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Parking: Few Oregon cities follow rule
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Major shift as Trump opens way
for Medicaid work requirement
WASHINGTON — In a major policy shift that could affect
millions of low-income people, the Trump administration said
today it is offering a path for states that want to impose work
requirements on Medicaid recipients.
Seema Verma, head of the Centers for Medicare and Medic-
aid Services, said work and community involvement can make
a positive difference in people’s lives and in their health. Still,
the plan probably will face strong political opposition and even
legal challenges over concerns that some low-income beneficia-
ries will lose coverage.
Medicaid is a federal-state collaboration covering more than
70 million people, or about 1 in 5 Americans, making it the
largest government health insurance program. It was expanded
under President Barack Obama, with an option allowing states
to cover millions more low-income adults; many have jobs that
don’t provide health insurance.
People are not legally required to hold a job to be on Medic-
aid, but states traditionally can seek federal waivers to test new
ideas for the program.
The administration said 10 states have applied for waivers
involving work requirements or community involvement. They
are: Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine,
New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin. Advo-
cates for low-income people say they expect Kentucky’s waiver
to be approved shortly.
Advocates for low-income people said work has never been
a requirement for Medicaid, a program originally intended as a
health program for the poor and disabled. Congressional Dem-
ocrats agreed.
“Health care is a right that shouldn’t be contingent on the
ideological agendas of politicians,” said Sen. Ron Wyden of
Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that over-
sees the program. “Today the Trump administration has taken a
big step in the wrong direction.”
Search goes on for California
mudslide victims; death toll at 17
MONTECITO, Calif. — Hundreds of rescue workers
slogged through knee-deep ooze and used long poles to probe
for bodies today as the search dragged on for victims of the
mudslides that slammed this wealthy coastal town. Seventeen
people were confirmed dead and eight others were missing.
Family members anxiously awaited word on loved ones
who hadn’t been heard from since the onslaught early Tuesday.
Santa Barbara County authorities sent a shudder through the
community early today when they reported that the number of
people unaccounted for had surged from 16 to 48. But later in
the morning, they said they had made a clerical error, and the
actual number of missing was down to eight.
Another GOP governor seeks
exclusion from drilling proposal
WASHINGTON — Opposition to the Trump administra-
tion’s plan to expand offshore drilling is mounting as Dem-
ocrats from coastal states accuse President Donald Trump of
punishing states with Democratic leaders and a second Repub-
lican governor asks to withdraw his state from the plan.
Democrats said Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke
were being hypocritical by agreeing to a request by Florida’s
Republican governor to withdraw from the drilling plan, but
not making the same accommodation to states with Democratic
governors.
Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff of California said on Twitter
that his state, “like Florida, has hundreds of miles of beautiful
coastline and a governor who wants to keep it that way. Or is
that not enough for blue states?”
“If local voices matter why haven’t they excluded Virginia?”
asked Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. “Is it because the governor of Flor-
ida is a Republican and the Virginia governor is a Democrat?”
The complaints came as South Carolina’s Republican gov-
ernor said Wednesday he is seeking an exemption from the pro-
posed drilling expansion, a move that will test the relationship
between Trump and one of his earliest supporters.
Gov. Henry McMaster told reporters that risks associated
with drilling pose a serious threat to South Carolina’s lush
coastline and $20 billion tourism industry.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., said on Twitter that “the only sci-
ence @SecretaryZinke follows is political science. He’ll reverse
course to protect fellow Republicans in Florida, but not to pro-
tect coastlines and jobs across the rest of the country? Totally
unacceptable.”
20 feet between a parking
space and an intersection. The
woman warned councilors that
the city could be liable if an
accident happened. To follow
the rule, the city would need
to eliminate roughly 10 per-
cent of the parking spots avail-
able downtown, according to
Harrington.
But it is a rule that few Ore-
gon cities appear to follow,
and two months of research
have done little to clear up the
matter, Estes said at a work
session to discuss the issue
Wednesday.
“Nobody seems to know
why nobody enforces or abides
by this rule,” Harrington said.
He added, “Even in Salem,
where the law was written,
they do not abide by this rule.”
City Attorney Blair Hen-
ningsgaard believes the city
would not be held liable for
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law,” he said. “The city is not
in violation.”
At issue is not only com-
pliance with state law, but also
that city councilors have taken
an oath to uphold state law.
The simple answer is to take
out the parking spots, Hen-
Guilty: ‘He had controlled my life since I was 15’
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“I have no doubt that you
lived in fear for many years of
this coming,” McIntosh told
Medina. “I absolutely believe
both of these young women.”
Cherish Nunnally, who
testified during the trial, had
moved in as a foster child in
Medina’s home when she was
17, along with her younger sis-
ter. To treat an ear infection and
migraine one night in 2005,
she was given medication and
climbed into Medina’s bed in
between him and his wife, who
has since died.
Medina rolled over in the
middle of the night, placed
one hand down her underwear
and another on her chest, grop-
ing her. Nunnally, who is also
Medina’s cousin, decided not to
report the incident out of fear of
her and her younger sister’s liv-
ing arrangements, she said.
Earlier that year, Medina,
who had turned 30 years
old, had sex with Nunnally’s
15-year-old friend. Medina
maintained an off-and-on rela-
tionship with the second victim
for another 10 years. During the
relationship, the victim gave
birth to two children before the
couple separated for the final
time.
