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PENDLETON
UO again seeks
tuition increase
of 10.6 percent
Public testimony stalls decision on river land
pro-preservation group as
“an amorphous aggregate
of people” who wanted
two things — to reverse the
process that would lead to the
development of the parcel and
to form a working group with
the commission that would
lead to the preservation of the
land.
Rather than immediately
make a decision on the group’s
request, the commission unan-
imously voted to request more
information from staff on the
land’s development capability
and whether the city or the
urban renewal district owns
it, as they are technically
different entities.
Once members receive
more information on those
issues, the commission could
make a decision at its next
meeting.
The next development
commission meeting is sched-
uled for June 20.
East Oregonian
At a Pendleton Planning
Commission meeting in
January, only one person
registered her opposition
to the city’s move to divide
a parcel near the Umatilla
River’s north bank for poten-
tial housing development.
Five months after the
planning commission agreed
to divide the property, the
movement to keep the 0.58-
acre parcel south of Northwest
Seventh Street undeveloped is
much more substantial.
Seven people testified
against river development at
a special Pendleton Develop-
ment Commission meeting
Tuesday, with more than a
dozen additional people in
the audience, spurring several
council members to say it was
one of the most well-attended
commission meetings they’ve
experienced.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Tall grass and wild flowers grow in an open area of the
north bank of the Umatilla River in Pendleton.
One by one, the group
told the commission, which
is comprised of the Pendleton
City Council, that a housing
development would hurt
wildlife habitat, increase
water runoff by creating more
impervious surface, decrease
the livability and go against
the grain of previous urban
renewal plans.
“The north side of the river
parkway is suffering death
from a thousand cuts,” Pend-
leton resident Paul Daniello
said. “The habitat is being
removed in pieces.”
Daniello described the
EUGENE (AP) — The
University of Oregon will
again ask a state commis-
sion to approve a double-
digit tuition increase.
Two weeks ago, the
state Higher Education
Coordination Commission
rejected the university’s
request to increase tuition
by 10.6 percent for in-state
residents. The commission
meets Thursday in Salem,
and the UO proposal is
back on the agenda, The
Register-Guard reports.
“This action has thrown
UO’s budget into tremen-
dous uncertainty that must
be resolved in as swift
a manner as possible,”
university officials wrote
Monday in a letter to the
commission,
requesting
reconsideration of the
same proposal.
The letter was signed
by UO President Michael
Schill and Charles Lillis,
chairman of the universi-
HERMISTON
Eight students dive into research projects
on the ways that music affects
academic performance — a
subject that’s familiar to her.
“I’m a musician,” she
said. She said she became
interested in the subject
because music is often one
of the first thing to get cut
from schools, but wanted
to find out whether it has a
positive impact on learning
for students.
“It does,” she said. “It’s
definitely most effective with
younger students.”
Haylie Rahm did her
research on what time school
should start based on how
much sleep teenagers need.
“I
actually
started
By JAYATI RAMAKRISHNAN
East Oregonian
Eight Hermiston High
School students this year
got a taste of what it’s like
to really dive into research,
and they shared their findings
Tuesday at the school’s first
annual Research Night.
At the event, the students
spoke on a variety of topics,
presenting their research
questions, how they went
about answering them, and
their recommendations in
light of their findings.
The topics were all relevant
to student learning in some
way. Isabel Bartley presented
researching this because
of Daylight Savings time,”
Rahm said. “I read something
about how it affects workers,
and went from there.”
Rahm found that as chil-
dren become teens, they feel
sleepy later, but also need
more sleep and are not alert
until later in the morning —
making it more effective if
school starts around 9.
The students were all
part of the Oregon Teacher
Pathway program, a new
program at Hermiston High
School this year.
The eight students and
projects were as follows:
Isabel Bartley — How
music affects academic
performance; Paola Carmona
— How technology affects
student performance in
schools; Alexis Mercado —
How GPA requirements affect
student athletes; Hayden
Meyers — How extracurric-
ular activities affect academic
achievement; Haylie Rahm
— What time school should
start based on how much
sleep teenagers need; Morgan
Wilson — How standardized
testing affects academic
achievement; Varsha Mishra
— Is homework an effective
learning tool; Paige Baunach
— The educational benefits
of homeschooling
Lawmakers ask feds to review
progress of Hanford cleanup
SPOKANE, Wash. —
Members of Congress are
asking the federal govern-
ment to review the progress
of years of cleanup work
at the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation, in light of the
partial collapse of a tunnel
containing
radioactive
wastes earlier this month.
U.S.
Sen.
Maria
Cantwell, D-Wash., says
lawmakers sent a letter
Wednesday to the Govern-
ment Accountability Office
asking for the review.
Hanford for decades
House votes to join effort to elect president by popular vote
Electoral College process.
Candidates are awarded
votes equal to the number of
senators and representatives
from the states they carry.
Under the bill, Oregon’s
electors would be awarded
to the winner of the national
popular vote, regardless of
who wins the state.
