WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
Clouds giving way
to some sun
Cooler; a shower in
the morning
62° 38°
47° 28°
SUNDAY
Mostly sunny and
chilly
Today
MONDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a little rain
Mostly cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
44° 29°
47° 30°
46° 22°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
50° 28°
65° 38°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
61°
42°
45°
29°
65° (2015) -19° (1929)
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"
0.32"
1.85"
1.90"
1.70"
Corvallis
56/39
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
John Day
63/36
Ontario
58/34
Bend
64/36
57°
47°
46°
29°
68° (2015) -25° (1929)
Feb 22
Mar 1
Lo
40
31
36
46
30
31
41
36
38
36
31
33
31
38
40
43
34
35
38
38
32
39
28
29
40
42
32
W
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c
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s
pc
c
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c
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pc
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Hi
49
48
52
60
49
42
53
46
50
47
59
45
41
60
50
53
54
53
47
51
54
53
40
41
49
50
53
Lo
35
22
23
42
21
21
30
26
28
25
23
24
22
32
36
37
27
28
28
32
23
32
22
21
32
30
28
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
W
pc
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pc
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pc
sf
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c
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c
r
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Hi
39
63
69
45
70
18
33
56
33
84
46
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
64/31
Lo
18
59
53
40
47
14
22
38
18
70
35
Fri.
W
pc
pc
c
c
pc
pc
s
pc
s
s
pc
Hi
40
67
69
42
69
24
35
56
41
84
49
Lo
14
61
51
30
48
17
28
38
29
71
38
W
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
c
sn
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pc
pc
s
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: A shower across the north
today; some sun in central parts. Mostly
sunny in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Some sun
today; cloudy in the morning, then some
sun across the north in the afternoon.
Western Washington: Low clouds today; a
shower in spots at the coast.
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Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today; a
couple of showers in the mountains.
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National Summary: Snow showers will dot the Great Lakes, while rain showers dampen
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forecast to extend from Montana to Iowa.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 87° in Fullerton, Calif.
Low -24° in Poplar, Mont.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
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Dallas
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Hi
61
58
36
35
33
58
63
32
60
37
21
25
60
60
21
68
-3
4
80
60
30
67
46
75
51
85
Lo
33
39
25
21
0
39
38
18
40
23
16
13
44
29
9
40
-18
-12
67
49
23
51
33
51
30
57
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Fri.
Hi
64
59
41
44
7
64
53
33
67
56
28
38
70
38
27
75
-1
5
79
65
47
70
33
78
57
78
Lo
36
49
37
35
-4
54
29
30
55
38
18
27
51
16
15
46
-18
-8
67
57
24
57
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51
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Today
W
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sn
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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
39
51
84
22
14
46
62
33
58
29
34
83
30
34
51
23
65
73
43
63
76
71
53
82
39
60
Lo
31
38
73
15
3
34
54
23
33
15
23
52
12
18
30
1
35
44
34
44
53
52
41
49
26
32
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Fri.
Hi
57
60
82
26
11
63
72
35
64
17
40
83
29
35
57
7
68
74
52
61
70
68
48
84
47
42
Lo
41
49
74
9
-6
50
64
34
24
3
37
52
26
30
45
-3
33
45
27
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51
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15
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Hi
52
60
64
64
61
57
57
62
65
63
64
60
57
65
51
55
58
65
62
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65
57
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WINDS
Medford
65/38
Trace
0.14"
0.24"
1.24"
1.73"
1.52"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
New
First
Caldwell
63/36
Burns
61/30
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 15
Albany
56/40
Eugene
57/41
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
51° 23°
Spokane
Wenatchee
52/28
55/32
Tacoma
Moses
53/37
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 60/31
56/34
50/38
52/35
65/32
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
52/39
64/42 Lewiston
65/37
Astoria
64/41
52/40
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
55/38
Pendleton 57/31
The Dalles 65/38
62/38
62/43
La Grande
Salem
60/33
57/39
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
49° 32°
Seattle
53/41
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
48° 26°
Thursday, February 8, 2018
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Oregon lawmaker accused of
Audit: State tracking, licensing
system for pot needs improvement harassment says he won’t resign
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Oregon’s
systems for licensing and
tracking recreational mari-
juana have weaknesses that
could allow illegal activity
to fly under the radar, state
auditors say.
The
recreational
marijuana program also
lacks important security
measures that could protect
sensitive information and
IT infrastructure from being
compromised.
