WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
THURSDAY
TODAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny and
mild
Clouds giving way
to some sun
60° 48°
61° 37°
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy and
cooler
Mostly sunny and
seasonably cool
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
43° 25°
48° 35°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
64° 38°
62° 48°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
53°
44°
67° (1996)
42°
28°
-6° (1899)
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"
0.26"
0.28"
1.85"
1.75"
1.66"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
John Day
58/42
Ontario
56/34
Bend
63/42
58°
42°
45°
29°
65° (1965) -13° (1929)
Burns
57/29
0.00"
0.14"
0.20"
1.24"
1.71"
1.48"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Feb 15
7:09 a.m.
5:10 p.m.
12:30 a.m.
11:08 a.m.
First
Full
Feb 22
Caldwell
58/35
Hi
53
55
63
69
57
53
57
61
62
58
61
57
55
63
55
60
56
59
60
58
66
58
48
55
56
62
64
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
Lo
44
34
42
48
29
41
40
48
48
42
30
42
42
38
43
44
34
49
48
41
38
39
44
40
41
53
41
W
pc
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pc
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
Hi
52
59
64
62
60
57
58
62
64
61
64
60
57
66
52
55
57
64
61
55
66
58
53
57
54
63
63
Lo
41
30
32
44
29
31
39
35
38
35
29
33
31
39
41
42
32
35
37
41
32
39
30
29
39
41
32
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
c
c
pc
s
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pc
pc
c
c
pc
c
pc
c
pc
pc
c
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c
sh
pc
c
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
35
62
69
40
72
18
32
55
26
80
47
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Lo
11
54
51
27
49
3
19
41
12
67
34
W
s
s
c
pc
pc
c
sn
t
c
s
s
Thu.
Hi
39
63
68
45
68
17
32
56
34
83
45
Lo
17
58
51
39
46
12
21
40
18
70
35
W
pc
pc
pc
c
pc
sn
pc
pc
s
s
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WINDS
Medford
63/38
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
Feb 7
Albany
57/39
Eugene
57/40
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
50° 37°
Spokane
Wenatchee
48/44
53/37
Tacoma
Moses
53/45
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 55/42
54/48
51/46
53/44
64/41
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
56/44
62/53 Lewiston
61/49
Astoria
62/50
53/44
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
58/41
Pendleton 53/41
The Dalles 62/48
60/48
62/44
La Grande
Salem
57/42
58/39
Corvallis
57/38
HIGH
48° 24°
Seattle
52/46
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
53° 32°
Today
SUNDAY
Mostly sunny and
chilly
49° 28°
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
61/30
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern and Central Oregon: Mild today
with times of clouds and sun.
Eastern Washington: Mainly cloudy today.
Mostly cloudy tonight; a passing shower in
the north.
Cascades: Mild today with intervals of
clouds and sunshine.
Western Washington: Mostly cloudy today
and tonight. A couple of showers tomorrow.
Northern California: Plenty of sunshine to-
day. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow.
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UV INDEX TODAY
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Today
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-0s
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: A storm will bring heavy snow and ice to the Northeast states and
rain and thunder to the South today. More snow will take shape over the northern Rockies,
while much of the West will stay dry and warm.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 90° in Thermal, Calif.
Low -37° in Embarrass, Minn.
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
56
62
51
47
38
63
57
38
74
44
20
28
47
51
26
65
-10
10
80
51
28
81
29
70
45
81
Lo
30
36
29
22
27
30
38
23
54
22
2
16
29
34
4
35
-24
-11
67
39
10
60
19
49
22
56
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Thur.
Hi
60
59
36
37
30
58
62
33
61
37
23
26
59
58
22
68
-2
5
80
62
32
64
46
75
52
83
Lo
33
39
25
22
1
39
37
19
41
21
20
18
42
26
13
41
-17
-15
67
48
23
51
29
50
29
56
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s
s
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s
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s
c
pc
pc
pc
sn
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s
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s
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c
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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
38
40
83
21
13
40
71
40
43
18
47
80
30
46
64
34
61
72
30
57
76
70
52
78
51
40
Lo
20
27
71
7
3
23
46
26
24
14
26
51
17
25
35
18
32
43
17
40
52
52
46
48
27
24
W
c
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pc
pc
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t
sn
s
pc
sn
s
sn
sn
r
pc
s
s
pc
pc
s
s
c
s
i
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Thur.
Hi
41
52
84
22
16
49
61
33
58
33
36
82
30
35
51
26
66
73
46
62
76
70
52
82
40
59
Lo
31
36
72
18
0
33
53
24
33
15
23
51
13
20
28
0
33
43
33
44
53
51
41
48
27
31
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s
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s
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s
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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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Lawmakers wrangle DHS Trump administration’s oil drilling
plan prompts protests at capitol
changes, improvements
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — While many
lawmakers say they’re heart-
ened by recent leadership
changes at the Department
of Human Services, there
are some differing opinions
about how the Legislature
can remedy the myriad
problems in the state foster
care system.
State auditors said Jan. 31
that DHS has failed to make
progress on chronic prob-
lems in the Child Welfare
program, including lack of
available foster homes and
high caseworker turnover.
