Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 2017)
WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Mostly sunny Mostly sunny and pleasant 90° 63° 88° 58° SUNDAY MONDAY Nice with plenty of sunshine Partly sunny and nice PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 90° 61° 88° 54° 90° 59° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 94° 61° 95° 66° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 81° 84° 102° (2008) 52° 55° 37° (1898) 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" 2.15" 1.05" 11.30" 6.47" 7.56" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 84° 84° 105° (2008) 56° 56° 44° (1964) 0.00" 0.28" 0.58" 6.59" 4.64" 5.69" SUN AND MOON June 30 July 8 5:09 a.m. 8:48 p.m. 12:48 p.m. 12:37 a.m. Last New July 16 John Day 88/56 Ontario 91/58 Bend 86/54 Burns 87/51 Caldwell 89/54 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 86 86 63 87 83 80 88 95 88 89 86 83 91 62 63 91 93 90 87 91 84 87 84 85 93 94 Lo 54 49 54 53 51 50 53 59 66 56 50 55 53 58 53 55 58 60 63 58 50 55 62 49 56 66 62 W pc s s pc s s pc s s s s s s pc pc pc s s s pc s pc s s pc s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 66 83 81 67 87 82 79 86 94 85 83 84 82 87 63 65 94 94 88 80 84 80 89 82 78 91 93 Lo 54 50 49 55 47 49 51 53 61 53 48 53 50 58 51 53 63 59 58 57 44 54 61 47 54 64 58 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc pc s pc pc pc s s s s s pc pc s pc pc pc s s s s s pc s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 96 91 88 71 72 78 68 82 87 58 80 Lo 74 83 67 57 57 62 56 66 70 43 75 W t s s c t r sh t pc s r Sat. Hi 96 90 91 73 70 75 68 79 83 59 84 Lo 73 83 69 58 56 60 55 64 73 44 75 W pc sh s pc t r pc s c s r WINDS Medford 91/58 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 83/53 Eugene 80/53 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 95° 61° Spokane Wenatchee 87/62 91/65 Tacoma Moses 84/53 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 92/60 84/55 69/53 83/52 94/62 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 81/54 93/66 Lewiston 94/61 Astoria 91/61 65/54 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 87/58 Pendleton 83/50 The Dalles 95/66 90/63 94/67 La Grande Salem 86/55 84/55 Corvallis 81/54 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 93° 58° Seattle 83/56 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 95° 65° Today TUESDAY Sunny and pleasant Friday, June 30, 2017 Klamath Falls 89/50 (in mph) Today Saturday Boardman Pendleton ENE 3-6 NE 4-8 WSW 7-14 W 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Clouds breaking for some sun today. Eastern Washington: Sunny to partly cloudy today. Mainly clear tonight. Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny today; very warm in the south and upper Treasure Valley. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today. Becoming cloudy tonight. Cascades: Mostly sunny and pleasant today. Partly cloudy tonight. Sunshine tomorrow. July 23 2 5 7 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. 2 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 Subscriber services: For home delivery, vacation stops or delivery concerns: 1-800-522-0255 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays 5 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Northern California: Clouds breaking at the coast today; hot in central parts. Mostly sunny elsewhere. 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 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 7 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday -10s -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: The risk of severe storms will extend from the southern Plains to the lower Great Lakes today. Storms will dot the Southeast as rain soaks the upper Great Lakes. Sunshine is in store for much of the West. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 108° in Needles, Calif. Low 29° in Bodie State Park, Calif. 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 95 78 81 92 81 82 89 85 85 84 80 84 97 72 85 103 73 71 85 93 82 89 81 108 92 80 Lo 67 72 71 72 58 74 62 69 74 69 65 70 80 52 69 75 56 51 75 78 68 74 61 83 73 62 W s t s pc pc t s pc t t r t pc pc t s pc r pc pc t t pc s pc pc Sat. Hi 90 87 80 91 88 88 95 85 88 82 81 82 96 85 83 102 74 77 86 95 82 90 83 110 85 80 Lo 66 74 71 70 61 73 63 69 76 67 61 65 78 57 62 74 59 53 74 76 61 75 64 82 70 63 Today W s t s t pc t pc pc t t pc sh t pc pc s pc pc sh pc pc t s s t pc Hi Louisville 88 Memphis 91 Miami 90 Milwaukee 77 Minneapolis 77 Nashville 88 New Orleans 89 New York City 88 Oklahoma City 93 Omaha 82 Philadelphia 92 Phoenix 108 Portland, ME 81 Providence 84 Raleigh 85 Rapid City 77 Reno 96 Sacramento 94 St. Louis 88 Salt Lake City 87 San Diego 71 San Francisco 68 Seattle 83 Tucson 106 Washington, DC 91 Wichita 82 Lo 73 74 80 64 59 72 77 75 68 58 73 81 64 69 70 49 62 57 72 61 63 55 56 74 76 62 W t t pc r r t t pc t pc pc s c pc t pc s s t s pc pc pc s pc t Sat. Hi 85 87 91 78 79 87 90 86 89 85 89 110 81 82 89 88 96 93 87 96 72 70 75 108 91 88 Lo 68 74 80 61 63 70 75 73 69 66 73 83 65 70 72 53 62 60 68 70 63 56 56 78 74 66 W t t pc pc sh t pc pc pc s t s t pc pc s s s pc pc pc pc pc s t s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice. Advertising Director: Marissa Williams 541-278-2669 • addirector@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Terri Briggs 