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NORTHWEST East Oregonian Page 2A BRIEFLY Measure 97 worries health care providers researchers in Central Oregon say they are surprised and disappointed that the Newberry Geothermal Energy site didn’t make it to the next round. The location near the volcano was leased by Seattle-based AltaRock Energy Inc. Washington: Railroads must show they can handle oil spills OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington’s Department of Ecology has adopted a new rule requiring that railroads shipping oil through the state demonstrate that they can immediately respond to any spills. The department said Thursday the rule takes effect Oct. 1, and it brings railroads into line with rules for companies moving oil by pipeline and by vessel. Railroads will have to provide Ecology with contingency plans detailing steps the railroad will take if oil spills or a substantial risk of a spill occurs during transport. Oficials say they’ll review each plan and require that they be tested through appropriate drills. The state says California and Minnesota have implemented similar laws for railroads. This fall, Washington is also beginning to require that facilities receiving shipments of crude oil by rail notify Ecology, which will share notice of those plans with local irst responders. A corporate sales tax measure on November’s ballot would ensnare some for-proit medical providers, who say it could drive up the cost of care and limit the options for elderly and low-income patients. At the same time, providers say, similar practices with different corporate structures would escape the tax and be placed at a competitive advantage. “The unevenness of this tax is ridiculous,” said Dr. Craig Fausel, CEO of the Oregon Clinic. “We totally support that the state needs more reliable funding. We would be willing to pay a lower level tax that included everybody.” Measure 97 would affect only “C” corporations, such as the Oregon Clinic, imposing a 2.5 percent tax on their Oregon sales exceeding $25 million. It is expected to raise $3 billion a year. Supporters say it largely targets massive, out-of-state corporations. Yet the proposal also means multi-million dollar tax hikes for certain home- grown, physician-owned clinics in Oregon, Fausel, whose large specialty practice serves the Portland metro area, PORTLAND (AP) — The city on Thursday evicted about 200 or 300 homeless people who have been camping along a popular 21-mile bike and pedestrian trail after complaints from neighbors and concerns about environmental damage. Portland has struggled in recent months with camping across the city. It faces a shortage of affordable housing as well as a lack of emergency shelter beds. The sweep of the Springwater Corridor, which stretches from southeast Portland to Boring, previously was set for Aug. 1, but homeless advocates asked for more time to ind the campers alternative places to live. The city and outreach workers began meeting with homeless people six weeks ago, but many still said they weren’t sure where they were going. Craig Alexenko, 54, said he wasn’t sure where he could go. He sat on a pile of garbage that homeless people had left behind as city workers and volunteers moved through a large ield and roped off sections of the encampment with yellow police tape. “I need to get into housing. I’ve been on the streets too long,” he said. The sweep will take days on the 14-mile section of the trail that’s been targeted, said Chad Stover, the city’s livability project manager. The scene was calm and quiet with little police presence. City workers and volunteers carried armloads of belongings for campers and helped them load them into shopping carts, bags and roller suitcases. BEND (AP) — A site near Oregon’s Newberry Volcano is no longer in the running for a federal enhanced geothermal research laboratory. The Bulletin reports that the Wednesday decision by the U.S. Department of Energy left sites in Utah and Nevada competing for the lab. The department put $29 million into research by a Sandia National Laboratories team in Fallon, Nevada, and the University of Utah’s team in Milford, Utah. The investment is meant to help the organizations prepare for an underground geothermal research lab. Developers and estimates he’d be hit with a $4.2 million tax increase, “just… because we are unfortunate enough to be a ‘C’corp.” Meanwhile, other for-proit medical practices in the state, with compa- rable services and size, face no increase. The disparity is based solely on the clinics’ corpo- rate structure and how they pay their taxes, choices that many clinics made years before Measure 97 came on the horizon. Women’s Health Asso- ciates is a limited liability company that elected to pay its taxes as a C corporation. Under Measure 97, the