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3,800 acres, smaller than initially estimated.
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timber about nine miles east of Walla Walla
near Blue Creek and Klicker Mountain.
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timber or 300 acres in grass or brush.
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through July 21.
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Lake east of Walla Walla, Wash., Tuesday afternoon.
Kulongoski did not
respond to a request for
comment.
Green said the Oregon
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governor to use private trative Services approved
email accounts to handle Kulongoski’s use of a
Gmail account so that he
state business.
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was not possible
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state
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technology
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to
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delete thousands
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was
of his personal
no
indication
emails that had
Kulongoski used
been copied onto
the private email
state
computer
account as a back
servers. However,
channel to avoid
it was his prede- Kulongoski
public access to
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the
correspon-
Gmail
account
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ask for a system that would who was a policy adviser
communications
retain material from all of and
director for Kulongoski,
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Former Gov. Ted Kulon- said the governor used the
goski used a Gmail account Gmail account “primarily
as his primary professional for personal use, not state
email and unlike in business.” Richter Taylor
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employees do not know Kulongoski administration
whether they have copies of were expected to use their
state email accounts and
all of Kulongoski’s emails.
Archivists
at
the if they had to use private
Oregon
Secretary
of accounts while traveling
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Kulongoski’s use of the were supposed to forward
Gmail account when they that correspondence to their
received correspondence state accounts so it would be
between his administration archived.
The Oregonian recently
staffers’ government email
accounts, and Kulongoski’s UHSRUWHGWKDW.LW]KDEHUDQG
private account after he left his chief of staff used private
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said archivists do not know Cylvia Hayes, should have
how much of Kulongoski’s in the administration. As a
professional
correspon- result, state records did not
dence might be missing include a memorandum in
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from the state archive.
“The
(Kulongoski) the overlap between Hayes’
account was closed so we state policy and paid
don’t know what, if any, contracting work.
Amy
Williams,
a
emails were lost,” Green
spokeswoman for the
wrote in an email.
Under Oregon law, the Department of Administra-
historical records of the tive Services, said the state
governor, secretary of state acquired the capability in
and state treasurer belong 2010 to copy emails from
to the state and must be private email accounts such
as Kulongoski’s.
transferred to the archives.
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
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The information wasn’t exactly new,
but people got scared. And suddenly
two-thirds of the orders were coming
SEATTLE — We’ll see how long from this state, not California, as they
this scaredy boomlet lasts. It began last usually do.
American Preparedness, which
week.
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remembers thinking, as he checked the Public Storage building, typically sells
online orders at the Burien headquarters “several hundred” of the kits a month,
says O’Donnell, the CEO.
of American Preparedness.
With survivalist outlets and others
Sales were going through the roof.
If you go on the websites of Costco, selling similar kits, the local company
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small, eight-person company’s earth- numbers.
Still, says O’Donnell, last Monday,
quake-preparedness kits for sale. For
$179.99, you can get a 2-person, 7-day “We did over a month’s business.” And
this week, the orders keep arriving.
kit.
As far as survival supplies, sure, you
This boomlet began with an article in
The New Yorker that quickly went viral. can make your own earthquake kit. The
The headline was, “The really big Centers for Disease Control has tips; so
one.” It was followed by, “An earth- does FEMA and the city of Seattle.
The city recommends having enough
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the coastal Northwest. The question is supplies to last a week to 10 days.
How hard is it to buy some canned
when.”
By ERIK LACITIS
The Seattle Times
beans, a bunch of water bottles, some
crackers? It’s a bit more than that.
And are you really going to set aside
all those hours to put together water
bottles, canned food, meal bars, emer-
gency blankets, ponchos, light sticks,
batteries, a portable radio, whistles,
multifunction knives, matches, leather
gloves, rope, a pry bar, trash bags and
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“Hey, they never do. It’s procrasti-
nation. It’s why I don’t like to clean the
garage, either,” says Jeff Guite, who
founded American Preparedness back
in 1981.
Only a quarter of Seattleites are
putting together an earthquake kit and
building a family plan, says Barb Graff,
director of emergency management for
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city survey.
Which, of course, means that
three-quarters of us are not particularly
responsible.
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74/52
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Hermiston
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85/61
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Salem
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83/54
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82/52
John Day
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83/51
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Caldwell
Burns
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82/44
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Burns
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Heppner
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John Day
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Meacham
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Newport
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Pasco
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Redmond
Salem
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today; a thunderstorm in central parts and
the upper Treasure Valley.
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today. Partly cloudy tonight. A brief shower
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