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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast SUNDAY TODAY MONDAY Rather cloudy and chilly A shower in the afternoon 45° 27° 47° 30° TUESDAY Periods of clouds and sunshine Partly sunny and cool PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 49° 26° 52° 37° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 52° 31° 51° 28° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 48° 51° 69° (1931) 35° 32° 2° (1896) 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 0.31" 0.49" 0.07" 2.82" 3.92" 2.58" HERMISTON through 3 p.m. yesterday LOW 52° 53° 73° (1936) 6:30 a.m. 5:44 p.m. 8:00 p.m. 7:39 a.m. Full First Mar 24 Mar 31 Caldwell 40/23 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 50 37 39 45 35 38 49 42 51 38 34 40 38 50 48 49 41 52 45 51 44 51 42 37 51 49 51 Lo 33 15 19 38 17 21 28 26 28 22 12 24 21 28 33 34 23 26 27 33 19 30 25 20 32 31 26 W sh sf sf t sn sf sh c c sn sf sf sf sh sh sh sf c c sh sn sh c sn sh c sn NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Sun. Hi 48 38 41 49 38 37 50 44 52 39 40 40 38 52 48 51 45 53 47 51 45 53 40 36 50 49 53 Lo 35 15 20 36 15 22 32 29 31 22 16 26 25 28 37 35 23 27 30 36 19 35 27 21 36 35 25 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W c c sf c c c c c c c c c sn c c c c c c c c c sf c c c c WORLD CITIES Today Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo Hi 59 75 69 41 78 18 51 60 54 83 57 Lo 41 70 52 37 51 12 39 42 38 72 48 W pc pc pc r pc c r r pc s s Sun. Hi 49 75 71 47 80 15 48 58 60 79 65 Lo 25 68 53 38 53 11 36 45 37 70 56 W c t s sh pc sn r c r pc s WINDS Medford 50/28 Trace 0.12" 0.07" 1.75" 3.46" 2.31" SUN AND MOON Mar 17 Bend 39/19 Burns 35/17 PRECIPITATION Mar 9 John Day 38/22 Ontario 41/23 35° 31° 10° (1993) 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 51/30 Eugene 49/28 TEMPERATURE Yesterday Normals Records 53° 36° Spokane Wenatchee 42/25 45/27 Tacoma Moses 50/30 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 49/26 41/25 50/34 49/30 51/26 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 51/32 49/31 Lewiston 52/28 Astoria 47/30 50/33 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 51/33 Pendleton 38/21 The Dalles 51/28 45/27 50/31 La Grande Salem 40/24 51/30 Corvallis 50/29 HIGH 53° 28° Seattle 50/35 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 53° 29° Today WEDNESDAY Mostly sunny and chilly 48° 28° Saturday, March 3, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 34/12 REGIONAL FORECAST Eastern and Central Oregon: Mostly cloudy today with snow showers, up to an inch or two, mainly in the mountains. Western Washington: Clouds and some sunny breaks today with a couple of show- ers in the area. Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today. Snow toward the Cascades; a snow shower in the north. Cascades: Cloudy today with snow showers, accumulating 1-3 inches across Oregon. Sunday N 3-6 WNW 4-8 WSW 6-12 WSW 7-14 UV INDEX TODAY Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows. Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today with showers and thunderstorms; chilly. Today 1 2 2 211 S.E. Byers Ave., Pendleton 541-276-2211 333 E. Main St., Hermiston 541-567-6211 Office hours: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed major holidays The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Northern California: A shower and thunder- storm around today; snow showers in the mountains accumulating 1-3 inches. 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Circulation Manager: Marcy Rosenberg • 541-966-0828 • mrosenberg@eastoregonian.com Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group 0 0-2, Low 3-5, Moderate 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; 11+, Extreme SUBSCRIPTION RATES To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ 1 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. Subscriber services: For mail delivery, online access, vacation stops or delivery concerns call 1-800-522-0255 ext. 1 — Founded Oct. 16, 1875 — 2 -10s SALEM — After signif- icant debate, the Oregon House Friday narrowly passed a measure aimed at blunting the impact of federal tax reforms on state coffers. Though the bill now goes to the governor for her signature, it faces a potential Constitutional challenge and an initiative petition from the Oregon Small Business Association. Oregon’s income tax code is largely based on the federal code. Tax deductions created by federal tax law are available on state tax returns unless those provisions are specifically disconnected from Oregon law. Senate Bill 1528 discon- nects Oregon law from a federal deduction for owners of so-called “pass-through” businesses, whose business income “passes through” to be claimed on their personal income taxes. Federal reforms passed in December will allow owners of those businesses — such as sole proprietorships, part- nerships, LLCs and S-corpo- rations — to deduct up to 20 percent of their income from their 2018 tax return. The bill eliminates that deduction from Oregon income taxes, and is expected to result in $244 million month more in tax dollars in the current two-year budget than if Oregon allowed the new deduction on state income taxes. A Republican lawmaker in the state senate, Sen. Brian Boquist of Dallas, has raised questions about the constitu- tionality of the process used to pass the measure, which passed the Senate Feb. 23. Boquist argues that the bill qualifies under the Oregon Constitution as a bill for “raising revenue.” If so, it should have originated in the House of Representatives and required a three-fifths majority in each chamber to pass. Boquist has also raised a question about whether Oregon’s unusual “kicker” law would be triggered by the additional revenue from the bill. The “kicker” requires that if actual personal income tax revenues exceed the amount predicted at the close of the long legislative session by 2 percent, then taxpayers get back the difference. The passage of