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East Oregonian
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Wyoming governor pushes coal ports
CHEYENNE,
Wyo.
(AP) — Faced with sliding
domestic demand for coal,
the governor of Wyoming
has kept pressing for access
to deep-water ports in the
Northwest that would allow
exports to Asian markets.
Wyoming Gov. Matt
Mead met Monday with
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee
in Olympia and plans to meet
Tuesday with Oregon Gov.
Kate Brown.
“I wanted to get out
here and talk to these two
governors,” Mead said in a
telephone interview with The
Associated Press.
“If there are practical
issues as well that we could
help work through — every-
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train congestion, to issues of
coal dust — we want to do
our part in any way we can
to help address the issues of
concern to these two states,”
Mead said.
The stakes are high for
Wyoming — the nation’s
leading coal-producing state
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state Infrastructure Authority
released a study in March
that predicts stricter federal
regulations could force a
decline of up to 45 percent
in Powder River Basin coal
production by 2030.
The Wyoming Legislature
this year authorized issuing
up to $1 billion in state bonds
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port construction.
Wyoming has run into
stiff opposition from envi-
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cials in the Northwest so far
in its efforts to secure access
to deep-water ports.
Many in the Northwest
don’t welcome the process
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would be necessary to move
millions of tons of coal
through their states. They
also don’t like the thought of
enabling foreign nations to
burn more coal even as the
United States clamps down
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plants at home.
Mead said he and Inslee
have different points of
view on climate change.
While many scientists have
concluded that burning coal
and other fossil fuels contrib-
utes to global warming,
Mead has said he’s skeptical
that human activities are to
blame.
Mead in 2013 asked the
White House to disregard
Waco shootout puts spotlight on biker culture
By ALLEN G. BREED
AP National Writer
Former undercover agent
Jay Dobyns says people can be
forgiven for thinking Sunday’s
biker bloodbath in Waco, Texas,
was a throwback to a bad 1970s
movie.
The shootout — which
killed nine people and wounded
18 — seemed aberrant because
the public image of many
motorcycle gangs has been
burnished in recent years thanks
to the many largely benign bike
enthusiasts who’ve co-opted
some of the same clothing and
style.
“I think, as a society, and
to a large extent even in law
enforcement, we fall into the
sense that these guys are these
big, rough-looking teddy
bears that do blood drives and
toy runs and are harmless,”
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the notorious Hells Angels
Motorcycle Club for the federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms. “These are people
that have used the motorcycle
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Bikers congregate against a wall while authorities inves-
tigate a Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday in Waco, Texas.
biker culture was thrust into
the spotlight after Sunday’s
shooting in the parking lot of
a restaurant where members of
several rival gangs were having
a meeting. By Monday, author-
ities had charged about 170
gang members with engaging
in organized crime.
Motorcycle culture’s image
problem goes back at least to
1947, when a race in Hollister,
California, descended into two
days of bloody riots. The Amer-
ican Motorcycle Association,
the race’s sponsor, responded to
the coverage by declaring that
99 percent of participants were
law-abiding.
To this day, gangs like the
Outlaws refer to themselves
as “1 percenters,” says Terry
Katz, former commander of the
Maryland State Police’s orga-
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Brown names former Salem-
Keizer leader school chief
nized crime section. Trouble is,
it’s sometimes hard to tell the
dark side of motorcycle groups
from the light.
Good and bad alike call their
organizations “clubs.” Both
use the term “colors” for the
emblems on the backs of their
jackets and vests.
Don Chambers, founder of
the Bandidos gang, modeled
his club’s emblem — a sombre-
ro-wearing Mexican caricature
carrying a sword and pistol —
after the corn chip company’s
Frito Bandito mascot, says
Katz, who went undercover
in the 1970s as an associate to
two clubs, the Pagans and the
Phantoms. Other clubs that
want to operate on their turf are
required to wear a patch called
a “support cookie,” so named
because it’s the size and shape
of a cookie.
“You have a major gang.
Then you have like a puppet club
or you can call it a farm team
that is part of their organization.
But they’re not a member of the
big dogs,” says Katz, vice presi-
dent of the International Outlaw
Motorcycle Gang Investigators
Association.
SALEM (AP) — Gov. Kate Brown has
appointed Salam Noor to replace Rob Saxton as
deputy superintendent of public instruction.
Noor spent six years as assistant superintendent
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School District before taking a job last fall with the
Higher Education Coordination Commission.
Brown says Noor delivered results while at
Salem-Keizer and other stops in his career. He’ll
be asked to improve one of the nation’s lowest
graduation rates.
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The 2011 Legislature changed the head of public
schools from an elected position to an appointed
position.
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Last month, he announced his retirement from the
Oregon Department of Education and said he would
lead the Northwest Regional Education Service
District.
Man wanted son to move out,
said gun ‘went off’ and killed him
POST, Ore. (AP) — A 72-year-old man charged
with killing his son told investigators the gun “went
off” after his son hit him in the face with an open
backhand.
William Brown Sr. was arrested on a murder
charge last week at his home in Post, southeast of
Prineville.
Crook County Deputy Dave Tugman wrote in
court documents released Monday that 51-year-old
William Brown Jr. was dead when deputies arrived.
According to Tugman, the elder Brown said he
was trying to get his son to move back to Minnesota
and pulled the gun to threaten him. The father
said the son’s backhand caused his head to hit a
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A medical examiner said Brown died from a
gunshot that entered near the left armpit and exited
near the right armpit.
Pot panel approves new restrictions for medical marijuana
SALEM (AP) — An Oregon
Senate special committee
unanimously passed legislation
on Monday imposing a variety
of new restrictions on medical
marijuana, a week after a joint
committee overseeing the
state’s marijuana rules stalled
on a similar measure.
The
Senate
Special
Committee on Implementing
Measure 91 passed a proposal
tightening regulations on the
medical marijuana industry,
such as limiting the number
of plants growers can have,
building an inventory tracking
system for growers, processors
and dispensaries, inspection
requirements and an Oregon
residency requirement.
Lawmakers say the lengthy
set of new restrictions is
necessary so the recreational
program can pass muster with
federal authorities.
The move comes a week
after an Oregon House-Senate
committee in charge of imple-
menting the state’s new mari-
juana rules reached an impasse
on a bill aimed at stemming the
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Committee
members
agreed on most issues except
for one: the question of
whether local governments
could ban medical marijuana
dispensaries or other pot facil-
ities within their jurisdictions.
The
joint
committee
deadlocked on the issue,
causing Senate President
Peter Courtney to name the
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committee to a Senate-only
special committee last week.
Marijuana advocates said
creation of the new panel was
an extraordinary move in order
to bypass House members’
objections.
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pressure from Washington
state and Oregon to evaluate
the effects of greenhouse
gases that would be emitted
by exporting U.S. coal to
Asia from ports in the North-
west.
Wyoming and Montana
have appealed last year’s
decision by Oregon regu-
lators denying an energy
company’s application for
another coal-loading station
on the Columbia River at
Port of Morrow.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
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