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    The BulleTin • Tuesday, april 20, 2021 A13
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
TODAY
WEDNESDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
62°
LOW
31°
Partly sunny and pleasant
Yesterday Normal
Record
60°
57° 84° in 1934
37°
31° 11° in 1920
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.25" in 1965
Month to date (normal)
0.00" (0.48")
Year to date (normal)
1.18" (3.83")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.20"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Wed.
Sun
6:13am/7:55pm 6:12am/7:57pm
Moon
12:17pm/3:11am 1:26pm/3:49am
Mercury 6:20am/8:04pm 6:21am/8:12pm
Venus
6:34am/8:27pm 6:33am/8:30pm
Mars
9:12am/12:53am 9:11am/12:52am
Jupiter
3:56am/2:17pm 3:52am/2:14pm
Saturn
3:18am/1:03pm 3:15am/12:59pm
Uranus
6:39am/8:41pm 6:35am/8:38pm
Full
Last
New
First
OREGON EXTREMES
YESTERDAY
High: 79°
at Medford
Low: 21°
at Lakeview
Coos Bay
56/42
Cottage
Grove
74/38
Bandon
55/43
Port Orford
57/47
Gold Beach
56/50
Mild with intervals of
clouds and sunshine
Cloudy and cooler with a
couple of showers
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
4
7
7
4
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Weeds
Low
75/43
Ashland
72/43
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47250
85%
Wickiup
110001
55%
Crescent Lake
22277
26%
Ochoco Reservoir
11637
26%
Prineville
91291
61%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
80
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
792
Deschutes R. below Bend
64
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1090
Little Deschutes near La Pine
83
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
14
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
260
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
280
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
54
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
9
Chiloquin
64/30
Christmas Valley
63/28
65/33
Jordan Valley
58/30
Frenchglen
62/30
Burns Junction
63/28
Rome
66/30
Paisley
64/29
Klamath
Falls
66/31
Juntura
64/30
Fields
64/30
Lakeview
62/28
McDermitt
62/32
NATIONAL WEATHER
-10s
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Silver
Lake
62/28
Burns
Riley 63/27
63/25
Yesterday
Today Wednesday
Yesterday
Today Wednesday
Yesterday
Today Wednesday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
61/45/0.00 63/43/pc 62/45/pc
La Grande
59/44/0.00 63/30/s 66/38/s
Portland
73/47/0.00 75/47/pc 78/47/pc
Baker City
58/50/0.00 62/27/s 67/30/s
La Pine
62/30/0.00 60/29/pc 64/33/s
Prineville
63/30/0.00 67/28/s 64/30/s
Brookings
56/43/Tr
61/47/pc 64/48/s
Medford
79/46/0.00 75/43/pc 77/44/s
Redmond
64/35/0.00 65/28/s 69/35/s
Burns
66/30/0.00 63/27/s 66/28/s
Newport
54/43/0.00 57/42/pc 58/43/pc
Roseburg
76/45/0.00 74/43/pc 77/44/pc
Eugene
75/42/0.01 73/42/pc 74/43/pc
North Bend
55/44/0.00 56/43/pc 58/44/pc
Salem
77/43/0.00 74/43/pc 76/43/pc
Klamath Falls
72/30/0.00 65/33/pc 66/31/s
Ontario
71/48/Tr
67/34/s 72/37/s
Sisters
60/37/0.00 64/30/pc 69/38/s
Lakeview
68/21/0.00 62/28/pc 64/26/s
Pendleton
61/40/0.00 67/33/s 71/46/s
The Dalles
69/50/0.00 74/39/s 78/47/s
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Beaver
Marsh
61/29
Medford
61/47
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
Fort Rock
62/29
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Base
77-108
0-205
0-172
53-67
34-64
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
Airstrip
Continued from A1
Last week, the Deschutes
County Commission decided
not to hear the appeal of the
hearings officer’s decision,
mostly because the grounds
upon which the proposal was
denied is based on a state stat-
ute rather than a local, county
code.
It is unclear whether the ap-
plication will be appealed to
the state Land Use Board of
Appeals, also known as LUBA.
If it is not appealed, the denial
will stick and Polvi will not be
allowed to build the airstrip.
“I’m weighing the pros and
cons, but I haven’t made a deci-
sion yet,” Polvi said Friday.
