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Brown says big budget cuts Court wants new
coming without Measure 97 release date for
BRIEFLY
Lost hunter found
near Ukiah
UKIAH — Umatilla
County Search and Rescue
located a missing hunter
early Tuesday morning in
the Blue Mountains near
Ukiah.
Virgil Thompson, 85,
of Portland, was reported
missing by his son at about
10 p.m. Monday after he did
not arrive at their designated
meeting location earlier in
the evening. Search and
Rescue personnel found
Thompson roughly four
hours later, a mile and a half
away from where he was
supposed to meet his hunting
party.
Thompson was
disoriented, but not injured.
He did not have a map,
compass or GPS. He was
able to build a ire to keep
himself warm.
Search and Rescue
escorted Thompson back to
his hunting camp.
PORTLAND — Gov.
Kate Brown Wednesday
defended her decision to
support a corporate sales
tax measure as the only
viable alternative to deep
cuts at state agencies
and rollbacks to recent
education and health care
investments.
Deciding to endorse
Measure 97 “truly was the
most dificult decision I
have ever made during my
time in ofice,” Brown said.
The measure would
levy a 2.5 percent gross
receipts tax on certain
corporations’ Oregon sales
exceeding $25 million and
would represent the largest
tax increase in the state’s
history. It would raise $3
billion a year.
Voters
will
decide
whether to pass the measure
in the Nov. 8 election.
Brown
made
the
comments during a full-
house meeting of the
Portland Business Alliance,
in an appearance that one
businessman described as
walking into a “lion’s den.”
The alliance of nearly
1,900 businesses — similar
PORTLAND (AP) — An
Oregon State Police trooper
testiied a government
informant was driving
Ammon Bundy when the
Oregon standoff leader was
arrested on his way to a
community meeting north
of the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge.
Trooper Jeremiah
Beckert said Wednesday that
informant Mark McConnell
alerted police that Bundy
and other occupiers were
traveling Jan. 26 and
provided their location.
Beckert then described the
ensuing trafic stop and arrests.
He said he did not see what
happened to Robert “LaVoy”
Finicum, the occupation
spokesman shot by police after
leeing the stop.
U.S. District Judge Anna
Brown warned attorneys not
bring up the circumstances
of the Finicum shooting in
front of jurors. When it was
mentioned, she told jurors
this trial is not about the
Finicum shooting.
Bundy and six
co-defendants are charged
with conspiring to impede
federal oficers from doing
their jobs at the wildlife refuge.
RICHLAND,
Wash.
(AP) — New deadlines for
emptying some Hanford
nuclear waste tanks might
not be met if the government
takes steps to better protect
workers from chemical
vapors.
The Department of
Energy requested that its
tanks contractor look at the
potential impact of a union
demand that workers use air
respirators not only within
the boundaries of Hanford
tank farms, but also in an
expanded area of 200 feet
beyond tank farm fences.
As a result, contractor
Washington River Protec-
tion Solutions concluded
that emptying nuclear waste
from ive leak-prone tanks
may not be completed until
2021 instead of in 2020.
The Tri-City Herald
reported Wednesday another
nine tanks in two tank farms
may not be emptied until
March 2026 instead of 2024.
The new deadlines were
set by a federal judge six
months ago after the 2010
court-enforced
consent
decree was revised because
the DOE was unable to
meet many of the remaining
deadlines for emptying
certain tanks and building a
so-called vitriication plant
to treat the waste for perma-
nent disposal.
Hanford has 56 million
gallons of radioactive and
hazardous chemical waste
stored in 177 underground
tanks from the past produc-
tion of plutonium for the
nation’s nuclear weapons
program.
The DOE has notiied
the
Washington
State
Department of Ecology of
the possible issue with dead-
lines “in the spirit of coop-
eration and transparency,”
Kevin Smith, DOE Ofice of
River Protection manager at
Hanford, said in a letter sent
last week.
The state of Washington
regulates Hanford tank
waste and is a plaintiff in
the lawsuit that led to the
consent decree.
