WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
73° 47°
80° 53°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Mostly cloudy and
breezy
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; cool
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
74° 46°
57° 41°
58° 40°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
84° 55°
78° 47°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
67°
69°
91° (1987)
36°
45°
30° (1909)
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"
0.04"
0.29"
8.25"
4.52"
5.40"
Corvallis
76/45
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
71°
71°
93° (1987)
New
5:31 a.m.
8:12 p.m.
7:06 p.m.
5:21 a.m.
First
May 25
June 1
Caldwell
76/44
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
62
70
73
63
73
68
75
73
78
73
75
71
68
81
58
61
78
79
73
74
75
74
70
69
73
75
78
Lo
46
36
43
48
37
38
44
44
47
44
39
42
39
50
44
46
48
47
47
49
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47
38
48
51
48
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
61
78
79
58
80
75
75
79
84
82
79
79
77
84
58
61
81
84
80
76
81
74
76
77
74
82
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Lo
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44
48
49
45
46
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
86
86
91
58
77
43
60
69
72
68
73
Lo
53
77
68
42
57
29
41
50
56
55
61
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Hi
85
86
90
62
78
43
66
70
71
69
68
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78
62
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56
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53
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WINDS
Medford
81/50
0.00"
0.07"
0.32"
5.95"
3.57"
4.31"
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
75/39
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly sunny today.
Becoming cloudy tonight.
Eastern Washington: Partial sunshine to-
day. A moonlit sky tonight. Sunny to partly
cloudy tomorrow.
Cascades: Mostly sunny and mild today;
pleasant across the north. A moonlit sky
tonight.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today;
very warm in central parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny much
of the time and nice today. Mainly clear
tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Mainly clear tonight; however, increasing
clouds at the coast.
Today
Wednesday
WSW 4-8
WNW 4-8
ENE 3-6
NE 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
SUN AND MOON
May 18
Bend
73/43
Burns
73/37
PRECIPITATION
May 10
John Day
73/44
Ontario
78/48
34°
44°
28° (2002)
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
75/43
Eugene
75/44
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
64° 43°
Spokane
Wenatchee
70/47
75/51
Tacoma
Moses
70/44
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 76/48
69/43
63/45
71/43
78/48
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
72/47
75/51 Lewiston
78/46
Astoria
73/48
62/46
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
74/49
Pendleton 68/38
The Dalles 78/47
73/47
79/51
La Grande
Salem
71/42
74/46
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
65° 44°
Seattle
69/48
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
76° 49°
Today
SATURDAY
Clouds and sun, a
shower; cooler
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
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BASE jumper
breaks leg after
drop from bridge
than 150,000 gallons of
wastewater per day. It is
expected to be completed by
2018.
It is also being designed
to generate electricity for the
brewery’s operation.
Methane gas from the
facility will be fed into
an engine that burns the
gas, turns a generator and
makes electricity. The heat
coming off the engine would
heat the water used in the
brewing operation.
The result will offset 50
percent of the brewery’s
power usage, LaLonde said.
Brewery plans to
build wastewater
treatment facility
Walla Walla man
electrocuted in
wood art process
BEND (AP) —
Deschutes Brewery in
Oregon will be building its
own wastewater-treatment
facility.
The brewery plans to
invest $11.2 million into the
on-site facility instead of
sending its wastewater to the
city and nearby farms, The
Bulletin reported.
The brewery came up
with the idea after the city
of Bend increased waste
charges and the trucking
company it used to take its
waste to farms announced it
would no longer be able to
do so.
The new plant at the
brewery’s headquarters will
be able to process more
WALLA WALLA,
Wash. (AP) — Authorities
say a man in southeastern
Washington has died
from electrocution while
attempting a technique for
sculpting wood.
The Walla Walla Union-
Bulletin reports 47-year-old
Robert Riggers died outside
his home Thursday night.
Police spokesman
Officer Tim Bennett says
his death was reported early
Friday.
Walla Walla County
Coroner Richard
Greenwood says Riggers
had been attempting to
create a picture frame using
a process called fractal
Lichtenberg wood burning.
Andy Nelson/The Register-Guard via AP
Springtime shenanigans
Peyton Donaldson turns the spray onto her older
sister, Dakota Donaldson, as the two cool off Fri-
day in Eugene.
The process involves
running a strong electrical
current through a block
of wood soaked in salt
water, causing it to burn
and fracture into unusual
patterns.
This current is frequently
deadly if at any point the
artist touches the wood
or wires and completes
the circuit, as Greenwood
reported Riggers had.
State has yet to
distribute pot
sales tax revenue
PORTLAND (AP) — Tax
money collected from
Oregon’s legal marijuana
sales has been a rare bright
spot as lawmakers fight over
how to fill a $1.6 billion
budget deficit.
