COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TuESDAY, MARCH 29, 2022
Good deed for daughter turns into a disaster
afraid to buy anything for them to
live in again, because they have
no regard for their things, their
child’s things or any place they
live. What should we do when she
finally gets a job, if that happens?
Do we move her someplace and
let her mess it up? Must we take
care of everything? — RAISING
A CHILD-ADULT
DEAR RAISING: It’s a
hopeful sign that your daughter
has finally decided to return
to school. However, from your
description, she may be severely
depressed and need to be seen
by a doctor. That she would raise
a baby in a filthy roach-infested
dwelling has me concerned about
her ability to function as a parent.
DEAR ABBY: I have a
daughter who married a less-than-
capable provider because she was
pregnant. She’s sloppy, hasn’t
seen a dentist in five years, barely
keeps her room clean and is very
overweight. She lives with us now
because she decided, finally, to go
back to school.
We let her live in an apart-
ment we own, and it became so
full of roaches — because they
didn’t clean their dishes or floors
— that we left it “as-is.” We are
in high school, I stopped going
by my short nickname and
began going by my more formal
given name. Everyone has been
respectful, except my significant
other. When he met me 20 years
ago, the change had already
occurred. Yet he continues to
call me by the nickname. He
does it whenever he talks about
me to others, and it often leads
to my being in a social situation
and having to correct people.
When I have tried to impress
upon him how important this
is to me, he says I am being
“trivial.” Abby, it is my name,
and I think I have the right to be
called what I want. I consider
his refusal to understand how I
Be a little more patient with
your daughter and encourage
her to follow through with her
schooling. If the apartment still
belongs to you, have it profes-
sionally cleaned and permit her
to stay in it as long as it is kept
clean enough that the baby can
safely live there.
Once she graduates and finds
employment, give her enough
money for a down payment or a
deposit on an apartment. Look
after your grandchild while she’s
working if her husband is inca-
pable of doing it, which likely
will be the case. Most important,
make sure your grandchild is
properly cared for.
DEAR ABBY: When I was
feel a sign of disrespect. Am I
wrong? — CALL ME BY MY
NAME
DEAR CALL: No, you are
not wrong. Your significant other
should have made more of an
effort to call you by your pre-
ferred name 20 years ago. Had he
done that, by now it would have
become habit. Correct him every
time he uses the wrong name,
whether it’s in private or in public.
For many people, this would
not be a deal-breaker. However,
because it is for you, it may be
time to consider replacing him
with someone who wants to help
you be the person you want to be,
rather than put a stumbling block
in your way.
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Missouri station offering Russian state radio to listeners
call to complain haven’t lis-
tened to the program.
“Some will talk to me,
but others will still call me
a piece of whatever,” he
said. “What I am thankful
for is we are still living in
a country where they can
call me up. Even if they
aren’t thinking about free
speech they’re exercising
that right.”
Radio Sputnik is pro-
duced by the U.S.-based
branch of Rossiya Segodnya,
a media group operated by
the Russian government.
Its content prompted
the National Association
of Broadcasters to issue
an unusual statement on
March 1 calling on broad-
casters to stop carrying
state-sponsored program-
ming with ties to Russia or
its agents.
The statement from
NAB President and CEO
Curtis LeGeyt said the
organization is a “fierce
defender” of free speech but
that given Russia’s unpro-
voked attack on Ukraine,
“we believe that our nation
By MARGARET STAFFORD
The Associated Press
LIBERTY, Mo. —
A man who runs a lit-
tle-known, low-budget radio
station in suburban Kansas
City says he is standing up
for free speech and alter-
native viewpoints when he
airs Russian state-sponsored
programming in the midst
of the Ukrainian war.
Radio Sputnik, funded
by the Russian government,
pays broadcast companies in
the U.S. to air its programs.
Only two do so: One is Peter
Schartel’s company in Lib-
erty, Missouri, and one is in
Washington, D.C.
