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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SATURDAY TODAY Very warm with plenty of sun Very hot 94° 60° 100° 65° SUNDAY MONDAY Very hot Today TUESDAY Very hot Very hot PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 100° 66° 98° 64° 97° 63° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 101° 61° 95° 55° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 84° 84° 101° (1967) 60° 54° 30° (1907) 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" 0.07" 0.43" 11.37" 7.34" 8.38" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 87° 84° 101° (1967) 62° 53° 38° (1964) 0.00" 0.06" 0.20" 6.65" 4.99" 6.12" SUN AND MOON Sep 5 Sep 12 New 6:16 a.m. 7:33 p.m. 4:56 p.m. 1:38 a.m. First Sep 19 Sep 27 John Day 94/61 Ontario 94/56 Bend 94/56 Burns 91/47 Caldwell 92/56 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 77 93 94 78 91 89 90 92 95 94 93 90 88 102 70 72 94 93 94 90 96 93 87 90 90 94 94 Lo 55 47 56 60 47 51 53 61 55 61 53 50 47 64 51 54 56 53 60 61 51 59 59 50 58 66 56 W s s pc pc s s s s s s pc s s pc s s s s s s pc s s s s s s NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sat. Hi 79 99 100 75 96 95 97 97 101 100 97 98 97 105 72 75 97 99 100 97 101 100 94 99 96 99 98 Lo 56 50 60 59 53 57 58 64 61 63 55 55 53 66 53 55 57 57 65 64 55 63 62 54 62 70 60 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W s s pc pc s s s s s s pc s s pc s s s s s s pc s s s s s s WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 83 92 81 68 70 68 69 81 81 63 77 Lo 65 81 64 51 58 52 52 70 62 46 68 W c t s pc pc s t t s pc r Sat. Hi 82 93 85 67 68 71 69 79 80 70 77 Lo 66 80 68 53 57 55 50 59 64 53 68 W t t s pc t pc t t s s r WINDS Medford 102/64 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today Full Last Albany 93/53 Eugene 90/53 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 100° 61° Spokane Wenatchee 87/59 90/63 Tacoma Moses 81/51 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 92/55 88/53 79/56 84/50 94/56 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 86/57 94/66 Lewiston 94/54 Astoria 94/60 77/55 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 90/61 Pendleton 89/51 The Dalles 95/55 94/60 96/59 La Grande Salem 90/50 93/59 Corvallis 94/54 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 101° 62° Seattle 80/60 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 103° 64° Friday, September 1, 2017 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 93/53 Saturday NE 3-6 N 4-8 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. REGIONAL FORECAST Coastal Oregon: Plenty of sunshine today; smoky in the south with hazy sun. Pleasant across the north. Eastern and Central Oregon: Hot today with plenty of sunshine, except hazy sun near the Cascades. Clear tonight. Western Washington: Mostly sunny today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sun tomorrow. Today SW 3-6 NNW 4-8 1 Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Clear tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow. 3 5 211 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 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. 3 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Cascades: Warmer today; plenty of sun- shine, but hazy sun in the south. Clear and mild tonight. Northern California: Brilliant sunshine to- day; very hot in central parts. Clear tonight. 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 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 5 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 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 SALEM — The state’s health authority said Thursday that it has cleaned up its Medicaid rolls, termi- nating more than 54,000 people from the program. In recent months state auditors raised concerns that Oregon Health Plan — the Medicaid program that provides health care coverage to the poor and other qualifying groups — was providing benefits to members who no longer qualified. Oregon Health Plan patients must go through an annual process — called “redetermination” — to have their eligibility confirmed. Oregon had fallen behind on those redeterminations and by late May had a backlog of roughly 115,000 people. Of that group, the agency announced Thursday that it found that 60,353 people were still eligible for the program. But 22,937 plan participants were found to no longer qualify for the program, while 31,895 cases were closed due to a lack of response. Altogether, the agency says that the closures due to patients no longer qualifying for the program account for less than 2 percent of the more than 1 million people on the Oregon Health Plan and will not affect the state’s current two-year budget. Auditors said in May that each LAS VEGAS — An October date was set on Thursday for the trial of Nevada cattleman and state’s rights figure Cliven Bundy and six other defendants in an armed standoff that stopped government agents from rounding up Bundy cattle near Bunker- ville in 2014. Jury selection will start Oct. 10 in Las Vegas for Bundy, two of his sons and four other men, Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro decided. The trial will include two defendants who were released to home detention after their recent retrial ended with no verdicts on assault on a federal officer and related firearm charges, but acquittal on other charges. One Bundy son, Ammon Bundy, refused to be brought to court for the hearing from federal custody. His lawyer, Daniel Hill, said his client objects to being strip-searched when he is transported. Another Bundy son, Ryan Bundy, serving as his own lawyer, told the judge that he deserved to be released after spending more than 18 months in federal custody, and that his right to a speedy trial has been “violated terribly.” The judge said she would hold hearings in coming weeks to consider those issues. Trial for Cliven Bundy, his two eldest sons and defendants Ryan Payne of Anaconda, Montana, and Peter Santilli of Cincinnati represents the main event in the case arising from the April 2014 standoff about 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The five are accused of leading a conspiracy to enlist self-styled militia members to prevent federal agents from enforcing court orders to remove Bundy cattle from what is now Gold Butte Trial is set for Oct. 10 rain flurries 30s 40s snow ice 50s 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low 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 90 82 70 69 88 80 92 70 89 70 71 68 90 85 67 91 61 75 86 91 68 90 77 105 83 102 Lo 63 65 57 55 60 63 63 51 75 60 52 54 72 58 54 67 42 57 71 71 55 74 60 82 64 78 W pc t pc pc s c s s t r s pc pc pc pc s sh t pc s c t s pc pc s Sat. 