WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
SUNDAY
Mild with plenty
of sun
Some sun, a
shower in the p.m.
72° 47°
71° 46°
MONDAY
Partly sunny and
mild
Cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
69° 46°
59° 39°
59° 40°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
76° 44°
76° 46°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
67°
58°
82° (1923)
39°
37°
21° (1936)
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"
1.49"
1.45"
3.86"
2.74"
4.00"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
71°
61°
77° (1964)
0.00"
1.21"
0.87"
2.70"
1.52"
3.14"
SUN AND MOON
Apr 13
Bend
69/39
6:35 a.m.
7:24 p.m.
2:59 a.m.
12:54 p.m.
Full
Last
Apr 21
Apr 29
Caldwell
68/38
Burns
66/35
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
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Apr 7
John Day
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Month to date
Normal month to date
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Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
72/42
Eugene
72/44
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
65° 40°
Spokane
Wenatchee
66/45
75/49
Tacoma
Moses
70/44
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 74/43
66/44
62/43
70/42
79/46
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
72/43
72/49 Lewiston
77/46
Astoria
71/46
61/42
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
73/48
Pendleton 65/36
The Dalles 76/46
72/47
78/49
La Grande
Salem
69/41
73/44
Corvallis
73/43
HIGH
62° 43°
Seattle
69/48
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
73° 50°
Today
TUESDAY
Cooler with a
couple of showers
Friday, April 1, 2016
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
69/37
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
today; pleasant in the south and upper
Treasure Valley. Clear tonight.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight, but increasing cloudi-
ness at the coast.
Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Sunny to partly cloudy
tomorrow.
Cascades: Sunshine and warm today; pleas-
ant. Clear to partly cloudy tonight.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight.
Saturday
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today; pleas-
ant across the north. Partly cloudy tonight.
Today
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Group drops bid to repeal fuel standard State recruiting
By HILLARY BORRUD
Capital Bureau
SALEM — An oil industry
group announced Thursday it
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tors.
Instead, Romain said the fuel
industry will push lawmakers
to make a 2017 transportation
funding plan contingent upon
changes or a repeal of the fuel
standard. That’s what Republi-
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already required a 10 percent
ethanol blend in gasoline and a 5
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industry. The industry had
threatened to join oil companies
in attacking the law, if the state
did not abandon a calculation that
attributed a greater carbon impact
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Brown signs marijuana edibles, extracts legislation
look forward to working with the
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soon be able to buy medical and Edibles Council.
Voters in 2015 made Oregon
recreational marijuana from
the same retailer and purchase the third state to legalize recre-
low-dose edibles and extracts for ational marijuana. Starting Oct. 1,
recreational use, under legislation the early sales program, under the
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rized already existing medical
Thursday.
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quickly issued a bulletin Thursday to 1½ ounces of dried marijuana
warning the marijuana industry to to recreational customers. Edibles
hold off on sales of recreational and extracts were restricted to
edibles and extracts until the medical marijuana patients.
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agency has adopted temporary
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Capital Bureau
sales this spring and allowed
retailers to continue to sell both
medical and recreational cannabis
out of one location.
The recreational marijuana
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to choose between a medical or
recreational registration at the
close of early sales, which end
Dec. 31. A majority of dispensary
owners had indicated to marijuana
regulators that they would defect
to the recreational market at that
time, fueling fears that medical
patients might face a shortage
of medical cannabis products.
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both medical patients and recre-
ational users and are prohibited
from collecting a tax on medical
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like McNicoll say that low of
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teachers to
score Smarter
Balanced test
BEND (AP) — Oregon’s new standard-
ized test is a harder test for students and it’s
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The Smarter Balanced test measures
how students are performing under the
Common Core standards and includes
more open-ended questions that can’t be
scored by a computer.
With that need for humans, the state
Department of Education is accepting appli-
cations from teachers for a pilot program to
train them to score Smarter Balanced tests
outside their regular teaching duties.
The department will host a training
session in Salem next month. Teachers will
score tests from students across the country,
not just in Oregon, for $20 an hour, The
Bend Bulletin newspaper reported.
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Common Core, and 14 states are using the
Smarter Balanced test.
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Balanced, the question of whether teachers
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often, said Bryan Toller, a math assessment
specialist with ODE. It was something other
states in the Smarter Balanced consortium
asked about, too, he said.
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consortium, the whole group of states. In
my opinion, it’s important to keep the states
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The department wants to recruit 40
teachers for the pilot program.
Last year, Oregon used a company
called Data Recognition Corp. to score
Smarter Balanced. This year it switched
to Measurement Incorporated. In the pilot
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Measurement Incorporated to ensure their
scoring is accurate.
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rated lists openings for temporary workers
to score tests, working remotely or at its
scoring centers across the country. Job
requirements include a bachelor’s degree
and, for those working remotely, access to
a computer with high-speed Internet. The
jobs are not limited to teachers.
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of the Bend Education Association, the
local teachers union. “Sometimes the
lens of the teacher might be different than
someone whose job is to write and score
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