WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Quite cold; a bit of
p.m. snow
Cold with icy mix
22° 18°
34° 27°
TUESDAY
A bit of morning
snow; cloudy
Snow or fl urries
possible
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
39° 29°
35° 24°
31° 18°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
33° 26°
19° 17°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
17°
40°
70° (1914)
0°
26°
-6° (1942)
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"
0.11"
0.35"
0.11"
0.01"
0.35"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
19°
40°
58° (2009)
0.00"
0.10"
0.24"
0.10"
0.01"
0.24"
SUN AND MOON
Jan 19
Bend
29/25
Burns
16/13
7:35 a.m.
4:28 p.m.
12:52 p.m.
1:56 a.m.
New
First
Jan 27
Feb 3
Caldwell
16/14
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
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Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
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Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
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Hi
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Medford
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PRECIPITATION
Jan 12
John Day
31/28
Ontario
13/11
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-8° (1974)
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
33/32
Eugene
34/33
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
31° 20°
Spokane
Wenatchee
22/19
20/16
Tacoma
Moses
37/29
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 24/20
25/23
36/33
35/29
23/14
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
34/30
26/23 Lewiston
21/17
Astoria
28/27
39/33
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
31/29
Pendleton 21/18
The Dalles 19/17
22/18
25/19
La Grande
Salem
22/20
33/30
Corvallis
33/31
HIGH
36° 24°
Seattle
37/32
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
38° 29°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Rain, ice and snow
possible
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Klamath Falls
37/32
(in mph)
Today
Sunday
Boardman
Pendleton
NNE 4-8
NNE 4-8
N 4-8
WNW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Occasional rain today into
tomorrow. Monday: periods of rain.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Today: snow,
accumulating 1-3 inches in the south, cen-
tral parts and and reaching the north today.
Western Washington: Snow and sleet will
spread from south to north this afternoon;
some rain at the coast.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a
bit of snow toward the Cascades and in the
far south late.
Cascades: Snow today, accumulating
several inches. Snow level rising as high as
5,000 feet south.
Northern California: Rain today; snow,
accumulating 6-10 inches in the interior
mountains.
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Richardson presses for
audits of ‘controversial’ topics
He cited the Columbia
River Crossing and the
Business Energy Tax Credit
SALEM — Secretary of (BETC) program adminis-
State Dennis Richardson said tered by the Oregon Depart-
this week he wants his office ment of Energy as other
to pursue audits on controver- examples.
The BETC program was
sial topics.
Although the Republican audited by an outside firm
has claimed he will run the last year, and the Legislature
convened a joint
office in a nonpar-
committee
to
tisan
manner,
review the energy
his office’s audit
department.
choices may be
Richardson also
under wider scru-
said he wanted to
tiny than usual in a
conduct audits on
state with a heavily
government proj-
Democratic govern-
ects as they unfold
ment.
— although he did
Richardson
not yet have details
said he asked the Richardson
Thursday
about
head of the audits
division why there hadn’t what sort of projects would fit
been an audit of programs the bill. Ideally, he said, such
such as Cover Oregon, the audits would look both at
state’s failed health insurance finances and processes.
There are detailed proce-
exchange.
“The answer was that the dures in place for deciding
process from the previous which programs to audit every
audit division director was, year, according to documents
that if it is controversial, then provided by the Secretary of
that means that the Legisla- State’s Office.
Audits are divided into
ture is already aware of it and
is looking at it and so we don’t three types — information
need to be involved, we’ll go technology, performance and
audit something that’s not financial audits.
Some financial audits
controversial or where there’s
no publicity,” Richardson are required every year. The
statewide single audit, for
said.
Richardson said he under- example, is required so the
stood that position, but that state can receive funding
having been a legislator, he from the federal government.
Performance
audits
knows legislators have limited
staff. His goal is to assemble a often make news. Typically
team within the audit division they are more digestible,
to audit agencies or programs containing written recom-
when problems become mendations for agency or
program improvements.
public.
Auditors keep notes of
“I think we need to have
a small group of the auditors potential audit topics while
whose workload allows them they are conducting other
to be utilized to go toward the audits and keeping track
fire if there’s a fire burning of current events. Those
somewhere,”
Richardson ideas are kept in a database
that describes the agency
said.
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or program, the issue, and
potential questions to ask as
part of an audit.