541-278-2678 • tbriggs@eastoregonian.com • Danni Halladay 541-278-2683 • dhalladay@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 • atreadwell@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group 20s Classified & Legal Advertising 1-800-962-2819 or 541-278-2678 classifieds@eastoregonian.com or legals@eastoregonian.com NEWS • To submit news tips and press releases: • call 541-966-0818 • fax 541-276-8314 • email news@eastoregonian.com • To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: email community@eastoregonian.com or call Tammy Malgesini at 541-564-4539 or Renee Struthers in at 541-966-0818. • To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: email rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or visit www.eastoregonian. com/community/announcements • To submit a Letter to the Editor: mail to Managing Editor Daniel Wattenburger, 211 S.E. 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 SCHEDULE: Must Republican lawmaker may try derailing Oregon’s new Medicaid tax give workers 10 hours By KRISTENA HANSEN Associated Press SALEM — A Repub- lican lawmaker says she’s launching a statewide effort to derail a critical $670 million health care tax approved last week to fund Medicaid. Rep. Julie Parrish confirmed her plans this week to challenge House Bill 2391, a tax package on health insurers and providers the Oregon Legislature passed to sustain health coverage for more than 350,000 local Medicaid expansion recip- ients. It also filled a large chunk of the 2017-19 budget hole that must be resolved by end of session on July 10. The bill is supposed to kick-in within the next three months. But as soon as Democratic Gov. Kate Brown signs it Parrish — one of the bill’s most vocal critics due to its likely cost- shifts to patients during a still-unfolding controversy over Medicaid eligibility at the Oregon Health Authority — says she’ll file initial paperwork to challenge the bill. If she successfully gathers more than 58,000 signatures within that 90-day window, the fate of some Medicaid recipients’ health care could be tossed back into limbo until voters have the final say next year. “I’ll stand in front of the DMV and gather signatures all summer. That’s how I got signatures for Measure 96,” said Parrish, referring to the Legislature’s veter- ans-funding ballot referral that began as a citizens initia- tive sponsored by Parrish. “Voters really deserve the right to vote about whether we should cost-shift a failing program ... This is about not hardwiring taxes on other people’s health care into statute.” Parrish, known for her blunt, unorthodox style, has served the West Linn district near Portland since 2010. She also managed Republican Dennis Rich- ardson’s successful 2016 bid for secretary of state — Oregon’s first statewide GOP politician in several years. The provider tax passed with full support from Democrats and only four Republicans. Both parties are supportive of the Medicaid expansion program but disagree on how to pay for it as federal matching dollars decline and health care costs overall are rising. Speculations of a ballot challenge began a few weeks ago when Parrish’s friend Lindsay Berschauer, a local political consultant who’s previously worked with Parrish on campaigns, filed a political action committee, called Oregonians Against More Healthcare Taxes, with Richardson’s office that handles the state’s elections. Parrish says she will sponsor the referendum effort and the PAC, which has raised one $10,000 donation so far, will run the campaign. If her signature-gathering efforts succeed, the bill would automatically go on hold until voters decide in November 2018, when voter-turnout is high. Democrats, however, want to exercise the Legis- lature’s right to set a special election in these instances. An amendment to Senate Bill 229 being considered would force any challenges to legislation passed in 2017 to a special election on January 23, a time when voter turnout is typically low and voter information pamphlets would be mailed toward the end of the holidays. Democratic Rep. Dan Rayfield, a vice-chair of the House Rules Committee that’s considering the SB 229 changes, says a late January election would happen right before the 2018 legislative session begins, so lawmakers could more quickly react if voters rejected the provider tax. “A ballot measure referral of the provider tax would drastically threaten health care to hundreds of thousands of Oregonians. Vulnerable Oregonians can’t wait until the next General Election to take care of a medical issue for themselves or a sick child they need certainty as quickly as possible,” Rayfield said in an email. Ballot title writing would also be handled by a bipartisan committee of lawmakers, which Rayfield says “will allow the process to bypass the partisan offices of the Republican Secretary of State and the Democratic Attorney General.” The bill’s proposed amendment angered Parrish and fellow Republicans, who say it’s a form of voter suppression. “By pursuing an oddly timed costly special elec- tion the apparent aim is to suppress voter turnout,” said Senate GOP Leader Ted Ferrioli. “The mechanisms they are using to accomplish this goal include excluding public comment, one-hour notice, and a stacked partisan committee. This is the result of one-party rule under the Democrats.” House Democratic