WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; mild
Cloudy with a
shower or two
52° 40°
55° 40°
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
A shower in the
afternoon
Warmer
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
54° 42°
56° 50°
64° 49°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
53° 40°
54° 36°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
50°
27°
45°
29°
69° (1918) -17° (1929)
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"
0.22"
0.45"
1.73"
1.48"
1.83"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
56/43
Ontario
44/29
Bend
57/39
49°
26°
46°
29°
67° (1961) -23° (1929)
Burns
44/22
0.00"
0.05"
0.34"
1.15"
1.05"
1.62"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Feb 22
Last
Mar 1
7:04 a.m.
5:15 p.m.
8:46 a.m.
9:27 p.m.
New
Mar 8
Caldwell
47/30
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
57
43
57
62
44
48
62
51
53
56
59
49
49
68
60
64
44
53
52
56
59
59
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52
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
Hi
57
44
54
57
47
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61
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50
59
57
60
45
54
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
50
70
52
47
67
31
45
57
57
81
50
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39
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34
28
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80
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WINDS
Medford
68/44
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 14
Albany
58/50
Eugene
62/51
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
65° 47°
Spokane
Wenatchee
46/39
43/35
Tacoma
Moses
55/47
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 48/40
53/42
54/49
53/46
50/39
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
56/50
52/40 Lewiston
53/39
Astoria
59/44
57/50
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
56/49
Pendleton 48/31
The Dalles 53/40
52/40
55/41
La Grande
Salem
49/38
59/49
Corvallis
59/50
HIGH
58° 50°
Seattle
56/49
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
57° 40°
Today
MONDAY
Cloudy, showers
around; mild
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Klamath Falls
59/34
(in mph)
Today
Friday
Boardman
Pendleton
NNE 4-8
ESE 4-8
W 4-8
SW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today.
Periods of rain across the north; a shower in
central parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today. A passing shower across the north;
partly sunny in the south.
Western Washington: A shower this morn-
ing, then afternoon rain. Periods of rain
tonight. Showers tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today
and tonight with a shower.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy and mild today; a
shower across the north.
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will hold over much of the West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 90° in Corona, Calif.
Low -33° in Cotton, Minn.
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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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
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Slow rebound in Oregon economy House passes bill to raise cap
plays out in small revenue growth on wrongful death awards
Current revenues “The forecast has given us a few extra
pennies for this biennium. We’re OK
$61 million ahead
for now. We need to keep working.
of projections
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon’s
economists told lawmakers
Wednesday
the
state’s
economy and government
revenues continue to grow
at a strong pace as the state
rebounds from the recession.
However, the economists
warned that growth will
slow going into the next
two-year budget that begins
in mid-2017.
“Oregon’s
economy
continues to grow at a healthy
pace, as do our primary
sources of tax revenue,
keeping up every bit with our
expectations we’ve laid over
the last year or two,” said state
economist Mark McMullen.
Economists expect the
government will receive
nearly $61 million more
in general fund and lottery
revenues in the current
two-year budget than they
had projected in the last fore-
cast in December, according
to a document from the
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The latest forecast is for $19.5
billion in total state revenues.
At the same time,
McMullen said, Oregon is
getting close to what econ-
omists would consider “full
employment” and “that’s
when we’re going to start to
see things slow.”
McMullen also reiterated a
warning from previous fore-
casts that Oregon is vulner-
able to national problems in
the manufacturing sector. “It’s
obvious manufacturing is
weak,” McMullen said.
McMullen said problems
in the stock market that cut
into Oregonians’ investment
income, combined with the
stronger exchange rate for the
We can address our budget priorities
and inish the session on time.”
— Peter Courtney, Senate President, D-Salem
U.S. dollar, will likely weaken
state revenue from personal
and corporate income taxes in
upcoming budgets. Oregon’s
exports from non-technology
sectors are slowing, with
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quarter expected to be nearly
20 percent lower than a year
ago, according to a presen-
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Economic Analysis.
“This is the most
depressing number that’s
out there now, which is the
growth in our exports of
non-technology products,”
said McMullen, who added
that this particularly impacted
agricultural and food product
exports.
Gov. Kate Brown struck a
similarly cautious tone in her
statement on the forecast.
