WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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86
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
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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.
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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
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Louisville
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Memphis
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Miami
90
Milwaukee
77
Minneapolis
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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
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Sacramento
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St. Louis
88
Salt Lake City
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San Diego
71
San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Wichita
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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,
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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.
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“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.
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