WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
Mostly sunny;
warm in the p.m.
80° 49°
83° 56°
SUNDAY
A shower in the
afternoon
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
80° 57°
74° 55°
75° 46°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
84° 46°
87° 52°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
75°
79°
94° (2013)
43°
50°
31° (1916)
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"
0.35"
0.21"
7.74"
5.66"
8.63"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
80°
80°
96° (1937)
0.00"
0.41"
0.17"
5.40"
3.43"
6.32"
SUN AND MOON
Sep 23
Bend
77/42
New
6:34 a.m.
7:06 p.m.
6:41 p.m.
5:06 a.m.
First
Sep 30
Oct 8
Caldwell
75/39
Burns
74/30
Hi
70
76
77
65
74
74
83
79
84
79
76
78
75
88
62
65
78
84
80
79
80
82
78
75
79
81
85
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
Lo
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
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82
85
76
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81
84
69
80
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Medford
88/51
PRECIPITATION
Sep 16
John Day
79/48
Ontario
78/40
36°
49°
30° (1970)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
82/47
Eugene
83/47
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
77° 50°
Spokane
Wenatchee
78/49
83/54
Tacoma
Moses
75/47
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 82/44
77/41
67/50
76/47
85/46
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
76/49
81/54 Lewiston
84/45
Astoria
82/49
70/51
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
79/53
Pendleton 74/40
The Dalles 84/46
80/49
87/51
La Grande
Salem
78/37
82/49
Corvallis
84/47
HIGH
78° 54°
Seattle
74/53
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
81° 58°
Today
MONDAY
A couple of
afternoon showers
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Klamath Falls
76/36
(in mph)
Today
Friday
Boardman
Pendleton
SW 3-6
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SW 4-8
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UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Areas of low clouds and
fog, then sunshine today; pleasant.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and nice today. Clear and moonlit tonight.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Areas of low clouds early; otherwise, mostly
sunny at the coast.
Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today. A
moonlit sky tonight. Sunny to partly cloudy
tomorrow.
Cascades: Mostly sunny and nice today.
A moonlit sky tonight. Plenty of sunshine
tomorrow.
Northern California: Sun and some clouds
today; pleasant.
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National Summary: Julia will continue the risk of heavy rain, flooding and beach erosion
from Georgia to the Carolinas today. Pockets of heavy thunderstorms will bring the risk of
flash flooding and strong winds to the Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 101° in McAllen, Texas
Low 22° in Olney, Mont.
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
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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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Harney County Sheriff says occupiers warned of armed invasion
PORTLAND (AP) — The
occupiers who took over
a national wildlife refuge
warned an Oregon sheriff
that his county would be
“invaded” by armed citizens
if he didn’t protect his
constituents from the federal
government, the law oficer
testiied Wednesday.
Harney County Sheriff
Dave Ward said that before
the 41-day standoff, group
leader Ammon Bundy and
another man urged him to
protect two local ranchers
who faced additional prison
time for setting ires on federal
lands. That protest grew into
demands for the U.S. govern-
ment to turn public range over
to local control.
Bundy and six others are
on trial in the occupation of
the Malheur National Wildlife
Refuge earlier this year. All
are charged with conspiring
to prevent federal employees
from doing their jobs at the
remote bird sanctuary. Five
of them are also charged with
possession of a irearm in a
federal facility.
Ward said Bundy and
defendant Ryan Payne, who
pleaded guilty in July, visited
him on Nov. 5, nearly two
months before occupiers
seized the refuge.
The sheriff testiied that
Bundy was polite and “an easy
guy to have a conversation
with,” but the pair warned of
civil unrest unless he told the
federal government that the
ranchers would not go back to
prison.
“I was told my responsi-
bility was to prevent them
from going to prison, and if
I didn’t do those things, they
would bring hundreds of
people to town to do my job
for me,” Ward said.
The
father-and-son
ranchers, Dwight and Steven
Hammond, distanced them-
selves from the occupiers and
reported to prison two days
after the standoff began Jan. 2.
Ward said the sheriff’s
ofice soon was looded with
phone calls and emails from
supporters.
An email from defendant
Neil Wampler said the sheriff
needed to protect residents
from an abusive government
or “see your county invaded
by the most determined and
organized — and armed —
citizens alive in this country.”
A second message from
Wampler warned: “We ain’t
playin!”
The sheriff said he’s no
cheerleader for the federal
government, but he examined
the Hammond case and deter-
mined that he had no right to
defy the U.S. court system.
