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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Cooler with a heavy thunderstorm Mostly cloudy 63° 43° 57° 39° SUNDAY MONDAY Partly sunny and warmer Nice with partial sunshine PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 61° 39° 67° 45° 74° 48° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 63° 41° 69° 46° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 85° 68° 92° (1966) 53° 43° 22° (1897) 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" Trace 0.13" 8.21" 4.50" 5.24" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 86° 70° 90° (1966) New 5:37 a.m. 8:07 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:32 a.m. First May 25 June 1 Caldwell 81/49 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 54 73 59 55 72 69 56 63 69 68 61 68 64 60 54 55 83 73 63 57 61 56 68 63 56 67 73 Lo 42 39 32 44 37 39 38 39 46 37 35 40 37 41 41 43 48 46 43 41 30 39 43 36 40 46 41 W c t t sh t t sh t t t t t t sh c c t t t sh t sh t t sh t t NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 56 49 50 57 54 46 59 55 63 50 52 49 47 61 53 55 61 66 57 60 54 59 57 49 59 59 65 Lo 42 36 26 44 32 35 36 35 41 33 29 37 35 38 40 42 45 40 39 41 24 38 41 31 40 43 36 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc c c c pc c pc pc c c c c c c pc pc c pc c pc c pc c c pc c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 68 83 72 57 75 56 66 69 80 72 74 Lo 47 76 55 48 51 43 51 52 50 58 63 W pc c s c pc pc pc s sh s pc Sat. Hi 83 84 73 63 78 60 60 73 69 77 77 Lo 51 75 55 47 55 32 51 54 50 59 63 W s pc s c pc sh r t s pc pc WINDS Medford 60/41 0.00" Trace 0.16" 5.88" 3.57" 4.15" SUN AND MOON May 18 Bend 59/32 Burns 72/37 PRECIPITATION May 10 John Day 68/37 Ontario 83/48 49° 43° 29° (2011) 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 57/37 Eugene 56/38 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 78° 52° Spokane Wenatchee 68/43 70/45 Tacoma Moses 57/37 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 73/46 65/42 54/40 56/36 73/41 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 56/41 67/46 Lewiston 72/47 Astoria 72/47 54/42 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 57/41 Pendleton 69/39 The Dalles 69/46 63/43 65/45 La Grande Salem 68/40 56/39 Corvallis 57/39 HIGH 73° 46° Seattle 57/43 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 68° 41° Today TUESDAY Mostly sunny Friday, May 5, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 61/35 REGIONAL FORECAST 1 Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today with a shower or thunderstorm. Cascades: Cooler today; showers around, except showers of rain and snow in the south. Northern California: Mostly cloudy and cooler today; a thunderstorm in spots, but a shower at the coast. Saturday WSW 6-12 W 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Cloudy and cooler today with a passing shower; breezy across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Variable clouds today with a heavy thunderstorm; cooler. A couple of showers tonight. Western Washington: Overcast today and tonight with a couple of showers. A shower in spots tomorrow. Today WSW 10-20 WSW 8-16 3 5 www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ East Oregonian (USPS 164-980) is published daily except Sunday, Monday and Dec. 25, by the EO Media Group, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. Periodicals postage paid at Pendleton, OR. Postmaster: send address changes to East Oregonian, 211 S.E. Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801. 1 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2017 Didn’t receive your paper? Call 1-800-522-0255 before noon Tuesday through Friday or before 10 a.m. Saturday for same-day redelivery 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. 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Chad Gaidos says Cha was hiking with two family members when he became light-headed about a mile in. Gaidos says Cha went to sit down and fell backward off a cliff after his perch gave way. He was flown to a Portland hospital where he died from his injuries. Another hiker fell to his death on the trail near Corbett in August 2016. Portland Police say ‘TriMet barber’ has struck again PORTLAND (AP) — The “TriMet barber” may have snipped again. The Portland Police Bureau said Thursday it got a report of a man cutting a woman’s hair on a TriMet bus, and surveillance photos indicate the suspect is Jared Walter, a 30-year-old registered sex offender with a history of cutting, gluing or masturbating into women’s hair while riding on TriMet buses. Police have asked the public to help locate Walter, who does not have a fixed address. Walter’s obsession with hair has led to repeated convictions and stints in jail or prison. He got his nickname in 2010, shortly after his arrest for cutting large clumps of hair from three women on Portland-area buses. TriMet security director Harry Saporta says the agency won’t tolerate such behavior, and will seek the harshest penalty possible. He wants Walter banned from TriMet buses for longer than the current maximum period for exclusion — six months. Kicker in the cards for Oregon taxpayers SALEM (AP) — The strong economy is making it increasingly likely that Oregon’s kicker law will be triggered. The Register-Guard reports that would send hundreds of millions of dollars back to taxpayers, even as lawmakers contemplate cutting services to plug a $1.6 billion gap. The kicker law was created in 1979 as a check on government growth. It’s triggered when the state collects at least 2 percent more than anticipated during a two-year budget cycle. When that happens, the additional money is kicked back to taxpayers. Personal income tax revenues beat projections by $208 million in the first three months of 2017. If that trend continues until the summer, the kicker will likely be triggered. Oregon taxpayers last got their kicker in 2015, receiving an average refund of $240. Before 2015, they had gone eight years without a rebate, due to the recession. Quake reported off coast PORTLAND (AP) — A small earthquake has been reported off the southern Oregon coast. The U.S. Geological Survey website says the magnitude 4.2 quake happened Thursday, 136 miles west of Coos Bay. It occurred at a depth of six miles. Three officials consider public ownership of state forest SALEM (AP) — The three officials responsible for Oregon’s oldest state forest have staked out positions for its future, with two advocating continued public ownership and the third public ownership of old-growth areas. The fate of the Elliott State Forest, in the Coast Range, is a hot-button issue, with many demanding