WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Sunny to partly
cloudy
Pleasant with
brilliant sunshine
92° 59°
87° 59°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Nice with sunshine
Today
TUESDAY
Partly sunny and
beautiful
Mostly sunny and
nice
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
84° 56°
77° 55°
77° 53°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
97° 61°
90° 61°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
91°
89°
113° (1961)
52°
60°
40° (1911)
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"
0.00"
0.04"
7.32"
5.00"
8.03"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
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90°
105° (1961)
50°
59°
42° (1934)
0.00"
0.00"
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3.25"
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Aug 10
Aug 18
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Aug 24
Sep 1
John Day
93/52
Ontario
97/63
Bend
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Burns
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Caldwell
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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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Today
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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
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Medford
92/57
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
Albany
84/50
Eugene
85/48
TEMPERATURE
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
82° 56°
Spokane
Wenatchee
91/62
92/61
Tacoma
Moses
78/51
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 95/57
91/53
67/55
77/50
95/56
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
74/54
94/63 Lewiston
97/61
Astoria
97/65
67/56
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
81/55
Pendleton 90/54
The Dalles 97/61
92/59
88/57
La Grande
Salem
91/53
84/51
Corvallis
84/50
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
82° 55°
Seattle
78/55
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
88° 61°
Friday, August 5, 2016
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
84/45
Today
Saturday
WSW 4-8
NW 4-8
WSW 7-14
W 7-14
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Low clouds followed by
some sun today. Some clouds tonight.
Eastern Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partial
sunshine today; pleasant near the Cascades.
Partly cloudy tonight.
Western Washington: Areas of low clouds,
then some sun today. Mostly cloudy tonight.
Cascades: Mostly sunny today. A thun-
derstorm in spots in the south; pleasant
elsewhere.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; sunny to
partly cloudy elsewhere.
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SALEM — Gov. Kate Brown
announced Thursday that she is
endorsing a controversial corporate sales
tax measure on November’s ballot.
Initiative Petition 28, on track to be
called Measure 97 on the ballot, levies
a 2.5 percent tax on certain corporations’
Oregon gross receipts exceeding $25
million.
“I have spent my career ighting to
make Oregon a place where everyone
can thrive, Brown said in a statement.
“I support Measure 97 because there
is a basic unfairness in our tax system
that makes working families pay an
increasing share for state and local
services, including public schools,
senior services, and health care. By some
measures, Oregon is among the lowest in
corporate taxes, and Oregon ians expect
everyone to pay their fair share.”
The tax would pour an estimated $3
billion a year into state coffers but slow
job growth and bump up consumer
prices, according to the nonpartisan
Legislative Revenue Ofice.
“Our state cannot move
forward and meet Oregon’s
growing needs over the
next decade without a stable
revenue base,” Brown said
Thursday. “Measure 97 is an
important step forward, and I
will make sure the funds the
measure yields go towards
schools, health care, and
Brown
seniors, as the voters expect.
“State leaders before me
have repeatedly tried and failed to solve
the problem of adequate and stable
funding for schools and other state
services.
Every solution has had strengths and
weaknesses in terms of fairness and
economic impact. None has succeeded
in bringing the business community,
individual and family taxpayers, service
providers, and advocates together.”
Bud Pierce, Brown’s Republican
challenger in November’s governor’s
race, said he was disappointed that
Brown is supporting what would be the
largest sales tax increase in Oregon’s
history.
“If passed, this tax increase would
Rebeca Bagdocimo/The Oregonian via AP
Amber Hills, of Newberg, gave birth to identical trip-
let girls were born at Providence St. Vincent in Port-
land on Aug. 1. Hills and her iancé Logan Fletcher are
pictured with their newborn daughters, Raelyn, Avery,
and Elaina.
The infants — who
respectively weighed 2
pounds, 12 ounces; 3 pounds,
11 ounces and 2 pounds, 15
ounces — are in the neonatal
intensive care unit at Provi-
dence St. Vincent Medical
Center in Portland. The girls
are expected to survive and
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could go home next month.
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Omaha
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Philadelphia
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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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made even more dificult
because the ultrasound that
revealed she was carrying
triplets also showed a large
mass in her ovary.
“I was so scared I could
lose the babies,” she said.
