WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
Mostly cloudy
Sunshine and
patchy clouds
52° 38°
52° 33°
SUNDAY
MONDAY
Partly sunny
Rain and snow
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
44° 36°
46° 36°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
52° 33°
54° 39°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
50°
41°
41°
27°
63° (1953) -11° (1963)
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
0.21"
0.53"
0.62"
0.53"
1.06"
0.62"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
45/32
Ontario
47/30
Bend
48/30
49°
38°
41°
28°
61° (2014) -10° (1937)
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Jan 24
Full
7:34 a.m.
4:34 p.m.
3:40 a.m.
1:39 p.m.
Last
Jan 31
Feb 7
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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41
53
63
44
44
54
53
52
49
50
44
45
54
58
62
41
49
52
58
52
57
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48
57
50
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Lo
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29
47
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31
35
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32
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43
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Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
45/24
Hi
38
61
59
46
70
21
44
56
22
84
44
Lo
13
51
44
39
41
14
35
38
16
75
32
Sat.
W
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Hi
39
61
61
44
69
20
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56
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88
44
Lo
16
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45
36
33
14
33
40
19
62
35
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a
shower in spots across the north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy
today, but some high clouds in the upper
Treasure Valley.
Western Washington: Considerable cloudi-
ness today with a shower in spots.
Eastern Washington: Mainly cloudy today. A
bit of ice in the mountains; a shower near the
Idaho border. Partly sunny across the south.
Cascades: A rain or snow shower in central
parts today; a shower or two across the
north. A fl urry in the south.
Northern California: Times of clouds and
sun today. Partly cloudy tonight. Partly
sunny tomorrow.
Today
Saturday
SW 7-14
SW 6-12
NE 4-8
SE 4-8
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sat.
WINDS
Medford
50/33
0.17"
0.43"
0.45"
0.43"
0.61"
0.45"
SUN AND MOON
Caldwell
47/27
Burns
43/20
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
Jan 16
Albany
54/37
Eugene
53/37
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
47° 37°
Spokane
Wenatchee
36/34
37/32
Tacoma
Moses
51/44
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 40/34
42/36
50/46
51/44
48/37
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
52/45
51/41 Lewiston
53/38
Astoria
46/37
51/47
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
53/42
Pendleton 43/31
The Dalles 54/39
52/38
53/40
La Grande
Salem
45/33
54/41
Corvallis
53/38
HIGH
43° 37°
Seattle
51/47
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
44° 35°
Today
TUESDAY
Cloudy
45° 32°
Friday, January 12, 2018
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showers t-storms
0s
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 warmth will extend along the Eastern Seaboard today. Rain
will change to ice and snow over the Tennessee and Ohio valleys as arctic air advances east-
ward. Snow is in store for the Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 85° in McAllen, Texas
Low -22° in Havre, 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
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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
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58
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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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Uncertainty remains about effects of federal tax plan on Oregon
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — State economists
said Wednesday that the recent
federal tax overhaul could have
negative effects on Oregon’s reve-
nues in the short term, but could
boost annual state revenues in the
next decade.
However, they also cautioned
that the full picture of the impact
is not yet clear. President Donald
Trump signed the Tax Cuts and
Jobs Act, which contains sweeping
changes to federal personal and
business taxes, into law Dec. 22.
Acting Legislative Revenue
Officer Chris Allanach said the
state’s tax collections in 2018 are
now projected to be $100 million
lower than expected.
In the next decade, though,
net tax revenues are now largely
expected to exceed previous
projections.
State economists say personal
income tax collections could be
lower than previously expected
through 2025 due to the Tax Cuts
and Jobs Act.
But they also say they now
expect business tax collections
to exceed projections from 2020
to 2027, and by more than $200
million in the years 2020-2023.
Certain provisions of the legis-
lation are scheduled to expire in
2027.
Economists from the state
Office of Economic Analysis told
lawmakers on Wednesday they
expect the reforms to contribute to
modest economic growth.
However, the state’s projec-
tions are not yet complete. More
information should be available by
Feb. 16, when state economists are
scheduled to publish the next state
revenue forecast.
For example, it’s not yet clear
how Oregon will be affected by
provisions in the new federal law
that allows U.S. companies to
repatriate their overseas earnings at
a reduced tax rate.
While the law has reduced the
federal corporate income tax rate
from 35 percent to 21 percent, it’s
possible that the repatriation provi-
sion could bring more revenue
into the state in 2018 because
companies have been holding cash
overseas.
“I didn’t provide a number,
because I’m not in any place to
make an estimate on that yet,”
Allanach, the legislative revenue
officer, told lawmakers on
Wednesday.
The chair of the Oregon House
Revenue Committee also says
he needs more information about
the federal law’s effects before
attempting to change state law.
Rep. Phil Barnhart, D-Eugene,
said he and State Sen. Mark
Hass, D-Beaverton, are hoping
to convene a small work group to
work on the issue.
