WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Some sun
Pleasant and
warmer
64° 50°
77° 55°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny and
very warm
Mostly cloudy and
cooler
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
85° 59°
72° 42°
58° 37°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
82° 54°
69° 50°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
53°
67°
88° (1976)
36°
43°
24° (1905)
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"
0.00"
0.03"
8.21"
4.35"
5.14"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
59°
69°
89° (1947)
0.00"
0.00"
0.04"
5.88"
2.98"
4.03"
SUN AND MOON
May 10
Bend
61/43
5:41 a.m.
8:04 p.m.
11:45 a.m.
1:45 a.m.
Last
New
May 18
May 25
Caldwell
69/45
Burns
65/41
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
Hi
58
62
61
63
65
59
63
64
69
63
69
62
59
77
57
62
71
70
64
62
64
62
61
61
60
67
69
Lo
53
41
43
53
41
41
50
47
50
47
42
48
45
54
50
52
47
50
50
55
42
53
45
43
54
51
50
W
sh
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
sh
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
c
sh
sh
pc
pc
pc
sh
pc
sh
pc
pc
sh
pc
pc
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
67
72
77
68
73
69
81
77
82
77
78
74
72
88
65
69
77
82
77
81
79
81
69
73
79
79
82
Lo
51
42
49
53
48
43
54
51
54
51
45
50
47
58
51
53
49
52
55
58
47
56
50
47
58
57
52
W
c
s
pc
pc
s
s
pc
s
s
s
s
s
s
pc
c
pc
s
s
s
c
pc
pc
pc
s
c
s
pc
WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
88
84
72
63
82
70
62
69
80
74
70
Lo
60
76
53
45
54
39
45
49
53
59
58
W
s
pc
t
c
pc
pc
t
pc
s
pc
s
Wed.
Hi
85
84
72
56
82
55
58
68
83
67
70
Lo
61
75
53
48
55
38
45
49
54
59
57
W
c
t
s
c
pc
pc
sh
pc
s
c
pc
WINDS
Medford
77/54
PRECIPITATION
May 2
John Day
63/47
Ontario
71/47
34°
42°
22° (1954)
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
First
Full
Albany
61/51
Eugene
63/50
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
64° 41°
Spokane
Wenatchee
61/45
66/50
Tacoma
Moses
61/52
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 68/50
59/44
57/53
61/52
69/50
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
60/56
67/51 Lewiston
70/51
Astoria
65/47
58/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
62/55
Pendleton 59/41
The Dalles 69/50
64/50
68/52
La Grande
Salem
62/48
62/53
Corvallis
63/51
HIGH
75° 46°
Seattle
61/54
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
90° 59°
Today
SATURDAY
An afternoon
shower or t-storm
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
69/42
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Western Washington: Mainly cloudy
today. A couple of showers; arriving in the
afternoon in central parts.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
Wednesday
SW 4-8
WNW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: A blend of sun and clouds
today; a couple of showers; however, dry
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Intervals of
clouds and sunshine today.
Today
WNW 4-8
W 6-12
1
4
6
Cascades: A shower in places today; mostly
cloudy; however, sunnier in the south.
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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
Hi
78
77
70
75
56
80
67
71
83
70
52
56
87
61
52
88
58
66
84
88
62
84
68
91
80
84
Lo
49
57
54
53
38
56
47
49
58
45
36
44
66
36
40
59
40
42
71
69
40
55
48
71
57
58
W
s
s
s
s
r
s
pc
pc
s
s
c
c
s
t
c
s
pc
pc
pc
s
s
s
pc
s
s
s
Wed.
Hi
73
83
64
66
67
84
74
63
85
66
59
57
77
57
62
87
56
66
84
80
58
85
58
92
72
83
Lo
46
61
47
47
47
63
52
44
64
49
41
45
53
35
43
58
38
39
73
59
46
61
44
71
49
59
W
pc
pc
s
s
pc
pc
s
pc
s
pc
pc
c
r
c
pc
s
r
sh
s
t
r
pc
sh
s
r
s
Today
Louisville
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
Hi
72
79
87
53
59
77
85
72
79
65
75
96
64
71
78
57
79
92
70
64
75
77
61
92
78
70
Lo
48
59
75
38
43
53
65
52
53
43
52
70
44
50
56
36
53
64
48
44
60
56
54
61
56
49
W
s
s
pc
c
pc
s
s
s
pc
pc
s
s
sh
pc
s
c
s
s
s
pc
pc
s
sh
s
s
pc
Wed.
