WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Partly sunny and
cool
Partly sunny
64° 43°
67° 42°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Thickening clouds
Today
TUESDAY
Pleasant with
partial sunshine
Partly sunny and
nice
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
69° 45°
72° 53°
74° 50°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
71° 44°
69° 45°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
59°
75°
94° (1897)
43°
48°
27° (1895)
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"
0.91"
0.35"
12.28"
7.83"
8.73"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
63°
77°
95° (1939)
Last
6:42 a.m.
6:53 p.m.
9:11 a.m.
8:28 p.m.
New
Oct 12
Oct 19
Caldwell
58/43
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
57
57
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54
53
66
61
69
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55
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60
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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Hi
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
82
88
83
64
75
55
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78
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Lo
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Hi
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90
79
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80
90
76
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WINDS
Medford
67/42
0.00"
0.36"
0.28"
7.01"
5.44"
6.40"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 5
Bend
57/35
Burns
54/28
PRECIPITATION
Sep 27
John Day
57/36
Ontario
59/41
42°
46°
30° (1932)
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Albany
69/44
Eugene
66/42
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
78° 51°
Spokane
Wenatchee
59/40
64/45
Tacoma
Moses
68/44
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 68/43
57/37
64/49
68/44
67/42
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
69/46
63/44 Lewiston
69/43
Astoria
62/41
65/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
67/49
Pendleton 53/33
The Dalles 69/45
64/43
71/47
La Grande
Salem
57/35
69/45
Corvallis
68/42
HIGH
76° 54°
Seattle
67/50
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
73° 49°
Friday, September 22, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
57/32
Today
Saturday
NNW 4-8
NW 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: Partly sunny today. Clear
tonight.
Eastern Washington: Intervals of clouds
and sunshine today. Partly cloudy tonight.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cool today
with clouds and sun; a shower in spots in
the upper Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Clouds and sun
today. Partly cloudy tonight, except turning
cloudy at the coast.
Cascades: Intervals of clouds and sunshine
today; a couple of showers, except dry in
the south.
Northern California: Sunshine today. Mainly
clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow.
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4
3
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
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National Summary: Warmth will continue over the eastern two-thirds of the nation today.
Storms will affect the Southeast states. The West will be cool with rain and snow in the
Rockies. Storms will blast the northern Plains.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 101° in Hill City, Kan.
Low 23° in Crater Lake, Ore.
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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Sat.
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78
85
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59
61
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Louisville
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Tucson
Washington, DC
Wichita
Hi
91
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Gubernatorial candidates raise $2.4 million Ballot title approved
for health care
funding referendum
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — An election to choose
Oregon’s next governor is more than
a year away and the primary is eight
months down the road, but the main
Democratic and Republican candi-
dates’ fundraising is already going
full steam, with a total of almost $2.4
million raised so far.
Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, is
shrugging off the $500,000 donation
Nike co-founder Phil Knight gave in
August to her Republican rival, Knute
Buehler, a member of the Oregon
House of Representatives.
“Just to give you an example of
the fund-raising efforts we do: In my
2016 campaign, we received 20,000
contributions from folks across the
United States,” Brown said Tuesday
when The Associated Press asked her
about Knight’s donation and her own
fund-raising efforts. “I think it’s really
important that many voices be heard,
and that one megaphone doesn’t
drown out all the other voices.”
When the billionaire Knight’s
donation was announced, Buehler, an
orthopedic surgeon from Bend, said in
a statement that he was “thrilled.”
“Phil Knight looks beyond narrow
political labels — and so do I,” added
Buehler, a moderate who has pushed
for access to birth control and who
voted in favor of an anti-coal bill that
doubled the state’s renewable energy
requirements.
Brown’s campaign has reported
raising $1,250,146 cash contributions
since Jan. 1, according to figures
compiled by the Oregon Secretary of
State. More than 10,000 contributions
have been made since Jan. 1, said
Brown campaign consultant Thomas
Wheatley.
Though the Buehler campaign’s
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
Anna Reed/Statesman-Journal via AP, File
AP Photo/Don Ryan, File
In this May 1 file photo, Oregon
Gov. Kate Brown speaks during a
May Day rally at the state Capitol
in Salem.
In this 2012, file photo, Knute Bue-
hler, a Republican candidate for
Oregon governor, speaks during a
news conference in Portland.
fund-raising dates back to only Aug.
3, when he announced his candidacy,
the contributions it has reported
already amount to $1,132,726, the
Secretary of State’s office’s data
show. The campaign has received
2,887 contributions since Aug. 3, said
Rebecca Tweed, Buehler’s campaign
manager.
Brown finds herself in the rare
situation of having to run for governor
twice in two years.
She shifted over from being
Oregon’s secretary of state to
governor on Feb. 18, 2015, when
John Kitzhaber resigned amid an
influence-peddling inquiry. She then
had to run in the 2016 primary and
election to fill the remaining two years
of Kitzhaber’s term, handily beating
Bud Pierce, the Republican nominee
who is a Salem oncologist.
