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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Variable clouds, a
shower or two
A little afternoon
rain
54° 36°
50° 41°
TUESDAY
Clouds and sun, a
few showers
Overcast with a
little rain
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
54° 38°
55° 44°
60° 43°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
53° 43°
61° 36°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
52°
57°
76° (1939)
44°
37°
18° (1965)
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
0.49"
2.01"
1.07"
5.93"
3.89"
3.58"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
53°
60°
80° (1939)
0.38"
1.24"
0.71"
4.70"
2.70"
2.95"
SUN AND MOON
Apr 3
Bend
50/33
Full
6:49 a.m.
7:14 p.m.
5:43 a.m.
4:42 p.m.
Last
Apr 10
Apr 19
Caldwell
59/34
Burns
49/26
Hi
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52
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52
49
45
55
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61
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52
48
56
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58
60
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60
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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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
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62
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80
38
63
68
52
76
52
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Medford
56/42
PRECIPITATION
Mar 27
John Day
52/36
Ontario
58/33
44°
36°
13° (1965)
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
New
First
Albany
54/40
Eugene
55/41
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
62° 44°
Spokane
Wenatchee
47/31
53/31
Tacoma
Moses
52/37
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 57/32
48/33
50/38
52/36
60/34
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
52/42
55/39 Lewiston
60/35
Astoria
53/35
52/39
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
53/42
Pendleton 45/25
The Dalles 61/36
54/36
58/39
La Grande
Salem
52/31
54/42
Corvallis
55/41
HIGH
60° 44°
Seattle
52/40
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
60° 40°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Cloudy
Saturday, March 25, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
50/32
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: A shower today,
except a bit of ice in the mountains; some
sun in the north.
Cascades: Rain and drizzle across the north
today; a morning rain or snow shower, then a
shower in central parts. A shower in the south.
Northern California: Partly sunny today.
Warmer in central parts; cold in the interior
mountains.
Sunday
NNE 4-8
WSW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today.
A passing shower; only in the morning in
central parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A passing
shower or two today; however, dry in the
upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Periods of clouds and
sunshine today; a passing shower; however,
dry in central parts.
Today
WSW 7-14
WSW 7-14
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Lost Columbia
Gorge hiker found
in good condition
PORTLAND (AP)
— Rescuers have found
a 29-year-old man who
became lost while hiking in
the Columbia River Gorge.
The Multnomah County
Sheriff’s Office says search
teams found him at about 3
a.m. Friday. The man was
cold and wet, but otherwise
OK.
The hiker had called
9-1-1 more than 12 hours
earlier to say he couldn’t find
his way back to the Horsetail
Falls Trailhead. Deputies
were able to get his general
location from a cell phone
ping, but the phone’s battery
life was about to run out.
The man is an
experienced hiker, but was
unfamiliar with the Gorge.
Commissioner:
Portland council
meetings too unsafe
to attend
PORTLAND (AP) —
Portland Commissioner Nick
Fish has directed members
of his staff to no longer
attend City Council meetings
because they are unsafe.
The Oregonian/
OregonLive reports
Fish made the decision
after protesters yelled
unrelentingly Wednesday
afternoon. They wore gas
masks, wielded sticks and
yelled crude comments about
Mayor Ted Wheeler’s mother.
Protesters upset by several
issues have repeatedly
disrupted and shut down
meetings since Wheeler
took office in January. Fish
said the situation has been
escalating and Wednesday
was the last straw.
Woman pleads
guilty to assaulting Woman guilty of
passenger on flight neglecting horses,
PORTLAND (AP) — An goats, llamas
Oregon woman accused
of molesting a female
passenger during a flight has
pleaded guilty to a felony
assault charge.
Heidi McKinney entered
the plea Friday at U.S.
District Court in Portland.
The 27-year-old
suburban Portland woman
was arrested May 8, 2016,
after an Alaska Airlines
flight that originated in Las
Vegas landed at Portland
International Airport. The
victim told authorities she
had been inappropriately
touched by another
passenger.
Initially charged with
abusive sexual contact,
McKinney pleaded guilty
to assault with the intent to
commit a felony.
The maximum penalty is
10 years in federal prison,
but the prosecution and
the defense plan to jointly
recommend a sentence of
three years on probation.
DALLAS (AP) — An
Oregon woman pleaded
guilty to animal neglect after
authorities say she didn’t
provide sufficient care for her
goats, horses and llamas.
The Statesman Journal
reports prosecutors dropped
felony charges against
Donna Dovey in exchange
for her pleading guilty to
two misdemeanor charges
Thursday at Polk County
Circuit Court.
