boys in Haskell
• AMAZING RACE
• Bend runner helps lead relay team to Pan-Am victory
• Capping a week of racing
• Changes help give IndyCar a needed boost
• Cleveland coach expects to have QBs for season
• Driver on the mend on eve of trip home
• Elks, Knights split a doubleheader
• Football
• Funk rolls to U.S. Senior Open title
• Golf Scoreboard
• Hasselbeck: ’Don’t call it a comeback’
• Indy 500 winner takes rally racing
• Major League Baseball
• On the Air
• Phelps closes out worlds in Rome with 5th gold medal
• Pocono race rescheduled for today due to rain
• Scoreboard
• Shanteau beats cancer, finally wins elusive gold
• Venus upset by Bartoli at Stanford
• Woods wins final Buick Open

OBITS

• Michael Wiener, 71, helped found Infinity Broadcasting
• Newsman Rory Marshall, 54, worked for AP in Northwest
• Stars drawn to Tom Runyon’s ramshackle restaurant

NATION & WORLD

• Aryan Nations gone, but memory remains in Idaho
• Attentive but a bit detached, Walden keeps rural focus in health debate
• Both sides of health reform prep for debate beyond D.C.
• Detainee facility possible in U.S.
• Iran warns trial critics
• Israelis rally after killings at gay center
• Off to Africa, Clinton to pledge new Somali aid
• One dead in Canadian concert stage collapse
• Pakistani police charge Swat cleric
• Puns aside, time to tweet Twitter seriously
• Sands hid fate of Gulf War pilot lost since ’91
• Study: Dogs, cats can get MRSA from humans
• Study finds rise in injuries in gym class
• Swiss seek answers on detained Americans
• Union Carbide: Exec not to blame for Bhopal
• U.S. air traffic controllers go on strike in 1981
• With clunker program in flux, local sales still up

FEATURES

• Attentive but a bit detached, Walden keeps rural focus in health debate
• Both sides of health reform prep for debate beyond D.C.
• Health reform tops town hall with Merkley
• Study finds rise in injuries in gym class

ENTERTAINMENT

• Calendar
• Gretchen Wilson to start own record label
• More ads coming to TV - even to one-time havens
• Movie Times
• Spielberg hops onto updated ‘Harvey’ flick

OPINION

• Bad treatment
• BMC is fine
• ‘Clunker’ program isn’t
• Deschutes harvests a meaningless bump
• Dogs begone
• How the health care reform frenzy is likely to end
• Soaking seniors

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Night work continues on the Bend Parkway