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Thursday, December 17, 2015
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imports at the nearby Port of
Vancouver, he said.
The Asian gypsy moth
is more of a danger to agri-
culture and the environment
than the European gypsy
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up to 1,000 eggs each, so the
species can become estab-
lished more rapidly, he said.
With about 600 host
plants, the Asian gypsy moth
also has more habitat avail-
able, he said.
The pest can greatly defo-
liate wild-growing plants,
negatively affecting stream
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For agricultural products,
such as nursery stock, the
pest’s establishment would
cause increased pesticide use
and may impede shipments
to other states and countries,
he said.
In 2000, the Washington
State Department of Agricul-
ture sprayed for the insects
on 725 acres in the Ballard
and Magnolia neighborhoods
of Seattle.
In 1992, WSDA sprayed
116,457 acres for the Asian
gypsy moths in Pierce and
King counties.
Spraying will take place next spring
tunity to mitigate the AGM
threat before it spreads,” he
said.
The cost of spraying will
likely involve several aircraft
and the Oregon portion of the
project is expected to cost
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Spraying will also occur
in southwest Washington at
a cost of $3 million, he said.
This year the moths were
found on the Washington
and Oregon sides of the
Columbia River.
In Oregon, eradication
will likely begin in mid-April
and involve three treatments
one week apart, pending an
environmental assessment
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said.
Oregon has asked the
federal
government
to
fully pay for the spraying,
but ODA will also request
funding from the state
legislature early next year in
case the federal funds don’t
cover the entire expense, said
Coba.
The eradication project is
the third largest in Oregon’s
history, said Helmuth Rogg,
director of Oregon’s plant
program area.
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Bureau
PORTLAND — Oregon
farm regulators plan to
spray more than 8,000 acres
in Portland next spring to
prevent the establishment
of the Asian gypsy moth, a
destructive pest found in the
area this year.
The Oregon Department
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conduct extensive outreach
before applying Bacillus
thuringiensis, a biological
pesticide that destroys the
insect’s ability to digest.
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deal for us, especially since
we will have to apply the Bt
aerially around Portland,”
said Katy Coba, ODA’s
director, during a Dec. 16
meeting of the Oregon Board
of Agriculture in Portland.
The treatment is sensi-
tive as it could provoke a
negative public reaction in
the populated urban area
that would interfere with the
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OFA’s insect pest prevention
program.
“There’s a short oppor-
Asian gypsy moths have
previously been intercepted
in Oregon in 1992, 2000 and
2006 along the Columbia
River, likely due to Asian
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PORTLAND (AP) — Federal
statistics show 74,500 Oregonians have
signed up for private health insurance
plans via the federal exchange portal.
The data released Wednesday by
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
include newly insured Oregonians, as
well as those who already had insurance
but shopped around and actively
re-enrolled via HealthCare.Gov.
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Oregonians who are insured but decided
not to shop for a different plan and will
be automatically re-enrolled in their
current plan.
Citing heavy last-minute demand,
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deadline to sign up for health insurance
coverage that would take effect Jan.
1. The new deadline is Thursday at
midnight.
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31, but for those who sign up after the
deadline coverage will start in February.
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) —
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to homeowners who received letters
after the Nov. 17 windstorm telling
them to clean up the mess or face
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KREM-TV reports that the apology
letters say that the notices didn’t
“effectively convey” the city’s intent.
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to inform homeowners of resources
available to them to help in storm
recovery.
A homeowner said she received a
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that told her to clean up the damage.
The letter stated if she did not comply,
the house may be deemed unsafe and
she would have to pay $1,500.
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homeowners had received the letters
based on what emergency crews saw
as they assessed the damage from the
storm.
SEATTLE (AP) — While most
minimum-wage employees at Seattle-
Tacoma International Airport are being
paid $15.24 an hour, employers are
looking to contest the raise.
