WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
74° 48°
78° 48°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny and
pleasant
Partly sunny and
pleasant
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
81° 53°
79° 54°
66° 46°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
81° 47°
77° 48°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
72°
74°
99° (1952)
50°
47°
21° (1926)
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"
0.44"
12.28"
8.02"
8.82"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
73°
75°
95° (1952)
0.00"
0.36"
0.35"
7.01"
5.44"
6.47"
SUN AND MOON
Oct 5
Bend
71/41
Burns
69/33
6:47 a.m.
6:45 p.m.
1:10 p.m.
10:45 p.m.
Last
New
Oct 12
Caldwell
71/43
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
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72
71
74
69
68
76
71
77
72
74
71
69
83
66
70
74
77
74
78
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
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74
75
74
72
73
85
75
81
75
76
75
73
88
74
79
75
81
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
74
92
79
68
75
54
67
73
86
69
81
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50
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63
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60
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Hi
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93
78
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74
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77
75
78
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82
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58
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WINDS
Medford
83/51
PRECIPITATION
Sep 27
John Day
72/47
Ontario
74/44
46°
45°
26° (1934)
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
77/50
Eugene
76/49
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
72° 47°
Spokane
Wenatchee
70/47
74/52
Tacoma
Moses
73/49
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 76/48
70/46
71/54
74/49
77/47
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
76/52
74/53 Lewiston
78/48
Astoria
74/49
72/53
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
78/56
Pendleton 68/40
The Dalles 77/48
74/48
79/50
La Grande
Salem
71/42
78/52
Corvallis
78/50
HIGH
81° 55°
Seattle
73/55
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
83° 49°
Today
SATURDAY
Pleasant with
clouds and sun
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
74/41
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly sunny
and nice today. Clear tonight. A blend of sun
and clouds tomorrow.
Western Washington: A blend of sun and
clouds today. Clear to partly cloudy tonight.
Oct 19
Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Mainly clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomor-
row.
Cascades: Partly sunny today; pleasant
across the north. Clear tonight. Clouds and
sun tomorrow.
Northern California: Abundant sunshine
today; cold in the interior mountains. Clear
tonight.
Wednesday
NE 4-8
NNE 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Sunny and pleasant today,
except some clouds across the north.
Today
NNW 3-6
WNW 4-8
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By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Just a year
after winning election, Gov.
Kate Brown announced early
Monday that she would seek
a final term in office in 2018.
In a video blasted across
social media, the longtime
Democratic
politician
contrasted her adminis-
tration to that of President
Donald Trump, while never
mentioning him by name.
“As your governor, it’s
my job to make things better
and stand up to anyone who
would take our rights away,”
Brown said.
A
former
Oregon
secretary of state, Brown
ascended to the governor-
ship in February 2015, when
former Gov. John Kitzhaber
stepped down amid an
influence-peddling scandal.
Oregon’s unusual line of
succession made Brown
the first openly bisexual
governor in the nation’s
history and Oregon’s second
female chief executive.
The state has no lieutenant
governor, so the secretary of
state is first in line after the
governor.
In November 2016,
Brown was elected
to complete the
last two years of
Kitzhaber’s four-
year term. She
defeated a Repub-
lican challenge by
Salem oncologist
Bud Pierce, who
was a newcomer to
politics.
But those two Brown
years counted as
her first term, and in Oregon,
governors are limited to two
consecutive terms in office.
Brown’s announcement
Monday was merely a
formality. The governor has
raised campaign funds in
excess of $1.1 million since
January in preparation for
a showdown with ortho-
pedic surgeon Rep. Knute
Buehler, a Republican who
announced his candidacy
last month.
Brown on Monday touted
legislative accomplishments
under her administration,
including a $5.3 billion
transportation package and
expansion of the Oregon
Health Plan, the
state’s Medicaid
program, to undoc-
umented children.
She also high-
lighted
passage
of the Oregon
Promise,
which
allows
Oregon
high school grad-
uates to attend
college for as little
as $50 a semester,
an increase in the minimum
wage, and a program to
phase out the use of coal.
Buehler, who has raised
$1.2 million, has criticized
Brown for failing to address
major problems in the state,
such as the low high school
graduation rate, and tax and
spending reform.
———
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
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Regular commuters on
Interstate 84 started their
week with a return to normal
driving routines.