it remain public even though logging operations that benefit the state’s schools have been in the red in recent years. Two members of the Oregon State Land Board voted in February to sell the 82,500-acre forest, with third member Gov. Kate Brown opposing. On Thursday, State Treasurer Tobias Read, another member, agreed with Brown, suggesting Oregon State University eventually buy the forest. Secretary of State Dennis Richardson said a plan must retain options for public ownership of old growth areas. Lone school in Alsea converting to charter school CORVALLIS (AP) — A small school district in Western Oregon plans to convert its only school into a charter school. The Gazette-Times reports the Alsea School Board voted for the switch last month, and will formalize its charter document next week. Superintendent Marc Thielman says the change is driven by a desire to recruit more students from outside the district that’s southwest of Corvallis. Charter schools are allowed to advertise using public money in a way traditional schools can’t, and are given more freedom to run buses into neighboring districts. Thielman said bringing in just a handful of additional students would help Alsea, which had 140 students this school year. Charter schools operate free from many state regulations, but must meet the same academic performance standards as traditional schools. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. 0s 10s rain 20s flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: A rainstorm with gusty winds will soak areas from the Midwest to the Northeast today. Storms will sweep across southern Florida. Gusty storms will precede rain and cool conditions in the Northwest. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 106° in Palm Springs, Calif. Low 20° in Dillon, 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 Hi 85 55 64 72 83 58 81 51 74 67 60 58 78 78 49 91 60 80 86 80 53 76 70 98 71 74 Lo 57 48 58 54 53 47 49 50 52 46 42 44 55 49 43 65 36 41 72 54 40 50 50 73 50 59 W s c t t s sh c r pc sh pc r s s r s pc s pc s r s s s s pc Sat. 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Byers Ave. Pendleton, OR 97801 or email editor@eastoregonian.com. • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Oregon Speaker earmarks $1.4B for education from tax hike By KRISTENA HANSEN Associated Press SALEM — Three Demo- cratic lawmakers, including House Speaker Tina Kotek, unveiled an unexpected proposal Thursday for Oregon’s looming $1.6 billion budget shortfall that draws ideas from another plan but includes multi- billion-dollar earmarks for education and long-awaited estimates for spending cuts. Both proposals before the newly-created Joint Tax Reform Committee could raise up to $3 billion in extra funds for the next 2017-19 biennium through an over- haul of Oregon’s corporate income tax system similar to Measure 97, which voters struck down in November. How the two might be combined and included in the final budget package with spending cuts and reduced personal income taxes will become clearer after May 16 when state economists release the next quarterly revenue forecast — a much-anticipated report that’ll help lawmakers know how much money they’ll have to work with for the next budget cycle. If Republicans, however, maintain their opposition during the final two-month stretch of the 2017 session, voters could wind up having the final say on the business tax proposal that, so far, is a more tepid version of the $6 billion-tax boost from big business they rejected through Measure 97 last year. The Legislature has two routes for passing tax hike proposals: signing into law by the governor after a three- fifths vote by both chambers, or approval by voters after a simple majority vote in the chambers. Without Repub- lican support, Democrats are eyeing the latter option, potentially prompting a special election this fall. Kotek along with state Reps. Nancy Nathanson and Phil Barnhart, who helped craft Thursday’s proposal, are hoping this latest plan might still be comprehensive enough to pass muster with conservatives, businesses and, if need be, voters. “This is all about whether or not we believe the No. 1 priority for the Legislature is to provide for essential services for public education, health care, senior services, public safety and to balance (the) budget,” Kotek said during testimony before the Tax Reform Committee. “We are adults, we all make choices, my choice is to march up the hill and try to do this.” The two proposals call for a gross receipts tax — or a tax on revenue from busi- ness-to-business transactions — on a broader set of busi- nesses and at a lower tax rate than Measure 97. Unlike the first proposal spearheaded by Democratic Sen. Mark Hass, Kotek’s proposal would earmark roughly $2 billion, or two-thirds of the estimated new revenue, for K-12 and higher education. The mechanics as to how those funds would be set aside for those purposes is unclear. It also factors in $650 million-worth of spending cuts through curbing employee pension and health care costs, among other things; it’d additionally preserve the $357 million that voters earmarked in November for high school vocational training, youth outdoor recreation programs and veteran services through Measures 98, 99 and 96, respectively. Kotek says the numbers assume a still-tentative new tax on health care providers has, theoretically, been approved. New funds from that tax hike would stave off Medicaid expansion cuts and other health cutbacks, although Thursday’s passage of the Affordable Care Act overhaul in the U.S. House could further complicate Oregon’s options. Still, Republicans like House Minority Leader Mike McLane say “it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing ... and once again Democrats claim, ‘it’s for the kids,’ even as they continue to drag their feet on what would truly secure lower class sizes and more school days.” Labor unions applauded the latest effort while the private sector appeared split, garnering accolades from Main Street Alliance of Oregon’s coalition of 3,500 small businesses, many of whom would largely avoid the new tax; groups like Priority Oregon representing many larger corporations that’d be subject to the tax, blasted lawmakers for holding hearings that “excluded input from the public, consumers, and Oregon businesses.” Senate President Peter Courtney, Oregon’s longest- serving lawmaker and a moderate Democrat, says they’ve shown they’re “serious about cutting costs” and it’s time for businesses to do the same on raising revenue. “I can’t tell you at this stage if this will be the plan ... We’ve got work to do. The clock is ticking,” Courtney said.