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ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Marissa Williams 541-278-2669 • addirector@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • 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 “These nearly 1 million Medicaid renewals complete the state’s recovery from the failure of Cover Oregon.” — Oregon Health Authority tions and media campaign to discredit a Portland-area Medicaid provider surfaced in early August. Patrick Allen, formerly the head of the Department of Consumer and Busi- ness Services, has been named acting director of OHA. The news comes as a group of Oregon House Republicans continues to collect signatures to refer Oregon’s plan for funding Medicaid to the ballot. The legislation in question, House Bill 2391, outlines assorted revenues to pay for the state’s program; the petitioners want to refer parts of the legislation, such as a 1.5 percent tax on health insurance premiums, to the ballot. Their deadline to gather nearly 59,000 signatures is Oct. 5. If the petitioners are successful, the issue will go to the ballot in a special election Jan. 23. A committee was appointed by the Oregon Senate President and Speaker of the House this week to write the ballot title. National Monument. Bundy says he doesn’t recognize federal authority over public land where he says his family grazed cattle since the early 1900s. The federal Bureau of Land Manage- ment says Bundy racked up more than $1.1 million in unpaid grazing fees and penalties over two decades before the cattle roundup began. The Bundys, Santilli and Payne each face 15 charges including conspiracy, assault and threats against federal offi- cers, firearms counts, obstruction and extortion. Convictions on all charges carry the possibility of many more than 100 years in federal prison. Corrections 20s Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 114° in Chino, Calif. Low 34° in Bodie State Park, Calif. Trial date set for Cliven Bundy, 6 others in Nevada standoff By KEN RITTER Associated Press 10s National Summary: Harvey will spread drenching rain and the risk of flash flooding from the middle Mississippi Valley to part of the southern Appalachians today. Storms will dot the Southeast, northern Plains and Southwest. Oregon Health Authority says it has cleared its Medicaid eligibility backlog Medicaid enrollee in Oregon costs, on average, about $430 per month. Additionally, the agency claims that all current participants are now on a “regular review cycle,” and a backlog will not continue. According to the OHA, Oregon Health Plan participants will have their eligibility re-checked automatically by the state’s new system, which is an effort to integrate the eligibility determination process for various safety net programs administered by OHA and the Oregon Department of Human Services. It seems that the Oregon Health Authority is eager to put the episode behind it. I the report detailing comple- tion of the project, the agency pinned the backlog issue on the failure of Cover Oregon, which was supposed to be a state-run health insurance market- place. Cover Oregon, a costly failure under former Gov. John Kitzhaber, was also expected to perform eligibility renewals for Medicaid. “These nearly 1 million Medicaid renewals conclude and complete the state’s recovery from the failure of Cover Oregon,” the report said, adding that Cover Oregon’s collapse and the dramatic expansion of the state’s Medicaid population under the Affordable Care Act “overwhelmed” the state’s health system. The report caps off the tenure of OHA Director Lynne Saxton, who was asked to resign by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown after revelations of a public rela- 0s showers t-storms Copyright © 2017, EO Media Group By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau -0s The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966- 0818. 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 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 BRIEFLY Wildfires cancel September’s Cycle Oregon ride PORTLAND (AP) — The 30th edition of the Cycle Oregon recreational bike ride has been canceled because of wildfires. Cycle Oregon executive director Steve Schulz announced the news Thursday, citing fire danger and unhealthy, smoke-filled air. He said the event’s first-ever cancellation is a disappointment, but “sometimes the risks far outweigh the potential benefits.” The annual event attracts about 2,000 riders and takes place in different part of the state. This year’s ride had been scheduled to start Sept. 9 in Central Oregon and end there a week later. Riders would have covered 490 miles, much of it in areas where firefighters are expected to be battling wildfires for the next several weeks. Oregon court rules couple must surgically ‘debark’ dogs PORTLAND (AP) — An Oregon court ruled a couple must have their dogs surgically “debarked” after causing their neighbors several years of disruption. The Oregon Court of Appeals determined Wednesday that the devocalization operations were necessary since the dogs’ owners, Karen Szewc and John Updegraff, had not done enough to quiet the Tibetan and Pyrenean Mastiffs dogs, The Oregonian/ OregonLive reported. The surgery involves cutting an animal’s vocal cords and is banned in six states under certain circumstances, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. Neighbors Debra and Dale Krein of Rogue River decided to file the lawsuit as a last resort after enduring more than a decade of nuisance barking by six or more dogs. The loud barking begins as early as 5 a.m. and has caused the family and their guests discomfort to the point where the children dread coming home, according the Kreins. The dogs bark when they sense predators and are necessary to keep the livestock on her rural southern Oregon property protected, Szewc said in an interview with The Oregonian/OregonLive. “The dogs are my employees,” she said. “We do not have the dogs to harass the neighbors. We have the dogs to protect our sheep.” County hearings officer Donald Rubenstein determined that the Szewc and Updegraff’s land did not qualify for farm-use laws that permit the sound of barking dogs.