Requests for audits can
also come from legislators,
agency directors, or the
state’s hotline for complaints
of fraud and waste.
Every year, the auditing
team reviews the database
of ideas — ranging in the
hundreds — and whittle it
down to 30 to 40 “priority
topics,” which in turn are
reviewed by managers.
The
audit
division
director, the deputy director
and performance audit
managers vote on the topics
and then the team discusses
the most popular ideas to
determine about a dozen
topics for the upcoming year.
Then the secretary of state
and deputy secretary review
the list and give feedback,
which might prompt further
discussion or adjustments to
the audit schedule.
The criteria used in
evaluating program choices
are varied, but can be
summarized in three ways:
The complexity of the audit,
potential public benefit
— including public safety
issues, cost savings and “key
challenges” for the state as a
whole — and risk.
“We are on the lookout
for topics that are high risk,
where we suspect the controls
in place over a program are
weak and where the resulting
effects would be large,”
according to documentation
from the Secretary of State’s
Office.
The office also, according
to
internal
documents,
prefers to “focus our perfor-
mance audits on program
improvement rather than
identification of past wrong-
doing.”
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National Summary: Snow will spread northward along the immediate Atlantic coast as
spotty snow affects the Upper Midwest. A storm will bring heavy rain, flooding, ice and
high country snow to the Pacific coast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 84° in Marathon, Fla.
Low -48° in Walden, Colo.
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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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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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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BRIEFLY
Drone engine
maker to set
up facility in
Columbia Gorge
SEATTLE (AP) — An
Australian company that
makes engines for aerial
drones is planning to set up
a facility in the Columbia
Gorge, following a $90
million agreement to supply
engines for a Boeing
subsidiary.
The Seattle Times reports
that Orbital, based in Perth,
signed a three-year deal to
supply Insitu, a major drone
manufacturer, with a new
unmanned aerial engine.
Orbital plans to move
into an existing facility
within six months, probably
in the Washington town
of Bingen where Insitu is
headquartered.
Orbital will initially
bring about 15 jobs to the
area, with more expected
later.
Orbital has been working
with Insitu for four years on
a new propulsion system for
Insitu’s ScanEagle UAV, a
long-endurance drone that
features a sophisticated
digital imaging system. It’s
used extensively by the U.S
military for surveillance
in combat zones such as
Afghanistan and Iraq.
Authorities: Victims
appear to be part of
murder-suicide
HUBBARD (AP) —
Five people, including
three children, found dead
in a fire in western Oregon
appear to have been part of
a murder-suicide, authorities
said Friday.
Investigators picking
through the burned home
near rural Hubbard found
the remains of a man,
woman and the children.
Kris Holland/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP, File
In this 2009 file photo, Insitu demo team specialist
Brian Jones displays a drone aircraft in Bingen, Wash.
Australian company Orbital, that makes engines for
aerial drones, is planning to set up a facility in the
Columbia Gorge following a $90 million agreement
to supply engines for a Boeing subsidiary.
Autopsies show the
children were shot to death;
the woman died of blunt-
force trauma to the head;
and the man died from a
gunshot wound to the head,
the Marion County Sheriff’s
Office said.
The sheriff’s office did
not identify the bodies, but
records show the residence
belonged to Erin Kroeker,
39, and Keith Kroeker,
42, and that they had three
children.
Authorities said they
do not believe there is any
immediate danger to the
public.
Firefighters called to
the property early Tuesday
near Interstate 5 between
Portland and Salem found
the home, a shop and a
detached garage ablaze.
Each structure was appar-
ently ignited separately.
The sheriff’s office said it
won’t comment on evidence
or give more details as the
investigation continues.
Police find missing
Oregon woman in
trunk of her car
MILWAUKIE (AP) —
The body of an Oregon
woman who had been
missing for more than a
week was found in the
trunk of her car, authorities
said.
The Kia Optima
belonging to 68-year-old
Merrilee Cooley was
spotted by police Thursday
night at an apartment
complex in the Portland
suburb of Milwaukie,
Clackamas County sheriff’s
Sgt. Brian Jensen said.
Detectives responded
and found the body in
the trunk. Police have not
released additional details.
“We’re trying to piece
together if we have a
suspect,” Jensen said.
Cooley lived alone at a
mobile home and needed a
walker to get around.
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