While Polvi identified
nearby properties with agri-
cultural activities, the hearings
officer argued he did not do
enough to include descriptions
of the farm practices on sur-
rounding properties, or give
explanations as to how the air-
strip won’t change or drive up
the cost of those practices.
“It is quite possible that the
proposed airstrip can satisfy
the farm impacts test,” Tom
Brooks, the hearings officer for
this case, wrote in his decision.
“However, as I understand LU-
BA’s and the courts’ application
of that test, satisfaction of that
test must focus on the impacts
to farm practices rather than
on the compatibility with farm
uses.”
Senate
Continued from A1
Among the items was a bill
by Sen. Tim Knopp, Senate
Bill 699, to close a loophole
allowing for some medical
insurance policies to include
an exclusion for coverage of
pre-existing conditions.
Pharmacists could do more
of their work with custom-
ers and technicians by phone
or computer with the passage
of Senate Bill 629, by Sen. Bill
Hansell, R-Athena. Hansell
said it brings Oregon in line
with the rest of the states west
of Texas.
“The pandemic has made us
realize that many services we
depend on can be provided on-
“I’m weighing the pros
and cons (of appealing),
but I haven’t made a
decision yet.”
— Alex Polvi, a Deschutes County
resident who submitted the
airstrip application
It is also unclear whether
Nunzie Gould, a Deschutes
County resident who also ap-
pealed the hearings officer’s
decision but for reasons con-
cerning impacts to wildlife, will
appeal to LUBA. Her attorney,
Jennifer Bragar, declined to
comment when asked to elabo-
rate on the appeal.
The denial is a win for
groups like Central Oregon
LandWatch, which opposed
the airstrip proposal due to its
potential impacts to wildlife in-
cluding mule deer and golden
eagles. The airstrip was pro-
posed near particularly beauti-
ful landscapes that are home to
lots of recreation and fishing,
said Carol Macbeth, an attor-
ney with LandWatch.
The land use advocacy orga-
nization also argued the appli-
cant did not prove his project
wouldn’t impact surrounding
farm uses.
“We agree with that de-
cision, and we’re glad that it
stands,” Macbeth said Thurs-
day.
line or over the phone,” he said.
More than a year under
COVID-19 restrictions also
gave the state data that it could
change its fee structure for RV
use in Oregon State Parks by
increasing the amount charged
to nonresidents.
During the pandemic, a
drop in revenue from the lot-
tery and other sources hit the
Oregon Parks and Recreation
Department. In order to sus-
tain the more than 200 parks
and sites it oversees, the de-
partment raised revenue by
increasing the facility fees for
RVs from outside the state.
The result was $500,000
in additional revenue for the
parks budget between Septem-
ber 2020 and February 2021
55°
31°
55°
31°
Cloudy with a couple of
showers possible
Mostly cloudy with a
chance of rain
NATIONAL
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
74/42/0.00
Akron
66/38/0.05
Albany
58/35/0.06
Albuquerque
69/34/0.00
Anchorage
55/36/0.00
Atlanta
72/50/0.00
Atlantic City
59/45/0.14
Austin
