February 28, 2010

LOCAL & STATE

• Ag sales lag
• Births
• Budget time for area schools: Fewer days, staff on the table
• Builders make a ‘buy local’ bid
• Calendar
• Chile quake: seen here before, but in an ‘elite’ class of its own
• 4-day school week could be out
• Edwards — Cartier
• February session: a model for yearly terms
• Haynes — Borgmann
• In a pinch, PockeTweez delivers
• King — Laib
• Light up your wheels with Tirefly
• Log exports from Oregon, Washington fell in 2009
• Mortgage rates rise; changes looming
• Most local races uncontested, but that could change as filing deadline nears
• New director takes over Oregon Zoo
• News of Record: Deeds
• Parks — Thornton
• Pig’s still in the python
• Portland schools OK 3-year teacher deal
• Program set on dressing Portland in solar panels
• Red or green? Pick your antifreeze color
• Reps for a cause
• Schumacher
• Smith Rock hiker rescued
• Stationery, toy shops to open in Old Mill
• When math experts shop for cars, frugality is sexy
• Widescreen view of the world
• 100 YEARS AGO

BUSINESS

• Ag sales lag
• Builders make a ‘buy local’ bid
• Earn a living answering questions
• In a pinch, PockeTweez delivers
• Mortgage rates rise; changes looming
• News of Record: Deeds
• Pig’s still in the python
• Stationery, toy shops to open in Old Mill
• Walden talks loan rules in timely credit keynote

SPORTS

• Baseball
• Batum scores 31 to pace Blazers over Timberwolves
• Bend’s Koos to sit out 50K in cross country
• Braves’ Chipper Jones says he’ll rebound or retire
• Canadian men beat U.S. in team pursuit
• Celebrations at the Special Olympics
• Correction
• Could this be the start for U.S. in nordic sports?
• Culver wins fourth straight state title
• Draft prospects try to give the right answers at NFL’s combine
• Football
• Harvick wins Nationwide race in Vegas
• He jumps high
• It’s all Summit at state
• Klug takes seventh
• NBA Scoreboard
• On the Air
• Oregon State slips past Southern Cal
• Outlaws fall in Sky-Em League playoff game
• Porter’s 29 lead Ducks over Bruins
• Prep Scoreboard
• Special Olympians give it their all at Winter Games
• 4 Straight state titles for Summit nordic, Culver Wrestling Teams
• Tennis
• U.S. gets first gold in four-man since 1948
• U.S. must top Canada again for Olympic gold
• Wrestlers from Redmond, Madras, Crook County get individual championships

OBITS

• John Reed, 94, master of Gilbert and Sullivan songs
• Mable Hoffman, slow-cooker pioneer and author, dies at 88

CENTRAL OREGON OBITS

• Carmen Nadine (Holcomb Jensen) Beach
• Death notices
• Harold 'Peanut' R.
• Milton E. "Mike" Orlob
• Rae M. (nee Beaver) Wilson

NATION & WORLD

• A roller coaster race for a cure
• And then there’s the Coffee Party, brewing a progressive alternative
• Chalabi’s back; U.S. isn’t happy
• Charges of hype in ‘snowicane’ coverage
• D.C. gridlock
• Details of shooting that killed California law officer emerge
• Dupattas go beyond mere fashion
• Early arrival to Tea Party: a young, unlikely activist
• Emotional orca show at seaWorld marks first since trainer killed
• Experts: solid case against 9/11 suspect
• Following prank, San Diego campus awakens to uneasy race relations
• Frustrated generation wages jihad on Pakistan
• Hamas shows unusual vulnerability
• ‘Hurt Locker’ lobbying e-mails cause a stir
• John Reed, 94, master of Gilbert and Sullivan songs
• Justices to define reach of gun laws
• Mable Hoffman, slow-cooker pioneer and author, dies at 88
• Marijuana use by seniors rises as boomers age
• Partisan Senate debate takes on harder edge
• Pelosi struggles to corral votes for reform
• Same-sex partners included in census
• ‘State of catastrophe’ in Chile
• Troops clear last pockets of resistance in Marjah
• Walden talks loan rules in timely credit keynote
• Watson and Crick announce double-helix discovery in 1953

FEATURES

• A roller coaster race for a cure
• Device lets you watch home from the road
• Four-star trip to Portland doesn't have to come with four-star cost
• News of Record: Reunions
• Sooner is better when buying plane tickets for Europe trip
• Travel freebies may tempt families
• Watching kids’ hands can give clues to their brains

ENTERTAINMENT

• Authors shed light on ‘mindless’ U.S. jobs
• Best-sellers
• Earn a living answering questions
• Elvis may be the king, but this time Joe Pike rules
• ‘Happy’ is vivid story of youth, death
• ‘Hurt Locker’ lobbying e-mails cause a stir
• Marriage, parenthood in the lineup
• Movie Times
• Newbery winner is a lovely homage to classic tale
• Parrish’s latest is a suspenseful crowd-pleaser
• Partisan Senate debate takes on harder edge
• PIPING HOT
• ‘Talk of the Town’ will feature city managers

OPINION

• A better search for work
• D.C. gridlock
• DNA and the military
• Iraq’s known unknowns, still unknown
• Legislature failed to fix tax credit issues
• My hat’s off
• Not as dull as expected
• Obama — too little, too late, too cynical
• Passing Measures 66 and 67 was a bad move for all
• Pig’s still in the python
• Prove they can live within limits
• Targeted taxes
• The dark hours for Thomas Jefferson
• What’s better there may not be better here

ROADS & TRAFFIC

• Light up your wheels with Tirefly
• Red or green? Pick your antifreeze color
• When math experts shop for cars, frugality is sexy
• Widescreen view of the world