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3A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2018 2 men die after SUV crash near Wheeler Associated Press WHEELER — Oregon State Police say two people died this week from injuries sustained in a March 27 crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Tilla- mook County. Sgt. Kaipo Raiser says a Ford Explorer driven by 83-year-old D. Gordon Rog- nlien was traveling just south of Wheeler when it crossed the centerline on a sharp curve. The vehicle collided head-on with an SUV driven by an 85-year-old William Burr of Garibaldi. Those vehicles then struck a Buick. Raiser says Burr died Tues- day at Oregon Health & Sci- ence University Hospital in Portland, and Rognlien died two days later at the same hospital. A 78-year-old woman from Rockaway Beach was also injured in the crash. County: Withdraws from committee that advises state Continued from Page 1A ing and basically doesn’t pro- mote the values of Clatsop County?” Lee said. “I think this sends a good message that Clatsop County is going in a different direction from the Linn County lawsuit and the folks that signed up for it.” The council has diverted from county policy by promot- ing timber revenue rather than recreational use and habitat preservation, Commissioner Kathleen Sullivan argued. “We’d be fools to say that’s not important,” Sullivan said of timber revenue. “We all have to work together, but sometimes you have to make a point.” Commissioner Lianne Thompson, who voted against leaving the lawsuit, was the sole “no” vote last week. “If we listen to each other, if we have those welcoming con- versations, we’ll be able to find a common ground,” Thomp- son said before the vote. “There’s an abyss between the points of view. We can be lead- ers for that.” Tillamook County Com- missioner David Yamamoto AP Photo/Jeff Barnard County commissioners voted last week to exit a forest advisory committee. and Warrenton Mayor Henry Balensifer urged commission- ers to at least delay any deci- sion. “I know there are differ- ences among the members and I certainly understand that,” said Yamamoto, a member of the council. “You have to be at the table to express your views and to make sure that everyone understands your views.” At the end of the 90-day notice the county has handed to the council, commission- ers will no longer have a say in official recommenda- tions to the Board of Forestry. They can, however, still attend meetings and provide pub- lic comment to the remain- ing commissioners from other counties. Will that have a major impact on policy recommenda- tions sometime in the future? “I don’t know that we actu- ally know yet,” Moore said. Deschutes County, state clash over list of pot grow sites By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM — A state agency has refused to provide a county sheriff and prosecutor in Ore- gon with a list of medical mar- ijuana grow sites, marking the latest friction over mari- juana between local and state officials. On March 13, Oregon Health Authority official Carole Yann told Deschutes County District Attorney John Hum- mel and Sheriff Shane Nelson that the law doesn’t permit the agency to provide the list. Instead, local law enforce- ment — on a case-by-case basis — can verify the registration status of a site through a data base or call the medical mar- ijuana program managed by Yann, she said. On Thursday, Hummel and Nelson challenged that justifi- cation and said they need the list to help identify illegal grow sites. “I respectfully suggest that providing Sheriff Nelson and I with the addresses of medical marijuana grow sites does not run afoul of Oregon statutory law,” Hummel wrote to Yann in a letter that was also signed by Nelson. On Tuesday, officials in another county sued the state Clatsop Post 12 Pot Roast Dinner With Potatoes, Carrots, in federal court, asserting that Oregon laws that made pot legal are pre-empted by a fed- eral law that criminalizes it. The Josephine County Board of Commissioners in December tried to ban or restrict commer- cial pot farming on rural resi- dential lots, but the state Land Use Board of Appeals put the restrictions on hold. The county has petitioned the Oregon Court of Appeals and sued in federal court. The cases illustrate a con- tinuing struggle by local, state and federal officials over legal- ization of marijuana in Oregon other states. In ballot measures, Ore- gon voters legalized medical marijuana in 1998 and recre- ational cannabis in 2014. Some jurisdictions in Oregon were allowed to opt out of allow- ing recreational marijuana businesses. Deschutes County, in the high desert and mountains of central Oregon, decided in 2016 to allow them after previ- ously banning them in unincor- porated areas. But county commissioners said this week they may try to prohibit new marijuana busi- nesses until the rules are better enforced. Hummel and Nelson com- ASTORIA AMERICAN LEGION Clatsop Post 12 Contact: John Anderson • 360-269-2500 on your retirement! 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One of them would have limited the three-fifths requirement to income tax increases, and the other would have repealed the three-fifths vote requirement. The groups say they’re withdrawing the petitions because a rival measure to make it harder to pass tax-re- lated measures didn’t poll well. But the same poll, from FM3 research, shows that 54 percent of Oregonians want to keep current law, with three-fifths voting require- ments for some taxes and fees. The groups touted the poll showing that the rival measure, IP 31, which would require a three-fifths major- ity for any tax changes, received support from 30 percent of respondents. Altogether, 50 percent indicated they’d definitely vote “no” on IP 31, prob- ably would vote “no,” or were undecided but leaning no. Twenty percent said they were undecided. Joe Baessler, a chief peti- tioner on the withdrawn measures, said that the polls showed that Oregonians don’t support what he called the “corporate obstruction- ism” of IP 31. IP 31 would mandate a three-fifths vote on mea- sures concerning tax credits, deductions and exemptions, not just tax increases. “We filed our initiative petitions to counteract IP 31, but it’s clear that Oregonians are already with us on this,” Baessler said in a prepared statement. “We respect the ballot and Oregonians’ time, and we can better serve the public by dedicating our resources to fighting more serious threats facing Ore- gon families and advancing those measures that move our state forward.” Jason Williams, the founder and director of the Taxpayer Association of Oregon and one of the peti- tioners behind IP 31, told the EO Media Group/Pam- plin Media Group Capital Bureau last month that the petition was gaining fresh support in the wake of a recent bill passed by the Legislature. The bill would disal- low certain business owners from taking a new deduction in the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on their state taxes. They could still take it on their federal tax returns. The bill was passed in the waning days of the most recent legislative session to blunt the effects of the fed- eral tax overhaul on Ore- gon’s revenues. Williams said the petition is getting support from busi- ness owners who oppose that deduction legislation, which opponents say amounts to a tax increase. Gov. Kate Brown is expected to announce today whether she’ll veto or sign that bill, Senate Bill 1528, into law. The Capital Bureau is a collaboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Congratulations Seaside School District- New Middle/ High Schools Friday th Apr. 6 8. 00 By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SUB-BIDS REQUESTED Salad and Roll $ plained in their Feb. 7 letter to the health authority, which reg- ulates medical marijuana, that local law enforcement often can’t tell whether medical mar- ijuana grow sites are legal or illegal because the agency hasn’t provided a list of autho- rized sites. They asked for a list of licensed medical growers. Hummel said Thursday that state law doesn’t prohibit the health authority from providing the list. He asked Yann to spec- ify if the Legislature prohibits it, or if the health authority chose to require law enforcement to make case-by-case requests for information. Our Oregon, union withdraw tax-related initiative petitions P LEASE , NO EARLY DROP - OFFS Items must have the 10 cent, OR redemption label in order to benefit the band programs The Band Boosters are the primary source of funds to keep Astoria’s school band programs functioning. Please help by dropping off your empties or making a donation. Call (503) 791-8134 or email i_want_to_help@astoriabands.org for more information.