WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny
Very hot
94° 59°
97° 63°
MONDAY
TUESDAY
Blazing sunshine
and very hot
Windy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
97° 63°
95° 62°
84° 49°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
98° 62°
102° 65°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
84°
75°
98° (2007)
54°
50°
34° (1918)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
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4.99"
6.74"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
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76°
99° (2007)
Bend
92/61
Burns
92/52
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0.09"
4.25"
3.14"
5.23"
SUN AND MOON
Full
5:08 a.m.
8:40 p.m.
5:11 a.m.
8:12 p.m.
Last
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Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
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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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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Pendleton
Klamath Falls
94/57
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today;
pleasant.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and hot today. Patchy clouds tonight.
Eastern Washington: Abundant sunshine
today. Mainly clear tonight. Sunshine
tomorrow.
Cascades: Warmer today with plenty of
sunshine. Partly cloudy and mild tonight.
Western Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight.
Northern California: Partial sunshine today.
Hot in central parts; pleasant at the coast.
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PORTLAND (AP) — A
former police detective has
settled a civil lawsuit over
claims she used her expertise
in investigating elder
abuse to exploit a Portland
attorney.
Diane Miller of La
Center, Washington, alleged
in the $4 million lawsuit that
was scheduled to go to trial
this month that defendant
Susan Campbell Calzaretta
knew the signs of dementia
and married Miller’s father
— Victor Calzaretta — to
get his estate.
Court records show
Miller and Susan Calzaretta
agreed to a settlement in late
May.
Melia Shears, an attorney
for Calzaretta, conirmed
the deal Friday but said the
terms are conidential and
her client would not provide
a statement.
Earlier this year,
Calzaretta iled a defamation
lawsuit against Miller and
her attorney, alleging they
damaged her reputation
by falsely accusing her of
committing inancial elder
abuse. That lawsuit remains
active.
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Detective settles
lawsuit over elder-
abuse accusation
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Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
BAKER CITY (AP)
— A suspect in Baker City
surrendered Friday morning
after a standoff of more than
10 hours.
Police Chief Wyn Lohner
says the man barricaded
himself inside a home
Thursday afternoon and
refused to come out despite
direct negotiations. He
inally gave up after tear gas
was deployed.
The Baker City Herald
reports that the suspect is
John M. Guthrie Jr. and there
were no injuries.
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WORLD CITIES
June 12 June 20 June 27
BRIEFLY
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
WINDS
Medford
101/67
PRECIPITATION
June 4
John Day
96/65
Ontario
96/62
53°
51°
34° (1929)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
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Last year to date
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Sunrise today
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Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
100/62
Eugene
98/60
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
89° 54°
Spokane
Wenatchee
87/60
94/66
Tacoma
Moses
84/57
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 95/60
86/54
86/60
87/55
96/63
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
94/62
93/62 Lewiston
98/59
Astoria
92/61
82/58
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
100/68
Pendleton 86/54
The Dalles 98/62
94/59
100/64
La Grande
Salem
89/56
100/64
Corvallis
100/62
HIGH
99° 63°
Seattle
83/62
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
101° 62°
Today
WEDNESDAY
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hot
Saturday, June 4, 2016
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National Summary: Severe storms will develop in the Midwest, while widespread thunder-
showers will overrun the Southeastern states today. Texas flooding will continue as danger-
ous heat persists in the West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 114° in Needles, Calif.
Low 31° in Boca Reservoir, Calif.
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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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
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New Orleans
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New York City
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Oklahoma City
85
Omaha
80
Philadelphia
84
Phoenix
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Portland, ME
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Providence
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Raleigh
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Rapid City
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Reno
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Sacramento
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St. Louis
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Salt Lake City
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Washington, DC 83
Wichita
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Oregon’s economy roaring at ‘full throttle’
By KRISTENA HANSEN
Associated Press
PORTLAND
—
Oregon’s
economy is barreling out of the
Great Recession-gloom at “full
throttle,” with full employment now
in sight, wages on the upswing and
state revenue gaining at some of
the fastest rates in the country, state
economists said Friday.
There were some bleak spots —
most notably the ongoing erosion
of affordable housing — and the
rapid pace some areas have been
improving aren’t sustainable in the
long term, especially as the Baby
Boom generation continues aging.
But overall, Oregon’s economy
wrapped up the irst half of the year
in sturdy shape.
