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Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Icy roads make Portland commute Marijuana
retailers cope
treacherous, close down schools
with falling
pot prices
By STEVEN DUBOIS
Associated Press
PORTLAND — The long
holiday weekend stretched to a
fourth day for many Oregonians.
Light snow followed by
freezing rain turned streets and
sidewalks into a skating rink,
prompting school closures
Monday in Portland, Beaverton,
Hillsboro and many other
Willamette Valley districts.
Several colleges and universities,
including the Corvallis campus
of Oregon State, canceled classes
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day back from winter break.
In Portland, busy roads were
in decent shape for the morning
commute, but those less traveled
glistened with a coat of ice. Police
and the Oregon Department of
Transportation warned motorists
to delay their trips if possible.
Downtown pedestrians slid
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forced them to remain on the
treacherous sidewalks. Those
who commute by bus or light rail
faced delays.
“It’s quite crazy out there,”
ODOT spokeswoman Kimberly
Dinwiddie said. “We have seen
numerous spinouts and stalled
vehicles as well as some crashes.”
Some workers were spared the
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and Hood River; most Portland
city workers got the day off.
OHSU Hospital remained
open for patients, but urged
non-essential employees to stay
home. Vancouver, Washington,
LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) — As the
price of marijuana continues to drop,
Washington pot businesses are struggling
to keep up with the changes.
According to data from the Washington
Liquor and Cannabis Board, since legal
marijuana entered the market in July 2014,
prices have dropped from $25 to $30 per
gram to about $10 a gram now, The Daily
News in Longview reports.
Prices are plummeting as new retailers
plod the market. Tax changes are also
lowering the wholesale price.
This year, 222 marijuana licenses will
be added throughout the state, including
three new licenses in Cowlitz County, three
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Andy Dhalai, owner of 420 Holiday in
Longview, said to keep money coming in
he is working to boost sales volume and
expand clientele. He said as people become
more comfortable with legal marijuana
business should continue to be stable.
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into the shops because it was still federally
illegal, but now . people are a little bit more
relaxed,” Dhalai said. “I feel (the business)
is still viable . and there’s a lot more
customers now.”
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last summer when the state changed mari-
juana taxes. There used to be a 25 percent
tax on produces, processors and retailers,
but since the change there is now a single
37 percent tax at point of sale.
Hollie Hillman, a manager at Freedom
Market in Longview, said she monitors
her competitors’ prices daily, sometimes
dropping prices by a few dollars a gram
to keep customers coming in. She said she
doesn’t expect prices to fall much further,
as they’re nearing illegal street market
prices of as low as $7 a gram.
“I don’t think it can get much lower than
that,” she said.
Despite the low prices, Hillman said
Freedom Market is selling enough volume
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A pedestrian struggles to cross an ice-covered intersection Monday in Portland.
canceled garbage pickup because
of icy neighborhood streets.
The temperature in Portland
was right at freezing at the start
of the morning commute. Fore-
casters expected it to gradually
rise to the high 30s and melt
some of the ice to slush.
Dinwiddie said crews from
the Portland metro area to Hood
River have applied more than
166,000 gallons of magnesium
chloride deicer since Sunday.
speed onto an icy patch.
“Both California and Nevada
already use salt,” said Dave
Thompson of ODOT. “Before
we started using salt on that road
you could tell where the state
line was. Because you’d run into
packed snow — or you’d leave
packed snow if you were going
the other way.”
Salt hasn’t been considered
for Portland, which rarely gets
snow.
What they have not used is road
salt, which Oregon doesn’t apply
because of its effect on the infra-
structure and the environment.
The state, however, is in the
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project to salt Interstate 5 near
the California state line and a
stretch of U.S. 95 in southeast
Oregon near Nevada. The goal is
for drivers to travel on roads in
similar condition when crossing
a state line, and not suddenly
Swinomish tribe hires dental therapist despite opposition
SPOKANE (AP) — An
Indian tribe in Washington state
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in the Lower 48 states to hire a
dental therapist to provide basic
oral health services.
In a move opposed by
the Washington State Dental
Association, the Swinomish
Indian Tribal Community started
offering its members the services
of a lower-cost dental therapist,
which is the dental equivalent of
a physician assistant.
“There are too few dentists
in Indian Country,” Brian
Cladoosby, chairman of the
tribe, said in a press release. “We
cannot stand by any longer and
allow Native people to continue
to suffer tooth decay at a rate
three times the national average.”
Dental therapists are licensed
and can perform procedures
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and simple extractions. They
are much cheaper to train and
employ than dentists.
The dental association has
fought for years to prevent dental
assistants from working in the
state, according to The Seattle
Times, and they are banned in
Washington.
The Northwest Portland
Area Indian Health Board,
which advises the 43 federally
recognized tribes in Washington,
Oregon and Idaho, supports
the effort.
“We look forward to
continued partnership turning the
tide on oral health disparities in
this community and throughout
the Portland area,” board director
Joe Finkbonner said.
By age 5, three-quarters of
American Indians have tooth
decay, the Swinomish Tribe
said. In Washington, Oregon
and Idaho, federal studies show
Indian children suffer tooth
decay at three times the national
average, the tribe said.
The tribe obtained a grant
from the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation to help hire the
dental therapist.
While Washington state bans
dental assistants, they have been
licensed to practice in Alaska
for more than a decade. They
are also legal in Minnesota
and Maine. Attempts to license
them in Washington have failed
repeatedly because of opposition
from dentists, the tribe said.
The
dental
association
contends that the therapists can
pose risks to a patient because
they are not trained to handle
serious dental problems.
The state group is following
the lead of the American Dental
Association, which has opposed
dental therapists nationwide.
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Spokane
Wenatchee
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Tacoma
Moses
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Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 35/30
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
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35/31 Lewiston
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Astoria
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
40/36
Pendleton 39/29
The Dalles 33/29
33/28
36/30
La Grande
Salem
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44/34
Albany
Corvallis 45/33
46/35
John Day
43/30
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
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46/35
40/25
Caldwell
Burns
38/30
33/20
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
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Vancouver
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WORLD CITIES
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Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
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Klamath Falls
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Boardman
Pendleton
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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: Periods of rain today;
breezy in the south during the afternoon.
Rain tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today. A shower across the north and south;
snow in central parts and near the Cascades.
Western Washington: Times of rain today.
Occasional rain and drizzle tonight. Mostly
cloudy tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
A bit of snow in the north, across the south
and toward the Cascades.
Cascades: A bit of snow today, accumulat-
ing 1-3 inches. Some additional snow
tonight.
Northern California: Downpours today;
heavy snow, accumulating 4-8 inches in the
interior mountains.
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National Summary: Showers will affect eastern Florida and part of Texas today. Snow
showers are in store from northern New Mexico to eastern Oregon. Another dose of rain
will arrive on the Pacific coast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 72° in Key West, Fla.
Low -17° in Gunnison, Colo.
NATIONAL CITIES
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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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Miami
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Minneapolis
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New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
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Salt Lake City
San Diego
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