The defendants say the
takeover was a legitimate
protest of federal land
management.
Bundy’s
attorney, Marcus Mumford,
noted that the occupiers never
aimed a gun at anyone.
Ward said it was
“absolutely not a peaceful
occupation,”
describing
gunmen clearing rooms using
military-style tactics.
Prosecutors and defense
attorneys asked the sheriff
about a cordial meeting he
had with Bundy a few days
into the occupation. In a clip
of the meeting, Ward offered
Bundy safe passage out of
Oregon and praised him for
getting out his message about
government overreach.
“I didn’t go there to pick a
ight,” Ward said. “I wanted
them to go home.”
Ward said he arranged the
visit after determining at a
town hall meeting that most
residents wanted the occu-
piers to leave.
Under cross examination
from Ryan Bundy, who is
acting as his own attorney,
the sheriff acknowledged
that the occupation received
greater favorability as the
weeks went on.
“To a degree, yes,” Ward
said.
Judge invalidates Public Forecast: U.S. slowdown would drag Oregon down
joint meeting of the Senate Lehner said.
General fund revenue is
Forest Commission
But
the
national on track to reach $18.334
Committee on Finance and
Revenue and the House economic picture is not as billion, down $2.2 million
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
By SEAN HART
EO Media Group
Grant County voters
will not see Public Forest
Commission candidates on
the November ballot after a
judge nulliied the measure
that created it.
Grant County Circuit
Court Judge William D.
Cramer Jr. ruled Wednsday
that the measure creating
the commission that was
approved by county voters
in 2002 “conlicts with para-
mount law in both the State
of Oregon and federally” in
a brief opinion letter to the
county, which defended the
measure, and Mark Webb,
who challenged it.
Cramer stated the measure
was improper and granted
a summary judgment nulli-
fying it. He said he intends
to prepare a more detailed
opinion explaining the deci-
sion but offered the abbrevi-
ated opinion to advise Grant
County Clerk Brenda Percy,
who is preparing the ballots
for the upcoming election.
Measure 12-39, which
was adopted by a majority
of county voters through the
initiative process, established
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a seven-person commission
“with the responsibility of
managing all public lands
and natural resources within
Grant County.” The measure
authorized the commission to
divide public land into ranger
districts and to purchase, sell
and trade public land with
voter approval.
Webb argued in his peti-
tion for judicial review that
the measure conlicted with
state law by authorizing the
commission to manage land
currently managed by state
agencies, such as the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wild-
life and the Oregon Parks
and Recreation Department.
He argued it conlicted with
federal law by authorizing
the commission to manage
Bureau of Land Management
and Forest Service land.
SALEM — Oregon’s
economy remains “healthy
across the board,” outper-
forming other states in
job growth and other
indicators, state economists
told lawmakers in Salem
Wednesday.
But the economists also
warned that a slowdown in
the U.S. economy would
likely drag down the state’s
economic boom.
“Given that Oregon has
traditionally very much
synchronized with the U.S.
business cycle and our
revenues are very much tied
to personal income, this is
something we are watching
very closely,” said state
economist Mark McMullen.
Lawmakers heard the
forecast Wednesday at a
Revenue Committee.
The state’s quarterly
economic forecast showed
employers in the state
continue to add nearly 5,000
jobs per month, double the
rate of U.S. jobs growth,
McMullen said.
“It is really unsustain-
able right now how fast
we’re growing,” said state
economist Mark McMullen.
“We’re adding about twice
as many jobs as we are
workers so at some point
this has to balance out.”
The brisk job growth
has created a tight labor
market, which is driving
up wages, said state
economist Josh Lehner.
Retiring baby boomers
are expected to make that
labor market even tighter,
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from the June forecast of
$18.336.5 billion, according
to the revenue forecast.
The economic and
revenue forecasts didn’t
address what the state’s
revenue would look like
if Measure 97 passes in
November. The corporate
sales tax measure would add
an estimate $3 billion more
per year to state coffers.
If the tax measure passes,
the Ofice of Economic
Analysis will adjust state
revenue numbers for the
December forecast.
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bright, McMullen said.
U.S. personal income
growth is slowing from 6
percent at the beginning of
2015 to half of that now, he
said.
Weakness in manufac-
turing has spread beyond
energy production to more
industries, and investment
spending continues to
stay lat. Other states are
starting to see their sales
and income tax revenues
stagger at amounts below
economist’s
projections,
McMullen said.
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