WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Cloudy most of the
time
Cloudy with a
couple of showers
62° 45°
56° 39°
TUESDAY
Mainly cloudy, a
shower; cooler
Cloudy with spotty
showers
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
53° 33°
58° 39°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
59° 42°
67° 46°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
51°
61°
92° (1904)
36°
39°
21° (1911)
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
0.05"
0.95"
0.55"
4.66"
6.99"
4.51"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
58°
64°
86° (1947)
0.08"
1.18"
0.32"
3.56"
5.27"
3.43"
SUN AND MOON
Apr 22
Bend
59/38
Burns
59/35
Full
6:12 a.m.
7:40 p.m.
5:58 a.m.
6:18 p.m.
Last
Apr 29
May 7
Hi
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59
57
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
66
85
74
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WINDS
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
62/37
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Periods of rain today; arriv-
ing during the afternoon in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Cloudy today.
A shower tonight, except dry in the south.
Rain tomorrow.
Western Washington: Periods of rain today;
arriving in the afternoon across the south.
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Eastern Washington: Intervals of clouds
and sun today; a shower in spots in the
mountains in the morning.
Cascades: Intervals of clouds and sunshine
today. Mostly cloudy tonight with a bit
of rain.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today; an
afternoon shower in the interior mountains.
Today
Sunday
WSW 7-14
WSW 6-12
SW 6-12
SW 6-12
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Study: PERS
better funded than
most, but still short
money aside to pay their
PERS bills.
In Oregon’s system, state
and local public employers
that are PERS members
contribute funds. That
money is invested, and the
returns on those investments
constitute most of the bene-
fits paid out to employees.
Although 2017 was a
year of strong investment
returns, the same volatility
that can bring high returns
one year can bring harsh
losses the next, the study
noted.
Last year, the PERS
board lowered its assump-
tions about how much the
state’s investments would
earn from 7.5 percent to 7.2
percent.
The study found that
from 2014 to 2016, many
states, including Oregon,
did not contribute enough
money each year to pay
down the debts.
“There is no one-size-
fits-all solution to the
pension funding shortfall
and the budgetary chal-
lenges facing individual
states,” the analysis states,
“but without new policies
that commit states to fully
funding retirement systems,
the impact on other essential
services — and the potential
for unpaid pension promises
— will increase.”
However, Pew’s anal-
ysis did not account for
Oregon’s use of what’s
called a rate collar, a method
the state uses to stave off
dramatic increases in how
much employers are paying
toward PERS.
The study also looked at
an indicator called “oper-
ating cash flow ratio,” which
measures the difference
between money flowing
out (essentially, benefit
payments) and cash before
investments
(essentially,
employer and employee
contributions), divided by
the level of assets at the
beginning of the year.
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SALEM — A new study
from the Pew Charitable
Trusts finds Oregon’s public
pension system might be
better funded than those of
most other states, but is not
doing enough to pay down
its unfunded liabilities.
The country’s state
pension funds reported a
$1.4 trillion deficit in 2016,
up $295 billion from 2015,
according to a study released
Thursday by Pew’s Public
Sector Retirement Systems
Project. Oregon’s unfunded
liability, the amount by
which the system’s obliga-
tions to retirees exceed what
its assets can cover, is $25.3
billion.
“Many state retirement
systems are on an unsus-
tainable course, coming up
short on their investment
targets and having failed to
set aside enough money to
fund the pension promises
made to public employees,”
the study states. “Even
as contributions from
taxpayers over the past
decade doubled as a share of
state revenue, the total still
fell short of what is needed
to improve the funding
situation.”
In 2016, Oregon PERS
was 81 percent funded —
compared to a national
average of 66 percent —
according to the study.
An actuarial analysis
released in September,
though, indicates that the
funded status of the state’s
system, including side
accounts that allow certain
employers to offset payroll
rates, has since declined to
75 percent.
Oregon took an incre-
mental step toward paying
down some of the system’s
unfunded liability this
past legislative session.
