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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2019
Seaside man struck by vehicle
vehicle while crossing U.S
Highway 101.
Francis Picard, 71, was
injured after a vehicle hit
him near Avenue I around
8 p.m., according to Sea-
The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE — A Seaside
man was fl own to Portland
for treatment Wednesday
night after being struck by a
side p olice.
The driver was not
arrested, but the incident
was forwarded to the d is-
trict a ttorney’s offi ce for
review.
Critics seek to block easing of oil and gas rules
Hills Audubon Society and
two other groups made the
request Wednesday in U.S.
District Court in Boise,
Idaho.
At issue are federal land
use plans for greater sage
grouse fi rst enacted in 2015
under President Barack
Obama.
The Interior Department
revised those plans this
month as part of President
Associated Press
BILLINGS, Mont. —
Conservation groups are
asking a federal judge to
block the Trump adminis-
tration from easing restric-
tions on energy companies
that were meant to protect
a struggling western bird
species.
Attorneys for Western
Watersheds Project, Prairie
Donald Trump’s efforts to
promote oil and gas drilling
and other activities.
The
ground-dwell-
ing sage grouse’s territory
includes portions of 11
Western states, including
Oregon.
The same groups behind
Wednesday’s court fi ling
had sued in 2016 over the
Obama-era plans, claiming
they did not do enough.
Brenda Penner
Steve Forrester speaks on the topic of community newspapers at the Strand Book Store in New
York City. Lisa Gibbs of the Associated Press is at right.
State falls short on fi xing Medicaid payment problems
report to a 2017 audit that
found widespread prob-
lems in the health author-
ity’s payment system for
Medicaid.
The Statesman Jour-
nal reported that audi-
tors found that two of the
eight recommendations in
the audit have been put in
place and six recommen-
dations have been par-
Associated Press
SALEM — The sec-
retary of state’s offi ce
says the Oregon Health
Authority still needs to
strengthen its efforts to
detect and avoid improper
Medicaid payments.
The offi ce’s audit
division on Wednes-
day released a follow-up
Former Astorian publisher leads
discussion of community newspapers
tially implemented.
Health authority offi -
cials agreed with all the
recommendations.
The original 44-page
audit, released in Novem-
ber 2017, found problems
such as poor management
of payment and eligibil-
ity issues and a lack of
an agencywide process to
detect improper payments.
A talk in New York
The Daily Astorian
FIVE-DAY FORECAST FOR ASTORIA
TONIGHT
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
58
38
40
Mostly cloudy with a
passing shower
Tillamook
44/57
Salem
42/62
Newport
44/55
First
Full
Apr 12
Coos Bay
44/56
Last
Apr 19
Ontario
38/62
Burns
31/51
Klamath Falls
31/50
Rural Law Enforcement District Advisory Committee scheduled April 9
Lakeview
30/46
Ashland
39/57
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Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2019
City
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Eugene
Ilwaco
Klamath Falls
Medford
Newberg
Newport
North Bend
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
TOMORROW'S TIDES
Astoria / Port Docks
Time
2:41 a.m.
3:56 p.m.
Low
3.8 ft.
1.1 ft.
Hi
52
50
54
60
58
48
58
61
56
58
Today
Lo
30
32
46
41
44
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Fri.
Lo
27
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41
39
42
24
37
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41
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City
Olympia
Pendleton
Portland
Roseburg
Salem
Seaside
Spokane
Springfi eld
Vancouver
Yakima
Hi
63
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61
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Today
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TOMORROW'S NATIONAL WEATHER
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
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Baker
30/53
REGIONAL CITIES
Tonight's Sky: The waning crescent moon and
Saturn just one degree. Must see!
Hi
70
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59
65
55
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87
43
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33/51
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Fri.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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The Clatsop County
Sheriff’s Offi ce will host a
meeting of the Rural Law
Enforcement District Advi-
sory Committee on April
9 to brief residents on the
activities and programs of
the sheriff’s offi ce.
The meeting will also
include a jail update and a
discussion about adding a
resident deputy whose focus
would be on the communi-
ties of Jewell and Elsie .
The event will be held at
6 p.m. at Jewell School .
DEATH
March 28, 2019
MARANGON, Vittorio Dominique, 55, of Astoria, died in Astoria. Caldwell’s Luce-Lay-
ton Mortuary of Astoria is in charge of the arrangements.
BIRTH
March 12, 2019
KRUSE, Tabitha and INGLE, Chris,
of Oysterville, Washington, a girl, Reese
Ingle, born at Columbia Memorial Hos-
pital in Astoria. Grandparents are Kelly
and Jon Smith, of Ocean Park, Wash-
ington, and Brian and Pam Dutton, of
Astoria.