“I am pleased to see that
job growth is steady and
Oregon’s economy is likely
to remain stable through the
remainder of the biennium,”
Brown said. “Although state
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important commitments in
education and other critical
services, my optimism is
tempered by longer-term
dynamics in the forecast that
call for caution. I will work
with legislative leadership
to build reserves for future
needs.”
Democratic leaders in the
Legislature also pledged to
maintain state budget reserves
and handle the budget
prudently.
“The Legislature will
continue budgeting wisely —
making needed investments
that will help Oregon families
and communities thrive, while
also maintaining a strong
reserve fund,” House Speaker
Tina Kotek, D-Portland, said
in a written statement.
“The forecast has given us
a few extra pennies for this
biennium,” Senate President
Peter Courtney, D-Salem, said
in a written statement. “We’re
OK for now. We need to keep
working. We can address our
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the session on time.”
Republicans were more
pessimistic.
“Years of one-party rule
plagued by overspending and
government waste and an
assault on small businesses
has left us with a bleak
economic outlook that needs
to be addressed now,” Senate
Republican Leader Ted
Ferrioli, R-John Day, said in a
written statement.
House Republican Leader
Mike McLane, R-Powell
Butte, said in a written
statement there were “storm
clouds on the horizon.”
“For the moment, the sun
is still shining in Oregon,”
McLane said. “Now it’s up to
the Democrats in the Legisla-
ture to decide if they are going
to put our long-term economic
health at risk through the
reckless pursuit of a partisan
agenda and fundamentally
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The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group. Hillary
Borrud can be reached at
503-364-4431 or hborrud@
eomediagroup.com.
Corrections
The Feb. 9 article “Four seek council seat” misstated when James Tibbets posted
Satanic comments to Facebook. It was 2015.
Also, the new Washington Elementary School building will be open for students at the
beginning of the 2016-17 school year. An incorrect date for the school’s opening was pub-
lished in a photo caption on the front page of the Feb. 10 East Oregonian.
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House Speaker Tina Kotek,
D-Portland, ordered Rep.
SALEM — The House Bill Post, R-Keizer, to
passed a bill Wednesday that UHPRYH IURP WKH ÀRRU D
raises the cap on noneco- poster portraying a $350,000
nomic jury awards for check written out to “Trial
wrongful death claims from Lawyers.”
A yes vote would be
$500,000 to $1.5 million.
Rep. Joe Gallegos, “signing the check,” Post said.
Post said he used the
D-Hillsboro,
said
he
proposed the measure to give visual aid to make a point
victims who have lost loved that the House Committee
ones the same opportunities on Consumer Protection and
for justice as victims in Government Effectiveness
injury cases for which there had rejected an amendment
to the bill by Rep. Mike
is no jury award limit.
After passing the House McLane, R-Powell Butte,
33-to-26 Wednesday, the that would have capped
measure now proceeds to the attorneys’ fees to $500,000.
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Senate.
The legislation stirred DUHÀHFWLRQRIKRZPXFKDQ
up partisan passions on the attorney would be paid on
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Republicans
accused jury award, Post said.
Post said the Oregon Trial
Democrats of railroading the
legislation without giving Lawyers Association regu-
full consideration of the larly contributes thousands
consequences to rural physi- of dollars to Democratic
cians and others who might candidate campaigns. The
have to pay higher liability Secretary of State’s database
insurance under the measure. UHÀHFWVWKDWWREHWUXH
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Kotek said the visual
aid impugned members
who were voting in favor
of the bill. Republicans
challenged her ban on Post’s
visual aid and called for a
vote. Lawmakers supported
Kotek’s order.
Republican lawmakers
said they also opposed the
cap increase because it
would jack up the cost of
liability insurance for already
struggling rural physicians.
Rep. Susan McLain,
D-Hillsboro, said the bill
would help families like
those of Andrew Lane, a
22-year-old laborer who
died from carbon monoxide
poisoning May 13, 2014,
while relieving himself in a
bucket in the back of work
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a $4 million wrongful death
claim in Multnomah County
Circuit Court against Lane’s
employer, Superior Home
Maintenance.
A similar bill passed the
House in 2009 but died in the
Senate, Gallegos said.
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