WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Plenty of sunshine
Plenty of sun
88° 59°
94° 65°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Hot with plenty
of sun
Today
TUESDAY
Hot with sun and
clouds
Sunny and
seasonably hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
99° 67°
96° 68°
94° 61°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
91° 62°
98° 66°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
83°
90°
110° (1931)
62°
60°
42° (1932)
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"
Trace
0.20"
11.30"
7.27"
7.78"
Corvallis
85/57
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
85°
90°
108° (1931)
65°
59°
46° (1933)
0.00"
0.00"
0.14"
6.59"
4.94"
5.84"
SUN AND MOON
July 23
July 30
Full
Aug 7
5:26 a.m.
8:36 p.m.
3:40 a.m.
7:05 p.m.
Last
Aug 14
John Day
89/54
Ontario
95/62
Bend
86/52
Burns
87/46
Caldwell
93/58
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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84
86
66
87
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Sat.
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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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WINDS
Medford
94/60
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Albany
85/56
Eugene
85/53
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
97° 65°
Spokane
Wenatchee
81/58
85/65
Tacoma
Moses
78/57
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 86/59
80/54
70/59
78/57
89/60
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
79/57
90/66 Lewiston
90/59
Astoria
89/60
70/57
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
83/61
Pendleton 83/52
The Dalles 91/62
88/59
89/65
La Grande
Salem
86/55
85/59
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
100° 70°
Seattle
77/61
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
103° 68°
Friday, July 21, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
86/49
Today
Saturday
WSW 6-12
W 6-12
SW 4-8
W 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Clouds giving way to sun
today.
Eastern Washington: Mostly sunny today.
Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of sun-
shine today; pleasant. A starlit sky tonight.
Cascades: Nice today with plenty of sun.
Clear tonight. Plenty of sun tomorrow.
Western Washington: Times of clouds and
sun today, except sunnier across the south.
Mainly clear tonight.
Northern California: Clouds giving way
to some sun at the coast today; plenty of
sunshine elsewhere.
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State hikes individual, business health premiums
SALEM — Oregonians
and small businesses buying
their health insurance on the
individual and small group
markets can generally expect
to see rate increases next
year.
The Oregon Department
of Consumer and Business
Services released its annual
rate decisions Thursday, as
uncertainty around health
care policy looms on the
state and federal levels.
On the individual market,
the changes announced
Thursday range from an
average 1.6 percent dip
for BridgeSpan Health
Company to an average
14.8 percent increase for the
Kaiser Foundation Health
Plan of the Northwest.
For small businesses,
the average changes range
from increases of 3.3 to 10.1
percent.
The state uses a variety
of criteria to make rate deci-
sions, and multiple factors,
including “legal uncertainty”
surrounding the fate of the
federal Affordable Care Act
and the escalating cost of
providing insurance, have
led to increases in costs.
But the Department of
Consumer and Business
Services says that the rates
would be, on average, 6
percent higher if not for
the reinsurance program
created by the Legislature
this year, which it says “will
add additional stability and
predictability in the market.”
Reinsurance is kind of
like insurance for insurers
— it’s intended to protect
them from high claims.
State Rep. Dan Rayfield,
D-Corvallis, said last week
that the reinsurance program
provides rate relief while the
state also tries to reduce the
costs of medical care.
“We put it in place for
two years so that we could
move forward,” Rayfield
said.
The legislation that
created
that
program,
though, which includes a
1.5 percent tax on insurance
premiums, may be subject
to voters’ opinion come
January.
Three
Republican
lawmakers filed a referral
petition to get certain parts
of the bill on the ballot. If
they are successful, voters
will weigh in during a
special election Jan. 23.
State Rep. Julie Parrish,
R-Tualatin/West Linn, one
of the legislators behind
the referral effort, is critical
of the state’s reinsurance
program.
She
says
moving
public employees onto
the exchange could have
prevented instability in the
market.
“We need to put more
lives on the exchange to
make it work,” Parrish said,
“We don’t have to raise
people’s taxes to do it.”
Parrish
has
also
suggested moving public
employees into coordi-
nated care organizations,
the regional networks of
providers serving Orego-
nians on Medicaid.
Parrish, along with
State Rep. Cedric Hayden,
R-Roseburg, and Rep. Sal
Esquivel, R-Medford, are
angling to get portions of
the legislation on the ballot,
including a .7 percent “true
tax” on hospitals.
The state is in the process
of applying for a “state
innovation” waiver from the
federal government, which
would result in more federal
funding, although that
waiver is not required to run
the program.
Jesse O’Brien, policy
director for the Oregon
State
Public
Interest
Research Group, called the
announcement a “huge win
for consumers” because, on
average, the rate increases
were less than insurers had
asked for.
However, O’Brien also
made note of the uncertainty
surrounding the Affordable
Care Act and argued that
passage of repeal or replace-
ment legislation could lead
to higher rate increases.
BRIEFLY
Eastern Oregon
University offering
dorms to eclipse tourists
LA GRANDE (AP) — People
traveling to northeastern Oregon to
see next month’s solar eclipse now
have another lodging option.
The Observer newspaper reports
that Eastern Oregon University in
La Grande is offering its residential
dorms to tourists.
The rooms are available for rental
from Aug. 19 through Aug. 22 for
$500 total, which must be paid in full
at the time of reservation.
The rooms hold up to five people
and include kitchenettes, with a full
refrigerator and microwave.
The university will also provide
brochures about what there is to see
and do in La Grande.
