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Oregon joins travel ban lawsuit, citing ‘harm’ to state
in providing a welcoming
home to people from all over
the world,” according to the
justice department’s motion.
State officials argued that
the travel ban could cause
a shortage of physicians
and medical residents,
drain international tuition
dollars from universities
and strip the state’s tech-
nology industry of talent.
Out of Oregon’s $92 billion
investment portfolio, about
$19 million comes from
technology companies, who
have expressed alarm about
the impact the ban will
have on their highly-skilled
workers who often come
from overseas.
“That disruption also
affects Oregon as a share-
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Oregon’s Department of
Justice has filed court papers
seeking to join Washington’s
lawsuit challenging President
Donald Trump’s temporary
travel ban on citizens from
seven predominantly Muslim
countries.
“The executive order has
caused — and threatens to
further cause — harm to
Oregon and its residents,
employers, agencies, educa-
tional institutions, health
care system and economy.
Moreover, the executive
order forces Oregon to
violate its own laws against
discrimination, frustrating
Oregon’s sovereign interest
program. Likewise, Oregon
Health & Science University
officials reported the ban
affects six of their medical
residents and the ability to
replace them is unlikely.
“The loss of even one
resident to a program carries
a very high risk of an adverse
impact on OHSU’s ability
to provide the patient care
that the state of Oregon and
Oregonians need,” according
to court documents.
Trump’s executive order,
signed Jan. 27, indefinitely
bans Syrian refugees and
temporarily blocks other
refugees and citizens of
seven
majority-Muslim
countries from entering the
United States. The order
came after Trump promised
holder,” State Treasurer
Tobias Read wrote in a
declaration to the court.
About 165 of Oregon
State University’s 3,529
international students are citi-
zens of the countries affected
by the travel ban. The ban
affects 59 of Portland State
University’s more than 1,900
international students. Inter-
national students contributed
about 13 percent of PSU’s net
tuition and fees for 2015-16.
“Their tuition revenue will
be lost if they are unable to
travel to Oregon,” according
to the lawsuit.
The ban would threaten
the state’s ability to attract
and retain physicans to prac-
tice in rural and underserved
areas through the J-1 visa
Lawmakers consider boost to
service industry worker rights
PORTLAND (AP) — U.S. District
Judge Anna Brown will hear oral argu-
ments Friday on the government’s attempt
to compel a reporter to testify in the second
trial for the occupation of a national
wildlife refuge in Oregon.
The government wants former Oregon
Public Broadcasting reporter John
Sepulvado to authenticate his January 2016
recorded interview of Ryan Bundy during
the takeover of the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge.
An attorney for Sepulvado and Oregon
Public Broadcasting filed a motion to
quash the government’s subpoena. OPB
attorney Duane Bosworth contends the
compelled testimony would “chill future
sources” for Sepulvado and other OPB
reporters.
The ACLU of Oregon and Reporters
Committee for Freedom of the Press have
filed briefs in support of OPB.
Trial began this week for four men who
joined leaders Ryan and Ammon Bundy
at last winter’s occupation of the refuge. A
jury acquitted the Bundys last fall.
Bruce Ely /The Oregonian via AP, File
service-related employees,
who are often earning
minimum wage and juggling
school and family lives, the
study said.
The proposals, which
are still in the early stages
of debate at the Legislature,
come a year after a contentious
statewide minimum wage
increase to nearly $15 per
hour by 2022 and this week’s
rosy economic forecast by
state economists indicating
Oregon remained ahead of the
nation in terms of job growth
and unemployment last year.
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy and
cold
Cold with periods
of sun
39° 21°
40° 27°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Cloudy with a
snow shower; cold
Mostly cloudy with
a little snow
Partly sunny and
cold
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
38° 26°
38° 27°
41° 30°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
44° 26°
41° 21°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
41°
49°
66° (1921)
28°
31°
7° (1894)
PRECIPITATION
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Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
1.88"
0.94"
3.53"
2.33"
2.32"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
46°
51°
67° (1947)
24°
30°
14° (1928)
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"
1.57"
0.79"
3.26"
1.44"
2.07"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Feb 26
Mar 5
Full
Mar 12
42° 27°
44° 31°
Seattle
45/31
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
42° 28°
6:42 a.m.
5:35 p.m.
5:35 a.m.
3:48 p.m.
Last
Mar 20
Today
TUESDAY
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Wenatchee
35/19
34/19
Tacoma
Moses
46/25
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 37/16
37/22
44/32
45/26
40/21
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
42/27
41/22 Lewiston
44/21
Astoria
41/25
44/32
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
43/27
Pendleton 31/12
The Dalles 41/21
39/21
43/22
La Grande
Salem
35/17
45/28
Albany
Corvallis 43/28
44/28
John Day
32/14
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
38/17
44/27
34/13
Caldwell
Burns
39/20
27/5
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
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Vancouver
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today; chilly.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
and cold today and tonight.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
a snow shower near the Idaho border and in
the mountains.
