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TUESDAY • April 27, 2021
Trail Blazers’ season is unraveling after 5th-straight loss
SPORTS PULLOUT, A7-10
2020 U.S. CENSUS DATA
Oregon gets a 6th
congressional district
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
Summit’s Kohana Nakato, left, and Morgan
Hanson battle their way to the finish line while
competing in the 100-meter dash Wednesday at
Summit. A different student collapsed at the end
of the 800-meter race.
*But where
will it go?
After runner
collapses, state
relaxes mask
rules for sports
BY JACKSON HOGAN
The Bulletin
Less than a week after Summit High junior
Maggie Williams collapsed at the finish line
of her 800-meter race, the Oregon Health Au-
thority announced Monday it will no longer
require student-athletes to wear face masks
during noncontact, outdoor sports.
“This is a big step in the right direction,”
said Dave Turnbull, track and field coach at
Summit High School. “We don’t want to see
another Maggie Williams hit the track.”
This rule change was partially due to Wil-
liams’ fall, according to Oregon Health Au-
thority spokesperson Jonathan Modie. “The
incident … was certainly discussed as some-
thing concerning that made the need for this
guidance more urgent,” he wrote in an email.
However, the state is still mandating that
masks must be worn for outdoor sports
where K-12 athletes are less than 6 feet apart.
That means coaches will have to get creative
with certain track events, Turnbull said.
Bulletin illustration/File photo by Ryan Brennecke
What’s driving the
changes in congressional
representation? Below
are some tidbits showing
population shifts between
censuses, which are held
nationwide every 10 years.
The 2020 count faced
delays due to the pandemic.
10.6%
Oregon’s resident
population growth since
the 2010 census puts the
current population above
4,237,000. (Between the
1990 and 2000 censuses,
the rate of change was
almost double this.)
6.1%
California saw its
population grow since
2010, too — but by a far
smaller rate. It’s why our
neighbor to the south is
among the states losing a
congressional seat, for the
first time (though with 53,
it has plenty to spare). Only
a handful of states saw true
population losses.
15.9%
Texas is one of the fastest-
growing states in the
country, which is why it’s
the only state gaining two
seats this cycle. (Texas
doesn’t have the highest
rate, though. That belongs
to Utah, with 18.4%.)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
TODAY’S
WEATHER
Crowds gathered at Riverbend Park
over Memorial Day weekend 2020.
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Bend has
remained a popular attraction and a destination
for people seeking a new home. The city is the
largest in Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District,
which currently covers all of Central and Eastern
Oregon and parts of Southern Oregon. Bend
also has had the largest population growth in
Oregon — about 25% — over the past decade.
BY GARY A. WARNER
Oregon Capital Bureau
Oregon House
passes bills to
change policing
Oregon’s current districts
O
regon will have a sixth congres-
sional seat up for grabs in 2022
under the once-a-decade shuf-
fling of Congress, the U.S. Cen-
sus announced Monday.
Where in Oregon the new seat will be
located won’t be known until autumn.
The additional seat also gives Ore-
gon an additional Electoral College vote,
which is based on House seats plus U.S.
Senate seats. Oregon will have eight votes
for choosing the president in the 2024
election.
Oregon will also receive several billion
dollars more in federal aid for medical
services, schools and affordable housing
that is based on a formula using the num-
ber of House districts to determine each
state’s share.
See Masks / A4
2ND DISTRICT
Four districts held by
Democrats
Held by Rep. Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario
1ST
Pendleton
3RD
Portland
5TH
The Dalles
La Grande
Salem
Madras
Redmond
Eugene
Ontario
Bend
Burns
4TH
Grants Pass
Medford
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Bulletin graphic
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U.S. grew at its second-slowest pace ever
BY TARA BAHRAMPOUR,HARRY
STEVENS AND ADRIAN BLANCO
The Washington Post
T
he United States’ growth
slowed in the past 10 years
to its second-lowest rate
in the nation’s history, according
to new data released by the U.S.
Census Bureau on Monday.
The first numbers to come out
of the 2020 Census show that the
U.S. population on April 1, 2020
Warmer
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7.4%
National population growth, 2010-20
— Census Day — was 331.5 mil-
lion people, an increase of 7.4%
between 2010 and 2020. It is the
second-most sluggish rate of ex-
pansion since the government
began taking a census in 1790.
In the 1930s, the slowest-growth
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decade, the rate was 7.3%.
The slowdown is probably due
to the aging of the country’s white
population, decreased fertility
rates and lagging immigration.
But within the United States,
some regions are booming while
others are stagnating. The South
and the West saw growth in the
double digits in the past decade,
while the Midwest lost ground.
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BY PETER WONG
Oregon Capital Bureau
Five bills aimed at changing policing prac-
tices, plus four related measures, have cleared
the Oregon House by near-unanimous votes.
All the bills go to the Senate. Five other
policing bills, which are likely to affect state
agencies, are pending in the Legislature’s joint
budget committee.
All emerged from the Judiciary Commit-
tee and a subcommittee focused on policing.
It follows up the work of a 2020 special session
called by Gov. Kate Brown after the murder of
George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. A for-
mer officer was convicted last week on charges
of murder and manslaughter; three other of-
ficers are awaiting trial. Floyd’s death touched
off nationwide protests for racial justice, among
them more than 100 nights in Portland.
Rep. Janelle Bynum, a Democrat from
Clackamas who leads the full committee and
the subcommittee, said lawmakers heard
from local governments and associations of
police executives and rank-and-file officers,
not just groups advocating sweeping change.
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Correction
A headline for a story about Oregon OSHA penal-
ties that appeared on Page A1 in the Monday, April
26, e-edition should have made clear that the fines
that have gone unpaid are from businesses that will-
fully defied COVID-19 safety standards. Most fines
for nonwillful violations, which tend to be much less
costly, have been paid.
The Bulletin regrets the error.
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The state’s first new seat
in the U.S. House since 1980
translates to more clout and
more federal dollars. Now
comes the map drawing.
Population
changes
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