“House Bill 2927 ensures
every vote in every state will
matter,” said Rep. Alissa
Keny-Guyer, D-Portland.
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The Oregon
House of Representatives
voted 34-to-23 Wednesday
to join a group of states that
want to elect the U.S. presi-
dent by the national popular
vote.
Under the Constitution,
the nation’s president and
vice president are the only
officials selected through the
ballot,” Courtney said. “If
you believe in the popular
vote, then let the popular vote
decide the issue.”
The
popular
vote
campaign took on new life
after President Donald Trump
won election by the Electoral
College while losing the
popular vote to Hillary
Clinton by almost 3 million.
“Oregon deserves a voice
in who becomes president,”
Keny-Guyer said.
The House has voted
three times since 2009 to join
the National Popular Vote
compact. Each time, Senate
President Peter Courtney
blocked the legislation in that
chamber.
Courtney has said he
would support the effort this
year only if the decision were
referred to voters.
“I would be open to
amending the bill and
sending the question to the
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
TODAY
FRIDAY
A t-storm in spots
in the p.m.
Pleasant and
warmer
67° 44°
76° 50°
SATURDAY
Plenty of sunshine
SUNDAY
Mostly sunny and
very warm
MONDAY
Sunny and very
warm
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
84° 54°
87° 56°
91° 61°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
83° 49°
73° 45°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
63°
73°
93° (1928)
47°
49°
34° (1920)
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"
0.93"
1.01"
9.14"
5.54"
6.12"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
69°
75°
97° (1928)
50°
49°
35° (2010)
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"
0.43"
0.87"
6.31"
4.23"
4.86"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
May 25
June 1
Full
June 9
93° 57°
96° 56°
Seattle
70/52
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
90° 54°
5:14 a.m.
8:31 p.m.
5:35 a.m.
8:28 p.m.
Last
June 17
Today
Spokane
Wenatchee
65/47
73/51
Tacoma
Moses
71/46
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 73/48
61/43
67/47
72/45
75/48
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
74/50
69/50 Lewiston
74/46
Astoria
66/47
65/48
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
75/53
Pendleton 57/38
The Dalles 73/45
67/44
77/50
La Grande
Salem
62/42
74/49
Albany
Corvallis 74/47
76/49
John Day
64/41
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
70/49
71/45
68/38
Caldwell
Burns
68/46
62/36
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
65
60
68
62
62
57
71
66
73
64
73
62
59
81
59
61
70
72
67
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
Hi
71
70
73
60
70
67
81
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72
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87
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77
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
85
84
78
77
80
64
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68
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WINDS
Medford
81/49
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
73/39
Boardman
Pendleton
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today. Mainly
clear tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow; pleas-
ant.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sun and some
clouds today; a shower or thunderstorm in
spots across the north.
Western Washington: Partly sunny today.
Clear to partly cloudy tonight. Mostly sunny
tomorrow.
Eastern Washington: Some sun, a thunder-
storm in spots this afternoon.
Cascades: Partly sunny today; a shower or
thunderstorm in spots, but dry in the south.
Northern California: Clouds and sun today.
Colder in the interior mountains; pleasant in
central parts.
Today
Friday
NNW 4-8
N 4-8
WNW 3-6
NW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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made
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resulting wastes. The work
is expected to last until
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of workers, the public, and
environment at risk.
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ty’s Board of Trustees.
Since 2013, Oregon law
has required commission
approval for any increase
of more than 5 percent to
in-state tuition at the state’s
seven public universities.
After the initial rejec-
tion, commission spokes-
woman Endi Hartigan said
concerns about the lack
of student involvement
in tuition-setting played a
role in the decision.
Schill
and
Lillis
addressed the issue in the
letter, pointing out that a
group of students, faculty
and staff held seven meet-
ings and the university
put information about the
proposal online.
“Forums
were
advertised
on
social
media, through campus
messaging, on the tuition
website, and via student
groups to reach the
broadest possible audi-
ence,” the letter states.
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
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
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showers t-storms
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: Rain will congregate in the Northeast today. Storms will dot the
Chesapeake Bay region and southern Florida. Spotty showers and cool winds will sweep
from the northern Rockies to the northern Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 110° in Needles, Calif.
Low 25° in Angel Fire, N.M.
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
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57
77
63
69
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92
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65
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52
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68
81
77
97
80
68
Lo
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61
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42
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47
52
60
56
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75
45
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72
35
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70
73
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Fri.
Hi
85
84
74
77
65
86
71
58
85
76
72
69
97
66
72
94
54
72
84
92
79
88
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88
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Lo
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60
57
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67
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Louisville
71
Memphis
77
Miami
89
Milwaukee
64
Minneapolis
72
Nashville
74
New Orleans
83
New York City
63
Oklahoma City
86
Omaha
78
Philadelphia
72
Phoenix
100
Portland, ME
59
Providence
60
Raleigh
73
Rapid City
69
Reno
79
Sacramento
76
St. Louis
77
Salt Lake City
68
San Diego
68
San Francisco
68
Seattle
70
Tucson
97
Washington, DC 75
Wichita
82
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