WEATHER
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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
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37
39
45
35
38
49
42
51
38
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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
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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
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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
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National Summary: Strong winds, rough seas and coastal flooding will continue in the
wake of the big storm in the Northeast today. 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
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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
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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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Deduction for business owners blocked
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
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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.”
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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.
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