74/41/0.00
Baltimore
63/45/Tr
Billings
38/25/0.30
Birmingham
71/44/0.00
Bismarck
41/27/Tr
Boise
65/43/0.00
Boston
63/48/0.01
Bridgeport, CT 63/43/0.00
Buffalo
61/40/0.02
Burlington, VT
63/40/Tr
Caribou, ME
64/30/0.00
Charleston, SC 79/62/0.00
Charlotte
72/51/0.00
Chattanooga
71/48/0.00
Cheyenne
27/23/0.13
Chicago
52/50/Tr
Cincinnati
67/43/0.00
Cleveland
65/40/0.02
Colorado Springs 57/30/0.02
Columbia, MO
70/41/0.00
Columbia, SC
76/51/Tr
Columbus, GA
75/54/0.00
Columbus, OH
68/38/Tr
Concord, NH
63/30/0.02
Corpus Christi
70/56/0.00
Dallas
74/44/0.00
Dayton
67/40/0.00
Denver
31/30/0.07
Des Moines
41/30/0.07
Detroit
65/44/0.03
Duluth
38/28/Tr
El Paso
73/46/0.00
Fairbanks
59/26/0.00
Fargo
41/26/Tr
Flagstaff
64/21/0.00
Grand Rapids
53/47/0.12
Green Bay
45/39/0.01
Greensboro
68/50/Tr
Harrisburg
69/41/Tr
Hartford, CT
67/44/0.04
Helena
40/28/0.18
Honolulu
85/69/0.01
Houston
76/48/0.04
Huntsville
69/42/0.00
Indianapolis
67/40/Tr
Jackson, MS
73/41/0.00
Jacksonville
78/62/0.33
Today Wednesday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
56/35/s
58/44/pc
51/31/c
39/28/sn
59/39/pc
52/30/t
69/40/s
72/43/pc
44/34/pc
45/32/s
74/53/pc
63/41/s
64/54/s
63/38/t
80/42/pc 67/47/pc
74/54/s
67/37/t
41/24/sf
50/31/s
76/47/pc
60/38/s
41/19/c
55/28/s
63/39/s
66/39/s
70/49/pc 65/36/sh
66/50/s
59/35/t
46/31/c
35/29/sn
56/37/r
46/32/r
63/34/r
46/36/r
76/59/pc
82/44/s
75/54/c
71/36/pc
77/46/pc 58/36/pc
35/11/s
34/23/sf
38/30/sn 45/32/sh
62/33/pc
46/32/c
45/31/c
40/31/sn
37/23/c
35/25/c
40/30/sn 51/29/pc
77/55/c
78/39/s
77/54/pc
71/43/s
59/33/c
45/29/c
68/41/pc 61/30/sh
80/56/pc
72/64/s
65/39/s
63/47/pc
56/31/c
44/30/c
39/23/pc 36/25/sf
43/28/c
47/29/sn
44/31/c
42/29/sf
39/23/c
41/29/pc
80/49/s
81/52/s
42/25/s
44/26/s
40/22/pc
50/31/s
65/35/s
60/29/s
39/25/c
42/25/c
43/24/c
44/27/c
73/53/s
67/36/pc
71/53/pc
60/35/t
73/46/pc
63/33/t
46/24/s
58/30/s
84/71/sh
85/71/s
80/47/s
72/47/s
74/41/pc 58/37/pc
51/27/sh 47/30/pc
76/44/pc 63/41/pc
74/59/c
82/48/s
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
61/42/pc
68/52/pc
69/61/r
105/74/pc
93/79/t
80/53/pc
80/61/pc
61/39/sh
71/50/t
58/39/sh
74/67/s
81/63/s
89/59/s
50/29/pc
86/78/t
54/37/r
54/31/c
62/43/s
75/52/pc
80/72/s
58/48/s
80/55/pc
70/50/s
71/64/pc
67/56/pc
62/45/pc
68/47/pc
92/83/c
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
61/32/0.00
54/37/0.00
57/45/0.07
87/56/0.00
65/40/0.00
38/34/0.05
73/40/0.00
85/59/0.00
70/47/Tr
43/38/Tr
70/41/0.00
92/78/0.00
48/45/Tr
40/33/Tr
72/44/0.01
74/60/0.00
65/52/Tr
68/50/0.00
71/54/0.38
74/39/0.00
41/31/0.01
75/68/0.70
98/59/0.00
55/40/0.01
63/46/0.00
88/61/0.00
64/38/0.09
61/34/0.00
65/44/Tr
66/47/0.01
32/24/0.29
78/40/0.00
60/49/0.16
63/38/0.00
84/52/0.00
72/45/0.00
66/46/Tr
76/51/Tr
80/54/0.00
63/50/0.00
68/49/0.00
68/26/0.00
78/60/0.00
72/48/0.00
43/28/0.00
56/38/Tr
68/33/0.00
76/70/0.43
83/57/0.00
75/41/0.00
62/52/0.01
62/35/0.00
64/49/0.00
92/64/0.00
Today Wednesday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
50/38/pc 51/34/pc
42/29/sn 49/28/pc
42/25/c
42/24/c
87/63/s
81/61/s
65/32/pc
47/31/c
46/25/c
49/24/pc
72/34/pc 62/38/pc
76/59/pc
67/58/c
68/35/pc
52/35/c
41/26/c
45/29/c
71/37/pc 58/40/pc
