WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Partly sunny
Fog in the a.m.;
clouds and sun
51° 31°
51° 31°
TUESDAY
Fog in the a.m.;
clouds and sun
Mild with clouds
and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
52° 32°
53° 33°
56° 39°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
54° 30°
51° 31°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
59°
36°
44°
28°
65° (2015) -12° (1989)
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
0.01"
0.22"
0.23"
1.73"
1.04"
1.61"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
46/29
Ontario
43/26
Bend
48/29
55°
31°
45°
29°
61° (1967) -10° (1989)
0.00"
0.05"
0.17"
1.15"
0.78"
1.45"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Feb 14
Full
Feb 22
7:11 a.m.
5:08 p.m.
5:32 a.m.
3:27 p.m.
Last
Mar 1
Caldwell
45/27
Burns
40/15
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
Hi
54
41
48
56
40
41
54
49
54
46
47
45
41
58
54
58
43
55
51
53
51
54
40
43
51
50
52
Lo
41
17
29
44
15
16
37
27
30
29
26
22
23
37
45
45
26
30
31
39
27
38
26
22
37
32
30
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
Hi
60
41
54
63
40
42
58
50
51
52
51
46
46
64
60
65
44
52
51
59
55
59
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48
59
49
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Lo
45
20
30
47
18
23
39
30
31
33
26
26
28
37
46
47
25
30
31
42
28
39
30
27
40
33
32
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
42
59
52
54
69
28
56
59
34
77
50
Lo
18
48
41
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37
14
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Hi
46
60
46
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70
32
51
59
35
79
46
Lo
19
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50
20
67
36
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WINDS
Medford
58/37
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
Feb 8
Albany
52/37
Eugene
54/37
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
56° 38°
Spokane
Wenatchee
40/26
44/27
Tacoma
Moses
52/34
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 46/28
44/28
51/41
51/35
52/30
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
51/35
50/32 Lewiston
55/30
Astoria
52/32
54/41
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
53/39
Pendleton 41/16
The Dalles 54/30
51/31
55/33
La Grande
Salem
45/22
54/38
Corvallis
53/37
HIGH
52° 33°
Seattle
52/40
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
51° 33°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Sunny
Saturday, February 6, 2016
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
47/26
REGIONAL FORECAST
Western Washington: Cloudy with a shower
this morning, then clouds and sun this
afternoon.
Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Intervals of clouds
and sun tomorrow.
Cascades: Partly sunny today, but mostly
cloudy across the north. Partly cloudy
tonight.
Northern California: Clouds and sun
today. Partly cloudy tonight; cold. Brilliant
sunshine tomorrow.
Sunday
NE 4-8
NE 3-6
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today;
cloudy in the morning, then some sun
across the north in the afternoon.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today. Partly cloudy tonight.
Today
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Hi
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Atlanta
Atlantic City
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Birmingham
Boise
Boston
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Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
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Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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54
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46
43
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51
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76
64
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Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
53
54
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Three-tier minimum wage House signals support of
subsidy for large solar projects
plan set for Senate vote
“Passing minimum wage
is not going to be a
silver bullet for problems
faced by low-income
Oregonians,”
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A bill to set
three different minimum
wage rates in the state is
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next week.
The bill would hike
wages to $14.75 in the
Portland metro area, $12.50
in rural and coastal areas
with struggling economies
and $13.50 in the rest of the
state by 2022. The rates are
based on median income
and cost of living in those
regions and what it takes
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pay basic expenses such as
food, housing and transpor-
tation, said Sen. Michael
Dembrow,
D-Portland,
chairman of the Senate
Workforce and General
Government Committee.
The committee passed
the proposal Friday 3-to-2.
“Passing minimum wage
is not going to be a silver
bullet for problems faced by
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Dembrow
said
lawmakers still need to
increase the earned income
tax credit, address the
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ways to increase afford-
able housing in the state,
where prices, particularly
in the Portland area, have
skyrocketed.
The vote fell along party
lines with the committee’s
two Republicans, Sens.
Tim Knopp of Bend and
Kim Thatcher of Keizer,
voting no.
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of this is going to negative
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to hurt the people you’re
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would take an economic hit
and employees would lose
jobs.