Portland-area practice faces a corporate tax increase of more than $1 million, said CEO Brian Kelly. In contrast, Hematology and Oncology of Salem, a limited liability company that pays taxes as a part- nership, is not subject to the tax, even though the practice generates nearly $40 million in sales each year. Paying taxes as a partner- ship allows proits lowing to the partners to be taxed at their personal income tax rate, said partner Dr. Bud Pierce. Pierce, who is the GOP nominee for governor, has come out against the tax, even though his cancer By PARIS ACHEN Capital Bureau Large homeless camp in Portland cleared out Oregon location eliminated in search for geothermal lab site SALEM (AP) — Campaign stops made by Oregon’s candidates for governor show contrasting strategies for the upcoming election. A list of oficial stops from Democratic Gov. Kate Brown’s campaign primarily includes Oregon cities where the electorate is concentrated, as well as major cities in California and on the East Coast, The Statesman Journal reported. Brown’s interactions with citizens aren’t limited to oficial campaign stops, according to a statement from Brown’s spokes- woman. Brown’s position as governor means she visits Oregonians across the state, the statement said. Republican Bud Pierce, a cancer doctor in Salem, has made ive times as many oficial stops as Brown. 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Temperature bands are highs for the day. WORLD CITIES Hi 82 88 83 69 74 70 85 85 83 64 88 said the California and East Coast stops included fundraisers. Christopher Larimer, a political science professor and candidate behavior specialist at the University of Northern Idaho, said candidates for statewide ofice are increas- ingly attending out-of-state fundraisers. “The cost of state politics is going up so much that I think this is going to be the case more and more,” he said. NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. WINDS Medford 80/49 Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and sun today; a couple of showers, except dry in the south. Eastern and Central Oregon: Cooler today with clouds and sun. Mainly clear tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow. Western Washington: Variable cloudiness today with a couple of showers. A passing shower tonight. more taxes. “Without Measure 97, affordable healthcare remains out of reach for hundreds of thousands of Oregonians,” Driessen said. “With Measure 97, we will be able to provide quality, affordable care for Orego- nians.” But some in the medical community say it could have just the opposite effect. The Oregon Medical Association voted in mid-July to oppose Measure 97 based on “serious concerns about how Measure 97, if passed, would affect Oregon’s healthcare providers, and by extension, their patients.” “The regressive nature of Measure 97 would mean that our patients, especially those with lower incomes, could face additional barriers to accessing quality care at a reasonable price,” the association said in a statement. “The cost of healthcare is already a great burden on families. We believe Measure 97 would compound the problem.” Brad Wakeield, CEO of Corvallis Clinic, said one of the problems with the tax measure is that it taxes sales rather than proits. Corvallis Clinic, which operates in Corvallis and Albany, also faces a signiicant tax hike under the measure. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. REGIONAL CITIES Forecast TODAY sticks to the big towns,” he said. He explained that it’s more important for Pierce to campaign in small towns to reach as many voters as possible. Reached by phone Wednesday, Pierce said most of his future campaign efforts will focus on “battleground counties” like Clackamas, Washington and Multnomah. “That’s where the race is going to be won or lost,” he said. 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Under Measure 97, about 30 out of 1,366 tax return ilers who are catego- rized as health care or social services would see their corporate taxes climb from about $8 million per year to $104 million per year, said Paul Warner, director of the Legislative Revenue Ofice. Some of those ilers are corporations that ile a consolidated tax return for multiple subsidiaries, Warner noted. Consumers would pay about half of the cost of the tax increase in the form of higher prices, according to Warner’s estimates. In total, the tax is projected to cost an Oregon household between $372 and $1,282 per year in the form of higher prices and fewer employment oppor- tunities, according to a May study by the Legislative Revenue Ofice. Our Oregon, the advocacy group backing the measure, wants revenue from the tax to be earmarked for health care, in addition to education and senior services. 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