Senate Bill 1566 sets up an
incentive system for public
employers that set extra
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
(in mph)
— Founded Oct. 16, 1875 —
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
Caldwell
64/45
Medford
65/45
PRECIPITATION
Apr 15
John Day
61/42
Ontario
64/45
36°
39°
21° (1968)
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
New
First
Albany
58/45
Eugene
57/43
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
63° 41°
Spokane
Wenatchee
54/42
60/43
Tacoma
Moses
54/39
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 63/45
56/43
51/42
53/38
63/43
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
54/43
63/47 Lewiston
67/47
Astoria
63/47
53/42
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
58/46
Pendleton 57/39
The Dalles 67/46
62/45
64/47
La Grande
Salem
59/41
58/45
Corvallis
57/43
HIGH
59° 36°
Seattle
54/42
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
57° 42°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Clouds and sun, a
shower; breezy
51° 38°
Saturday, April 14, 2018
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cold front
70s
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100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: A storm will continue to bring everything from blizzard conditions
to snow, ice and rain on its northern tier and severe weather in its warm southern sector
today. Spotty rain will affect the Northwest.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 105° in Laredo, Texas
Low 8° in Tuolumne Meadows, Calif.
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
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56
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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
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68
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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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Brown wants assurances for
Oregon’s marijuana industry
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Gov. Kate
Brown wants President
Donald J. Trump to assure
her that Oregon’s legal
cannabis industry is safe
from federal prosecution.
President Donald J.
Trump reportedly made
a deal this week with
a Colorado senator to
protect the legal cannabis
industry there, but it’s not
clear whether it extends to
Oregon.
The
president
told
Republican Sen. Cory
Gardner that he would
support “a federalism-based
legislative solution to fix
this state’s rights issue once
and for all,” according to
Gardner’s office.
In
return,
Gardner
promised to stop blocking
the White House’s DOJ
nominees.
There’s long been disso-
nance between federal drug
laws and those of states that
have legalized marijuana,
but the January withdrawal
of previous Justice Depart-
ment guidance on the issue
— known as the Cole memo
— has prompted more
uncertainty around the issue
in recent months.
That guidance from the
Obama administration set
out guidelines for federal
prosecutors in states that
had legalized marijuana
to focus their resources on
larger-scale concerns such
as trafficking as long as
states met certain conditions
regarding their regulation
of the industry. Attorney
General
Jeff
Session
rescinded the Cole memo
in February, giving federal
prosecutors discretion in
pursuing drug cases.
According to Garner,
the president said that the
rescission of the Cole memo
“will not impact Colorado’s
legal marijuana industry.”
White House Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee
Sanders said during a press
conference Friday that
Gardner’s statement was
“accurate” and that Trump
was a “firm believer” in
states’ rights.
The White House press
office did not respond to a
request for clarification on
the matter late Friday.
Brown, a Democrat who
has been vocal in her oppo-
sition to many of the Trump
administration’s policies,
said in a written statement
Friday that she would
“appreciate”
assurances
from the president.
“We have not had similar
negotiations, but would
appreciate President Trump
extending his assurances to
all states that he respects
their rights to decide how
to approach this issue, not
just to Colorado,” Brown
said. “I remain committed
to keeping cannabis in the
state of Oregon, but out
of the hands of children,
while protecting the will
of Oregonian voters, who
overwhelmingly support the
legal cannabis industry and
the jobs it creates.”
Members of Oregon’s
congressional
delegation
took to Twitter on Friday
to call for addressing the
issue in Congress, including
Democratic U.S. Sen. Ron
Wyden.
“The federal government
must respect the decision
Oregonians made at the
polls,” Wyden wrote on
Twitter. “I’m going to keep
fighting to protect Oregon’s
legal marijuana program
and pushing for national
reform.”
Mateusz Perkowski/Capital Press
President Donald J. Trump reportedly made a deal this
week with a Colorado senator to protect the legal
cannabis industry there, but it’s not clear whether it
extends to Oregon.
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