The Oregon Department
of Transportation opened
the eastbound lanes of
I-84 Saturday afternoon. A
portion of the highway from
Troutdale to Hood River
had been closed since Labor
Day because of the Eagle
Creek Fire burning in the
Columbia River Gorge.
Fire activity continues
near Shellrock Mountain
and ODOT is diverting
eastbound traffic onto west-
bound lanes near milepost
52.
The highway reopening
was big news for Mark
Stoffer, an electrician who
lives in Corbett, Oregon,
and commutes to work in
The Dalles. He has spent the
past three weeks waking up
at 3 a.m. and says his daily
drive of about an hour had
more than doubled during
the highway closure.
“It was just really eating
away at your regular routine
and daily life,” Stoffer said.
On Monday morning, he
was happy to finally set his
alarm clock for the usual
time.
“It’s like a breath of fresh
air,” he said. “Even a lot of
the guys that were coming
through
[Washington]
Highway 14, they were all
happy. Because everyone
was just getting really tired
last week. That extra time in
the morning really eats away
at you.”
ODOT is still monitoring
the highway and warns
the rainy season puts the
burned area at high risk of
landslides.
Corrections
Meanwhile,
four
Columbia River Gorge
State Parks have reopened.
The Oregon Parks and
Recreation
Department
announced Dabney State
Recreation Area, Portland
Women’s Forum State
Scenic Viewpoint, Rooster
Rock State Park and Star-
vation Creek State Park
suffered no major damage in
the fire.
“We’re grateful that Vista
House still stands as well as
other iconic features well-
loved by Oregonians and
visitors to our state,” said
Park Manager Clay Court-
right, with the West Gorge
Management Unit.
As of Monday morning,
the Eagle Creek Fire has
burned 48,668 acres and is
46 percent contained. Fire
officials estimate the fire
will be fully contained by
Sept. 30.
The Sept. 23 article “Waste recycler fined for odor” gave an incorrect address for the
property blamed for the odor. It is 78227 S. Highway 207, Hermiston. The East Ore-
gonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a
mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818.
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Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 99° in McAllen, Texas
Low 10° in Bodie State Park, 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
Hi
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88
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82
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90
90
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Today
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
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Appeals court keeps blocking county’s GMO ban
GRANTS PASS (AP)
— The Oregon Court of
Appeals has decided to keep
blocking a voter-approved
initiative that bans genet-
ically engineered crops in
Josephine County.
The appeals court last
week affirmed a lower-court
decision that said a 2013 state
law forbidding local action
against genetically modified
organisms, or GMOs, took
precedence over the county’s
2014 ban.
That ruling by Circuit
Court Judge Pat Wolke came
in a lawsuit from Oregon
farmers Robert and Shelley
White, who once grew GMO
sugar beets for the Swiss
corporation Syngenta.
Portland attorney John
DiLorenzo Jr., who repre-
sented the Whites, said the
appeals court decision made
the county ordinance unen-
forceable. In fact, the county
never tried to enforce it and
did not defend it in court, the
Grants Pass Daily Courier
reported.
“Lots of jurisdictions
have unenforceable codes on
the books,” DiLorenzo said.
“This is now one of them.”
Mary Middleton, leader
of the group Oregonians for
Safe Farms and Families that
defended the ban in court,
conceded defeat.
“I don’t believe there’s
another next step in Oregon,”
she said. “There’s not another
court to go higher with this.
We’ve come to the end of the
road, in terms of litigation.”
Middleton vowed to keep
seeking change at the legisla-
tive level, saying lawmakers
are ignoring the will of the
people.
“We are not giving up,
we are not giving in, we are
going to continue to work on
behalf of our farmers who
have asked for protection in
this beautiful seed-growing
region,” she said.
Josephine
County’s
initiative easily passed 58 to
42 percent in May 2014, a
surprising margin given its
conservative leanings.
GMO crops make up the
vast majority of corn, cotton,
soybeans, canola and sugar
beets grown in the United
States and smaller percent-
ages of alfalfa, papaya and
squash. There is no evidence
that GMOs are unsafe to eat,
but changing the genetic
code of foods presents an
ethical issue for some.
I-84 re-opens through Gorge over weekend
By MOLLY SOLOMON
Oregon Public Broadcasting
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National Summary: Maria will track just east of North Carolina but bring gusty winds,
rough seas and rain today. Heavy rain and storms will extend from northern Michigan to
much of Texas. Most other areas will be dry.
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