WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
Mostly cloudy with
a few showers
Mostly cloudy with
a shower
58° 45°
66° 51°
SUNDAY
Rather cloudy with
showers
Sun through high
clouds
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
55° 38°
67° 52°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
69° 51°
60° 44°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
56°
59°
79° (1960)
41°
38°
24° (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
Trace
Trace
0.18"
3.71"
6.27"
4.14"
Corvallis
58/47
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
Yesterday
Normals
Records
LOW
57°
62°
81° (1944)
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
48
38
40
50
34
40
47
43
44
43
41
42
41
48
49
49
43
41
45
52
35
50
34
38
50
48
39
W
r
sh
r
r
sh
sh
r
sh
sh
sh
sh
sh
sh
r
r
r
sh
sh
sh
r
r
r
sh
sh
r
sh
sh
Hi
61
64
58
59
56
59
59
64
69
62
54
62
61
63
58
59
66
66
66
65
62
63
49
61
63
66
63
Lo
49
45
43
49
44
47
48
51
51
51
45
49
49
49
49
49
51
44
51
52
44
50
38
48
51
51
45
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
Hi
51
82
75
53
76
47
52
63
52
81
60
Lo
35
72
53
42
55
38
40
46
45
67
57
W
c
c
pc
pc
t
pc
pc
t
r
s
c
Fri.
Hi
50
80
75
59
75
52
66
67
55
79
70
Lo
33
61
54
48
52
33
50
48
36
68
63
W
pc
c
s
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pc
c
s
s
c
s
pc
(in mph)
Today
Friday
Boardman
Pendleton
ENE 4-8
N 4-8
NNE 6-12
ENE 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Apr 29
Hi
54
57
56
56
55
53
56
57
60
56
53
55
53
61
53
57
61
57
58
57
58
58
49
52
56
56
58
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
WINDS
Klamath Falls
53/41
6:28 a.m.
7:28 p.m.
12:06 a.m.
9:45 a.m.
First
Full
Apr 22
Caldwell
62/45
Medford
61/48
Trace
Trace
0.09"
2.38"
4.93"
3.20"
SUN AND MOON
Apr 15
Bend
56/40
Burns
55/34
PRECIPITATION
Apr 8
John Day
56/43
Ontario
61/43
44°
38°
24° (2009)
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
57/50
Eugene
56/47
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
68° 46°
Spokane
Wenatchee
49/34
54/40
Tacoma
Moses
54/47
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 55/41
51/42
53/49
54/46
58/39
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
53/49
56/48 Lewiston
58/44
Astoria
56/46
54/48
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
57/52
Pendleton 53/40
The Dalles 60/44
58/45
59/46
La Grande
Salem
55/42
58/50
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
61° 39°
Seattle
55/49
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
64° 49°
Today
MONDAY
Mostly cloudy, a
shower; breezy
62° 45°
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today;
breezy. Occasional rain and drizzle tonight.
Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today
with a couple of showers.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower this
morning, then afternoon rain. A shower
tonight. A shower tomorrow.
Western Washington: Periods of rain today;
a passing morning shower, then periods of
rain across the south.
Cascades: A few showers this morning, then
rain. Cloudy tonight with a little rain.
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40s
snow
50s
ice
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Snow is forecast to spread across the Upper Midwest today with rain
and snow farther south over the mid-Mississippi Valley. As rain soaks the coastal Northwest,
more snow will fall on the northern Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 91° in Thermal, Calif.
Low -8° in Crane Lake, 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
73
66
49
52
27
69
62
46
67
54
41
41
73
67
45
86
37
29
81
75
48
71
61
87
66
71
Lo
50
48
39
39
14
49
46
29
48
38
30
34
62
37
33
62
16
7
70
68
36
53
36
66
49
55
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pc
sn
pc
sh
s
s
pc
sn
pc
pc
pc
pc
s
s
sn
sh
pc
pc
s
c
pc
pc
pc
Fri.
Hi
77
73
57
64
21
72
63
46
76
61
38
47
84
42
46
87
39
21
80
83
48
80
39
87
67
71
Lo
48
58
42
42
12
55
51
37
63
32
20
27
40
23
24
59
14
7
72
60
25
62
12
66
34
59
Today
W
pc
pc
c
c
sn
pc
c
sh
s
pc
pc
c
t
c
c
pc
s
pc
c
t
pc
s
sn
pc
r
pc
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
58
65
83
41
38
61
74
46
69
54
49
92
43
47
60
39
66
66
59
66
67
63
55
89
56
70
Lo
44
51
71
28
17
45
61
36
51
26
38
67
24
29
41
13
46
52
41
49
58
56
49
58
42
44
W
pc
pc
pc
sn
sn
pc
s
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
s
pc
s
sf
c
c
c
pc
pc
c
r
pc
pc
pc
Fri.
Hi
62
65
83
36
25
65
79
56
63
29
61
92
40
51
72
21
61
65
47
61
67
66
64
90
67
48
Lo
31
35
73
20
12
35
68
36
22
14
41
70
33
39
56
12
50
57
21
51
60
58
50
60
46
18
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t
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sn
sn
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r
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c
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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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Oregon starts prepping for 2020 Census
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — With the start
of the 2020 Census less than
two years away, preparations
for the decennial count of
the nation’s residents have
already begun in Oregon.