The Seattle Times reports that Alaska
Airlines and three other plaintiffs on
Tuesday asked King County Superior
Court to hear new evidence on whether
the city of SeaTac’s minimum-wage law
interferes with airport operations.
The city raised minimum wage for
hospitality and transportation workers to
$15 an hour in January 2014. After the
proposition was passed, Alaska Airlines,
the Washington Restaurant Association,
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challenging the city’s power to dictate
pay at Sea-Tac Airport, which is owned
and operated by the Port of Seattle.
In August, the Washington Supreme
Court reversed a lower court’s decision
and ruled that wages should go up at the
airport.
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62° (1942) -12° (1964)
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27°
66° (1959) -16° (2008)
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FRIDAY
schools,
municipalities
and government agencies
will be dedicating almost
PORTLAND
— one-third of their payroll
Reforms to Oregon’s public dollars to the retirement
pension system took a system.
John Tapogna, an econ-
prominent position in the
playbook business leaders omist with ECONorthwest,
unveiled at their annual said legislators had designed
economic confab with an “unusually exotic” and
expensive pension system.
legislators.
Organizers
of
the He called it a generational
Oregon Leadership Summit mistake, and said the state
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costs as one of the main aftermath.
In May, the Oregon
headwinds that could stall or
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most of the pension reforms
progress.
But Democratic leaders enacted by the Legislature
who spoke at Monday’s in 2013. In the process, it
summit gave the issue put any reduction in current
a wide berth. Gov. Kate UHWLUHH EHQH¿WV RII OLPLWV
Brown didn’t mention it. That eliminated the reforms
Nor did House Speaker lawmakers felt were most
Tina Kotek. And Sen. Pres- equitable, because retiree
ident Peter Courtney gave EHQH¿WV FRPSULVH WKH EXON
it an oblique reference as a of the system’s unfunded
contributor to the budgetary liability.
Yet panelists on Monday
Civil War that he says could
discussed several ways in
unfold in 2017.
Away from the main which the cost increases
convention
ballroom, expected in coming years
however, the state’s looming could be more equitably
pension problems took absorbed or minimized.
Chief among them:
center stage at a sparsely
attended breakout session requiring public employees
late in the day. A panel to contribute to the pension
of experts dissected their fund, absorbing some of
history and their looming the expense currently being
impact on government borne by public employers
and taxpayers.
budgets.
Panelists said Oregon is
They urged lawmakers
not to ignore the problem: the only state in the nation
an $18 billion-and-growing that requires no contribution
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Employees
Retirement from employees. That has
System. In order to bail it been the case since 2004,
out, required payments from when previous pension
government
employers reforms redirected public
will go up by 20 percent employees’ 6 percent
contributions
in each of the next three retirement
budget cycles, said Steve out of the pension system
Rodeman, PERS executive and into a supplementary
retirement account owned
director.
By 2021, that means by employees.
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The Oregonian
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TODAY
PERS reform
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business leaders
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Tacoma
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
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36/33 Lewiston
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Astoria
37/33
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Enterprise
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Burns
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Hermiston
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Beijing
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Jerusalem
London
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Moscow
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Rain today; windy. Periods
of rain, some heavy tonight. Occasional rain
tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A wintry mix
today, accumulating 1-2 inches across the
north and in central parts. Rain south.
Western Washington: Rain today. Rain,
heavy at times tonight. A couple of showers
tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Snow, accumulating
3-6 inches toward the Cascades, 1-2 inches
in the north and an icy mix south.
Cascades: Cloudy with snow today, accumu-
lating 3-6 inches. Cloudy with snow then
rain tonight.
Northern California: Cloudy today with a
shower. Periods of rain tonight. Additional
rain Friday.
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National Summary: Rain will drench much of the East today as colder air expands over the
Midwest. Snow showers will develop over the western Great Lakes and the central Plains.
Snow, ice and rain will expand in the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 86° in Plant City, Fla.
Low -14° in Grand Canyon, Ariz.
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Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
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Chicago
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Fairbanks
Fargo
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