Teen who escaped
Oregon youth prison
caught stealing candy
PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon
teenager who escaped from a youth
prison last month is back behind
bars.
State police say 18-year-old
Micah West was arrested late
Tuesday after he was caught
shoplifting candy bars in Albany.
He’s been lodged at a juvenile
detention center.
West and 18-year-old Brittain
McAuliffe vanished from Camp
Riverbend, a transitional living
facility in La Grande. Authorities say
they left through a gate June 20 after
taking a slide card.
Police believe they later stole a
pickup from the Emigrant Springs
State Heritage Area.
McAuliffe is still free. He was
spotted days after his disappearance
at a pharmacy in Milton-Freewater.
The escape was the first at Camp
Riverbend since 2008.
Contractor jailed on theft,
racketeering charges
BEND (AP) — A Central Oregon
contractor has been indicted on
racketeering and theft charges.
Katie Thraen tells KTVZ that
she hired John McClean to build
her family’s new home in Tumalo,
unaware his state contracting license
had been suspended.
Thraen eventually fired McClean,
but not before her family was
$80,000 in the hole.
She says one of the walls
McClean started was not up to code,
and an inspector told her it could
have fallen.
Moreover, a building supply
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company served a lien against the
property. She owed more $30,000
— money she had already given to
McClean with the belief he had given
it to the company.
Thraen pursued a criminal case
after tracking down other clients who
had similar complaints.
McClean has not entered a plea.
He was arraigned Tuesday and is
being held on $250,000 bail.
Oregon woman sues
Safeway after son’s
death in parking lot
EUGENE (AP) — An Oregon
woman whose 7-year-old son was
struck and killed in a supermarket
parking lot seeks $1.5 million in a
federal lawsuit against Safeway.
Jenna Wheeler of Junction City
alleges negligence on the part of the
supermarket chain, saying it should
have known the configuration of
its parking lot in Junction City was
dangerous.
The boy, Chance Clark, died July
18, 2015. The suit was filed last week
in U.S. District Court in Eugene.
Safeway spokeswoman Jill
McGinnis declined comment.
The Register-Guard reports the
driver whose pickup hit the boy was
not charged in the accident and is not
named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
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National Summary: The risk of severe storms and flash flooding will extend from the north-
ern Plains to the mid-Atlantic today. Heavy storms will dot the Deep South and the Four
Corners states. Most other areas will be dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 107° in Salina, Kan.
Low 30° in Truckee, 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
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Louisville
97
Memphis
97
Miami
90
Milwaukee
83
Minneapolis
86
Nashville
98
New Orleans
92
New York City
91
Oklahoma City 100
Omaha
101
Philadelphia
95
Phoenix
102
Portland, ME
87
Providence
92
Raleigh
98
Rapid City
97
Reno
96
Sacramento
94
St. Louis
104
Salt Lake City
95
San Diego
78
San Francisco
70
Seattle
77
Tucson
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Washington, DC 96
Wichita
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Toxic algae blooms seem
more intense this year
Andrew THEEN
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Toxic algae blooms seem
more intense this year, but
state lacks money to study
issue
Oregon public health
officials say years of drought
followed by heavy rains this
spring created a “perfect
storm” for harmful algae
blooms to pop up on rivers,
lakes and reservoirs across
the state this summer.
In rural Lake County,
those conditions led to what
officials say is the deadliest
algae bloom in nearly 20
years. Thirty-two cows died
last month after drinking
water from Junipers Reser-
voir, a lake on a private ranch
west of Lakeview.
Three people also fell ill
after ingesting the water-
borne bacteria atLake Billy
Chinook in Jefferson County
this month.
John O’Keeffe, president
of the Oregon Cattlemen’s
Association and a Lake
County
resident,
said
ranchers knew it was possible
to have livestock or pets die
from algae-tainted water, but
he couldn’t recall anything
comparable to the die-off at
KV Bar Ranch.
“People are watching their
ponds close now,” he said,
citing the blue-green sheen of
gunk that rests on top of the
water.
Though 2017 may appear
to be a bad year for algae
blooms, state officials say
there’s not much they can do
to confirm that or study the
issue further. They do antic-
ipate seeing more blooms
in the future due to climate
change.
“Drought
conditions
and temperature can also
contribute to more blooms,”
said Julie Sifuentes, the
environmental health assess-
ment program manager at
theOregon Health Authority.
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is problematic because it’s not
clear by looking at an algae
bloom whether it’s harmful
to humans or animals.
Testing is the only way to
know for sure, and Oregon
only has the resources to react
and issue public health advi-
sories after tests confirm the
presence of cyanobacteria,
the harmful water-borne
bloom known colloquially as
blue green algae.
“We don’t have the data to
say, ‘Oh yes, these are how
many blooms we’re seeing,”
Sifuentes said.
Rebecca Hillwig, a natural
resource specialist with the
Oregon Health Authority,
said the naturally occurring
blooms can pop up anywhere
once fueled by nutrients from
elevated levels of fertilizer,
manure or other nutrients.
“Any portion of Oregon
could have a bloom, and
people just may not know
about it,” she said.
Lori Grant, the water
program director at the
Oregon
Environmental
Council, said the Lake
County cattle incident shows
the importance of keeping
manure away from water
sources. “Ironically, they
were fertilizing their own
drinking water,” she said.
The state does not proac-
tively monitor any waterway
for algae blooms, except
under special circumstances.
At popular recreation spots
across the state, Oregon
relies on partners like the
U.S. Forest Service, Army
Corps of Engineers or local
counties to do the water
sampling.
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