Now she has to do it all over again.
But both Buehler and Brown might
be experiencing a bit of deja vu. They
ran against each other for secretary
of state in 2012. Brown won, with
863,656 votes to Buehler’s 727,607.
Oregon Public Broadcasting said
on Aug. 3 that one of the big ques-
tions to keep in mind during the early
stages of the gubernatorial race is:
“Can Buehler revive the Republican
money machine?”
So far, the answer seems to be yes.
Having a deep campaign chest,
though, doesn’t always translate into
victory.
Republican gubernatorial candi-
dates Ron Saxton in 2006 and Chris
Dudley in 2010 both out-raised their
Democratic rivals, Oregon Public
Broadcasting noted.
And both lost.
BRIEFLY
Salem considers ban on
daytime sidewalk sitting
SALEM (AP) — Officials in Salem,
Oregon are considering an ordinance
that would outlaw sitting or lying on
city sidewalks during the day.
With certain exceptions, the
proposed ordinance would give police
the option to cite and remove violators
from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., the Statesman
Journal reported on Wednesday.
The proposal also bans people
from camping and sitting in chairs on
sidewalks except during events and for
businesses with outdoor seating.
Salem Police Deputy Chief Skip
Miller said the department tries to
connect people with the resources that
could help them, but police also have to
deal with business and safety concerns.
Kimberly McCullough, policy
director for the American Civil
Liberties Union of Oregon, said an
ordinance like this violates people’s
rights, and it doesn’t curtail home-
lessness. She said resources should
be directed at solving the root of the
problem like the lack of affordable
housing.
Portland approved a similar ordi-
nance that was struck down in court in
2009. Judge Stephen Bushong issued
the ruling that cited the ordinance as
clashing with state law.
Salem City Manager Steve Powers
said the ordinance was carefully
drafted by the city attorney’s office.
“Might it be challenged? Sure,”
Powers said. “I do know that I
wouldn’t be bringing this forward if I
knew it was legally flawed.”
Authorities: Dog saves
man from house fire
SALEM (AP) — Authorities say
a Silverton man escaped his burning
home after his dog alerted him to
the flames.
The Statesman-Journal reports
crews responded to a fire report
Thursday morning northeast of Salem
in Silverton.
The Silverton Fire District says
crews arrived and saw fire shooting out
of the home’s door and windows and
that nearby trees were on fire.
Silverton fire officials said the home
did not have working smoke alarms, but
the owner’s dog roused him. The man
and the dog were able to safely escape.
Officials say the home was a
total loss.
SALEM — Although
a legislative committee
approved a ballot title and
explanatory statement for a
potential referendum on health
care funding Wednesday, it’s
likely not the last battle in the
continuing war of words over
the issue.
A trio of Republican
lawmakers hope to get
sections of the state’s health
care funding legislation —
which uses assorted revenues
to help pay for the state’s
Medicaid program, called the
Oregon Health Plan — on the
ballot in a special election in
January.
They say they are chal-
lenging assessments on
hospitals, insurers and coor-
dinated care organizations,
the regional networks of
providers serving patients on
the Oregon Health Plan.
The petitioners include
Republican State Reps. Julie
Parrish, of Tualatin/West Linn;
Cedric Hayden, of Roseburg;
and Sal Esquivel, of Medford.
If they are successful
in gathering nearly 59,000
signatures by Oct. 5, voters
will have a chance to weigh in
on Jan. 23. Parrish declined to
say how many signatures the
petitioners had gathered as of
Wednesday, saying only that
there were “lots.”
But legal issues are
percolating over the ballot
title language and the text of
the referendum petition itself.
The ballot title is a statement
summarizing the initiative
and its impacts printed on the
petition.
Legal challenges to the
ballot title go directly to the
Oregon Supreme Court.
Parrish said she plans to
file a legal challenge to the
ballot title and explanatory
statement that the committee
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approved in a 5-to-1 vote
Wednesday afternoon.
The petitioners also contest
an Aug. 31 legal opinion in
which legislative counsel
found that a “no” vote would
merely delay the implementa-
tion of, not do away with, a .7
percent assessment on certain
hospitals.
“That’s a separate litigation
question outside of the ballot
title,” Parrish said.
At issue at the committee’s
meeting Wednesday, though,
were the official descriptions
that voters will see in January
if the measure qualifies for the
ballot.
Social services groups and
unions have said the ballot
title language that lawmakers
approved doesn’t go far
enough in explaining the
impacts of striking down the
funding package, specifically
how many low-income
Oregonians would be effected.
Meanwhile, Secretary of
State Dennis Richardson, who
oversees the state’s elections,
in written testimony criticized
the language of the draft
caption, calling it “unreason-
ably long and confusing.”
He adding that the language
describing
the
funding
package should include the
word “tax.”
However, Johnson told
lawmakers Wednesday that
since the legislation refers to
each funding mechanism as an
“assessment,” the use of that
term, rather than “tax,” in the
ballot materials is appropriate.
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