WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Rain at times
Clouds and sun
with a shower
46° 35°
45° 31°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Some sun, then
turning cloudy
Cloudy; ice at night
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
41° 28°
42° 27°
42° 27°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
47° 34°
48° 30°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
55°
45°
43°
28°
67° (1931) -14° (1957)
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
0.31"
1.44"
1.28"
1.44"
0.72"
1.28"
Corvallis
51/40
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
46/34
Ontario
38/26
Bend
43/26
55°
31°
44°
29°
61° (1984) -21° (1957)
Burns
40/20
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0.99"
1.16"
0.99"
0.44"
1.16"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Feb 8
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4:56 p.m.
10:59 p.m.
9:58 a.m.
First
Full
Feb 14
Feb 22
Caldwell
42/28
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
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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Rain, heavy at times
today. Showers tonight. Showers tomorrow.
Sunday: a shower.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mainly cloudy,
rain this morning, then a shower or two;
mild in central parts.
Western Washington: Periods of rain
today and tonight. A brief shower or two
tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Rain today; snow,
accumulating 1-3 inches in the north and
mountains.
Cascades: Snow, rain mix early in the south today;
periods of snow, 2-4 inches across the north. Rain,
changing to snow, 1-2 inches in central parts.
Northern California: Rain, heavy at times
today, but a little rain in the interior
mountains.
Today
Saturday
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Oregon heads for ballot
brawl over tax increase
And past compromise revenue efforts have not
panned out.
Kitzhaber effort failed
The initiative has its roots in a Kitzhaber-led
push to tackle the belief, widespread in Salem,
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increase. The measure likely wouldn’t have
had the governor’s support because of his
belief in avoiding large-scale ballot warfare,
participants in the talks say.
Weeks later, that became less of an issue
for the public employee unions backing the
measure, when Kitzhaber resigned.
New urgency
Meanwhile, a ruling by the U.S. Supreme
Court that is expected this summer could
Initiative Petition 28 focuses new taxes on a hamper those unions’ ability to raise political
swath of corporations with $25 million or more funds in the future, potentially adding to the
LQ2UHJRQVDOHV7KHWD[LVQRWRQSUR¿WVEXW urgency behind the measure, several Demo-
on gross receipts. It would generate $5.2 billion crats say privately.
Heather Conroy, executive director of
in Oregon’s next two-year budget period. That
money, which is supposed to boost education Service Employees International Union Local
and health spending, will increase the state’s 503, says the urgency is primarily because
years of talks have gone nowhere. “We really
$18 billion general fund by nearly a third.
The money raised would be seven times the just cannot wait any longer to put forward a
amount raised by the corporate tax measures solution. ... We need to see change.”
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2010. Observers are predicting the opposition expected to receive strong union support, has
campaign alone will spend $15 million to $20 not taken a position on whether the initiative
million — a staggering, record-shattering sum. makes sense.
“It’s a complicated issue, and she’s
Supporters already are airing out their
arguments that Oregon schools and other consulting with stakeholders, and she has not
services desperately need funding, and that reached a conclusion about it herself,” says
out-of-state companies will bear the brunt of spokeswoman Kristen Grainger. “There’s
the hike. Opponents, however, say the increase GH¿QLWHO\VWLOOWLPHWRFRQVLGHUWKHPHDVXUHDQG
will result in higher prices for consumers and what’s going to happen.”
House Speaker Tina Kotek, D-Portland,
local companies, too.
Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem, who generally leans in support of the measure,
has called for a compromise, predicting the says she hadn’t heard of alternatives from
initiative will spark a political bloodbath with the business community, and added that a
lasting negative effects on the state. And Sen. much smaller measure probably would not be
Mark Hass, D-Beaverton, has sought to build enough to make Initiative Petition 28 go away.
“We have a revenue problem in this
momentum behind the idea of an alternative
state,” Kotek says. While the measure is not
measure.
However, so far there’s little evidence that perfect, she says, “it would solve our revenue
other political players have been persuaded. problem.”
Huge budget boost
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SALEM — When a proposed statewide
$15-an-hour minimum wage measure gave
businesses heartburn, Gov. Kate Brown inter-
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month.
In contrast, Brown has stayed squarely on
the sidelines when it comes to an initiative
aimed for the November ballot that is arousing
just as much opposition: A $2.6 billion annual
tax increase on many large corporations.
Aside from some Democratic senators,
nobody is proposing an alternative —
including the business community that would
be affected.
That might seem surprising in light of
Oregon’s long history of compromise and
alternative measures to defuse impending
ballot warfare.
So why is Oregon headed for a serious
political rumble?
Some say there’s scant incentive for
supporters to consider common ground, thanks
in part to an expected federal court ruling that
could drastically reduce the clout of public
employee unions in future election cycles.
The sponsors of the measure say they’re done
compromising on tax measures as they did
under former Gov. John Kitzhaber.
“I think the coalition that’s behind the
measure is saying we don’t want to just have
peace, we want to make people’s lives better,”
says Ben Unger, the former lawmaker who
leads the group spearheading the initiative,
Our Oregon. “I would rather help people than
avoid disagreeing.”
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
43/27
By NICK BUDNICK
Capital Bureau
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WINDS
Medford
52/36
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
Jan 31
Albany
50/39
Eugene
51/40
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
45° 27°
Spokane
Wenatchee
40/28
38/29
Tacoma
Moses
49/36
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 42/30
40/33
49/38
49/36
44/29
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
49/38
49/35 Lewiston
47/34
Astoria
47/35
51/40
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
49/39
Pendleton 38/23
The Dalles 47/34
46/35
50/36
La Grande
Salem
43/32
51/39
HERMISTON
HIGH
45° 28°
Seattle
49/40
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
46° 28°
Today
TUESDAY
Mostly cloudy with
snow showers
Friday, January 29, 2016
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National Summary: Snow showers will affect much of the Northeast today. A batch of
rain, ice and snow is in store for the Upper Midwest. Rain with mountain snow will expand
inland over the Northwest. Florida will dry out.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 80° in Marathon, Fla.
Low -17° in Gunnison, Colo.
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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New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
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Rapid City
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