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WEATHER
East Oregonian
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Mostly sunny and
mild
Mostly sunny and
comfortable
Mostly sunny and
mild
63° 33°
64° 36°
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Mild with some
sun, then clouds
Partly sunny, a
shower; mild
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
67° 38°
68° 46°
65° 45°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
65° 29°
67° 36°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
62°
53°
68° (1979)
33°
33°
19° (1943)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.00"
0.21"
1.55"
2.77"
2.72"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
64°
55°
70° (1972)
70° 34°
26°
32°
11° (1943)
0.00"
0.00"
0.20"
1.06"
2.02"
2.44"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Mar 13
Mar 20
68° 42°
Spokane
Wenatchee
58/32
64/40
Tacoma
Moses
60/36
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 63/31
58/34
61/38
62/34
68/31
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
63/37
64/39 Lewiston
65/29
Astoria
61/35
61/38
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
67/39
Pendleton 61/30
The Dalles 65/29
63/33
70/35
La Grande
Salem
64/32
67/37
Albany
Corvallis 65/37
66/38
John Day
63/26
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
64/32
65/36
64/24
Caldwell
Burns
62/31
63/25
Medford
72/36
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
68° 43°
Seattle
59/40
ALMANAC
First
6:24 a.m.
5:50 p.m.
8:05 p.m.
7:08 a.m.
Full
Mar 26
Apr 4
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
Today
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Mainly clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and mild today. Mainly clear tonight. Mostly
sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny
today. Mainly clear tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Cascades: Mostly sunny and warm today.
Clear to partly cloudy tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
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REGIONAL FORECAST
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Pendleton
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny and pleasant
today.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
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National Summary: Snow showers will affect the Great Lakes with rain showers in store for
South Florida today. Most other areas will be sunny. Warmth will continue in the West as
temperatures rebound elsewhere.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 89° in Santa Ana, Calif.
Low -29° in Saranac Lake, N.Y.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Minneapolis
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New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
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Rapid City
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Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
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San Francisco
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Jeanne Atkins appointed Oregon secretary of state
By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Jeanne At-
kins, a longtime Democratic
staffer, is Gov. Kate Brown’s
appointee to succeed her as
Oregon secretary of state.
Atkins will be sworn in
at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the
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at the Capitol.
Atkins will serve the
slightly less than two years
remaining in the second term
of Brown, who succeeded
John Kitzhaber as governor
upon Kitzhaber’s resignation
Feb. 18.
“I am pleased to be able
to appoint a successor with
such impeccable profession-
al credentials,” Brown said
in a statement.
Atkins had stepped down
recently as state director
for U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley,
D-Ore., who won a second
term Nov. 4. The state direc-
tor oversees Merkley’s six
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Atkins had held that job
since mid-2009, after Merk-
ley became a senator.
She also was Merkley’s
chief of staff when Merkley
was speaker of the Oregon
House in 2007 and 2008, just
before Merkley was elected
to the U.S. Senate in 2008.
She had been with Merk-
ley since Merkley became
House Democratic leader
in 2003, three years be-
fore Democrats became the
House’s majority party and
he became speaker.
“Governor
Brown
couldn’t have picked a more
dedicated and experienced
public servant to become
our next secretary of state.
Jeanne Atkins is a true Or-
egon gem and supremely
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statement.
In a retirement tribute Jan.
8, Merkley had this to say
about Atkins:
“Jeanne is not someone
who got into politics to be
important or powerful. She
got into policy and politics
because she believed in pub-
lic service and she believed
Atkins
that each person has the pow-
er to make a difference. It is
one of the attributes I most
value about having her on
my team.”
She also was staff director
for the Oregon Senate Ma-
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years ago.
“I worked closely with
Jeanne Atkins when she
worked in the Legislature,”
Senate President Peter
Courtney, D-Salem, said in a
statement. “She’s intelligent.
She’s professional. She’s a
veteran administrator who
knows state government.
Jeanne will serve Oregon
and her people well. Gover-
nor Brown has made an ex-
cellent choice.”
But House Republicans,
while acknowledging that
Brown was compelled to
choose a Democrat as her in-
terim successor, complained
about Atkins’ previous career
working for Democrats.
“The law calls for a Dem-
ocratic placeholder in the
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I don’t know that Governor
Brown could’ve picked an
individual with more partisan
credentials than Ms. Atkins,”
Kara Walker, the House GOP
spokeswoman, said
“This appointment comes
a day after the governor
named the former Oregon
teachers’ union leader as her
new education policy advis-
er. OEA yesterday, Planned
Parenthood today — what’s
tomorrow, Sierra Club? It’s
clear that the same old re-
Corrections
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the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
volving door of partisan
ideologues is alive and well
in Salem.”
Atkins also was a manag-
er in the Oregon Department
of Human Services, leading
the women’s and reproduc-
tive health section of the Of-
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She has worked for sever-
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them the United Way of
the Columbia/Willamette,
Planned Parenthood of the
Columbia/Willamette, and
the Women’s Equity Action
League in Washington, D.C.
“Jeanne Atkins is great-
ly respected for her years of
hard work and dedication to
Oregon, and I trust that she
will serve ably as our secre-
tary of state,” House Speaker
Tina Kotek, D-Portland, said.
As secretary of state, At-
kins will oversee elections —
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cials in Oregon’s 36 counties
— and audits, state archives
and business functions.
Although she will be sec-
retary of state, Atkins as an
appointee would not become
governor if something hap-
pened to Brown. The Ore-
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that succession falls to an
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this case, state Treasurer Ted
Wheeler.
She earned a bachelor’s
degree from the University
of Washington in 1971 and a
law degree from the Univer-
sity of Oregon in 1978.
Senate Majority Leader
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Diane Rosenbaum, D-Port-
land, said she has known
Atkins well for more than 15
years.
“Jeanne is an experienced,
fair, and effective leader who
will take great care of the
duties of the Secretary of
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statement. “She is eminently
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to working with her as Sen-
ate majority leader and chair
of the Senate Rules Commit-
tee.”
Although she has run
twice for the Oregon House
— she made losing bids in
1992 and 1994 — Atkins
might not be a candidate for
a term of her own as secre-
tary of state next year, leav-
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wide open. She would be
eligible for two full terms if
she did run.
The release by the gover-
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point, and Atkins did not
make herself available for
questions prior to her swear-
ing-in.
She is married to John At-
kins; they live in Portland.
“I share the values and
enthusiasm for this position
that Governor Kate Brown
demonstrated during her ten-
ure,” Atkins said. “I will be
diligent in carrying out the
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of Oregon secretary of state.”
— The Capital Bureau is
a collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
