WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
Periods of clouds
and sun
Mostly cloudy
51° 32°
54° 45°
MONDAY
TUESDAY
A shower in the
morning
Warmer; a shower
in the p.m.
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
51° 35°
50° 43°
60° 50°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
53° 44°
52° 30°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
49°
48°
75° (1908)
35°
33°
4° (2014)
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"
0.82"
0.76"
14.52"
10.69"
10.75"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
52°
50°
73° (1932)
Trace
0.62"
0.64"
8.42"
7.62"
7.92"
SUN AND MOON
Nov 26
Bend
48/27
Burns
42/15
Full
Dec 3
6:59 a.m.
4:21 p.m.
6:54 a.m.
5:01 p.m.
Last
Dec 9
Caldwell
48/28
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
52
45
48
53
42
43
48
51
52
47
46
45
44
51
53
54
47
54
51
51
50
51
43
45
50
52
52
Lo
44
22
27
41
15
27
32
32
30
30
18
31
30
27
41
39
24
31
32
37
24
35
31
25
37
37
29
W
c
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
c
pc
pc
c
pc
c
pc
c
c
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c
pc
c
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
Hi
53
47
52
54
45
47
53
53
53
53
49
48
47
52
53
56
46
54
54
50
53
54
45
49
49
55
51
Lo
42
32
40
49
31
35
44
43
44
41
35
37
37
41
46
47
34
41
45
43
40
45
39
37
43
45
38
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
r
c
c
pc
c
c
r
c
c
c
pc
c
c
c
r
r
pc
c
c
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r
c
c
r
c
c
WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
41
80
74
48
76
36
50
61
34
73
61
Lo
21
64
54
37
44
32
44
40
19
66
45
W
s
sh
pc
pc
s
c
pc
s
s
t
r
Sun.
Hi
44
73
68
47
68
36
49
58
38
75
52
Lo
23
63
50
43
44
29
37
42
23
64
41
W
c
c
pc
pc
pc
c
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
WINDS
Medford
51/27
PRECIPITATION
Nov 18
John Day
47/30
Ontario
47/24
37°
33°
6° (1961)
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
New
First
Albany
49/33
Eugene
48/32
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
56° 47°
Spokane
Wenatchee
43/31
45/31
Tacoma
Moses
53/38
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 48/31
45/33
51/45
51/39
52/29
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
51/40
52/37 Lewiston
53/32
Astoria
48/33
52/44
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
51/37
Pendleton 43/27
The Dalles 52/30
51/32
51/30
La Grande
Salem
45/31
51/35
Corvallis
49/33
HIGH
47° 40°
Seattle
52/43
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
54° 34°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Cloudy, a shower
in the p.m.
Saturday, November 18, 2017
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
46/18
REGIONAL FORECAST
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SW 4-8
SW 6-12
0
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
2
2
2
0
0
8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
Cascades: Times of sun and clouds today;
milder. Partly cloudy tonight.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
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ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
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Mainly clear tonight; cold. Intervals of
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Sunday
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today.
Mainly clear in central parts tonight; low
clouds elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Intervals of
clouds and sunshine today. Partly cloudy
tonight.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today.
Mainly cloudy tonight; a little rain at the
coast.
Today
WSW 3-6
SW 4-8
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-0s
0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
ice
50s
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: A potent storm will spread heavy rain and gusty thunderstorms from
the lower Great Lakes to the Gulf coast today. Snow will fall over the upper Great Lakes,
while much of the Plains and West are dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 94° in Altus, Okla.
Low 4° in Westby, Mont.
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
54
70
59
54
42
74
47
51
75
62
46
55
71
48
52
69
-5
27
82
84
60
79
51
63
72
77
Lo
28
41
53
49
28
41
29
48
58
40
27
36
41
26
33
40
-10
14
68
47
30
60
29
41
38
54
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r
pc
r
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r
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pc
c
pc
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pc
r
pc
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pc
c
s
Sun.
Hi
56
53
57
53
47
55
50
57
66
40
35
38
65
60
39
67
5
41
83
68
37
71
52
65
58
77
Lo
33
32
36
31
35
30
39
32
37
26
29
28
41
32
28
40
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23
68
43
27
41
38
44
32
56
Today
W
s
s
pc
pc
pc
s
pc
r
c
c
s
sn
s
s
sf
s
pc
s
s
s
pc
sh
s
pc
s
pc
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
65
70
83
44
36
69
81
52
58
48
54
80
43
53
66
46
52
61
64
44
72
62
52
80
57
56
Lo
35
38
67
26
19
37
51
51
31
26
50
53
41
50
51
22
26
36
30
27
55
46
43
50
52
28
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Sun.
Hi
43
53
85
36
40
48
64
54
59
54
56
80
53
56
58
55
59
61
46
48
71
61
49
80
55
58
Lo
28
31
68
29
28
27
46
35
36
34
34
54
26
30
31
30
39
47
33
31
55
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50
36
37
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Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Ethics commission denies Kitzhaber settlement OHA director details
$112M in possible
Medicaid errors
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — The Oregon
Government Ethics Commis-
sion on Friday voted 7-to-1
to deny a proposed settle-
ment in which former Gov.
John Kitzhaber agreed to
pay $1,000 to resolve ethics
complaints that he and first
lady Cylvia Hayes used their
public positions for profit,
failed to disclose conflicts of
interest and inappropriately
accepted gifts.
Kitzhaber on Wednesday
admitted he violated state
ethics laws on four occasions
and said he did so uninten-
tionally. The former governor
said he did not disclose a
conflict of interest related
to Hayes’ paid consulting
contracts based on the advice
of his attorney at the time.
