OREGON
A10 — THE OBSERVER
THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 2022
Kristof returning to New York Times after failed campaign
By JULIA SHUMWAY
Oregon Capital Chronicle
Noah Berger/For The Associated Press
A horse grazes in a pasture as the
McKinney Fire burns in Klamath
National Forest, Calif., Saturday,
July 30, 2022.
State
facing
poor air
quality
Oregon sees year’s
first unhealthy air
day, as research
tracks dramatic rise
in wildfire smoke
By ADRIANNA GUTIERREZ
The Oregonian
SALEM — Wildfi res in
Oregon have been burning
more acres than usual in
recent years, causing longer
stretches of poor air quality
in the state, new research
fi nds.
The study by Oregon’s
Department of Environ-
mental Quality, which
operates air-monitoring
stations around the state,
found that central and
southern Oregon cities such
as Bend, Klamath Falls and
Medford neared or broke
records in 2021 for the
number of smoky days con-
sidered “unhealthy for sen-
sitive groups,” such as the
elderly, pregnant women,
young children and people
with lung or respiratory
disease.
Klamath Falls, for
example, had 38 days last
year in the unhealthy range,
tying the 2018 record for
the city. Over the past
half-dozen years, Klamath
Falls has averaged 16.7
unhealthy smoke days per
year, up from an average
of just 1.4 days per year
between 1989 and 2014, the
study states.
DEQ began tracking air
quality in Oregon in 1985.
Right now, Jackson-
ville and Malin are the only
Oregon cities in the state
that fall into the unhealthy
category, caused by smoke
from the McKinney Fire
burning in Northern Cali-
fornia, according to DEQ
spokesperson Laura Gleim.
The air quality in sur-
rounding southern Oregon
cities — such as Med-
ford, Ashland and Shady
Cove — have moderate air-
quality index (AQI) scores
as of Tuesday, Aug. 2.
Two fi res are burning
in Southern Oregon’s
Umpqua National Forest
— the Potter and Windigo
fi res. Offi cials at North-
west Interagency Coordina-
tion Center, which oversees
fi res in Oregon and Wash-
ington, expect these fi res to
send smoke into communi-
ties east of Hills Creek Res-
ervoir, Oregon Highway 58,
Crescent Lake and other
areas north of the fi re area.
“What we’re seeing
so far this year is that
we have a later season,
whereas last year we were
already seeing unhealthy
air-quality days in cen-
tral Oregon and southern
Oregon,” Gleim said. “So
far it’s a more mild and
later season but we still
have a good stretch of
summer to go. This past
weekend was the fi rst
(unhealthy) day we’ve seen
down in southern Oregon,
and we still haven’t seen
any in Central Oregon.”
The size of the fi res,
coupled with the location
and wind patterns, ulti-
mately will determine the
impact of smoke across the
state as fi re season con-
tinues, Gleim said. The
Potter and Windigo fi res
are still at 0% containment.
That is also the case for
the much larger McKinney
Fire, which currently is
burning more than 56,000
acres.
PORTLAND — Columnist
Nick Kristof is headed back to the
New York Times less than a year
after he quit to begin an ill-fated
campaign for governor of Oregon.
Kristof, who grew up in Yam-
hill County, previously wrote for
the Times from 1984 to October
2021. He then began running for
governor as a Democrat, but his
campaign ended months before
the primary after the Oregon
Supreme Court upheld Secretary
of State Shemia Fagan’s decision
that he hadn’t lived in the state long
enough to meet a constitutional
requirement for running for offi ce.
Candidates for governor this fall
needed to establish residency by
November 2019. Kristof voted in
New York in November 2020 and
Sara Cline/The Associated Press, File
Columnist Nick Kristof is headed back to
the New York Times less than a year after
he quit to begin an ill-fated campaign for
governor of Oregon.
didn’t register to vote in Oregon
until December 2020.
He maintained that he had
always been an Oregon resident,
and that maintaining a home in
New York didn’t mean he gave up
his family’s farm in rural Yamhill
County. He didn’t provide docu-
ments, such as tax returns, to prove
his residency in Oregon, and he
repeatedly ignored requests from
the Oregon Capital Chronicle for
those documents.
Since his political campaign
ended, Kristof has continued a
Substack blog, launched a new hard
cider with apples from his fami-
ly’s farm and worked on a memoir.
The Times announced his return
on Monday, Aug. 1, saying he’ll
resume publishing columns later
this fall after completing his book.
“In his ‘farewell’ column before
running for governor of Oregon,
Nick Kristof mentioned that when
William Safi re was asked if he
would give up his Times column
to be secretary of state, he replied,
‘Why take a step down?’” wrote
the paper’s opinion editor, Kathleen
Kingsbury. “Now Nick is stepping
up, resuming his opinion column
and once again interpreting the
world’sw depth and complexity for
Times readers.”
Kristof still has nearly $1 mil-
lion in his campaign bank account
after giving tens of thousands to
Democratic state and local can-
didates, including gubernatorial
nominee Tina Kotek. The Times’
ethics policy prohibits employees
from giving money to or raising
money for political candidates or
causes.
He told the Capital Chron-
icle via email that he intends for
the remainder of his campaign
money to go toward a “pay-it-for-
ward” job-training program run
through Future Ready Oregon, the
$200 million workforce training
investment the Oregon Legislature
passed this year.
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Draft rules released to govern police conduct in Oregon
The Associated Press
there are mitigating factors.
“The butt is considered
a sexual part of the body,”
said Mark Makler, a former
prosecutor who represents
police unions and offi cers,
at a meeting on June 30. “So
grabbing somebody’s butt
in jest or horseplay could be
considered a sexual assault.”
Makler and seven other
commissioners who were
present at that meeting
voted against making sexual
assault an off ense for auto-
matic termination.
“There are things like
state of mind or absence of
intent that could come into
play. Or degree of harm,”
Portland Police Association
attorney Anil Karia said.
“There are nuances in this.”
The commission was
formed with the passage of
House Bill 2930 in 2021,
one of several pieces of leg-
islation passed last year
tackling police account-
ability and reform.
“The goal was to have
clarity,” bill sponsor Rep.
Janelle Bynum, D-Clack-
amas said in an interview
with OPB. “Offi cers like
to have clarity, some level
of certainty about what the
standards are.”
By having one statewide
set of guidelines, Bynum
explained, offi cers who
have discipline problems in
one local department can’t
transfer to a diff erent agency
that has lower standards.
The commission has 13
voting members and two
nonvoting members.
Members include a rep-
resentative from the Oregon
Department of Justice,
two police chiefs, a sheriff ,
two lawyers who represent
police unions, a defense
attorney who also rep-
resents police, the former
president of the Salem-
Keizer NAACP, the presi-
dent of the Oregon District
Attorneys Association, and
a civil rights investigator at
Oregon State University.
Over the course of 13
meetings since early March,
the group hammered out
standards on a range of
issues from unjustifi ed use
of force to assault to tar-
geting someone based solely
on their race, gender or
other protected status.
The commission will
hold a series of public hear-
ings throughout August and
ending Sept. 16.
Commissioners will then
consider the public’s com-
ment and make any changes
before the rules take eff ect
on Oct. 1.
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SALEM — A proposed
set of conduct and discipline
standards applicable to all
law enforcement agencies
in Oregon were published
Monday, Aug. 1.
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instances, the commission
charged with establishing
the new rules left room for
offi cers found to have com-
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off enses to keep their jobs.
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