WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny and
very warm
89° 58°
95° 59°
SUNDAY
Sunshine and very
hot
Plenty of sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
99° 67°
94° 61°
92° 59°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
93° 53°
99° 54°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
81°
88°
119° (1898)
49°
59°
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"
0.07"
0.12"
7.39"
5.00"
8.11"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
81°
89°
106° (1971)
50°
59°
47° (1947)
0.00"
0.05"
0.06"
4.99"
3.25"
6.01"
SUN AND MOON
Aug 18
Aug 24
5:51 a.m.
8:09 p.m.
2:43 p.m.
12:09 a.m.
New
First
Sep 1
Sep 9
John Day
88/58
Ontario
89/56
Bend
87/51
Burns
88/45
Caldwell
87/53
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
73
83
87
69
88
81
90
88
93
88
88
85
82
100
65
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89
92
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
Hi
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87
91
70
92
86
96
92
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90
87
103
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
94
89
85
71
75
80
73
83
93
65
86
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
100/63
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
90/57
Eugene
90/55
TEMPERATURE
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
96° 57°
Spokane
Wenatchee
84/60
90/65
Tacoma
Moses
82/54
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 91/58
82/51
75/55
84/51
93/59
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
85/58
89/62 Lewiston
93/56
Astoria
89/61
73/57
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
88/63
Pendleton 81/50
The Dalles 93/53
89/58
96/63
La Grande
Salem
85/51
90/59
Corvallis
90/56
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
97° 63°
Seattle
81/59
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
102° 67°
Today
MONDAY
Partly sunny and
very warm
Thursday, August 11, 2016
Klamath Falls
88/48
(in mph)
Today
Friday
Boardman
Pendleton
VAR 3-6
NW 3-6
VAR 3-6
N 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Clouds giving way to sun
today. Areas of low clouds and fog forming
tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of
sun today; pleasant in the south and upper
Treasure Valley. Clear tonight.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today;
however, clouds giving way to sun at the
coast.
Eastern Washington: Sunshine and patchy
clouds today. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today. Clear
tonight. Mostly sunny and very warm
tomorrow.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; plenty of
sunshine elsewhere.
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National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will extend from the Gulf Coast to the
Northeast today. Severe thunderstorms will impact portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin.
The West Coast will be hot and dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in Zapata, Texas
Low 27° in Stanley, Idaho
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
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
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Ammon Bundy defends
Consultant hired for ODOT
audit wanted to be its director brother’s actions in jail scufle
By TAYLOR W. ANDERSON
The Bulletin
BEND — The consultant
who landed a $350,000
contract to audit the Oregon
Department of Transporta-
tion before the state backed
out over conlict of interest
worries had something more
elaborate in mind than an
audit: He wanted to become
director of the agency.
A four-page document
John Craig sent to Oregon
Transportation Commission
Chairwoman Tammy Baney
in January outlines Craig’s
short- and long-term plans for
ODOT and himself. Among
them, replacing ODOT
Director Matthew Garrett as
head of the agency should he
step down.
Craig sent the document
ive months before the
Department of Administra-
tive Services picked him to
conduct the audit lawmakers
say is crucial to the effort to
generate money from drivers
and invest it in Oregon’s
roads, bridges and transit
systems.
Government ethics experts
say Craig stating his long-term
personal goal before being
picked to conduct what’s
been set up as an independent
and transparent audit looks
dubious.
“For him to be conducting
the audit under circumstances
of desiring to become the
director would I think be
disqualifying and would raise
serious conlict of interest
issues,” said Andrew Stark,
professor of management at
the University of Toronto.
“Generally when you conduct
an audit you should have
no interest at all, inancial
or otherwise, in the agency
you’re auditing.”
Gov. Kate Brown called
for a thorough review of
ODOT in November ahead
of the politically challenging
work of writing and passing
a bill that would likely send
hundreds of millions of dollars
through the agency for roads,
bridges, transit and other infra-
structure. She and the Oregon
Transportation Commission
set up a committee to oversee
the work on the audit.
Craig’s outline to Baney
provides deeper insight into
what was viewed as a conlict
of interest severe enough for
transportation oficials to pull
Craig’s contract on the day the
state was set to unveil him as
the auditor, the second time
the state pulled out of the
ODOT auditing contract.
Craig is the former director
of Nebraska’s transportation
department. He spent six
years overseeing a bridge
replacement project that was
funded through an Oregon
transportation investment in
2003. He inished that work
in 2015.
He hasn’t responded to
The Bulletin’s requests for
comment. Richard Mudge,
who was listed as the No. 2
worker on Craig’s proposal,
told The Bulletin on Friday the
state asked the team not to talk
with the media.
Craig outlined for Baney,
who is also a Deschutes
County commissioner, his
past experience working in
Oregon on a project with a
$1.3 billion budget. He also
gave her what he called a
“good practices outline” for
transportation departments,
including creating a long-
range transportation plan,
more outsourcing and annual
reporting.
