DailyAstorian.com // TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2016
143RD YEAR, NO. 234
ONE DOLLAR
MEMORIAL DAY
Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
Mike Phillips, left, of American Legion Clatsop Post 12, tosses a wreath of flowers honoring all servicemen into the Columbia River as American Legion commander Pat Ehrlich
salutes on Monday at Maritime Memorial Park in Astoria.
Veterans honor debt to the fallen
Across the North Coast,
people pause to remember
By KATHERINE LACAZE
For The Daily Astorian
S
Katherine Lacaze/For EO Media Group
EASIDE — Seaside paused Monday to
remember the country’s fallen servicemen
and
servicewomen
during a ceremony in obser-
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Cannon Beach
vance of what was described
marks holiday.
as “America’s most solemn
Read more on
Page 12A.
holiday.”
The Seaside American
Legion Post 99 held its annual Memorial Day
c elebration in honor of America’s war dead.
Katherine Lacaze/For EO Media Group
See MEMORIAL DAY, Page 12A
Local Boy Scouts present colors during the Seaside American Legion Post 99’s annual
Memorial Day observance.
Col. Michael Becker gave
the history of Memorial Day.
Youth authority sex abuse suit dismissed
Child sex predator
also involved in
old Seaside case
By TYLER FRANCKE
Woodburn Independent
WOODBURN — A Marion County
lawsuit that concerned alleged sex abuse
crimes at MacLaren Youth Correctional
Facility has been dismissed .
The case centers on Frank James
Milligan, 47, a convicted child sex pred-
ator whose most infamous crime was
the July 2000 abduction of a 10-year-
old boy, whom he sexually assaulted,
choked unconscious and left for dead
in a park in Dallas. He was also charged
and convicted of the sexual molestation
of a Salem boy in Seaside in 1999.
Prior to these crimes, he had pre-
viously been employed by the Ore-
gon State Hospital and Oregon Youth
Authority, working as a group life coor-
dinator at MacLaren from May 1997
until being placed on leave in 1999. He
was formally dismissed in 2000.
While at MacLaren, he allegedly
sexually assaulted at least one youth
offender housed there, a man identifi ed
in court documents only as “J.M.” J.M.
was 15 in December 1998 when he was
sent to MacLaren and assigned to the
residential area in which Milligan was
working at the time.
Milligan, already serving com-
bined prison sentences of 36 years,
was convicted in September of crimi-
nal charges stemming from the incident
at MacLaren, for which Marion County
Judge Cheryl Pellegrini tacked an addi-
tional 35 years onto his sentence.
However, the civil case may have
reached its conclusion after a different
judge, Claudia Burton, entered a ruling
on summary judgment in May against
J.M. and his attorneys, of the Portland
fi rm Kell Alterman & Runstein.
Transparency murky as
spending on lobbying goes up
Groups spent
$251 million
in Oregon over
nine years
First of two parts.
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Businesses, spe-
cial interest groups and gov-
ernments have increasingly
invested in lobbying Oregon
lawmakers and other state offi -
cials over the last nine years.
And based on spending data
from the state, those groups
appear to have concluded lob-
Lobbying
our state
officials
bying is a good investment:
reported annual spending on
lobbying increased 15 per-
cent from 2007 to 2015, when
adjusted for infl ation .
Yet despite the millions of
dollars involved, it’s nearly
impossible for Oregonians to get
details on how lobbyists spend
that money to achieve payoffs
for their clients, because state
law allows lobbyists and their
clients to disclose little informa-
tion about how they infl uence
state laws and spending.
The EO Media Group/
Pamplin Media Group Capital
Bureau categorized lobbying
spending in Oregon by indus-
try and sector using data from
the Center for Responsive Pol-
itics, which tracks spending on
lobbying at the federal level. In
total, groups spent more than
$251 million on lobbying over
the last nine years, according to
state data.
The health care sector —
whose ranks include nurses,
pharmaceutical companies, hos-
pitals, and doctors — reported
spending the most on lobby-
ing from 2007 through 2015,
a total of $36.5 million. Next
was the business sector, which
spent $30.8 million, followed
by fi nance, insurance and real
See LOBBYING, Page 12A
See MILLIGAN, Page 12A
Frank James
Milligan
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