89/76/c
86/69/t
40/31/c
43/33/c
45/28/pc 45/31/pc
74/36/pc
56/37/c
76/57/pc
71/54/s
74/52/s
62/34/t
73/52/s
66/36/t
74/58/s
75/44/t
49/31/c
57/38/pc
43/26/c
48/28/pc
75/67/t
83/59/pc
94/61/s
83/58/s
40/30/sn 48/28/pc
73/54/s
66/37/t
92/64/s
89/62/s
60/38/pc 42/29/sn
63/41/pc 55/34/sh
69/49/s
64/36/sh
75/54/s
73/37/pc
37/20/sf
47/22/s
65/41/pc
66/38/s
76/54/s
72/37/t
49/32/c
36/29/sn
77/50/pc
85/48/s
43/31/sn 54/33/pc
57/40/s
57/39/pc
84/47/s
71/54/pc
66/59/pc
65/59/c
62/50/c
64/50/c
64/49/pc 73/48/pc
63/32/s
64/35/pc
76/56/pc
80/43/s
72/48/s
73/49/pc
46/25/c
47/27/pc
62/36/s
67/44/s
42/26/sh
53/30/c
75/70/t
80/61/pc
89/59/s
87/58/s
49/33/sh 58/39/pc
74/57/s
65/38/t
46/29/sn 54/34/pc
70/37/s
76/46/s
94/56/s
88/55/s
102/75/0.00
84/56/0.00
63/46/Tr
54/43/0.00
77/59/0.08
86/76/0.12
99/72/0.00
65/43/0.00
63/30/0.00
64/37/Tr
63/39/0.00
84/73/0.15
61/43/0.02
68/48/0.00
72/63/0.07
67/40/0.00
66/39/0.00
71/47/0.00
86/77/0.04
57/30/0.00
75/55/0.00
76/68/0.00
104/70/0.00
68/54/0.00
63/36/0.05
66/45/0.00
52/43/0.26
63/43/0.00
101/77/pc
80/55/s
52/35/c
48/37/r
79/61/t
86/73/pc
97/69/c
73/50/s
61/40/s
48/30/c
63/44/pc
79/73/pc
62/42/pc
68/48/r
70/61/pc
56/42/pc
68/46/pc
70/61/c
89/78/t
58/34/s
74/57/pc
82/70/s
77/62/pc
72/58/s
47/31/c
62/44/s
59/41/sh
60/44/c
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 98°
at Palm Springs, CA
National low: 1°
at Climax, CO
Precipitation: 1.60"
at Vero Beach, FL
SKI REPORT
Ski resort
New snow
Mt. Bachelor
0
Mt. Hood Meadows
0
Timberline Lodge
0
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
0
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
0
MONDAY
TRAVEL WEATHER
Hampton
61/28
60/29
Crescent
59/27
Roseburg
74/43
Grants
Pass
76/44
La Pine
Oakridge
72/41
Brookings
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
62°
31°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
EAST: Plenty of sun
Astoria
and breezy Tuesday.
63/43
Umatilla
Seaside
Fair and cold Tuesday
Hood
73/33
64/42
night. Sunny and
River
Rufus
Hermiston
a little warmer
Cannon Beach
70/37
71/33
72/39
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
61/43
Wednesday.
72/38
75/42 75/47
61/29
Wasco
61/29 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Sunny
Tillamook
59/27
69/36
67/33
Sandy
74/39
McMinnville
63/41
to partly cloudy and
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
73/42
Maupin
Government
75/45
breezy Tuesday. Fair
63/30
58/29
Camp
67/34 Condon 63/33
Union
Lincoln City
and chilly Tuesday
61/34
61/37
63/31
Salem
60/44
Spray
night. Sunny and
Granite
Warm Springs
74/43
Madras
66/32
Albany
57/28
pleasant Wednesday. Newport
Baker City
67/32
67/30
Mitchell
57/42
74/41
62/27
WEST: Partly sunny
Camp Sherman
62/31
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Unity
and pleasant Tuesday. Yachats
64/30
65/28
73/44
Day
Prineville
61/29
Fair weather Tuesday 58/44
Ontario
Sisters
67/28
Paulina
63/30
67/34
night. Sunny and
Florence
Eugene 64/30
Bend Brothers 62/29
Vale
a little warmer
58/46
73/42
62/31
60/28
Sunriver
66/30
Wednesday.
Nyssa
60/29
Apr 26
May 3
May 11
May 19
Tonight's sky: Bright star Vega of Lyra, the
Harp, emerging from the northeast.