Schartel started airing
the Russian programming
in January 2020, but criti-
cism intensified after Russia
invaded Ukraine in Feb-
ruary. Schartel said people
accuse him and his wife of
being traitors to the U.S. and
occasionally issue threats.
Some critics say he is pro-
moting propaganda and mis-
information, but Schartel
maintains most people who
The Associated Press
Peter Schartel, who runs a
small radio company in Liberty,
Mo., poses on March 17, 2022,
The suburban Kansas City
radio station, KCXL, is facing
criticism for airing Russian state-
sponsored programming in
the midst of the Ukrainian war.
Schartel says he is standing up
for free speech and alternative
viewpoints. 
must stand fully united
against misinformation and
for freedom and democracy
across the globe.”
During one recent broad-
cast of “The Critical Hour”
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idated, cluttered building.
He said he stopped taking a
salary months ago, though
he does nearly all the work.
Schartel’s Alpine Broad-
casting Corp. is paid $5,000
a month to air Radio Sputnik
in two three-hour blocks
each day, according to a U.S.
Justice Department Foreign
Agent Registration Act filing
in December 2021.
KCXL’s other program-
ming includes shows that
are heavily religious, offer
opinions across the polit-
ical spectrum and pro-
mote conspiracy theories.
One program, TruNews,
has been criticized by the
Anti-Defamation League
for spreading antisemitic,
Islamaphobic and anti-
LGBTQ messages.
Schartel said he airs pro-
grams that are not com-
mercially viable and don’t
depend on advertising,
which he contends influ-
ences news reporting. He
said he is promoting free
speech by providing a plat-
form for people who other-
wise aren’t heard.
that aired on Schartel’s
KCXL, the hosts and their
guests echoed false and
unsupported claims about
Ukraine’s government.
They repeated Russian state
media lies about the Russian
military’s attacks on civilian
targets and its destruction
of entire neighborhoods, as
well as Russian President
Vladimir Putin’s baseless
claim that his enemies in
Ukraine are Nazis.
The Kansas City Star
said in an editorial that
Schartel is putting his finan-
cial needs above ethics
by spreading Russian
propaganda.
“Much like the National
Association of Broadcasters,
we advise KCXL to drop
all programming that paints
Putin in a positive light.
The Russian president is no
victim; he is for sure no war
hero,” The Star wrote.
Schartel acknowledged
that he initially accepted
the Radio Sputnik contract
because he was struggling to
keep KCXL afloat. The sta-
tion operates out of a dilap-
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
43/52
Kennewick
44/54
St. Helens
44/56
43/57
Condon
47/60
44/56
WED
THU
FRI
SAT
Partly cloudy
Clouds and
limited sun
Clouds and sun;
chilly
Clouds and sun;
milder
Mostly sunny
51 24
58 29
59 30
Eugene
1
9
8
43/58
49 28
58 35
57 35
2
10
8
La Grande
38 53 32
Comfort Index™
Enterprise
5
8
3
31 52 30
Comfort Index™
6
54 34
55 36
2
10
9
4
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 97°
Low: -13°
Wettest: 0.52”
67°
34°
70°
40°
70°
36°
Sunday
Trace
Month to date
0.06
Normal month to date 0.66
Year to date
0.45
Normal year to date
1.95
0.00
0.48
1.48
2.35
4.38
0.00
1.60
1.95
7.15
7.56
PRECIPITATION (inches)
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
43/53
35%
WNW at 8 to 16 mph
3.8
0.10
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
9% of capacity
57% of capacity
37% of capacity
68% of capacity
35% of capacity
88% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
5370 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
8 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
645 cfs
Minam River at Minam
470 cfs
Powder River near Richland
78 cfs
Grants Pass
Brookings
The Dalles
Crater Lake
Edgemont, Md., received 36 inches of
snow on March 29, 1942. That is the
greatest 24-hour snowfall in Maryland’s
history. On that date in 1945, tempera-
tures were in the 90s.
SUN & MOON
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
TUE.
WED.
6:39 a.m.
7:16 p.m.
6:00 a.m.
4:30 p.m.
6:37 a.m.