The issues in the foster
care program were raised
on Monday, the first day of
the short legislative session,
after state Rep. Knute
Buehler, a Bend Republican
who is also a candidate
for the GOP gubernatorial
nomination, called for
$50 million in additional
funding to implement the
audit’s two-dozen recom-
mendations.
“As leaders and citizens
we owe these kids, families
and caseworkers so much
more than what they’re
getting right now,” Buehler
told reporters Monday, Feb.
5.
However,
other
lawmakers say that the
foster care audit identified
longstanding problems at
DHS, and that while more
money could help, solving
those problems also requires
systemic changes at DHS
that will take time as well as
oversight from the Legisla-
ture.
For example, the audit
found that the agency
employs 769 fewer case-
workers than are needed to
meet demand. But state Sen.
Sara Gelser, D-Corvallis,
said Feb. 5 that making an
effective change means
hiring the right people and
training them well, both
steps that take time.
And while lawmakers
could move money around
in the budget, Gelser said
that putting more money into
Child Welfare could mean
cuts for other important
programs.
Further, she says that
reforming the state’s tax
system could, as other tax
reform advocates have
argued, help pay for the wide
variety of state government
services that Oregonians
want, from public safety, to
child welfare, to schools, to
roads.
“It all comes back to how
much money’s in the bank
to pay for these things,”
Gelser said, noting that
recent legislative efforts to
reform the state’s tax system
to stabilize revenue moved
forward in the last session,
but still disintegrated. “. . .
So now, I look to the people
that will want to capitalize
on some of these audits to
come forward with us, and
hold hands with us, to get
the tax reform that we need
to be able to pay for the
services that Oregonians
expect and need.”
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner
Hayward,
D-Beaverton,
was skeptical of Buehler’s
idea to infuse DHS with
$50 million in funding from
an increased cigarette tax.
Increasing the cigarette tax
was unlikely to get political
support, she said, and added
that the problems at the
agency required higher-level
changes to the system or
agency “infrastructure.”
“We could throw, you
know, another $100 million
at it tomorrow, and it
wouldn’t fix the problem
overnight, by any means,”
Steiner Hayward said. “So
it’s a multifaceted problem .
. . that’s been a long time in
the making, but I think the
path toward solving it, at
least with the resources we
currently have available, is
much clearer than it’s ever
been.”
In the 2017 session,
when lawmakers hammered
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out the two-year budget
for the fiscal biennium
that ends in June 2019, the
budget included $30 million
more for the Child Welfare
program than initially
planned, Steiner Hayward
said.
Lawmakers used that
money to bring back a
senior staff position to
support caseworkers and
upped payments to foster
parents, among other
things.
Senate
Republican
Leader Jackie Winters,
R-Salem, said in an inter-
view last week that the
Legislature should also look
at how to prevent kids from
going into foster care where
possible.
Winters pointed to the
state’s relief nursery program
as an example — more than
30 community-based relief
nurseries in Oregon provide
therapy and other supports
to parents in need. About
11,000 Oregon kids enter
foster care annually.
Many lawmakers have
said they are confident
in new leadership at the
agency. Fariborz Pakseresht,
the former Oregon Youth
Authority director, has led
the agency since September,
and Marilyn Jones has been
at the helm of the Child
Welfare program since
October.
“I think we need to give
(Pakseresht) time to right-
side the agency,” Winters
told the EO/Pamplin Capital
Bureau last week.
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — The Trump
administration’s plan to
drill for oil and gas off the
coast of the United States
drew protests Tuesday in
Congress and on the streets.
In Oregon, more than 100
protesters gathered outside
the state capitol in Salem
and planned to go to a hotel
where the federal Bureau
of Ocean Energy Manage-
ment was holding a public
meeting, one of a series in
coastal states.
The protesters heard
speakers on the steps of
the Capitol denouncing the
intent to allow companies to
drill off the coast, including
Elke Littleleaf, a member
of the Warm Springs Indian
tribe.
“We have to step up and
let these people know we
want to keep our coastline
clean and pure as it should
be,” Littleleaf said.
A demonstration sched-
uled for Monday in Tacoma,
Washington was postponed
after the venue operator
pulled out amid planned
protests.
Some of the protesters in
Salem wore black T-shirts
that said “drilling is killing.”
In the nation’s capital,
senators from coastal states
on Tuesday strongly object
to the plan, saying it endan-
gers the environment and
threatens jobs dependent
on tourism, recreation and
fishing.
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People gather with signs on the Capitol steps in Salem
on Tuesday, protesting against a federal proposal that
would open up the nation’s coastline, including all of
Oregon’s shores, to oil and gas drilling.
off the coast of the Northwest
does not make sense for our
communities,” Sen. Maria
Cantwell, a Democrat from
Washington state, said on
the Senate floor. She noted
that the Pacific Northwest is
due for a big earthquake at
any time, and urged Interior
Secretary Ryan Zinke to
drop “this foolish idea.”
A parade of other sena-
tors then took to the podium
in the Senate to denounce
the plan.
Sen. Sheldon White-
house, D-Rhode Island,
said he was working to ban
drilling off his state’s coast.
Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla.,
cited the launch on Tuesday
of SpaceX’s big new rocket
from Cape Canaveral, saying
it underscores the danger of
having drilling off a coast
where rockets are launched.
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