“The federal government
is offering more excuses,”
state Attorney General Bob
Ferguson, said in a state-
ment Tuesday. His staff said
that he was speaking on his
own behalf rather than in his
role as the attorney for the
Department of Ecology.
A group estimated that an
expanded vapor control area
could add $512 million to
$769 million in total costs.
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release plan or receives a
psychological diagnosis that
concludes he’s a danger to
the community.
The
board
nixed
Porter’s parole just days
before his release date
and then conducted a new
exit interview in
September 2013.
It found that
Porter “suffers
from a present
severe emotional
disturbance such
as to constitute
a danger to the
health or safety
of the commu-
nity.”
The Appeals
Court said such a inding
had to occur before the June
2013 release date.
“After that release date
had passed, it does not
sufice to later ind a reason
to have postponed his
release,” the opinion states.
Simrin said in a phone
interview Wednesday that
public outcry is not a valid
reason for keeping his client
in prison.
“The board simply
responded to letters from
various concerned citizens,
most of whom were law
enforcement oficers and one
of whom was the governor
of Oregon, all asking them
to reconsider what they had
done,” he said.
Authorities say Porter,
who stands 6-foot-5 and
weighs 225-pounds, was
drunk when he killed Frank
Ward in 1992 after the John
Day police oficer responded
to a domestic violence call.
The oficer had a wife,
daughter and twin 2-year-old
sons.
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PORTLAND — An
appeals
court
ruled
Wednesday that the state
parole board incorrectly
rescinded the release of a
logger who beat a
John Day police
oficer to death
with his ists and
irewood nearly
a quarter-century
ago.
The Oregon
Court of Appeals
also
directed
the parole board
to reinstate the Porter
release date of
Sidney Dean Porter, 56,
who had been set to be
freed in June 2013 before
objections from then-Gov.
John Kitzhaber and law
enforcement oficers led the
board to reverse itself.
Kristina Edmunson, a
spokeswoman for Oregon
Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum, said the state
is reviewing the court deci-
sion and has yet to decide
whether to petition the
Oregon Supreme Court for
review.
If the state declines to
challenge the ruling, Porter
could be released within
a few months, said Andy
Simrin, his attorney.
In its ruling written
by Judge Joel Devore, a
Kitzhaber appointee, the
appeals court said the parole
board did not have a valid
reason to rescind the release.
Once a date is set, the
law says the board can only
postpone it if the prisoner
engages in serious miscon-
duct, has an inadequate
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killer of John Day
police oficer
full-day
kindergarten,
college and university
tuition grants and expan-
sions in health care
coverage.
Yet the governor took no
action during the February
legislative session when
state lawmakers proposed
more moderate alternatives
to the tax.
Our Oregon, a union-
backed advocacy group,
developed the tax measure
through the state’s initia-
tive petition process.
“I don’t see the initiative
process as the best way
to make public policy,”
Brown said.
Describing the process
as “blunt instrument,” the
governor said she believes
lawmakers would need to
make statutory changes to
improve the law, if voters
approve it. She said she
would involve the business
community in any process
designed to modify the tax
measure.
Without the tax, an
estimated $1.35 billion
shortfall in 2017-19 would
force state agencies to trim
their budgets by 10 percent,
Brown said.
“That is just untenable
for me,” she said.
to a chamber of commerce
— has come out against the
corporate sales tax measure
and has dedicated much of its
homepage to campaigning
against the tax measure.
Brown said Oregonians
have for too long been
paying more than their
fair share for the cost of
state services, and it’s time
to increase corporations’
contribution.
Opponents have focused
on studies that show
consumers would pay for
much of the cost of the tax.
The typical Oregon family
would see their costs climb
by about $600 in the form
of higher prices and job
opportunities, according to
an estimate by the nonpar-
tisan Legislative Revenue
Ofice.
Economists disagree on
the exact impact the tax
will have on consumers,
Brown noted. However,
the alliance’s vehement
resistance to the tax proves
that corporations won’t be
passing all of the cost onto
consumers, she argued.
Brown claimed Measure
97 is the only viable alter-
native to keep the state’s
existing investments in
early child education,
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