The 50-year-old kept the
animals on rented farmland
south of Dallas, Oregon.
Polk County Sheriff Mark
Garton said a neighbor tipped
authorities that animals were
being neglected.
Deputies found 16 horses,
three llamas and three goats.
Some had large abscesses and
were underweight.
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National Summary: Severe weather will focus on the Tennessee Valley and central Gulf
Coast today, while mild air surges from the Southeast into the mid-Atlantic. Rain and
mountain snow showers will dampen the West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 91° in McAllen, Texas
Low -5° in Clayton Lake, Maine
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
Milwaukee
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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Businesses: Paid family leave adds to
fatigue of Legislature-imposed mandates
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A bill to
require 12 weeks of paid
family and medical leave
would bring Oregon up to
the living standards of most
other developed nations but
represents another financial
setback to the state’s business
community, said speakers at
a hearing Thursday at the
Capitol.
The hearing in front of
the House Committee on
Early Childhood and Family
Supports drew a standing
room-only crowd with
attendees watching from an
overflow room and in the
hallway.
“It is beyond time for
Oregon and the U.S. to
join the rest of the civi-
lized world,” said Diane
Solomon, a psychiatric nurse
practitioner with the Oregon
Nurses Association.
“While many businesses
support and offer family
and medical leave, the bill
is overreaching,” said Betsy
Earls of Associated Oregon
Industries.
The legislation “creates
conditions that would make
it costly and difficult for
businesses — especially
small ones — to plan and
manage their operations,”
Earls said.
The bill, sponsored by
four House Democrats,
would require a mandatory
½ percent deduction from
employees’ pay. Employers
would be required to
contribute an equal amount.
The money would go to
a paid leave insurance
program administered by
the Oregon Department of
Business and Consumer
Services.
Employees who have
been on the job for at least 90
days would be eligible to use
a portion of the benefit; after
12 months, they would be
eligible for up to 12 weeks
of paid leave for illness or
a family member’s illness.
Employees could take up to
18 months of parental leave
for a new baby, adoption or
foster care child placement
and receive at least 90
percent of their regular
wages or salary.
Four states — California,
New Jersey, Rhode Island
and New York — have
developed some type of
paid family leave program.
Paid leave for new parents
is available for 16 weeks in
France, 15 weeks in Canada,
a full year in Germany and
15 weeks in Japan, Solomon
noted.
About 14 percent of
workers across the nation
have access to paid family
and medical leave at work,
according to the Time for
Oregon Coalition, which
supports the bill.
Federal and Oregon law
provide up to 12 weeks
of unpaid leave for some
workers — however,
these laws don’t apply to
everyone and don’t provide
lost income.
Some family members
are excluded by workplace
and economic policies that
fail to recognize the nearly
80 percent of American
families that don’t fit the
nuclear family model of a
married mother and father
and their biologically related
children, said Rose King, a
coalition spokeswoman.
Proponents cite research
that shows women who
are forced to go back to
work too soon after having
a baby are predisposed to
postpartum
depression.
Meanwhile, babies benefit
from receiving care from
their parents during the first
12 weeks of life, said Dr.
Evan Shereck, a pediatrician
at Portland’s Oregon Health
Science University.
“This is a time when
children are at their most
vulnerable and it is critical to
have a caregiver with them
24 hours a day. Unfortu-
nately, not everyone has the
option to stay home and care
for their new baby,” Shereck
said.
Opponents said the
requirement would add to
a mounting burden of new
laws squeezing money out
of businesses, including
mandatory
paid
sick
leave and increases in the
minimum wage.
The requirements would
constitute an “unfunded
mandate” for cities, coun-
ties and special districts,
said Mark Landauer of the
Special Districts Association
of Oregon.
One farmer said the
requirement would be
another “nail in the coffin” of
the agricultural community.
Lisa Stone, whose family
owns a Christmas tree farm
in Marion County, said
farmers are having a hard
time absorbing all of the
additional costs imposed
by the Legislature. She
estimated the requirement
would cost the family farm
about $7,000.
Portland Reps. Jennifer
Williamson, Alyssa Keny-
Guyer and Diego Hernandez
and Woodburn’s Rep. Alonso
Leon of Woodburn, Diego
Hernandez of Portland and
Keny-Guyer sponsored the
legislation.
“Paid family and medical
leave is a basic protection
guaranteed to working
families in countries around
the world,” Williamson said.
“As a country and a state,
we are lagging severely
behind. It’s time for Oregon
to prioritize this issue and
ensure that a new baby or a
health crisis no longer means
potential financial disaster
for working families.”
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