WEATHER
East Oregonian
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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
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0.07"
0.43"
11.37"
7.34"
8.38"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
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84°
101° (1967)
62°
53°
38° (1964)
0.00"
0.06"
0.20"
6.65"
4.99"
6.12"
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Sep 5
Sep 12
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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
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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
102/64
PRECIPITATION
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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
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Eastern Washington: Sunny today. Clear
tonight. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow.
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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
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NATIONAL CITIES
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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
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Memphis
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Miami
90
Milwaukee
67
Minneapolis
73
Nashville
70
New Orleans
87
New York City
69
Oklahoma City
85
Omaha
78
Philadelphia
71
Phoenix
109
Portland, ME
67
Providence
70
Raleigh
74
Rapid City
88
Reno
96
Sacramento
109
St. Louis
77
Salt Lake City
91
San Diego
83
San Francisco
93
Seattle
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Tucson
102
Washington, DC 69
Wichita
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“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
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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
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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-
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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.