Kitzhaber said he was
surprised by the commis-
sion’s decision, because
ethics commission staff
members had proposed the
terms of the agreement.
He had made no further
comment as of press time
Friday.
News of the proposed
settlement earlier this week
spawned criticism that the
penalty was too lenient on
Kitzhaber’s missteps during
his role as the state’s highest
elected official.
Several ethics commis-
sioners said they wanted to
require Kitzhaber to pay a
more severe fine given the
former governor’s high-pro-
file position. Accepting the
settlement could threaten the
legitimacy of the watchdog
agency, they asserted.
“That is really troubling
to me that we are excusing
the behavior of the highest
official of our state because
he sought counsel,” said
Commissioner Charles Starr.
“I think a larger fine is
necessary for our reputation
as a commission ... because
anybody serving at the
highest level has a greater
responsibility to the public.”
Commission Chairman
Dan Golden was the
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The Oregon Government Ethics Commission on Friday
voted 7-to-1 to deny a proposed settlement in which
former Gov. John Kitzhaber agreed to pay $1,000 to
resolve ethics complaints that he and first lady Cylvia
Hayes used their public positions for profit.
dissenting vote in the rejec-
tion of the settlement. He
said the $1,000 sanction was
appropriate, based on the
commission’s formula for
calculating fines. Kitzhaber
had no prior ethics viola-
tions, which factored into
the recommended penalty,
said Ron Bersin, commission
executive director.
The proposed settlement
“treated this former governor
like we do other officials
at a higher level,” Golden
said. “There is no amount
that addresses the loss of
credibility and the things
associated with the fall of this
public figure.”
Friday’s denial means
that ethics investigators
will write a report on the
findings of their probe of the
allegations. Once submitted
to the commission, the report
becomes a public record.
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The proposed settlement,
which Kitzhaber signed,
stated that he violated Oregon
law four times by benefiting
from frequent flier miles he
accrued from state travel
between 2011 and 2013 and
failing to disclose conflicts
of interest related to Hayes’
consulting company in 2013.
The company, 3E Strate-
gies, received paid consulting
contracts from 2011 to 2013.
In a statement Wednesday,
Kitzhaber said he accepted
full responsibility for the
violations.
“I apologize to Orego-
nians for failing to disclose a
potential conflict of interest,
although the ethical viola-
tions at issue were wholly
unintentional,”
Kitzhaber
said.
“In the case reviewed by
the Ethics Commission, I
did not perceive a conflict
of interest because I under-
stood the work that Ms.
Hayes was doing for various
non-profit
organizations
was not directed at trying
to shape or influence state
policy but, rather, to educate
people regarding the issues to
which she had committed her
professional career.”
Kitzhaber argued that he
also received advice from
his attorney that he did not
need to disclose a potential
conflict.
Ethics
Commissioner
Alison Kean said she would
like to see evidence of that
legal advice, which had not
been revealed to date as part
of the investigation.
The commission voted
unanimously in July to
pursue an official investiga-
tion of the former governor
and his fiancée.
The agency in February
2015 had suspended a
preliminary review of three
complaints of alleged ethics
violations against the couple,
triggered by pending state
and federal investigations.
Kitzhaber and Hayes had
been under criminal inves-
tigation for more than two
years after Willamette Week
reported the first lady may
have used her position to win
several consulting contracts.
The scandal eventually
prompted Kitzhaber to resign
from office in February 2015.
The commission resumed
its ethics investigation in late
June after the U.S. Attorney’s
Office announced no crim-
inal charges would be filed
against the couple.
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By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Oregon may
have erroneously paid, allo-
cated, inaccurately recorded
or over-claimed $112.4
million in health care funds,
according to a letter Oregon
Health Authority Director
Pat Allen sent to Oregon
Gov. Kate Brown Friday.
That figure is on top
of the state’s estimated
overpayment
of
$74
million to coordinated care
organizations, or CCOs, the
state’s regional networks
of Medicaid providers,
between 2014 and 2016.
Allen’s letter follows
his statement to legislators
this week that the state was
likely to see more processing
problems come out of the
state’s health agency.
“...We note that this is
likely not an exhaustive
and final list of all known
issues facing the agency,”
Allen wrote Friday. “It is
also likely that the details
of these issues will evolve
as we research them and
consult in more detail with
subject matter experts.”
Allen documented two
main types of issues: those
relating to $44.5 million in
possible payment errors;
and issues relating to the
allocation of about $67.9
million of funds, which
range from charging the
wrong section of the state’s
budget to claiming federal
funds for certain procedures
that cannot be paid for with
federal money.
Allen was careful to note
that all of those numbers
are estimates, and subject
to change based on deeper
research into the problems.
Two weeks ago, it
came out that the state had
overpaid CCOs by approx-
imately $74 million for
certain patients who were
eligible for both Medicaid
and Medicare due to classi-
fication errors.
But the state says $74
million is still an estimate.
Medicare, a program funded
solely by the federal govern-
ment, may share some of the
tab.
The state has already
recouped $10.1 million of
that $74 million figure from
CCOs.
In Oregon, about 1.1
million people are on
Medicaid, which is funded
jointly by the state and the
federal government and
covers the poor and other
qualifying groups. Medicare
is the health care coverage
program for those 65 and
older.
Allen said in the Friday
letter that the agency will
create an issue log to docu-
ment ongoing problems and
provide bi-weekly reports
to the governor and state
lawmakers.
The news also comes
prior to the completion of an
OHA audit by the secretary
of state, expected to be
released by early December.