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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
SUNDAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; cool
Mostly cloudy with
a few showers
64° 43°
66° 43°
MONDAY
Cloudy, showers
around; cool
Partly sunny
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
66° 49°
62° 48°
66° 45°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
72° 44°
72° 46°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
68°
76°
102° (2015)
60°
51°
35° (1910)
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
0.08"
0.19"
0.45"
9.34"
5.64"
6.96"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
73°
77°
105° (2015)
64°
52°
40° (1979)
0.02"
0.13"
0.21"
6.44"
4.31"
5.32"
SUN AND MOON
June 9
New
5:06 a.m.
8:43 p.m.
8:47 p.m.
5:35 a.m.
First
June 17 June 23 June 30
John Day
61/38
Ontario
71/47
Bend
59/37
Burns
61/30
Caldwell
71/44
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
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61
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72
61
59
61
59
67
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WORLD CITIES
Today
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Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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Medford
67/47
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
Albany
61/47
Eugene
59/47
TEMPERATURE
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
73° 49°
Spokane
Wenatchee
65/46
67/46
Tacoma
Moses
61/44
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 71/45
60/44
58/47
60/43
70/41
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
58/47
69/48 Lewiston
74/48
Astoria
66/47
58/46
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
61/50
Pendleton 57/37
The Dalles 72/46
64/43
67/47
La Grande
Salem
61/40
61/47
Corvallis
62/47
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
68° 50°
Seattle
63/49
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
74° 54°
Today
TUESDAY
A few morning
showers
Friday, June 9, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
59/33
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
a passing shower in the mountains and
toward the Cascades.
Cascades: Mostly cloudy today. Thunder-
showers; arriving during the afternoon in
the south.
Northern California: Some sun today
with a shower; cool. Windy in the interior
mountains.
Saturday
SW 6-12
WNW 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Showers today, except
rain tapering to a couple of showers across
the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today with a couple of showers; however,
dry in the south.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
a couple of showers and a thunderstorm,
but rain at the coast.
Today
WSW 7-14
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By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The Oregon
Senate voted 25-to-5
Thursday to approve an
$8.2 billion state education
budget for the next two
years.
Before their vote,
multiple
senators
expressed hope that they
would be able to enhance
that amount by the end
of the session. The $8.2
billion is greater
than what Gov.
Kate
Brown
proposed in the
face of a $1.4
billion
state
revenue short-
fall.
“This is a
remarkable place
to be at this point
in session,” said
Sen. Sara Gelser,
D-Corvallis. “Like others
have said, I hope we are
able to come back and
do more. I know that our
schools need more.”
Democrats
in
the
Legislature are working on
a revenue reform package
that recently caught a wind
of momentum when a
prominent business coali-
tion made up of Associated
Oregon Industries and the
Oregon Business Council
showed support.
The education budget
is the first and one of
the largest budgets the
Legislature will consider
before session’s end July
10. The spending plan
consists of $7.68 billion
from the general fund,
$452.9 million in lottery
proceeds and $63 million
in recreational marijuana
tax revenue.
The plan exceeds the
existing two-year budget
by 11.2 percent, said Sen.
Rod Monroe, D-Portland.
Education advocates,
including the Oregon
School Boards Associa-
tion, have said the amount
fails to account for schools’
increasing
expenses
related to bargained sala-
ries and the rising cost of
providing health insurance
and pension benefits.
A group of demon-
strators made up of union
members and others jeered
at members of the Ways
and Means Committee
earlier this week as they
filed into a meeting room
to vote on the budget. The
protestors’ main message
was that $8.2 billion is not
enough.
“This budget is based
on
known
existing
resources. If we had gone
above it at this time would
have been taking money
from community colleges
from universities
from
mental
health … from
public safety,”
Monroe
said.
“That
would
be
imprudent
certainly, with
no resources. …
Right now, this is
the best we can
do.”
Sen.
Tim
Knopp, R-Bend, said
he had to vote no on the
budget.
“I made a commitment
to school districts that
I would not support
anything less than $8.4
billion. ... It is my hope the
other side of aisle will get
serious about significant
spending reforms that
will allow Republicans to
get to new and enhanced
revenue.”
A
“breakthrough”
revenue plan offered by
Sen. Mark Hass, D-Bea-
verton, and House Speaker
Tina Kotek, D-Portland,
could bring the education
budget up to $8.5 billion,
according to Kotek’s
office.
The additional money
could be approved in the
Legislature’s end-of-ses-
sion bill, dubbed the
“Christmas tree” bill.
rown told reporters
Thursday she would like
to see any additional
school funding go toward
career technical education,
funding a high school
graduation
initiative,
Measure 98, approved by
voters in November and
decreasing class sizes.
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National Summary: Heat and sunshine will build over the middle of the nation as cooler air
spreads over the Northwest with rain today. Storms will dot Florida and the Upper Midwest,
while rain grazes eastern New England.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 106° in Needles, Calif.
Low 29° in Bellemont, Ariz.
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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84
Memphis
85
Miami
88
Milwaukee
74
Minneapolis
87
Nashville
84
New Orleans
85
New York City
80
Oklahoma City
84
Omaha
92
Philadelphia
82
Phoenix
107
Portland, ME
64
Providence
77
Raleigh
83
Rapid City
96
Reno
70
Sacramento
77
St. Louis
89
Salt Lake City
86
San Diego
71
San Francisco
66
Seattle
63
Tucson
104
Washington, DC 82
Wichita
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Democrats’ tax plan has the votes to pass
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — A proposal
from Democrats to raise
$900 million through new
taxes has Gov. Kate Brown’s
approval, but it’s been panned
by the GOP and its unclear
whether the plan has enough
support to move forward.
