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Trump vows ‘fair,
Republicans to query
irms that ran Clinton’s but irm’ approach
to illegal immigration
private email server
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Republicans stepped up their
attacks Monday on former
Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton’s use of a private
email server and pointed to
newly released messages to
allege that foreign donors to
the Democratic presidential
nominee’s family charity got
preferential treatment from
her department.
Congressional
Repub-
licans issued subpoenas to
three technology companies
that either made or serviced
the server located in the
basement of Clinton’s New
York home. The subpoenas
were issued Monday by
House Science, Space and
Technology
Chairman
Lamar Smith of Texas with
the support of Senate Home-
land Security Chairman Ron
Johnson of Wisconsin.
In a joint statement,
Smith and Johnson said the
move was necessary after the
three companies — Platte
River Networks, Datto Inc.
and SECNAP Network
Security Corp. — declined
to voluntarily answer ques-
tions to determine whether
Clinton’s private server met
government standards for
record-keeping and security.
The subpoenas were
among several developments
Monday that showed a new
GOP emphasis on Clinton’s
emails after the FBI recently
closed its yearlong probe
into whether she and her
aides mishandled sensitive
government information that
lowed through her server.
The FBI recommended
against criminal charges.
The State Department
is now reviewing nearly
15,000 previously undis-
closed emails recovered as
part of the FBI investigation.
Lawyers for the department
told U.S. District Court
Judge James E. Boasberg on
Monday that they anticipate
processing and releasing
the irst batch of these new
emails in mid-October,
raising the prospect that new
messages sent or received by
Clinton could become public
just before November’s
election.
Boasberg is overseeing
production of the emails as
part of a federal public-re-
cords lawsuit iled by the
conservative legal advocacy
group Judicial Watch. Repre-
senting the State Department,
Justice Department lawyer
Lisa Olson told the judge
that oficials do not yet know
how many of the emails are
work-related, rather than
personal.
Clinton,
who
was
secretary of state from
2009 to 2013, had claimed
she deleted only personal
emails prior to returning
more than 55,000 pages of
her work-related messages
to the State Department last
year. The department has
publicly released most of
those emails, although some
have been withheld because
they contain information
considered sensitive to
national security.
The thousands of previ-
ously undisclosed Clinton
emails obtained by the FBI
came from the accounts of
other people she communi-
cated with or were recovered
through the bureau’s forensic
examination of her old
server.
AKRON, Ohio (AP) —
Republican Donald Trump
promised Monday to be
“fair, but irm” toward the
estimated 11 million immi-
grants living in the United
States illegally, a shift in
tone that raised questions on
whether he’s backtracking
from previous pledges to
push for mass deportations.
The billionaire busi-
nessman, whose hard-line
approach to immigration
and ierce rhetoric propelled
him to the GOP presidential
nomination, insisted that he’s
not “lip-lopping” on the
divisive issue as he works to
broaden his support two-and-
a-half months before the
general election.
But in a meeting with
Hispanic activists Saturday,
Trump indicated he was
open
to
considering
allowing those who have not
committed crimes, beyond
their immigration offenses,
to obtain some form of legal
status — though attendees
stressed Trump has yet to
make up his mind.
“The impression I got was
that the campaign is working
on substantive policy to help
the undocumented that are
here, including some type of
status so they would not be
deported,” said Pastor Mario
Bramnick, president of the
Hispanic Israel Leadership
Coalition, who was in atten-
dance.
Any walk-back would
mark a dramatic reversal
for Trump. During the GOP
primary, Trump vowed to
use a “deportation force”
to round up and deport the
millions of people living in
the country illegally — a
proposal that excited many
of his core supporters, but
alienated Hispanic voters
who could be pivotal in key
states.
Trump said in an inter-
view with “Fox & Friends”
on Monday that he was
“working with a lot of people
in the Hispanic community
to try and come up with an
answer.”
“We want to come up
with a really fair, but irm
answer. It has to be very irm.
But we want to come up with
something fair,” he said.
Later, he told Fox News
Channel’s Bill O’Reilly, “I
just want to follow the law.”
“The irst thing we’re
gonna do, if and when I win,
is we’re gonna get rid of all
of the bad ones. We’ve got
gang members, we have
killers, we have a lot of bad
people that have to get out
of this country. We’re gonna
get them out,” he said.
“As far as everybody else,
we’re going to go through
the process,” he said, citing
the policies of President
Barack Obama and former
President George W. Bush
as examples.