leaders say a possible vote on the bill could be scheduled for Friday. In a statement Thursday afternoon, Richardson called the move “political shenan- igans” that could suppress turnout by about 14 percent, or roughly 270,000 voters, and cost millions of dollars that don’t need to be spent. “The Oregon Constitution gives the people of Oregon the right to overrule the legislature through the refer- endum process. This protec- tion ensures accountability and safeguards fundamental rights,” Richardson said. “This amendment does just the opposite.” Legislature orders review of Department of Revenue SALEM — The Oregon Legislature is ordering a top-to-bottom review of the state’s tax collecting agency. Lawmakers on the Joint General Government Subcommittee ordered the Department of Revenue to undergo a $150,000 compre- hensive financial audit and a $350,000 management assessment, The Statesman Journal reported Wednesday. Rep. David Gomberg, D-Central Coast, said lawmakers upped scrutiny of the department this session after the leadership made its regular budget presentations. “They came in and it was clear there were issues,” he said. Throughout the next two years, the agency must make frequent, mandatory reports to lawmakers during the interim and regular sessions of the Legislature. The orders for agency examination and reporting are so heavy that Rep. Betsy Johnson, D-Scappoose, wondered if the agency would still have time to do its job collecting about $8 billion a year in taxes. “We’re going to have people looking over their shoulder continuously,” Johnson said. Repeated financial audits had uncovered “significant” and “material weakness” in the agency’s accounting system, which the agency defended by saying its accountants lacked training and experience. Performance measures in areas of agency helpfulness, timeliness, accuracy and expertise plummeted during the past four years. A status report on the management assessment is due during the 2018 legis- lative session and the full report must be completed no later than December 2019, according to recently adopted budget notes. Gomberg said department Director Nia Ray has been “reoriented” by the scrutiny her department faces. He said she now has a clear sense of what the Legislature is looking for. rest between two shifts Continued from 1A More than 100 Orego- nians wrote to lawmakers supporting or opposing the bill. Among them was Alexan- dria Levin, a resident of Port- land, who strongly backed it. “People need to be able to plan for doctor and dentist appointments, as well as know when they can sign up for courses and classes,” she wrote. “If people work part- time, then they need to know when they might be available for a second part-time job, because they most likely will need one.” The companies must also give workers 10 hours rest between two shifts, which they can waive and receive time-and-a-half rates. Julie Harbold, who owns a Subway sandwich shop in Portland, called the measure “completely unrealistic in operations of actual business.” “Our restaurants run on such narrow margins, are faced with rising minimum wage costs and are often in fluctuations that are not within our control as far as weather, customer flows, and unfore- seen variables,” Harbold said. Other states considering similar initiatives include Connecticut, California, Corrections Clarification: The June 29 article “Irrigon homes saved from fast-moving brush fire” quoted a news release saying all Morrow County fire departments are staffed with volunteers. Boardman Rural Fire Protection District is a combination of volunteers and career firefighters. The listings for the June 29 calender on Page 3A, “Holiday activities heat up for the Fourth of July,” indicates “free.” That refers to admission to the event. Some activities, such as breakfasts and other meals, may charge a fee. The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sin- cerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the pa- per, please call 541-966-0818. “The fact that the legislation passed in Oregon with bipartisan support in both chambers is encouraging.” — Carrie Gleason, director of the Fair Workweek Initiative North Carolina, and Ohio, said Carrie Gleason, director of the Fair Workweek Initiative, which has led the organizing nationwide. “The win today will make it easier to pursue campaigns in those states,” Gleason said. “The fact that the legislation passed in Oregon with bipartisan support in both chambers is encouraging.” The Oregon Working Families Party had worked to organize support on the ground for the bill. “Hard-working people deserve a schedule they can count on,” said party spokes- woman Hannah Taube. “This legislation, the first of its kind in the nation, would help working families across the state ... plan for things like child care, higher education, doctor’s appointments, and management of their personal finances.” Pending a legal review, Gov. Kate Brown intends to sign the bill into law, said her spokesman, Bryan Hockaday. M-F DRIVE - IN FM/AM RADIO SOUND GATES OPEN AT 7:30 P.M. SHOWTIME AT DUSK Now Open Fri. thru Wed. June 30th July 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th Closed July 4th WONDER WOMAN (PG13) MUMMY (PG13) Always two movies for the price of one! 938-4327 www.m-fdriveintheatre.com Fri. • Sat. • Sun. Adults $7, Children 11 & Under $2