The stakes are high for the
Beaver State: Oregon stands
to gain a seat in Congress if
current population estimates
hold. The government uses
the census to draw and
apportion voting districts,
assign Electoral College
votes and distribute federal
funding.
Two key parts of the prep
are now underway.
First, the state, cities and
counties are working on an
address-verification process
called the Local Update of
Census Addresses (LUCA)
Operation. Local govern-
ments and the state are
comparing the address infor-
mation they have in disparate
databases against what the
census has, to ensure the
Census Bureau’s addresses
are as complete as possible.
“It’s all a matter of just
trying to get the best census
count, ultimately,” said Cy
Smith, the state’s Geospatial
Enterprise Officer, who is
leading the address validation
efforts for state government.
The state has a little more
than three months left to
finish that part of the census
preparations, Smith said.
All 36 of Oregon’s coun-
ties are participating in the
address validation process,
according to the U.S. Census
Bureau, as are more than 200
Oregon cities.
All entities participating,
including the state, have to
sign a confidentiality agree-
ment, according to Smith,
because census addresses are
protected by Title XIII of the
U.S. Code.
Second, the Oregon
Legislature
this
year
approved funding for a
census coordinator located in
the Governor’s Office.
The temporary employee
will coordinate the state’s
efforts “to ensure an accu-
rate census count” in 2020,
according to a legislative
budget report.
Lawmakers appropriated
$230,772 through mid-2019,
when the state’s current
two-year budget ends, for
the position. The position is
expected to be renewed for
18 months into the 2019-21
biennium.
Typically, the federal
government pays for that
coordinator, but isn’t for this
census, prompting the request
in the recently concluded
legislative session, according
to the Governor’s Office.
Oregon is expected to gain
a sixth seat in the House of
Representatives if estimates
hold, according to Election
Data Services, a Virginia
political consulting firm that
analyzes census and political
data.
Oregon’s
population
has grown by 8.1 percent
since 2010, according to the
Census Bureau.
Marijuana dispute pits county against state of Oregon
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — Officials in
an Oregon county who have
tried to restrict commercial
marijuana production sued
the state in federal court,
asserting state laws that made
pot legal are pre-empted by
federal law that criminalize
it.
The lawsuit filed Tuesday
in U.S. District Court esca-
lated a long-running battle
between the state and the
Josephine County Board of
Commissioners.
The panel says pot farms
are a nuisance. The county
is in a prime marijuana-pro-
ducing region of southern
Oregon.
Voters in the state legal-
ized marijuana with a 2014
ballot measure, prompting
a “green rush” as pot entre-
preneurs set up shop in the
fertile, rainy mountainous
area.
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian via AP, File
Plants at Michael Monarch’s marijuana grow, about 100
plants in all, flourish under breathtaking vistas of the Cas-
cade and Siskiyou mountains near Ashland in October
2015. Officials in Josephine County who have tried to
restrict commercial marijuana growing, are suing the
state in federal court, asserting that while pot is legal
in Oregon it remains illegal under federal law, which
has supremacy.
County
Commissioner
Dan DeYoung has said rural
residents, many of them
retirees, are fed up with the
proliferating farms in areas
zoned as rural residential.
“The good people are
leaving and the marijuana
people
are
staying,”
DeYoung said, according to
the Daily Courier newspaper.
The
commission
in
December tried to ban
commercial pot farming on
rural residential lots of five
acres or less and to drasti-
cally reduce the size of some
larger grow sites.
But the state Land Use
Board of Appeals later put
the restrictions on hold,
saying the county failed to
properly notify land owners.
Pete Gendron, a mari-
juana grower in the county
and president of the Oregon
SunGrowers’ Guild advo-
cacy group, said the growers
have invested large sums to
start operations and were
shocked when the county
tried to restrict them.
One grower had a letter
from the county dating back
a year or more stating that
cannabis cultivation was
farm use and was allowed,
Gendron said.
“He invested a half-mil-
lion dollars in the county,”
Gendron said. “He would not
have made those investments
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woman Kristina Edmunson
said she can’t comment on
pending litigation but noted
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the state laws of Oregon
related to marijuana.”
The lawsuit calls on a
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recreational
marijuana,
respectively, are pre-empted
by federal law.
U.S. Attorney General
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declared that “good people
don’t smoke marijuana,”
recently gave U.S. prosecu-
tors more leeway to pursue
federal anti-marijuana laws
in states that have legalized
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The lawsuit by the
commission
contends
the state cannot dictate
marijuana regulations over
county restrictions because
marijuana remains illegal
under the federal Controlled
Substances Act.
“Any person in any state
who possesses, distributes,
or manufactures marijuana
for medical or recreational
purposes,
or
attempts
or conspires to do so, is
committing a federal crime,”
Wally Hicks, a lawyer for the
county, wrote in the lawsuit
that names state Attorney
General Ellen Rosenblum as
a defendant, along with the
state.
Rosenblum’s
spokes-
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