KGW-TV reports that the
state has brought in almost
$75 million in tax revenue
since 2016. It’s not enough
to close the budget gap, but
it’s a start.
But none of that tax
revenue has been distributed
to its intended recipients, like
schools and police agencies.
That’s because of a quirk
in the state law that governs
legal marijuana.
It says before anyone else
gets paid, the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission must
be reimbursed for adminis-
trative costs associated with
setting up the marijuana
program.
Corrections
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 98° in Presidio, Texas
Low 12° in Baraga, Mich.
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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Tech sector goes from hot to lukewarm
By MIKE ROGOWAY
The Oregonian/OregonLive
BEND (AP) —
Authorities say a man
participating in the extreme
sport of BASE jumping was
injured at the Crooked River
Gorge in Central Oregon.
Redmond Fire Marshal
Traci Cooper told KTVZ
that crews responded
at 5 a.m. Monday to a
footbridge, known as the
High Bridge, that’s 300 feet
above the Crooked River.
Rescuers rappelled down
to the canyon bottom to
reach the injured jumper
and raise him up to a
waiting ambulance. The
Bulletin newspaper of Bend
reports the man suffered a
broken leg.
The Jefferson County
Sheriff’s Office identified
the man as 26-year-old Isaac
Nutria, originally from New
Zealand.
Sheriff Jim Adkins
said Nutria was cited for
BASE jumping without
permission, which carries a
$110 fine.
The notoriously
dangerous activity is like
skydiving, except the jump
with a parachute occurs
from a building, bridge or
cliff — not a plane.
30s
National Summary: Rain and snow showers will riddle New England today, while rain falls
from North Carolina to Minnesota. Showers and gusty thunderstorms will accompany chilly
air in the Southwest. Most other areas will be dry.
Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group
NORTHWEST BRIEFLY
20s
PORTLAND — The
Silicon Forest is in a slump.
Tech was Oregon’s
hottest sector coming out of
the Great Recession, handily
outpacing other industries
in job and wage growth.
By 2013 tech accounted
for nearly 12 percent of
all Oregon wages, as big a
share as wood products in its
heyday.
Something’s
changed.
The industry didn’t add any
jobs the last 10 months of
2016 amid a sell-off of the
state’s biggest technology
companies and a sharp
decline in startup funding.
In recent years, tech wage
growth has fallen behind the
Oregon average.
It’s a puzzling develop-
ment, given that tech remains
a robust field nationally and
the rest of Oregon’s economy
is sizzling. Statewide unem-
ployment is at its lowest point
on record, at 3.8 percent.
So what’s going on?
There’s no clear answer,
but Oregon tech may be
suffering an innovation
deficit, contributing to a
broader malaise.
“People move to Oregon
to settle down and get out of
it,” lamented Josh Hartung,
chief executive of Portland
autonomous driving startup
PolySync. “The net effect
is we don’t shoot as high
as some of the other cities
on the West Coast, and also
frown on those that do.”
That’s not a new
complaint — Portland has
been fighting its tag as a
“lifestyle” city, devoid of
ambition, for decades. A
half-dozen tech startups that
emerged from the 2007-09
recession — among them
data center manager Puppet
and online banker Simple
— appeared to have the city
on its way to changing its
image.
With job growth slowing,
though, and a dearth of bright
prospects, that old narrative
seems to be back. Stagnation
has hit both Oregon’s aging
hardware ecosystem and its
emerging software sector,
according to Josh Lehner,
with the Oregon Office of
Economic Analysis.
“Within the broader
tech sector it seems to have
slowed down in the last six to
nine to 12 months,” Lehner
said. His calculations show
that Oregon tech employ-
ment leveled off even as the
sector continued its rapid
ascent nationally: at the end
of March, the four most valu-
able companies in the world
(Apple, Google, Microsoft
and Amazon) were all U.S.
technology businesses.
Tech jobs pay an average
of
$106,000
annually,
according to government
data, more than double the
state’s median wage. That
underscores just how vital
the industry is to Oregon.
Yet the falloff in job
growth is being reflected
in the sector’s wages: Over
the past two years, pay
across Oregon industries has
outpaced gains in tech.
Oregon’s slowdown coin-
cided with massive job cuts
at Intel that began last spring.
The company is the state’s
largest private employer, and
last year’s restructuring was
the biggest in its history.
Though those cuts took a
wrenching personal toll on
15,000 individual employees
across the company — Intel
hasn’t said how many of
those were in Oregon — the
net effect was relatively
muted at its Washington
County campuses. Intel said
recently it employs 19,300
in Oregon, just 200 below its
all-time high in 2015.
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