Asked whether Trump’s
plan still included a deporta-
tion force, his new campaign
manager,
Kellyanne
Conway, said Sunday it was
“to be determined.”
“Even
Sen.
Jeff
Sessions,” a hard-liner on
immigration, “he doesn’t
deport 11 million people in
his plan,” Conway said on
CNBC Monday.
Trump had been sched-
uled to deliver a speech on
the topic Thursday in Colo-
rado, but has postponed it.
COUNCIL: Also approved lease for new senior center
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district are meant to give the
city a chance to adjust slowly
to the decreased revenue.
“Make no mistake, the
city will feel the effects of
the new ire district,” Morgan
said.
In July the city proposed
$260,000 in lease payments
over the irst four years.
The contract also states
that although the city has
no intention of selling the
building, if it does put it up for
sale sometime in the future
the ire district can credit the
$200,000 it already spent on
rent toward purchasing the
building.
Morgan said Fire Chief
Scott Stanton told the city
council in 2014 that the
district would be willing to
look at ways to help ease
the impact on the city’s
general fund if a new district
was formed, and the lease
agreement’s de-escalating
prices were based on later
discussions to that effect.
On Monday the city
council also approved a
lease with Hermiston School
District for 1.19 acres of
property off Ridgeway
Avenue near the Hermiston
Public Library. The land,
along with a portion of
Ridgeway Avenue and the
parking lots behind the
library, will be used for a
new senior center known as
the Harkenrider Center.
City Manager Byron
Smith said the school district
was not quite comfortable
with selling the property,
but it was willing to sign a
50-year lease with the city
for $1 per year.
The plans for the Harken-
rider Center, which the city
council reviewed on Monday
night, include 3,800 square
feet on the main level and a
7,200 square foot daylight
basement.
“The total is 11,000 square
feet, which is twice what the
existing senior center has
available,” said Larry Fetter,
grant manager and parks and
recreation director.
He said he continues to
work with the senior center
board on tweaks to things
such as paint color and the
number of handicapped
parking spaces, but they plan
to put the project out to bid
on Oct. 31 and award the
bid Dec. 31, which should
allow construction to inish
in August 2017.
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SPEED: Average speeds decrease where cameras are installed
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Hermiston. Those cameras
help computers controlling
the trafic signals at the inter-
sections see how many cars
are waiting in each direction.
Speed
cameras
are
less prevalent than those
enforcing red lights, but they
are gaining in popularity as
the technology improves.
According to the Insurance
Institute for Highway Safety,
as of this month 11 states
have laws explicitly allowing
speed cameras and 142 cities
have the cameras installed.
In communities where
they have been installed, there
has been controversy over the
cameras’ accuracy, privacy
concerns and accusations
that they were being used
as a money-maker for cash-
strapped police departments
instead of a legitimate safety
initiative. Tuscon, Arizona,
had to shut theirs off last
year after a citizen initiative
outlawed them.
In November the Chicago
Tribune reported that the
city of Chicago’s school
zone speed cameras had
resulted in more than 2.1
million tickets and warnings,
totaling more than $81
million in ines, in two years.
According to the Tribune,
when its reporters began
asking questions about the
legalities of speciic tickets,
the city suddenly refunded
$2.4 million worth of tickets
it admitted should not have
been issued according to the
rules governing the program.
Cities have defended use of
speed enforcement cameras,
however, noting that studies
show average speeds do go
down where the cameras are
installed, decreasing crashes
along the affected highways.
The Portland Bureau of
Transportation has stated
that its intention with the
new cameras — which are
accompanied by warning
signs that give drivers time
to slow down before reaching
them — is not to trick people
into getting a ticket, but just
to give them more incentive
to obey posted speed limits.
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Strandberg said in Eastern
Oregon ODOT has other
ways it encourages people
to slow down on dangerous
highways.
“We try to determine what
the issue is and what we could
do to help resolve the issue,”
he said.
The department works
with
law
enforcement,
including Oregon State
Police, to identify which
roads might beneit most
from a police cruiser parked
along them for a few days. In
some cases ODOT provides
agencies with extra funding
for increased patrols around
construction zones.
On roads with a high rate
of crashes, the department
can do a trafic study to deter-
mine if a lower speed limit is
warranted or declare the area
a “safety corridor” with extra
signs and lights reminding
people to slow down and pay
attention.
In some cases where a
wide road through town could
be narrowed without causing
trafic to back up, the depart-
ment institutes a “road diet”
by removing one or more
lanes. In other cases the road
itself stays the same size but
trafic-calming measures like
trees, medians and decorative
crosswalks are put into place.