The victim reported the
incident to police in February.
Astoria police then interviewed
her, her sister and a friend who
confirmed her story. With a
detective present, the victim
made a recorded phone call to
Medina in an attempt to force
him to admit to the crime on the
record.
“I’ve already told you I’m
sorry for everything I’ve done,”
Medina said during the call.
When she asked him what he
had done wrong specifically, he
refused to specify and berated
her in an expletive-laden rant.
“I’m tired of being tossed
around and blown around
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accidents that resulted at inter-
sections where people parked
too close, even though spots
have been marked indicating
they can park there.
“The person that parks
within 20 feet (of an intersec-
tion) is in violation of state
‘I have no doubt that
you lived in fear for many
years of this coming.’
Circuit Court Judge Dawn McIntosh
for everybody’s problems,”
Medina said. “Your life has
been terrible since even before
you met me. The Medinas
saved you.”
McIntosh referenced the call
when explaining her verdict.
“There is no question who
had the power and control in
that relationship,” the judge
said.
A little more than a week
after the call, Astoria police
and a Coast Guard investigator
interviewed Medina for more
than two hours at Beaverton
High School, where he worked
at the time. Medina had contin-
ued to have a relationship with
the victim when he was an offi-
cer and she was an unranked
enlistee, a violation of military
code.
Already indicted by a grand
jury on a third-degree rape
charge for the relationship, he
was arrested and taken back to
Astoria immediately after the
interview.
The victim’s report came
days after Medina told her he
had purchased a home with
his fiancee. Christine Mascal,
Medina’s Portland-based attor-
ney, called a number of wit-
nesses who testified that the
victim was untruthful, still in
love with her client and worried
that he would limit her access
to her children.
The victim did admit that
she had grown weary of the
dynamic between her and
Medina and even that he was a
good father to the children.
“I’ve expressed concerns
with Gary for a long time that
he was going to take my kids
away from me,” she said. “I
was tired of being under his
control. He had controlled my
entire life since I was 15.”
Mascal also pointed to the
fact that the victim could not
recall the date when she and
Medina had sex and also named
the wrong infant who was
sleeping in the room during the
encounter.
“Her money was running
dry. Her jealousy was running
high,” Mascal said. “She’s
always had this in the back of
her mind, and now she’s using
it. And she’s using it in a despi-
cable way.”
Deputy District Attorney
Dawn Buzzard, meanwhile,
argued that whether the victim
still held feelings for Medina
was irrelevant as to whether
they had sex when she was
underage.
“Those two things can exist
together,” Buzzard said.
McIntosh said that while the
victim may have employed the
charge strategically, it did not
alter the facts.
“I think she absolutely has
been holding this over your
head. There were a lot of peo-
ple who suspected, who should
have done something and
didn’t. And you took advantage
of that,” McIntosh said. “This is
not a custody battle ongoing. It
just wasn’t.”
Nunnally brought the two
other charges forward after
Medina’s first arrest.
Witnesses, some of whom
testified that they were made
aware of the incident prior
to the charges being pressed,
questioned Nunnally’s truth-
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Astoria will take a deeper look at parking downtown.
ningsgaard said, though this
could hurt downtown.
“As councilors you have to
weigh decisions, (you) have
to make practical decisions
one way or the other,” he said,
adding, “If you decide that the
costs of complying to this par-
ticular law are too high for
the city of Astoria, you could
make a policy choice that says
we’re going to take a look at
each intersection and try to
determine whether or not it
makes sense here.”
Pedestrian safety and the
availability of downtown
parking continue to be items
of concern to merchants, said
Heath and Dulcye Taylor, pres-
ident of the downtown associ-
ation. The councilors agreed
that the work proposed by city
staff and the downtown associ-
ation is a necessary first step in
understanding if and how the
city should comply with the
state rule.
fulness as well. Nunnally’s
ex-fiance testified during the
trial that she had told him
about the incident in 2006,
though he also questioned
her honesty.
Mascal referenced a mes-
sage from late 2016 in which
Nunnally, who to that point had
maintained a relationship with
the Medina family, expressed
anger for not being invited to
a Thanksgiving dinner and said
she did not want to associate
herself with them anymore.
“She’s on the outs with her
family and wants to support
her friend,” Mascal said.
Lawyers also debated
the significance of Nunnal-
ly’s repeated statements that
Medina, characterized as a
heavy drinker at the time,
likely didn’t know what he
was doing during the incident.
McIntosh found it irrelevant.
“I hope and pray it was a
one-time incident and that you
didn’t remember it,” McIntosh
said.
Buzzard praised both
victims during her closing
arguments.
“It’s never easy for peo-
ple to come forward about sex
abuse, but they’re both brave
women,” Buzzard said.
Nunnally, who testified for
about four hours, expressed
her relief with the verdict. The
Daily Astorian does not typi-
cally identify victims of sexual
abuse, but Nunnally agreed to
have her name disclosed.
“All I know is that he’s
done hurting people. He’s done
manipulating people. He’s
just done,” Nunnally said in a
video shared with the newspa-
per and posted on Facebook.
“At the end of the day, I still
pray for that man. I still hope
his soul can change. I hope that
one day he can see how he’s
affected people and what he’s
done and how many lives he
has ruined.”
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