“I bawled the whole way
home.”
The mass turned out to be
a cyst the size of a basketball
and Hills had surgery to
remove the ovary and the
cyst while she was pregnant.
The new parents, who are
engaged, hope to have their
daughters be a part of the
wedding ceremony.
“It melts my heart
knowing that they survived,”
Brown-Fletcher said, as one
of his daughters wrapped her
tiny arm around his inger
inside her incubator.
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Oregon parents welcome identical triplet girls
PORTLAND — Each
identical triplet is so tiny
she can it in her father’s
hand — and soon these rare
medical wonders in Oregon
will have painted toenails
so the new parents can tell
them apart.
Logan Brown-Fletcher
and
Amber
Hills,
19-year-old high school
sweethearts and irst-time
parents from Newberg,
Oregon, welcomed identical
girl triplets Raelyn, Avery
and Elaina on Monday.
Their neonatologist, Dr.
Craig Novack, told The
Oregonian/OregonLive that
identical triplets are so rare
he’s only seen one other set
in his 22-year career.
The triplets’ birth came
earlier than planned after
doctors had trouble hearing
a heartbeat for one. Hills
was about 33 weeks along
when she had Cesarian
section.
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greatly raise the cost of living
in Oregon,” Pierce said in
a
statement.
“Everyone,
including low-income families
would be paying on average
more than $1,800 (sic) per
family more for goods and
services. A tax increase like
this will not help anyone. It
will hurt low-income families
in Oregon the most.”
The Legislative Revenue
Ofice estimated that the tax would cause
price increases that would cost a family
earning median income more than $600
more per year in the form of increased
prices on daily needs, such as food, fuel
and electricity.
Brown said that state leaders have
repeatedly failed to come up with
another solution to Oregon’s unstable
funding system for schools and other
state services.
“Every solution has had strengths
and weaknesses in terms of fairness and
economic impact,” she said.
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Paris Achen is an EO Media Group
Capital Bureau reporter based in Salem.
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Brown endorses gross receipts tax
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BRIEFLY
Portland appoints
the city’s irst-
ever tribal liaison
PORTLAND (AP)
— Mayor Charlie Hales
has appointed the city’s
irst-ever tribal liaison.
In a statement Thursday,
the mayor said Patricia
Davis Gibson, a tribal court
judge and tribal attorney,
will represent Native
American interests and
strengthen communication
with various tribes.
Gibson is an enrolled
member of the Comanche
Tribe of Oklahoma, and
is a direct descendant of
Chief Ten Bears.
She grew up in
Wyoming, by the Wind
River Indian Reservation,
and later by the Crow
Nation.
Gibson earned her
undergraduate degree at
Fort Lewis College in
Durango, Colorado, near
the Southern Ute Indian
Reservation.
Feds agree to
dismiss minor
pot case against
Oregon teen
PORTLAND(AP)
— Federal prosecutors
have agreed to dismiss a
small-time marijuana case
against an Oregon teenager
following an outcry that got
the attention of the state’s
congressional delegation.
In a court iling, an
attorney for 19-year-old
Devondre Thomas said the
government has agreed to
dismiss the charge as long
as he works or attends
school and doesn’t break
any laws for the next two
months.
Thomas was charged
with misdemeanor
marijuana possession in
April after prosecutors said
he bought a gram for $20
from another student at the
Chemawa Indian School in
Salem.
The case — with its
potential for a yearlong jail
term — outraged many
people in Oregon.
U.S. Rep. Earl
Blumenauer and Sens. Ron
Wyden and Jeff Merkley
sent a letter to Oregon U.S.
Attorney Billy Williams
expressing concern
about the ofice’s drug
prosecution priorities.
Trump to visit
Oregon within
next month
OLYMPIA, Wash.
(AP) — Campaign oficials
said that Republican
presidential nominee
Donald Trump will be
traveling to the Paciic
Northwest within the
next month for rallies and
fundraisers.
Republican Sen. Doug
Ericksen of Ferndale,
the deputy director for
the Washington state
campaign, said Thursday
that while the dates and
locations are still being
worked out, Trump will
visit Washington and
Oregon late August or early
September.
Trump last visited the
region in May, with rallies
in both states.