“Progress is clearly being made.
Participation is increasing as the
job opportunities remain plentiful
and wages are rising,” the Ofice
of Economic Analysis wrote in its
second-quarter report. “Full employ-
ment in Oregon is fast approaching.”
Oregon’s unemployment rate
(4.5 percent), job growth (5,000 per
month for the past two years) and
gains in wages and personal income
(8.5 percent and 6.5 percent, respec-
tively, in the second quarter) all fared
better than national averages, as well
as the state’s own performance in
recent years.
The state’s new minimum wage
law — under which the irst wage
increases begin July 1 — should
help low-income workers right
away. In the long term, or by 2025,
it could cost 40,000 jobs, but state
economists say it’s a drop in the
bucket compared to the overall
market and is more so relective
of a slower rate of job growth than
outright job losses.
But housing remains a major
problem, they say, especially in metro
Portland, where new construction
and stronger low-income assistance
programs are badly needed to slow
the area’s surging living costs.
In a statement, Rep. Mike McLane
and Sen. Ted Ferrioli, leaders of the
Republican minority party in their
respective chambers, took a stab at
Democrats by noting that, despite
revenue growth, “our ending fund
balance is expected to be $57.1
million below previous projections,
largely due to overspending by
Democrats during the 2016 session.”
That projection-drop was partly
due to various inancial needs, some
unexpected, that came up at the
Legislature earlier this year, such as
the affordable housing package and
air quality monitoring amid Port-
land’s toxic air crisis. But overall,
economists are still expecting a
$261 million ending balance to the
general fund for the current 2015-17
biennium.
Senate Majority Leader Ginny
Burdick defended the spending in a
statement.
“Today’s economic and revenue
forecast speaks for itself,” Burdick
said. “We also are proud of our
commitments to refund costs to local
communities for ighting wildires
in rural Oregon, responding the
Malheur Wildlife Refuge occupa-
tion and safety improvements in the
aftermath of the tragedy at Umpqua
Community College.”
Morrow County joins suit against state over paid sick leave
By KATHLEEN ELLYN
EO Media Group
Nine
counties
—
including Morrow and
Wallowa — are suing the
state of Oregon, claiming
its new paid sick-leave law
is an unfunded government
mandate.
Linn County commis-
sioners iled the suit Friday
in Linn County Circuit
Court on behalf of Douglas,
Jefferson, Morrow, Malheur,
Polk, Sherman, Wallowa
and Yamhill counties.
According to Wallowa
County Commissioner John
Lawrence, Commissioner
Susan Roberts did most of
the legwork on the decision
— talking to local businesses
and county commissioners
from other counties —
before the county indicated
in writing it they would be
interested in joining Linn
County in the suit.
Since January, Oregon
law requires employers
with at least 10 employees
to provide paid sick leave.
Employers must provide
one hour of sick time for
every 30 hours an employee
works, or 1 1/3 hours for
every 40 hours worked.
The law would apply to
part-time employees as well
as full time.
The counties are asking
the state court for its inter-
pretation of the constitution,
which states that counties
may refuse to comply with
any new state program if
they aren’t given funding
from the state to offset those
costs.
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The law irm of Rietmann
& Reitmann LLP of Salem
is representing the counties.
Linn County used the
same argument when it
opted out of Community
Correction, a 2003 program
in which the state handed
parole
and
probation
programs over to the coun-
ties. Linn County argued that
the state had not provided
adequate funds to operate
the program.
“We saved about $1
million on that,” said Linn
County
Commissioner
Roger Ryquist. “The state
took over the operation of
that program and has done
an excellent job.”
Now, Ryquist said,
counties are wondering
if the same constitutional
provision ought to apply to
the new sick-leave law.
“Counties have told the
state they were triggering the
unfunded mandate provision
of the constitution,” Ryquist
said. “I couldn’t have been
more clear. But rather than
just declaring ‘they didn’t
fund it and we don’t want
to participate,’ we’re acting
with caution. We do need
some guidance from the
court ”
The decision for or
against the counties does
not affect the issue for busi-
nesses. But Ryquist said that
if the decision went in favor
of the counties he would
expect business represen-
tatives to appear before the
legislature and say “Hey,
what about us?”
The
law
currently
contains a provision that
says any business that
provides the same services
as the county can make
similar arguments.
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