The Oregon Liquor
Control Commission helps
regulate the recreational
marijuana
program,
including issuing licenses
to producers, retailers and
others in the recreational
marijuana business. The
agency also runs the “seed-
to-sale” tracking program
that is intended to track
marijuana on its journey to
market.
Among other issues
auditors found, data in the
cannabis tracking system is
self-reported by cannabis
businesses, raising auditors’
concerns about its reliability.
There aren’t enough
trained compliance inspec-
tors to adequately keep an
eye on recreational marijuana
activity. And auditors also
found that the OLCC lacks an
overall IT security manage-
ment plan for the agency and
a disaster recovery plan for
its information.
Wednesday’s audit report
comes as there’s renewed
attention on marijuana,
SALEM — An Oregon
state lawmaker accused
of groping women defied
calls to resign Wednesday
after
telling
investigators his
behavior
was
“instinctual” and
hard to change.
Sen.
Jeff
Kruse,
a
Republican who
represents
the
former
timber
town of Rose-
burg, was away Kruse
from work as
Gov. Kate Brown and other
Democratic
lawmakers
urged him to step down a
day after an investigative
report detailed several alle-
gations that he subjected
two female senators to
unwanted touching and
gave lingering hugs to
many woman.
The report included
video showing him leaning
in closely to a colleague
and touching her in a
Senate committee room.
“I have no plan to do
anything different than
what I’m currently doing,”
Kruse told his hometown
newspaper The News-Re-
view. “We’re still in a
AP Photo/Andrew Selsky, file
In this Sept. 2016 file photo, different strains of mari-
juana are displayed in West Salem Cannabis, a marijua-
na shop in Salem.
especially in states that have
legalized the substance.
In early January, Attorney
General Jeff Sessions issued
guidance to U.S. attorneys
in states that have legalized
marijuana saying they may
use their discretion when
it comes to prosecuting
marijuana cases. Marijuana
remains
illegal
under
the
federal
Controlled
Substances Act.
U.S. Attorney for Oregon
Billy Williams said at a
marijuana conference he
hosted last week that Oregon
produces far more mari-
juana than Oregonians can
consume, and that product is
leaking into the black market.
Oregon voters approved
recreational marijuana in
a November 2014 ballot
measure. Recreational mari-
juana became legal on July
1, 2015.
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The popularity of the
program is greater than state
officials had expected.
Through
November
2017, the state had collected
about $115.5 million in state
marijuana taxes since retail
sales began in January 2016,
according to Wednesday’s
audit.
OLCC Executive Director
Steve Marks said in a written
response to the audit that the
agency “is actively following
up on all aspects of the audit”
and wants to get more money
to “move forward” on the
technology issues raised by
the audit.
and that although he
wanted to change, “It’s not
easy to change when you
have been doing something
for 67 years.”
Sen. Sara Gelser, one
of the accusers, “did not
think that Senator Kruse’s
actions
were
sexual,
just overly familiar and
unwanted contact,” the
report said.
The
four-member
Committee on Conduct
is slated to consider the
investigative report on Feb.
22 and must make a recom-
mendation that Kruse be
reprimanded,
censured,
expelled, or that no action
be
taken,
committee
chairman Sen. Mark Hass
told Kruse, Gelser and
Elizabeth Steiner Hayward,
the other senator who made
a formal complaint.
“You may submit docu-
ments, physical evidence
and suggest witnesses to
testify,” Hass, a Democrat
from the Portland suburb of
Beaverton, said in a letter
Tuesday. Besides Hass,
two Republicans and one
other Democrat sit on the
committee.
The 51-page investiga-
tive report was written by
investigator and employ-
ment law attorney Dian
Rubanoff.
formal process here. I have
significant issues with the
report.”
Kruse didn’t return an
email seeking comment
from The Associated Press.
Sen. Jackie Winters, the
Senate
Repub-
lican leader, has
not called for him
to go.
The investi-
gation is one of
many in state-
houses
nation-
wide following
a wave of sexual
misconduct alle-
gations against
men in power
since an October expose
of movie mogul Harvey
Weinstein by the New York
Times.
On Feb. 1, Republican
Arizona Rep. Don Shooter
became the first state
lawmaker in the U.S. to be
expelled since the #MeToo
movement gained steam.
Kruse is accused of
harassment but generally
not of a sexual nature,
though the investigator
found that he touched and
hugged women more than
men, and the people who
complained were women.
Kruse told the investi-
gator that he believed his
behavior was “instinctual”
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