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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
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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
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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-
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SALEM — Sponsors are
withdrawing two citizen ini-
tiative petitions that could
have made it easier for the
Legislature to pass tax-re-
lated measures.
The Oregon Constitution
says that bills for raising rev-
enue require a three-fifths
majority vote in each cham-
ber to pass.
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sive political coalition, and
Oregon AFSCME filed two
petitions last November.
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-
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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,
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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
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