WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Low clouds, fog
breaking
Freezing fog in the
morning
39° 23°
35° 22°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Freezing fog in the
morning
Freezing fog in the
morning
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
36° 21°
35° 22°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
37° 25°
40° 25°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
43°
41°
70° (1923)
30°
28°
-1° (1972)
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"
0.18"
15.33"
11.26"
11.65"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
46°
42°
67° (1982)
0.00"
0.01"
0.22"
8.77"
7.90"
8.69"
SUN AND MOON
Dec 17
Bend
42/17
First
Dec 26
7:20 a.m.
4:11 p.m.
6:50 p.m.
9:18 a.m.
Full
Jan 1
Caldwell
39/19
Burns
33/6
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
51
39
42
59
33
39
43
40
40
43
40
40
39
48
52
55
38
37
39
49
42
48
33
40
49
37
42
Lo
37
13
17
42
6
19
28
23
25
23
15
20
19
28
39
38
17
22
23
36
15
32
21
19
35
24
24
W
s
pc
s
s
s
pc
s
pc
pc
s
s
pc
pc
s
s
s
s
pc
pc
s
s
s
pc
pc
s
pc
pc
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
56
40
41
58
34
40
48
36
37
45
44
41
40
52
55
59
35
35
35
50
40
51
34
41
51
35
41
Lo
38
14
16
42
10
23
26
21
25
22
18
22
20
28
39
39
17
24
22
34
13
29
21
18
32
25
24
W
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
45
68
67
48
76
28
45
55
32
73
57
Lo
27
62
50
42
46
19
37
35
22
63
40
W
s
c
c
c
s
sn
c
s
s
sh
s
Wed.
Hi
47
70
52
53
74
26
42
57
41
76
52
Lo
26
62
42
48
47
19
33
41
28
64
40
W
s
pc
sh
c
pc
sn
s
s
s
t
s
WINDS
Medford
48/28
PRECIPITATION
Dec 9
John Day
43/23
Ontario
38/17
24°
29°
2° (2013)
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
Last
New
Albany
46/29
Eugene
43/28
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
35° 24°
Spokane
Wenatchee
33/21
35/23
Tacoma
Moses
45/28
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 37/24
37/24
47/36
44/28
42/24
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
46/30
37/24 Lewiston
38/24
Astoria
40/25
51/37
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
49/36
Pendleton 39/19
The Dalles 40/25
39/23
45/28
La Grande
Salem
40/20
48/32
Corvallis
46/31
HIGH
36° 23°
Seattle
45/35
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
37° 24°
Today
SATURDAY
Freezing fog in the
morning
36° 21°
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Klamath Falls
40/15
(in mph)
Today
Wednesday
Boardman
Pendleton
NE 4-8
NNE 4-8
NNE 4-8
NNW 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 sun today. Clear
tonight. Areas of fog tomorrow morning in
central parts.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Freezing fog dur-
ing the morning; otherwise, sun, but low clouds
and freezing fog breaking across the north today.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today;
areas of morning fog. Mainly clear tonight;
areas of fog late.
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
-10s
-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: Rain and storms are forecast ahead of a push of arctic air from north-
ern New England to southeastern Texas today. As a blizzard winds down in the Upper
Midwest, much of the West will be dry and sunny.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 89° in Edinburg, Texas
Low 0° 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
46
70
62
62
42
66
38
50
77
59
39
52
58
48
48
60
28
21
79
71
44
81
48
58
54
71
Lo
24
41
46
43
27
38
21
49
61
30
25
27
39
23
26
34
19
11
66
42
26
59
31
38
36
50
W
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c
t
s
sh
pc
r
pc
r
pc
s
c
pc
pc
c
c
r
pc
pc
pc
s
pc
s
Wed.
Hi
48
53
51
50
42
53
38
51
66
48
36
41
60
39
39
48
24
20
81
50
42
75
45
62
59
76
Lo
27
40
39
34
28
37
22
33
43
27
21
26
37
20
25
31
16
4
65
41
21
48
21
42
31
53
Today
W
s
c
r
pc
c
c
s
r
r
s
s
pc
s
pc
c
sh
sn
s
pc
r
s
c
pc
s
s
s
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
53
53
84
37
24
58
80
60
52
41
62
72
46
55
69
43
43
61
47
36
70
62
45
69
64
53
Lo
31
37
72
23
16
33
51
48
30
30
45
52
44
52
50
22
17
33
32
20
49
45
35
51
43
30
W
r
r
s
pc
pc
r
t
r
pc
pc
r
pc
r
sh
c
c
s
s
pc
s
s
s
s
pc
r
pc
Wed.
Hi
52
56
85
33
25
54
52
49
56
39
49
75
46
53
53
36
46
60
49
37
74
61
51
69
51
50
Lo
27
32
71
21
10
31
42
34
25
16
36
49
26
31
38
19
18
33
25
21
52
46
35
46
37
26
W
s
s
pc
pc
s
s
r
pc
s
sf
pc
pc
r
r
pc
sf
s
s
pc
s
s
s
s
pc
pc
s
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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The unrealized potential of nonaffiliated voters
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Oregon’s
nonaffiliated
voters — those who belong
to no political party —
could soon be on track to
outnumber Democrats, the
state’s reigning major party.
Yet this massive voting
bloc is nearly impotent in
choosing candidates to run
in general elections, because
they are excluded from
participating in the state’s
Democratic and Republican
primaries. Oregon is one of
nine states in the country
with closed primaries. The
exception is the Independent
Party of Oregon, which opens
its primaries but has never
had a candidate elected to
state office.