“But of course, we do need as
good data as we can get before we
have any idea of what we might
like to do, let alone what is prudent
to do,” Barnhart said.
The uncertainty around taxes
lingers as state legislators are
also waiting on the results of key
health care funding ballot measure
that could also pose significant
challenges for the state’s two-year
budget.
If voters reject the measure in a
special election Jan. 23, that could
result in a shortfall in the state’s
Medicaid budget.
Although the state legislature
passes the state’s budget in
odd-numbered years, legislators
convene for short, up-to-35-day
sessions in even-numbered years
in part to reconcile any changes in
the state’s budget. Lawmakers are
convening in Salem for three days
this week in advance of the short
session, which begins Feb. 5.
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oration between EO Media Group
and Pamplin Media Group.
Bill would remove on-voting memeber of State Board of Education
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Rep. Margaret
Doherty, D-Tigard, has
filed a bill for the February
lawmaking session that
would effectively remove an
outspoken, non-voting board
member from the Oregon
Board of Education.
The bill follows proposed
State Board of Education
rules that also would have
ousted Kim Sordyl, a
Portland Public Schools
parent whom Secretary of
State Dennis Richardson
chose to represent him as a
non-voting member on the
education board.
The bill would require
Richardson and Treasurer
Tobias Read — who hold
non-voting
membership
on the board — to send a
deputy officer to represent
them instead of a designee
of their choosing. The
proposed rule by the Board
of Education would have
restricted their designees to
state employees.
Sordyl, who worked on
Richardson’s campaign in
2016, began representing
him on board in January
2017.
Sordyl has been a vocal
critic of both Portland Public
Schools
and
Oregon’s
education system, which
yields the nation’s third
lowest on-time graduation
rate.
In August, the Board of
Jaime Valdez/Portland Tribune
Kim Sordyl, a Portland Public Schools parent, represents
Secretary of State Dennis Richardson as a non-voting
member of the Oregon State Board of Education.
Education proposed rules
that, Sordyl said, appeared
designed to censor her crit-
ical public statements and
remove her from the board.
Board members were
scheduled to vote on the
rules in September but held
off after Steve Elzinga,
counsel for the Secretary
of State’s Office, wrote an
email to Oregon Department
of Education administrators,
asserting that the proposed
rules violated state law —
including free speech rights
— and reached beyond the
board’s authority.
For
instance,
one
proposed change would
board members to “support
decision of the majority after
honoring the right of indi-
vidual members to express
opposing viewpoints and
vote their convictions.”
Another would require
board members to obtain
permission from the board
chair to create a social media
account for State Board of
Education purposes, and
it would have made any
content from the social
media account a public
record.
Elzinga said a personal
social
media
account
identifying an individual as
a board member does not
represent a public record.
“It is only a public record
if they are conducting busi-
ness,” he wrote.
Sordyl keeps a public
official Facebook page in
which she identifies herself
as member of the Board of
Education.
In answer to a question
about whether the rule
changes targeted Sordyl,
Peter Rudy, a public affairs
specialist at ODE, said: “The
State Board of Education
periodically reviews and
updates its policies and
operating procedures.”
Board Chairman Charles
Martinez was traveling
Wednesday and could not
immediately respond to
the Pamplin/EO Capital
Bureau’s inquiries, Rudy
said.
Doherty’s bill, proposed
Wednesday, would effec-
tively remove Sordyl from
the board by requiring that
non-voting members be the
secretary of state and treasur-
er’s deputies. The board had
proposed a rule restricting
non-voting membership to
state employees, but Elzinga
also challenged the legality
of that change.
Doherty,
chairwoman
of the House Education
Committee,
said
she
proposed the bill because
Board
of
Education
members have to deal with
sensitive information and the
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non-voting seats are meant
to represent the offices of
the secretary of state and
treasurer.
She included the bill
among three she asked the
committee to sponsor during
the 2018 lawmaking session.
Committee members voted
8-to-1 for the committee to
sponsor the bills, with one
objection from Rep. Julie
Parrish, R-West Linn.
Parrish, who also worked
on Richardson’s campaign,
said she opposes Doherty’s
proposal because it strips the
secretary of state of some of
his elected power.
Rep.
Carl
Wilson,
R-Grants Pass, voted in
favor of sponsoring the
bills, but he said that doesn’t
necessarily
reflect
his
support of them.
Sordyl said she learned
about the bill from Parrish
Wednesday. Sordyl sent out
a tweet stating that a former
OEA lobbyist was trying to
remove her from the board.
“Get in line,” she tweeted.
“Administrators
have
already tried. I’ll continue
demanding students become
top priority in (Oregon)
education. (Administrators
and) unions had priority
(for too) long. It’s time for a
culture shift.”
Richardson and his chief
of staff, Debra Royal, did
not respond to the Capital
Bureau’s requests from
comment. However, Sordyl
said Richardson has been
supportive of keeping her on
the board.