“They tend to get people’s
attention and remind them
they’re going through an
urban area,” Strandberg said.
Both Umatilla and Stan-
ield have highways that act
as their main road through
town, and both cities have
drawn up trafic-calming
designs and are working with
ODOT to ind funding for
them. Umatilla expects to put
a project out to bid in October
2017.
Strandberg said the more
people dedicate themselves
to putting away the phone and
other distractions and obeying
the speed limit, the more lives
can be saved.
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VIGIL: Assembly of God
collecting money for families
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tragedy.
“It’s just a moment for
people to shed some tears
and share some support,”
she said.
Participants are asked to
bring candles, glow sticks,
small lashlights or other
devices that will help light
up the park.
Community members
began discussing ways
to show their support for
the families soon after the
killings, and Nelson said
some of the students from
Bye’s nursing class at Blue
Mountain
Community
College decided to expand
their planned vigil for
Bye into a community
event supporting everyone
affected.
Other
community
members have created
a Hermiston Strong!!
Facebook page, where they
have discussed planning
another community get-to-
gether that would include
fundraising for funeral and
medical expenses. Several
GoFundMe
accounts
have been set up online,
including one that had
raised $19,922 for Bye
and Hurtado’s family by
Monday evening, and
Hermiston Assembly of
God is collecting money as
well.
Nelson said organizers
of the vigil hope to have
a handout ready for
Wednesday that will let
people worried about scams
know which fundraisers the
families can vouch for.
INVESTIGATION: Bye released
from the hospital over the weekend
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as high school and had
coached wrestling together
since 2013, and Huston and
Bye had previously been
in a relationship. Edmiston
held off discussing a
motive, calling it premature
while the investigation
continues.
Hurtado had last been
seen Thursday at 10 a.m.
when Huston picked him
up in Umatilla and said they
were going to play disc golf
at McNary Park, according
to Edmiston.
Police around 11:18 a.m.
responded to calls about
a shooting at Southwest
11th Street and Hermiston
Avenue. They found the
door open at Valdez’s
home at 130 N.W. 11th St.,
and inside found Bye and
the bodies of Valdez and
Huston.
Edmiston said Bye gave
a detailed statement to
police, but Huston had not
told her he shot her son.
Bye was released from the
hospital over the weekend.
Detectives at a debrieing
talked about their search for
Hurtado that began soon
after they arrived at Valdez’s
home, Edmiston said, and
also came up with a “to do”
list, including more places
to check for the teen. They
soon learned of two places
Huston was known to go
shooting recreationally.
“When we got that, it
was starting to get dark,”
Edmiston said, “so we had
to hurry.”
Detectives went to both
sites, he said, and found
the boy’s body off Country
Lane about two miles
outside the Hermiston city
limits.
Police found a pickup
that belonged to Huston
on Bridge Road, which
is near Country Lane, but
Edmiston said Huston
drove another pickup
into town and parked it at
Foxwood Apartments near
Valdez’s home.
And while Valdez had a
roommate, Edmiston said,
that person was at work
during the shooting.
MEASURE: ‘Oregon ranks 50th
in the country in corporate taxes’
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for
the
union-backed
campaign for Measure
97. Earlier this month, the
measure won an endorse-
ment from Gov. Kate
Brown. Another research
committee recommended
last week that the City Club
of Portland endorse the
measure.
“It’s clear that when
Oregonians get the facts
about Measure 97, they
agree it’s time to hold large
and out-of-state corporations
accountable,” said Kath-
erine Driessen, a spokes-
woman for Our Oregon,
the nonproit backing the
measure. “Oregon ranks
50th in the country in
corporate taxes, leaving our
schools and critical services
badly underfunded.”
The campaign against
the measure said panelists
ignored
research
that
showed consumers would
bear most of the burden
from the tax.
“We disagree with the
conclusions of the panelists
who voted to support
Measure 97 despite the fact
that most of the $6 billion
measure will be paid by
Oregon consumers through
higher prices for the services
and goods they buy every
day — clothing, groceries,
electricity, medicine, insur-
ance, even medical care,”
said Rebecca Tweed, Defeat
the Tax on Oregon Sales
campaign coordinator.
Lawmakers approved the
Citizens Initiative Review
Commission in 2011 based
on a concept developed
by Health Democracy
Oregon. The creation of
the commission “marked
the irst time a legislature
has made voter deliberation
a formalized part of the
election process,” according
to the Healthy Democracy
Oregon website.
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