SB 1528 “would take us close but not quite over that threshold,” state economist Josh Lehner wrote in an email to Boquist last month. The email was shared by Boquist with the EO/Pamplin Capital Bureau last week. “It would effec- tively eliminate any wiggle room in terms of forecast accuracy and the kicker.” That determination, though, wouldn’t officially be made until September 2019, after the close of the two-year budget cycle, and after other new laws passed in the short session have been incorporated into the revenue projections. Three House Democrats voted against the bill Friday, but the rest of the caucus has framed the bill as a way to prevent a revenue loss by not instituting a giveaway to the wealthy. They say that 61 percent of the deduction’s benefit would go to taxpayers who are in the top 5 percent of income earners. “I support (the bill) because it will allow us to protect those critical invest- ments in Oregon schools, health care and other critical services for families and communities across the state,” said State Rep. Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, who said she wanted the legislature to move forward on meaningful tax reforms next year, when legislators convene for a long session, during the floor debate over the bill. “... But to simply accept what the federal government has handed to us without consideration of the impact that an additional tax change for business would have on the kids in Oregon schools or Compare Our CD Rates Bank-issued, FDIC-insured 3-month 6-month 6-month 1-year 1-year % % % 1.65 2.00 65 1.75 1.75 2.00 APY* Minimum deposit $1000 APY* Minimum deposit $1000 APY* Minimum deposit $1000 * Annual Percentage Yield (APY) effective 03/02/18. CDs offered by Edward Jones are bank-issued and FDIC-insured up to $250,000 (principal and interest accrued but not yet paid) per depositor, per insured depository institution, for each account ownership category. Please visit www.fdic.gov or contact your financial advisor for additional information. Subject to availability and price change. 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Meanwhile, a storm near the West Coast will begin to push inland with areas of heavy snow. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 89° in Hollywood, Fla. Low -9° in Ely, 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 67 62 47 49 32 64 38 45 64 47 48 37 71 65 41 77 18 39 82 73 49 70 60 57 60 56 Lo 36 37 36 32 20 38 24 34 38 25 30 24 55 35 23 47 7 32 72 61 28 40 42 41 38 42 W s s pc pc c s sf c s s s s pc s s s sn sn r pc s s s pc s sh Sun. 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ADVERTISING Advertising Director: Marissa Williams 541-278-2669 • addirector@eastoregonian.com Advertising Services: Laura Jensen 541-966-0806 • ljensen@eastoregonian.com Multimedia Consultants: • Kimberly Macias 541-278-2683 • kmacias@eastoregonian.com • Jeanne Jewett 541-564-4531 • jjewett@eastoregonian.com • Dayle Stinson 541-278-2670 • dstinson@eastoregonian.com • Angela Treadwell 541-966-0827 • atreadwell@eastoregonian.com • Audra Workman 541-564-4538 • aworkman@eastoregonian.com • Grace Bubar 541-276-2214 • gbubar@eastoregonian.com Deduction for business owners blocked By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau -0s seniors who are counting on critical services would be a huge mistake.” Oregon’s chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business called on Gov. Kate Brown to veto the bill. “...These sole proprietor- ships, partnerships, LLCs and S-corps are losing out on tax savings that they would otherwise have to invest in their businesses and their employees,” the group said in a statement after the vote. A spokesman for Brown said in a text message Friday that “as with any other bill, the Governor’s Office will review the legislation for legal sufficiency before the Governor considers signing.” And on Thursday, in what it said was a direct response to the legislation, the state’s Small Business Association filed an initiative petition called the “Tax Parity Initia- tive.” Classified & Legal Advertising 1-800-962-2819 or 541-278-2678 classifieds@eastoregonian.com or legals@eastoregonian.com NEWS • To submit news tips and press releases: call 541-966-0818 or email news@eastoregonian.com • To submit community events, calendar items and Your EO News: email community@eastoregonian.com or call Tammy Malgesini at 541-564-4539 or Renee Struthers at 541-966-0818. • To submit engagements, weddings and anniversaries: email rstruthers@eastoregonian.com or visit www.eastoregonian. com/community/announcements • To submit sports or outdoors information or tips: 541-966-0838 • sports@eastoregonian.com Business Office Manager: Janna Heimgartner 541-966-0822 • jheimgartner@eastoregonian.com COMMERCIAL PRINTING Production Manager: Mike Jensen 541-215-0824 • mjensen@eastoregonian.com Net neutrality contracting moves closer to passage SALEM — A bill to require governmental agen- cies to contract only with internet providers who prac- tice “net neutrality” is on its way to Gov. Kate Brown’s desk for a signature. The state Senate voted 21-to-7 to pass House Bill 4155 Thursday, March 2, with bipartisan support. The House approved the bill Feb. 26. House Majority Leader Rep. Jennifer Williamson, D-Portland, proposed the state regulations to discourage internet compa- nies from blocking, slowing down or charging more for certain content. The Federal Communications Commis- sion repealed federal rules on net neutrality Dec. 14. The move prompted about 20 states, including Oregon, to sue the federal government to restore the protections. Williamson’s bill is meant to serve as an incentive to providers to keep the internet open to all Oregonians. “It’s particularly important to small busi- nesses who are trying to create e-commerce,” said Sen. Lee Beyer, D-Eugene, who urged passage of the bill on the Senate floor Thursday. Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. 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