7:18 p.m.
6:23 a.m.
5:44 p.m.
MOON PHASES
New
Mar 31
First
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Last
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35/62
Jordan Valley
33/56
Paisley
34/60
Frenchglen
Diamond
36/55
Klamath Falls
32/55
Lakeview
31/58
McDermitt
Hi/Lo/W
52/41/sh
54/29/c
62/36/pc
56/42/pc
57/24/c
53/38/sh
56/35/pc
58/31/c
53/32/c
58/36/pc
62/39/pc
56/41/sh
54/36/c
53/30/c
52/28/c
66/39/pc
55/26/c
58/24/c
Hi/Lo/W
51/37/pc
52/32/pc
56/33/pc
57/43/c
54/22/s
51/38/c
55/33/pc
52/30/pc
48/27/pc
56/36/pc
61/37/pc
57/37/c
50/34/r
49/26/pc
43/29/c
61/34/pc
56/22/c
57/21/pc
32/60
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
37/67
35/61
Fields
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
THU.
Grand View
Arock
35/54
38/58
42/62
WED.
Boise
39/62
Silver Lake
33/55
Medford
42/56
Juntura
31/57
41/63
OREGON
WEATHER HISTORY
42/59
Ontario
39/66
Burns
30/57
Chiloquin
Ocotillo Wells, Calif.
Crane Lake, Minn.
Monterey, Calif.
High: 74°
Low: 32°
Wettest: none
30/49
Roseburg
Powers
Brothers
35/48
Beaver Marsh
43/53
Huntington
32/50
37/54
Oakridge
34/58
41/62
Seneca
39/52
Coos Bay
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
38/53
Bend
Elkton
Council
32/57
John Day
35/53
36/53
Florence
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
ALMANAC
Sisters
43/56
45 29
34/58
Baker City
Redmond
43/50
46/52
Halfway
Granite
33/47
38/47
43/56
Corvallis
39/57
41/56
Newport
Enterprise
31/52
38/53
Monument
42/57
Idanha
Salem
TONIGHT
8
Elgin
35/53
La Grande
40/53
Maupin
Comfort Index™
46/58
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
40/57
Lewiston
41/60
Hood River
44/56
43/54
32 57 28
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Walla Walla
48/66
Vancouver
42/55
TIllamook
Baker City
Roy Gutterman, director
of the Tully Center for Free
Speech at Syracuse Univer-
sity, said all radio station
owners in the U.S. have a
right to air whatever con-
tent they want.
“If this station thinks
it’s going to make a mark
in Missouri by playing
Radio Sputnik, they have
the right to do so,” Gut-
terman said.
The Federal Communi-
cations Commission, which
regulates licensing of
radio and television broad-
casts, does not censor con-
tent unless it intentionally
endangers public safety
or is found to be obscene,
indecent or profane.
Radio Sputnik listeners
hear discussions not only
about Russia but also cur-
rent issues in the U.S. and
other countries. The theme
throughout the broadcast is
that U.S. policies intention-
ally damage the U.S. and
other countries while ben-
efiting other corrupt gov-
ernments, the rich and big
business.
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
60/38/pc
54/41/pc
51/33/c
62/38/c
50/40/sh
54/37/pc
66/37/pc
65/39/pc
56/37/pc
56/40/pc
53/37/pc
53/28/c
59/37/c
56/37/pc
54/34/pc
60/42/sh
48/28/c
58/37/pc
Hi/Lo/W
55/37/pc
56/37/c
48/31/pc
60/36/c
49/39/c
55/35/pc
60/32/pc
61/34/pc
54/36/pc
55/38/pc
56/36/c
54/26/pc
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50/33/pc
60/39/pc
45/27/sf
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sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
A few fl urries
Mostly cloudy
29
20
50
29
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Colder
Partly sunny
37
27
58
35
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly cloudy
Clouds and sun
38
20
45
28
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly cloudy
Breezy and cooler
52
28
56
36
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Breezy in the p.m.
Mostly cloudy
57
28
53
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