Hi
62
79
87
56
63
77
80
62
64
62
65
98
62
63
79
61
83
93
55
67
75
78
72
94
69
61
Lo
53
50
76
39
46
56
65
46
46
44
45
72
39
43
56
35
54
62
46
47
61
56
54
64
51
45
W
c
r
t
pc
sh
c
t
s
c
sh
s
s
c
pc
s
c
s
s
r
pc
pc
pc
c
s
s
r
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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MERKLEY: 1 in 3 people
Hermiston grad keeps Walden’s
are on the Oregon Health Plan schedule running smoothly
By JADE MCDOWELL
East Oregonian
Continued from 1A
In an effort to revive the
bill after it couldn’t muster
enough Republican support,
the leaders of the ultra-con-
servative Freedom Caucus
and the moderate Tuesday
Group reached a compro-
mise that moved the bill to
the right.
Merkley said he was
concerned that the amended
bill would allow insurance
companies to deny coverage
to people with pre-existing
conditions and do away
with the essential benefits
package.
He added that the bill’s
Medicaid rollbacks would
particularly affect Oregon
where 1 in 3 people are on
the Oregon Health Plan, the
state’s Medicaid program.
Merkley thought the bill
might be within a few votes
of passage in the House of
Representatives, in which
case, it would go on to the
Senate.
“If it comes to the Senate,
we’ll have quite a conversa-
tion,” he said.
Some of the other issues
Merkley discussed included:
• Mark Burrows of Pend-
leton asked Merkley about
whether Republicans would
move to kill the filibuster
entirely after eliminating it
for Supreme Court nomi-
nees to confirm Justice Neil
Gorsuch.
Merkley said he would
be “shocked” if that
happened, but he took the
chance to condemn Repub-
licans for “stealing” a seat
on the court after refusing to
hold a hearing on Obama’s
nominee, Merrick Garland.
Prompted by questions
from two Pendleton resi-
dents, Merkley also touched
on some electoral reforms
he supports — a national
vote by mail law, basing
presidential elections on the
popular vote and restoring
the pre-clearance require-
ments of the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 to prevent voter
suppression.
Staff photo by Kathy Aney
Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, speaks to a crowd at
BMCC’s Bob Clapp Theatre on Saturday afternoon.
Here, Merkley smiles as he answers a question from
Jim Willis, of Pendleton, about the idea of limiting
campaign season to one year.
• Merkley also talked
about his “100 by 50 Act,”
a bill he’s sponsoring with
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.
that would phase out fossil
fuels by 2050.
Pendleton High School
student Lily Williams asked
Merkley how he would
prevent the bill from nega-
tively affecting lower and
middle class citizens.
Merkley said Oregon
was already feeling the
economic effects of climate
change, as evidenced by
longer fire seasons, smaller
and warmer trout streams
and a more acidic ocean that
was killing oyster hatcheries
on the coast.
Merkley said his bill
would ease the transition
by providing job training to
people working in fossil fuel
industries and a provision
that would keep energy
costs down.
Merkley was also critical
of President Donald Trump’s
budget proposal, which he
said would eliminate many
programs that help rural
Americans.
“I refer to it not as the
‘America First’ budget but
as ‘Rural American Last,’”
he said.
Earlier in the day,
Merkley received a direct
appeal from Pendleton city
officials to help keep some
of the government programs
that help Pendleton.
Steve Chrisman, Pend-
leton economic develop-
ment director and airport
manager, said eliminating
the Essential Air Service
subsidy and privatizing air
traffic control towers would
not only hurt the city’s
business community, but it
would stunt the growth of
the Pendleton UAS Range.
Besides relying on
commercial flights to get
to and from Pendleton,
Chrisman said the control
tower is one of the reasons
UAS companies come to
Pendleton to test drones.
