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Internet
access
slows
vaccine
signup
Shevlin Park,
Drake Park turn
BY SUZANNE ROIG
The Bulletin
Deschutes County residents
without internet access are find-
ing it difficult to sign up for one
of the limited number of vaccine
doses available in the county, so
health officials are making sure
there are other options.
When a limited number of
vaccines was made available
Monday, health care provid-
ers throughout the county be-
gan contacting their patients
by phone, text or email. Some
used their staff; others had
automated calls to reach the
roughly 168,000 senior citizens
in Oregon who now qualify for
a COVID-19 vaccine. About
33,000 who are 80 and older
have already received a vaccine.
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Censures,
security are
at top of
agendas in
D.C., Salem
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A runner makes her way along a footpath through Drake Park on Friday
B
BY KYLE SPURR
The Bulletin
end’s dedication to outdoor spaces began
a century ago, when the city established
Shevlin and Drake parks.
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
The two original parks were the result of foresight
With January’s ceremonial
start of the year out of the way,
both Congress and the Oregon
Legislature have moved on to
sometimes turbulent issues,
including disciplinary action
against their own members.
by the early residents of Bend. Since then, the city has
developed more than 80 additional parks.
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Bend Park & Recreation District/Submitted photo
A circa-1960 photo shows Drake Park in the winter.
West Linn,” Thenell said, re-
ferring to the scandal-plagued
force of the Portland suburb,
including the wrongful arrest
of a Black man. “The public
is demanding reform, but of-
ficers who are reporting mis-
conduct are being forced out
of the profession.”
Bentz backs Cheney
U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-On-
tario, has confirmed he backed
U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo-
ming, in a secret GOP vote on
Feb. 4 to decide if she should
retain her position as House
Republican Conference Chair.
Cheney was one of just 10
House Republicans to vote
Jan. 13 for impeachment of
then-President Donald Trump
on the charge of “incitement
of insurrection” for agitating
a mob that attacked the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, resulting in
five deaths and injuring over
140 police officers.
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Fired Redmond cop alleges bullying, ‘conspiracy’
Lawyer for Ryan Fraker: City Council should
‘take lesson from what happened in West Linn’
BY GARRETT ANDREWS
The Bulletin
A 19-year veteran of the
Redmond Police Department
was fired and his reputation
ruined for reporting miscon-
duct, the officer states in a new
$5 million wrongful termina-
tion lawsuit against his former
employer.
Donald “Ryan” Fraker, who
worked for Redmond Police
from September 2001 until his
termination in February 2020,
was the subject of an official
“conspiracy” to undermine
his career, according to the
suit filed Friday in Deschutes
County Circuit Court.
Fraker’s lawyer, Dan
Thenell, told The Bulletin the
department suffers from a cul-
ture of retaliation against whis-
tleblowers, citing two other
officers who quit or were fired
after reporting misconduct.
“The City Council should
really look into what’s hap-
pening. … They should take a
lesson from what happened in
Senate sets stage for rapid impeachment trial
WASHINGTON — The
Senate prepared Monday to
launch a historic second im-
peachment trial of Donald
Trump on the accusation that
he instigated the deadly Jan. 6
Capitol riot, with Democratic
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could bring the proceedings to
a close within a week.
The charge is serious and
the circumstances are unprec-
edented — it is the first im-
peachment trial for an ex-presi-
dent as well as the first time any
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president has been impeached
and tried twice. But there is lit-
tle drama surrounding its out-
come: The majority of Republi-
can senators have signaled that
they will not be voting to con-
vict a former president.
Under a deal negotiated by
Senate Majority Leader Chuck
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possibility that senators could
vote after four days of argu-
ments to extend the trial by
calling witnesses and examin-
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and motivations surrounding
the events of Jan. 6.
But that appeared exceed-
ingly unlikely Monday, with
Democrats wanting to move
quickly to pass President Joe
Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic
relief proposal and Republi-
cans seeking to get past the
internally divisive debate over
Trump as soon as possible.
Several Senate aides, speaking
on the condition of anonym-
ity to describe internal discus-
sions, said they expect an ac-
quittal vote as soon as Feb. 15,
Presidents’ Day.
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