Nonaffiliated voters “are
a much more diverse group
than most realize, particularly
now that we have (automatic
voter registration),” said Paul
Gronke, political science
professor at Reed College. “I
think they can be a powerful
force, but only if they assert
their voice, and the problem
with that is their diversity.
They are not all ‘middle,’ as
you might think.”
In last year’s presidential
primary, many nonaffiliated
voters
and
third-party
members were spurred to join
a major party so they could
have a say in who stood in the
general election.
Party jumping
Southeast
Portland
resident Erik Baldwin said
he temporarily joined the
Democratic Party so that he
could vote for Hillary Clinton
in the primary.
“I voted for the Demo-
cratic nominee because I
didn’t want the head doofus
in charge to be elected,” said
Baldwin, referring to Presi-
dent Donald Trump.
Other nonaffiliated and
third-party affiliates switched
to the Republican Party
Capital Bureau
Portland resident John Andersen was a nonaffiliated
voter for more than 15 years before he switched to the
Democratic Party to participate in its 2016 presidential
primary.
so that they could vote for
Trump, according to voter
registration rolls from several
Oregon counties.
The process of changing
party affiliation takes only
a couple of minutes on the
Secretary of State’s website.
“It’s a choice we all make,
but I would love to have my
opinion matter and not have
to change my party affiliation
to do so,” Baldwin said.
Nonaffiliated voters who
want to vote in a major party’s
primary have to become a
member in time to receive a
ballot. The deadline for the
2018 primaries is April 24.
“Many people don’t think
about party registration or
elections until we get close
to a national election cycle,”
said former Secretary of State
Jeanne Atkins, who now
chairs the Democratic Party
of Oregon. “What we saw in
2016 was that a large number
of nonaffiliated voters got
interested just before the
primary and re-registered in
time to participate. We would
expect the same to happen in
2018 and beyond.”
Portland resident John
Andersen was another of
those voters. After staying
nonaffiliated for more than
15 years, Andersen said he
registered with the Demo-
cratic Party in 2016 so he
could vote for Bernie Sanders
in the presidential primary.
“I moved to the Demo-
crats to try to stop Trump
in 2016, because I realized
that the party structure —
whether I like it or not — is
the mechanism to get things
done,” Andersen said.
The number of nonaffil-
iated voters in the state has
climbed annually since 2014.
The state’s first-in-the-nation
automatic voter registration
law boosted that growth
dramatically after it took
effect in January 2016. About
88 percent of the nearly
300,000 voters automatically
registered between then and
August 2017 are nonaffiliated
with a political party.
The law, dubbed “Motor
Voter” because residents
are automatically registered
when they get a driver’s
license or identity card
from the Department of
Motor Vehicles, ended the
former practice of giving
new licensees the voluntary
option of signing up for a
political party at the DMV.
Voters now receive a card
in the mail notifying them
that they can register for a
political party by returning
the card or signing up on the
Secretary of State’s website.
Only a fraction — 12.4
percent — of automatically
registered voters chose a
party affiliation. The rest
are largely nonaffiliated by
default.
Newer voters less engaged
That suggests many of the
new nonaffiliated voters are
disengaged politically.
“The party that benefits
(from automatic registration)
will be the party, or candi-
dates, that mobilize these new
registrants,” said Gronke, who
co-authored a report on the
landmark law earlier this year.
Nonaffiliated
voters
now make up more than 30
percent of registered voters,
according to the most recent
statistics from the Secretary
of State’s Office. As a
comparison,
Democrats,
Oregon’s largest political
party — account for more
than 36 percent of registered
voters.
Nonetheless, nonaffiliated
voters are nearly voiceless
in choosing nominees for
general elections, especially
in choosing their lawmakers
for the Oregon Legislature.
Nonaffiliated and third-party
voters have no say in who
wins the Democratic and
GOP nominations.
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U.S. officials investigating Oregon
marijuana operation
SALEM (AP) — The U.S. Attorney’s office in
Portland says federal officials are investigating a
marijuana processing facility in Oregon near Interstate
5, a major drug-trafficking route, after an explosion
there injured a man who was previously convicted in a
money laundering operation linked to a pot-trafficking
operation.
The probe is a rare instance in which U.S. officials
are investigating a marijuana case in a state in which
the drug has been legalized, contrary to federal laws
that ban possession and distribution of pot.
The Register-Guard, a newspaper in Eugene near
where the Nov. 16 explosion occurred, said Eric Scully
was hospitalized with burns to his face and hands after
the blast in Cottage Grove.
Kevin Sonoff, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s
office, told The Associated Press he cannot comment
on active investigations.
Southwestern Idaho has housing
shortage for H-2A workers
CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — Some housing
authorities in southwestern Idaho are struggling to keep
up with a rising demand for affordable housing that is
the result of a large increase in farm businesses seeking
temporary foreign guest workers under the H-2A visa
program.
Agricultural producers who use the program are
required to provide housing for the workers.
The Capital Press reports the Caldwell Housing
Authority, which operates the Farmway Village public
housing complex for domestic farm workers and
low-income individuals, received its first request to
house H-2A workers three years ago. That year they
housed 8 workers.
But the numbers continue to grow and next year
they expect to house 214 people here on guest worker
visas.
Caldwell Housing Authority Executive Director
Mike Dittenber says the organization is scrambling to
get units together for the upcoming year.
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