CORRECTION
Wrong year — Andrea Mazzarella was appointed to the Clatsop Community College
Board in January 2018. A story on A1 Tuesday incorrectly said she was appointed in January.
PUBLIC MEETINGS
Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy,
sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow fl urries,
sn-snow, i-ice.
CLATSOP
POWER
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SALES SERVICE RENTALS
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eled on Teach for Amer-
ica, Report for America is
designed to place report-
ers in newsrooms across the
country and also create news
outlets within news deserts.
The Associated Press is
discussing a program that is
conceptually called 50 Des-
erts, 50 States, Gibbs said.
The idea would be for AP
member papers to collabo-
rate with the national orga-
nization to develop stories
of importance in under-
served regions.
As a new mode of report-
ing, Forrester cited the
Oregon Capital Bureau, a
statehouse reporting collab-
oration of EO Media Group,
Pamplin Media of Portland
and Salem Reporter.
In addition to reports for
its newspapers, the bureau
generates a weekly newslet-
ter, Oregon Capital Insider.
With some 85,000 readers,
the newsletter carries adver-
tising, which is an example
of traditional print media
creating a digital revenue
stream.
Roseburg
42/61
Brookings
46/55
Apr 26
John Day
33/52
Bend
32/51
Medford
39/61
UNDER THE SKY
High
7.3 ft.
6.8 ft.
Prineville
34/54
Lebanon
42/60
Eugene
41/61
Sunset tonight ........................... 7:38 p.m.
Sunrise Friday ............................. 7:02 a.m.
Moonrise today ........................... 3:18 a.m.
Moonset today ......................... 12:18 p.m.
City
Atlanta
Boston
Chicago
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Honolulu
Indianapolis
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Oklahoma City
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, DC
Mostly cloudy
Pendleton
36/54
The Dalles
38/62
Portland
43/63
SUN AND MOON
Time
8:29 a.m.
10:31 p.m.
Mostly cloudy
Shown is tomorrow's weather. Temperatures are tonight's lows and tomorrow's highs.
ASTORIA
40/58
Precipitation
Wednesday ....................................... 0.33"
Month to date ................................... 2.36"
Normal month to date ....................... 6.58"
Year to date .................................... 14.95"
Normal year to date ........................ 23.97"
Apr 5
57
42
REGIONAL WEATHER
Astoria through Wednesday.
Temperatures
High/low ....................................... 53°/36°
Normal high/low ........................... 55°/40°
Record high ............................ 79° in 1941
Record low ............................. 29° in 1991
New
MONDAY
58
42
Pleasant with times of
clouds and sun
Sun and clouds
ALMANAC
SUNDAY
61
41
New York City’s Strand
Book Store was the setting
on March 21 for a discus-
sion of the existential chal-
lenge facing community
newspapers across Amer-
ica. Inspiration for the event
came from “Grit and Ink:
An Oregon Family’s Adven-
tures in Newspapering:
1908–2018,” recently pub-
lished by EO Media Group.
Steve Forrester and Lisa
Gibbs spoke to an audience
of Oregonians living in New
York and other New York-
ers, including Bill Keller,
former executive editor of
The New York Times. For-
rester is president and CEO
of EO Media Group. Gibbs
is the Associated Press man-
ager of news partnerships.
Nancy Bass Wyden, pro-
prietor of the venerable New
York bookstore, invited For-
rester to assemble the eve-
ning’s program.
“When we commis-
sioned ‘Grit and Ink’ some
fi ve years ago, we did not
foresee a president who
would call our profession
enemies of the people,” For-
rester said. “We also did not
expect that two of Oregon’s
prominent family newspa-
per ownerships (Eugene and
Bend) would go away.”
Surviving as a fami-
ly-owned newspaper group
“is all about seeing the
future coming and adapt-
ing in time,” Forrester said.
“Five years ago we did
not anticipate some major
changes that we announced
this week at our Astoria
daily.”
Gibbs spoke of news des-
erts, where there are no local
newspapers. She noted that
1,800 American newspa-
pers have vanished since
2004 and that the number of
reporters has fallen by half.
She also spoke of coop-
erative ventures and large
grant programs, fueled by
philanthropic money, that
aim to revive community
news organizations. Mod-
THURSDAY
Clatsop County Recreational
Lands Planning and Advisory
Committee, 1 to 3 p.m., fourth
fl oor, 800 Exchange St., Astoria.
Astoria City Council, 1 p.m.,
work session, goal setting, City
Hall, 1095 Duane St.
Sunset Empire Transporta-
tion District Board, 5:30 p.m.,
City Council Chambers, Seaside
City Hall, 989 Broadway.
Cannon Beach Planning
Commission, 6 p.m., City Hall,
163 E. Gower St.
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