Trees
Very high
SUNDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
Absent
SATURDAY
73°
41°
Sunny to partly cloudy
and mild
Mostly sunny and mild
ALMANAC
FRIDAY
67°
30°
67°
39°
Clear
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
THURSDAY
The appeal filed by Gould,
which essentially argued the
hearings officer should have
denied the application for
more reasons than he did, in-
cluded a petition of roughly
400 signatures of people who
were against the proposal.
Macbeth said the major-
ity of those signatures were
from people who recreate in
the nearby Maston Recreation
Area.
Bragar, Gould’s attorney, de-
clined a request for comment
to discuss their appeal further.
Polvi, the applicant, said he
cares deeply about the wild-
life and natural beauty of the
area, which is why he chooses
to live where he does, and cited
the fact that both the Bureau
of Land Management and the
Oregon Department of Fish
Wildfire did not express any
concerns about his airstrip.
Not disrupting his neighbors
was also a priority to him, Polvi
said, which is why he reached
out to his immediate neighbors
to see if they would be OK with
his proposed airstrip. He said
anyone who would be “truly
impacted” did not object to the
project.
Polvi said the state’s land use
law is too subjective, which he
thinks enabled the denial.
“I’d like to see Oregon make
their laws more objective, so
they can’t be used arbitrarily by
people in power,” Polvi said.
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with only a 5% drop in out-of-
state users.
Under Senate Bill 794 by
Sen. Kathleen Taylor, D-Mil-
waukie, the split fee favoring
residents would be made per-
manent. RVs from outside
Oregon will pay 25% more for
hook-ups and other spots.
State studies show the parks
department income will grow
to $2.1 million in the 2023-25
period. Nonresidents account
for 48% of those who make
RV reservations at Oregon
parks. The state forecasts the
higher fees will result in an 8%
drop in use by non-Oregon
RVs.
All the bills now go to the
House for a vote.
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“Hearing nothing is un-
usual,” she said. “Especially if
they’re running for a public
office, this indicates a lack of
willingness to talk to the pub-
lic in the future.”
Although the League of
Women Voters and City Club
will broadcast their Bend-La
Pine School Board candidate
forum online at 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, the event will be
pre-recorded on Tuesday.
The other four Bend-La
Pine board candidates — in-
cumbent Carrie McPherson
Douglass and newcomers
Marcus LeGrand, Janet Sarai
Llerandi and Shirley Olson
— have all confirmed their
participation in the forum,
Loesche and Drucker said.
Cab Burge, a candidate who
will appear on the May 18 bal-
lot, decided after he filed for
election not to run.
Twelve of the 13 Redmond
School Board candidates also
agreed to participate in their
separate candidate forums,
Loesche and Drucker said.
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Board races, like all Oregon
school board races, are non-
partisan. However, Loesche
said she was told by another
League of Women Voters
member that the four candi-
dates who appear to be skip-
ping the forum are Republi-
can-affiliated.
Loesche has led candi-
date forums for the League
of Women Voters since the
1970s — mostly in northwest
Indiana, where she previously
lived. She has never seen an
entire block of candidates skip
a forum while ignoring the
organization, she said.
“This idea that one party
won’t participate, I don’t get it
because I never ran into that
in all my years of doing fo-
rums,” she said.
Loesche said she believes
these candidates are skipping
the nonpartisan forum to par-
ticipate in a private, Deschutes
Republicans-hosted school
board forum on April 28.
Ginger Mugar — the plan-
ner for the Deschutes Repub-
lican Party who is organizing
her party’s candidate forum
— said she doesn’t know why
the four school board candi-
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dates are ignoring City Club
and League of Women Voters.
“I have nothing to do with
that,” she told The Bulletin.
Mugar added that the Re-
publicans have not endorsed
any school board candidates
yet, and she hasn’t officially
confirmed who will be partic-
ipating in her party’s private
forum next week.
“I’m not sure how many are
coming,” she said. “There’s not
much I can say.”
The Bulletin editorial board
has also had difficulties set-
ting up interviews with these
four candidates, according
to Richard Coe, editorial
page editor.Henton and Lo-
pez-Dauenhauer have re-
sponded via phone or email,
but have not committed to an
actual interview, he said.
Haffner, Henton and Lo-
pez-Dauenhauer did not re-
spond to multiple requests for
comment from The Bulletin’s
city desk. Imel briefly spoke
with The Bulletin on Friday,
but a full interview could not
be arranged by Monday after-
noon.
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