Cascades: A little snow at times today,
accumulating a coating to an inch.
Western Washington: A bit of rain today,
mixed with snow early, but a rain or snow
shower in central parts.
Northern California: Some sun today. A bit
of snow in the interior mountains; a shower
in central parts.
Today
Saturday
WNW 3-6
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WSW 4-8
WSW 3-6
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PORTLAND (AP) — Deputies seized
nearly 100 pounds of methamphetamine
worth over $2 million and arrested three
people at residences in Portland and
Gresham.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the
Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said
that investigators served search warrants
Wednesday evening at the two homes, also
seizing nearly 2 pounds of heroin, pills, a
handgun and nearly $30,000 in cash.
Sheriff’s Office spokesman Lt. Chad
Gaidos says the amount of drugs recovered
likely puts the bust in the top 10 drug
seizures statewide by a police agency.
Detective Josh Zwick says the meth was
imported from Mexico.
Alfredo Narcisco Pineda of Portland;
Alejandro Lopez Gonzales of Gresham;
and Celso Marroquin Benitez of Portland
were booked into jail and face drug and
gun charges.
PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — The new
Washington State University College
of Medicine reached another milestone
this week when it was accredited by the
Northwest Commission on Colleges and
Universities.
The commission’s approval for WSU
to include a Doctor of Medicine degree is
effective in August, when the first class of
medical students is scheduled to arrive in
Spokane.
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classes of 60 first-year medical students
and 60 second-year students.
Ryan Bundy interviewer
fights subpoena in second trial
In this 2014 file photo, Judy Unquera, a bartender at
the Long Branch pours a beer at the bar in Monroe.
Oregon lawmakers are considering proposals that
would give baristas, bartenders, seasonal workers and
others in the state’s service industry more control of
their weekly schedules and guarantees of being paid
despite scheduling issues.
ability of the working poor
to pursue a second job or the
education they need to pursue
better-paid occupations, and
to provide for consistent care
for their children while they
are working,” according to
the partnership study, which
the universities released
Thursday.
Schedules posted or
changed at the last minute,
on-call shifts or a sudden drop
in available hours after the
busy holiday season imposes
greater hardship on restau-
rant, retail, hotel and other
White House Press Secre-
tary Sean Spicer called the
appeals court’s decision “just
a procedural ruling on the
temporary restraining order.”
“We look forward to a
full hearing on the merits of
this case, and we feel very
confident that we’re going to
prevail,” Spicer said during
a Facebook Live interview
with Breitbart News.
A timeline for a decision
on the state’s request to
join Washington’s suit has
not been set, said Kristina
Edmunson, a spokeswoman
for the department.
Since Washington sued
the federal government,
Minnesota officially signed
onto the lawsuit and other
states expressed interest.
BRIEFLY
By KRISTENA HANSEN
Associated Press
SALEM — Baristas,
bartenders, seasonal workers
and others in Oregon’s robust
service industry are at the
center of early discussions in
Salem about whether to afford
them guaranteed pay and
more control over their work
schedules.
State lawmakers are
considering
legislation
that would require certain
employers
to
honor
employees’ preferred work
hours and post employees
schedules two weeks in
advance, or otherwise pay a
penalty wage for any changes.
Workers who are called in
at the last-minute would also
be paid at least four hours’
worth of wages if, by the fault
of their boss, they were unable
to work a full shift.
House Bill 2193 and Senate
Bill 828 — packaged as sister
proposals in both chambers, —
are backed largely by workers’
rights groups and unions that
sought to support their cause
through a partnership study of
irregular work schedules with
the University of Oregon and
Portland State University.
“Irregular
scheduling
acts as a poverty trap, for
this generation and the next,
as it actively diminishes the
during his campaign a “total
and complete shutdown of
Muslims entering the United
States,” according to court
records.
Federal Judge James
Robart in Seattle on Feb. 3
temporarily halted enforce-
ment of the order nationwide
after Washington Attorney
General Bob Ferguson argued
that the order would harm his
state’s interests. The state’s
lawsuit also claims the order
is unconstitutional because
it discriminates on the
basis of religion. The Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals
unanimously upheld Robart’s
temporary restraining order.
Trump suggested he would
appeal the case to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
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erupt over the Ohio Valley and lower Great Lakes. Snow will wind down over the northern
Rockies as rain hugs the coastal Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 101° in Zapata, Texas
Low -3° in Lake Yellowstone, Wyo.
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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
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