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Republicans
said they plan to write a
Dembrow
— Sen. Michael Dembrow,
D-Portland
minority report and offer
an amendment to the bill
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Dembrow
authored
the bill after months of
meeting with stakeholders
and consulting research on
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for every county in the
state, he said. The bill was
intended to offer an alterna-
tive to ballot initiatives that
would raise the minimum
to $15 or $13.50 statewide
and would repeal a ban on
municipalities and counties
from setting a higher wage.
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would start in July,
increasing the wage from
$9.25 to $9.75 statewide.
The minimum gradually
will climb to $14.75 in
2022 in the Portland urban
growth boundary, which
includes parts of Mult-
nomah, Washington and
Clackamas counties. It will
rise to $13.50 in Benton,
Clatsop,
Columbia,
Deschutes, Hood River,
Jackson, Josephine, Lane,
Lincoln, Linn, Marion,
Polk, Tillamook, Wasco,
and Yamhill counties,
and parts of Multnomah,
Clackamas and Washington
counties outside Portland’s
urban growth boundary.
In rural areas, the
minimum will increase
to $12.50. Those areas
include Malheur, Lake,
Harney, Wheeler, Sherman,
Gilliam, Wallowa, Grant,
Jefferson, Baker, Union,
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Crook, Klamath, Douglas,
Coos, Curry, Umatilla and
Morrow counties.
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cost of raising minimum
wage for the state and local
governments is indetermi-
nate because it’s impos-
sible to know how many
positions will be affected
by the time the increases
take effect in the next seven
years.
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by Gov. Kate Brown
that would have set two
minimum wage rates in the
state.
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Senate President Peter
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House Speaker Tina Kotek,
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supports raising minimum
wage but is still reviewing
the Senate proposal before
taking a stance on it.
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The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
solar projects, and plans to would reduce the length of
build another large project in the subsidy under the bill.
Southern Oregon by the end Projects that do not produce
power within two years would
SALEM
—
House of this year.
Brown said House Bill be kicked out of the program,
lawmakers from both sides of
the aisle signaled their support 4037 would provide much under an amendment added
this week for a bill that would smaller incentives for solar to the bill before lawmakers
which
makes voted it out of committee.
encourage large solar projects projects,
sense because prices have
Solar project developers
in Oregon.
The House Committee decreased. His company would have only until Jan.
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voted
unanimously
on Outback project in southern program, and the subsidy
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to the budget writing Joint $10 million business energy 150 megawatts of solar proj-
Committee on Ways and tax credit. Brown said the ects to be accepted into the
production subsidy would program. The subsidy would
Means.
House Bill 4037 would provide a total of $250,000 to only be available for 2 to 10
create a state subsidy of half $300,000 to a similarly sized megawatt projects in Oregon.
The program would sunset
a cent per kilowatt hour of project.
“When the (business in 2023. Any one program
energy generated from qual-
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solar program for larger proj- subsidy for up to 35 mega-
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State Rep. Cliff Bentz,
to put a price tag on the legis- “And so ironically, the (busi-
lation, but a solar industry ness energy tax credit) hurt R-Ontario, was one of the
representative who drafted solar development more than Republicans who voted to
the bill estimated it could cost it helped it ... I think this bill move the bill out of the House
a total of $5.7 million. The is a recognition that a small Committee On Energy and
money would come from the amount of targeted invest- Environment. Bentz said the
ment paid only for guaranteed solar subsidy would be key
state general fund.
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Oregon incentive for solar Oregon. But it took a long built in Oregon, if lawmakers
projects: The state issued time for the dark cloud of the pass a bill this session to
more than $50 million in (business energy tax credit) to double the state’s renewable
energy mandate for the state’s
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for solar between 2006 and
2014, according to data from language intended to ensure Corp and Portland General
the Oregon Department of EHQH¿WV JR RQO\ WR SURMHFWV Electric.
Brown said it was not
Energy. Still, Environment that actually produce energy.
Oregon state director Rikki If a project sits idle and does surprising the bill has
Seguin told lawmakers this not produce energy, the state bipartisan support.
week that only 0.02 percent of
the state’s energy comes from
the sun.
David Brown, a senior
principal at Obsidian Finance
Group LLC in Lake Oswego,
drafted the bill with input
from other interested parties.
Brown said the company has
Come, relax and enjoy the
built the state’s three largest
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
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