Pendleton’s tower is third
from the bottom in the
number of operations it
runs, Chrisman said, and
wouldn’t fare well in a
privatized marketplace.
John Bustard, the Pend-
leton air traffic control tower
manager, gave Merkley a
tour of the tower, which was
built in the 1940s.
Due to its advanced age,
Bustard said the tower’s
foundation is starting to
shift. He eventually hopes to
move the tower to the UAS
industrial park the city has
planned.
Corrections
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Of all the members of
Congress that Lorissa Bounds
has worked for, she says Rep.
Greg Walden is the busiest.
“I can attest to one thing:
Greg Walden works,” Bounds
said by way of apology
for running a little behind
schedule for a phone inter-
view from Washington, D.C.,
on Thursday.
Bounds, a Hermiston High
School graduate, became
Walden’s chief of staff in
December. The congress-
man’s assignments — partic-
ularly chairman of the House
Committee on Energy and
Commerce — keep his
schedule full, and it is Bounds’
job to manage that schedule.
She said Walden’s office
tends to employ around 14
people spread between Wash-
ington, D.C., and offices in
Oregon’s 2nd Congressional
District, which represents
roughly 750,000 people.
Responding to constituent
concerns alone can keep those
staffers in the office until 10
p.m. some nights; Bounds
said Walden’s office has
received 71,000 constituent
calls, letters and emails since
the beginning of the year.
“We’ve replied to 69,000
so far,” she said. “That’s a lot
of work.”
Many
members
of
Congress have faced a
groundswell
of
angry
constituent feedback in recent
months. As an author and key
promoter of the Republican
attempt to repeal and replace
the Affordable Care Act,
Walden has seen his share of
that lately. A recent town hall
meeting in his hometown of
Hood River drew a vocal,
disgruntled crowd of nearly
800 people.
Bounds came back to
Oregon for Walden’s most
recent string of town halls,
and said she learned a lot
from watching the way he
responded to the crowds. She
said his attitude was that he
would rather people be fired
up at town hall meetings than
sitting on the couch at home,
uninvolved in their govern-
ment.
Not all constituent inter-
actions come in the from of
angry emails and boos from
town hall attendees. Bounds
said Walden’s staff often helps
members of the
public with small
things, like sched-
uling a capital tour
for a family visiting
from Oregon or
helping a veteran
break through red
tape to get care.
Navigating the
sometimes-con-
tentious world of Bounds
politics seems to be
in Bounds’ blood. Her brother
Tucker Bounds was Sen. John
McCain’s communications
director during his 2008 pres-
idential run and her brother
Ryan Bounds is an assistant
U.S. attorney. They also
talk politics with their sister
Hillary and parents Roger
and Karen Bounds around the
dinner table when everyone is
home for the holidays.
Bounds said she loved
growing up in small-town
Hermiston, but got bit by
the “political bug”
when she went to
Scotland as a foreign
exchange student
and got to meet
Margaret Thatcher
during Thatcher’s
third term as prime
minister.
Bounds headed
to
Washington,
D.C., for a college
internship with in
Sen. Mark Hatfield’s office,
planning to leave D.C. for a
business career after gradu-
ation, but enjoyed the work
so much she has worked in
various legislative offices ever
since. She said she is excited
to be working for an Oregon
lawmaker again so that she can
spend part of her time back in
Oregon when the legislature is
not in session.
Hermiston’s Aging Buildings
Rocky Heights Elementary (53 years old) , Highland Hills Ele-
mentary (35 years old) , and Sandstone Middle School’s utility
mechanisms are in need of repair due to failing infrastruc-
ture or core components. Roofs, mechanical units, and
utility mechanisms should be replaced.
Examples at Rocky Heights: Garbage cans have been placed
in various classrooms to catch water dripping from the ceiling.
Overheated or freezing cold classrooms are due to the outdated
heating & cooling system, making it an uncomfortable learning
environment.
PROPOSED SOLUTION:
• Replace Rocky Heights and Highland Hills Elementary
Schools on same site; address deferred maintenance
and obsolete, failing heating and cooling systems at
Sandstone Middle School.
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