With about a month to
go before the Legislature
adjourns, Sen. Mark Hass,
D-Beaverton, and Speaker
of the House Tina Kotek,
D-Portland, have a plan to
create a new tax on certain
businesses and curtail certain
costs associated with state
employees, public services
and the public pension system.
The proposal would
temporarily increase corpo-
rate income taxes in 2017
and 2018, which would raise
$900 million. The corporate
income tax would be repealed
in 2019 and replaced with a
corporate activity tax on busi-
nesses with annual sales of at
least $3 million. Businesses
with sales less than $3 million
would pay a flat fee of $250.
Legislation
on
new
taxes requires a three-fifths
majority approval in both the
House and Senate.
Although Kotek said
Wednesday that “momentum
(was) building to go forward
with revenue reform this
session,” in a statement,
a spokesman for Senate
Republicans doubted there
were sufficient votes to pass
the proposal.
“The Speaker of the
House will not get away with
holding this building hostage
for a resurrection of Measure
97,” said Senate Republi-
cans spokesman Jonathan
Lockwood, referencing a
2016 ballot measure to raise
corporate taxes, “the (Demo-
crats) do not have the legally
required votes to pass it.”
Lawmakers have been
publicly discussing possible
changes to the state’s tax
structure since the long
session began in February,
in the wake of the failure of
Measure 97, which would
have created a gross receipts
tax on certain corporations
with more than $25 million
in annual sales.
State Rep. Cliff Bentz,
R-Ontario, the co-vice
chair of the Legislature’s
bicameral committee on
Mark Hass and Tina Kotek
tax reform, indicated his
displeasure with the proposal
in a statement, saying it was
“heavy on new taxes and
light on structural spending
reform.”
“House Republicans are
not willing to hand out more
of their money to bail out
a broken system, which is
what this latest plan would
do,” Bentz said.
Kotek issued a statement
Thursday saying that both
business and labor groups,
as well as Democrats and
Republicans, had weighed
in on the state’s “structural
budget problems.” The
compromise — House
Democrats and Hass had
earlier in the session floated
differing versions of a
similar tax structure — was
developed with input from
businesses, Kotek said.
“This is a moment that
requires statesmanship, and
I believe we have leaders in
every caucus in the legisla-
ture,” Kotek said. “That’s
why I’m hopeful that despite
the rhetoric, some of my
Republican colleagues will
come forward and help us
seize the opportunity.”
A spokesman for Brighter
Oregon, a coalition of busi-
ness groups, said Thursday
that tax reform was “needed”
but time was running out for
“thorough review” of a tax
on gross sales receipts, such
as the one proposed by Hass
and Kotek.
Sandra
McDonough,
president and CEO of the
Portland Business Alliance,
which is a part of Brighter
Oregon, also said that there
wasn’t enough time left to
make major changes.
“With four weeks left, we
just don’t see how you can
move this to get the bipar-
tisan support and to make
sure it doesn’t get referred,”
McDonough said.
McDonough
reiterated
the
c o a l i t i o n ’s
position
that
they’d
prefer
the legislature
lead with cost
containment. A
proposal to bend
the state’s cost
curve, unveiled
by influential
lawmakers on
the legislature’s
budget-writing
committee this week, drew
criticism from some Republi-
cans, who called the proposed
measures insufficient.
In a press conference
Thursday, Gov. Brown, a
Democrat, said she was
“very pleased” to see the tax
proposal, the most recent in
a series of potential changes
and tweaks to the state’s tax
structure in the face of a $1.4
billion gap between state
revenues and expenses in the
next two-year budget.
However,
Brown
acknowledged that she did
not know whether there
were sufficient votes to get
it through the legislative
process.
“I honestly do not know
whether the votes are there
at this point in time,” said
Brown. “But what is most
important is that there is a
conversation
happening,
a level of cooperation and
coordination that hasn’t
happened in a really long
time.”
Brown said she was
meeting with legislators on
both sides of the aisle, as well
as certain businesses and
business associations, in an
effort to move the discussion
forward.
Last month, Democratic
leadership touted a statement
signed by the Technology
Association of Oregon and
the Oregon Bioscience
Association, which indicated
the signatories — including
high-profile
companies
like
Genentech,
Nike
and Zapproved — were
“committed to working with
legislators and the Governor
to build a comprehensive
plan that works for Oregon
and look forward to a
continued collaboration.”
“Business engagement is
needed to help shape a solu-
tion in a way that continues to
fuel economic growth, while
at the same time provide
more stability for the state
budget and essential public
services,” the statement said.
Brown said she felt
having a specific proposal
from two key Democrats —
the Speaker of the House and
Hass, the chair of revenue and
tax committees — advanced
the ball.
“What you have now
is a meeting of the minds
between key leaders,” Brown
said.
“My goal is to work with
businesses and organizations
in the business community
that want to be engaged,”
Brown said.
Brown said it is too early
to start calling for a special
legislative session to resolve
the revenue issues.
Union
groups
are
prepared to go to the ballot
in November of 2018, should
the push to increase taxes fail
at the Legislature.
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