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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
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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
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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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Moscow
Paris
Rome
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Tokyo
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WINDS
Medford
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SUN AND MOON
May 18
Bend
59/32
Burns
72/37
PRECIPITATION
May 10
John Day
68/37
Ontario
83/48
49°
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29° (2011)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
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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
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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
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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
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Hiker dies after fall from trail
in Columbia Gorge
PORTLAND (AP) — Authorities say
a hiker who fell 150 feet off a cliff in the
Columbia River Gorge Wednesday has died.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports
31-year-old Samuel Cha fell while hiking the
popular Angel’s rest trail.
Multnomah County sheriff’s spokesman
Lt. 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.
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Omaha
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Philadelphia
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Phoenix
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Rapid City
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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.