He inished with what
Baney saw as a statement of
Craig’s interest in working
in Oregon, offering a list
of “potential roles for John
Craig,” which included
working on the management
study as an adviser or member
of the management team and
becoming “Director of ODOT
when (agency director) Matt
Garrett steps down.”
Garrett, head of the agency
since December 2005, is the
longest-serving director since
the State Highway Depart-
ment became ODOT in 1969.
Baney released the docu-
ment late Monday after a
request for records from The
Bulletin. She said she met
Craig through her work as
chairwoman of the transpor-
tation commission and Craig
sought to set up a meeting that
never occurred.
She said she didn’t read the
full document until after the
Department of Administrative
Services picked Craig for
the contract, and eventually
asked that the state back
away from Craig over the
potential appearance that the
audit wouldn’t be viewed as
independent.
“For
this
particular
management
review,
neutrality and independence
is one of the top priorities,”
Baney said. “I think for this
particular body of work it
absolutely does not meet the
priority of an independent
third-party review.”
Legislators involved say
the ability to act on the recom-
mendations from the eventual
audit is vital for bipartisan
buy-in by Republicans and
Democrats, some of whom
say they lack conidence in
the agency’s current manage-
ment.
“Yes it’s a necessary thing.
We’ve got to do it,” said Rep.
Cliff Bentz, R-Ontario, the
House Republicans’ go-to
legislator on transportation
issues. Bentz also expressed
optimism at the possibility
of taking time to ind a new,
independent auditor and
passing a major road funding
bill during the legislative
session next year.
“This (audit) is being
done to make sure that what
we have in the form of our
transportation department is
operating appropriately and
eficiently and in a way that’s
good for the state of Oregon,”
Bentz added.
Questions linger over the
process that led to Craig being
selected as the ODOT auditor
in late June.
The Bulletin reported
this week one of three state
employees who scored the
applications for the contract
noted concerns about Craig’s
past deep involvement with
the agency before he was
awarded the contract anyway.
Craig’s $350,000 bid was
also more than $100,000
more expensive than the
second-place bidder, Public
Works, a Pennsylvania-based
irm that has reviewed the
Port Authority of New York
and New Jersey.
Public Works was selected
in January to conduct the audit
before the state backed out
because the governor’s ofice
and legislators thought the
pool of applicants wasn’t large
enough. Public Works was the
only applicant at the time.
PORTLAND (AP) —
Oregon standoff defendant
Ryan Bundy’s confrontation
with sheriff’s deputies at a
Portland jail stemmed from
his fear that a bullet lodged
in his shoulder would be
surgically removed without
his consent, Ammon Bundy
said in a recorded message
posted to the Bundy Ranch
Facebook page.
In the clip posted late
Tuesday, the jailed standoff
leader said he was awakened
early Tuesday by pounding
on his cell door. It was his
brother, Ryan, saying U.S.
marshals were taking him
to the hospital for a surgical
procedure.
“He was calm but irm
that they do not have
consent to take the bullet out
of his arm,” Bundy said.
Some sort of altercation
followed.
Multnomah
County jail spokesman
Capt. Steve Alexander said
Tuesday that Ryan Bundy
argued with a sergeant and
was taken to the ground.
Ammon Bundy said the
jailers used unnecessary
force.
Alexander said he didn’t
know where marshals took
Bundy after the scufle, but
he was placed under higher
security when he returned
later in the day. Federal
prosecutors
declined
comment on his travels or
Bundy’s claim about the
bullet.
Ammon Bundy said
investigators want the bullet
because it was ired during
the Jan. 26 trafic stop that
ended with the fatal shooting
of Robert “LaVoy” Finicum,
the Arizona rancher who
emerged as a spokesman
during the weeks-long
occupation of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge in
southeast Oregon.
Oregon State Police
troopers ired the rounds that
killed Finicum, a shooting
deemed justiied because
he failed to heed their
commands and reached for
his weapon.
As they looked into how
many shots were ired and
by whom, the investigators
found a round in the roof
of Finicum’s truck. Ryan
Bundy was among those
inside the vehicle.
The
investigators
discovered members of an
FBI hostage rescue team
who were at the scene failed
to disclose they ired two
rounds that missed Finicum.
Prosecutors revealed earlier
this summer that the inves-
tigation of the FBI agents is
now before a grand jury.
“Ryan said he was shot
in the arm before LaVoy
left the vehicle,” Ammon
Bundy said in the clip.
“Ryan believes that the FBI
were going for his head
and when it hit the glass, it
delected to his shoulder.”
Ammon Bundy said his
brother is willing to have the
bullet removed, but doesn’t
want the government in
charge of handling the
evidence.
“Ryan told them that if
he consents, the bullet will
remain in his custody and go
through the forensic investi-
gation by a private, neutral
party,” he said. “They did
not like his terms.”
Gerri Badden, spokes-
woman for the U.S. attor-
ney’s ofice in Oregon, said
prosecutors can’t comment
on any matter in the pending
investigation.
The Bundy brothers and
six others are scheduled to
stand trial next month.
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