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When Deschutes County Commissioner Tammy Baney leaves office after 12 years next January, she'll turn over her seat to one of two very different candidates: Patti Adair, the conservative Republican who chairs the Deschutes County Republican Party and served as a delegate for Donald Trump at the 2016 Republican National Convention, and James Cook, a moderate Democrat who chairs Redmond's planning commission and has Baney's endorsement. Adair, 67, moved from California to rural Deschutes County in 2014 after growing up in Eastern Oregon and vacationing in Central Oregon every year.
For five years, Sen. Ron Wyden has pushed Congress to address how U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management leaders often must divert money from other programs, including fire prevention and forest management budgets, to cover the increasingly high cost of fighting massive wildfires. The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act was a part of the $1.3 trillion federal spending package passed by federal lawmakers and signed by the president late last month.
John Guandolo, a former FBI agent considered an anti-Muslim extremist, spoke to a group of Republicans in Bend on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018. - Bulletin John Guandolo, a former FBI agent considered an anti-Muslim extremist, spoke to a group of Republicans in Bend on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2018.