WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SUNDAY
TODAY
MONDAY
Cooler with
variable cloudiness
Overcast with a
touch of rain
64° 45°
63° 44°
TUESDAY
Cloudy, a shower
or two; cool
Partly sunny and
pleasant
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
63° 42°
70° 47°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
68° 47°
69° 48°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
78°
66°
95° (1926)
47°
41°
29° (1935)
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"
1.37"
1.04"
5.08"
8.21"
5.00"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
LOW
81°
68°
88° (1947)
0.00"
1.55"
0.78"
3.93"
5.88"
3.89"
SUN AND MOON
May 7
Bend
53/36
Burns
57/32
New
5:48 a.m.
7:58 p.m.
6:40 p.m.
5:35 a.m.
First
May 15
May 21
Caldwell
69/45
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
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
49/34
Hi
86
81
70
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79
70
68
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Lo
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today and
tonight with a passing shower or two.
Eastern and Central Oregon: A shower in
spots today, but a brief shower or two in
central parts.
Western Washington: Cloudy today with
brief showers. Overcast tonight with a
shower in places.
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Eastern Washington: Mostly cloudy today;
showers in the north, near the Idaho border
and in the mountains.
Cascades: Brief showers today, but a bit
of snow with little or no accumulation in
the south.
Northern California: Mostly cloudy today
with a shower; unseasonably cold in the
interior mountains.
Today
Sunday
WSW 10-20
WSW 8-16
WSW 10-20
W 8-16
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Copyright © 2018, EO Media Group
Hi
58
62
53
54
57
56
59
62
69
58
49
59
57
58
55
57
71
70
64
61
56
60
61
56
61
66
68
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Sun.
WINDS
Medford
58/45
PRECIPITATION
Apr 29
John Day
58/41
Ontario
71/44
42°
42°
28° (1970)
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
Full
Last
Albany
59/45
Eugene
59/45
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
76° 48°
Spokane
Wenatchee
61/42
62/45
Tacoma
Moses
58/42
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 67/43
59/42
57/46
59/40
68/42
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
59/45
66/48 Lewiston
70/48
Astoria
63/47
58/46
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
61/49
Pendleton 56/38
The Dalles 69/48
64/45
66/47
La Grande
Salem
59/40
60/46
Corvallis
59/45
HIGH
68° 45°
Seattle
58/47
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
67° 45°
Today
WEDNESDAY
Times of clouds
and sun
61° 43°
Saturday, April 28, 2018
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6
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8 a.m. 10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m.
0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
8-10, Very High;
11+, Extreme
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num-
ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
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0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
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snow
ice
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cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Gusty thundershowers with hail will mark a quick change to chilly
weather in the Northeast today. Storms will erupt over the Rockies with showers and cool
air to push well inland on the West coast.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 101° in Needles, Calif.
Low 14° in Hohnholz Ranch, Colo.
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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Sun.
Hi
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70
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60
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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
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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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BLM may offer $1,000 for wild horse adoption
By SCOTT SONNER
Associated Press
RENO, Nev. — U.S.
land managers are proposing
offering $1,000 to anyone
willing to adopt wild horses
gathered from public lands
to alleviate a backlog of
mustangs in government
corals and shrink what they
say are badly overpopulated
herds across the West.
Overwhelmed by what it
characterizes as a $1 billion
problem, the Bureau of Land
Management proposed the
novel approach to Congress
on Thursday and also made
requests to sterilize, euthanize
or sell for slaughter tens of
thousands of animals.
Under any scenario, the
agency plans to use short-term
fertility control on the horses
whose population it expects
to grow to 100,000 by 2019.
But it also recommends any
approach include permanent
sterilization,
something
most horse advocates find as
objectionable as lifting current
congressional prohibitions on
selling the horses for slaughter.
The $1,000 adoption
bonus is included in the four
management alternatives the
agency is mulling as it seeks a
way to address what it admits
is a costly, difficult challenge.
“Conflict levels are often
high and the program is
controversial and politically
sensitive,” the agency said.
The head of one of the
nation’s largest horse protec-
tion groups immediately
condemned the package of
alternatives as “a roadmap
for destruction of America’s
wild free-roaming horses and
burros.”
“BLM, the agency whose
terrible mismanagement of
this program has brought us
to this place, is now proposing
more bad ideas, including
mass roundup and slaughter to
cover for their incompetence,”
said Suzanne Roy, executive
director of the American Wild
Horse Campaign.
Laura Leigh, president of
the Wild Horse Education
horse protection advocacy
group, said the report ignores
the impact of cattle and sheep
grazing on public range-
land and relies heavily on
recommendations made at a
meeting in Salt Lake City last
year organized by livestock
AP Photo/Scott Sonner, File
Wild horses that were captured from U.S. rangeland
stand in a holding pen, at the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management’s Wild Horse and Burro Center in Palomi-
no Valley about 20 miles north of Reno, Nev.
interests.
“The agency repeatedly
scapegoats”
the
horses
while “ignoring extreme
deficits within the much larger
livestock grazing program,
diverting personnel from the
(horse program) to placate
other concerns, prioritizing
existing funding based on
political pressure not range-
land needs,” she said Friday.
The federal agency esti-
mates 83,000 wild horses and
burros were roaming public
rangelands in 10 western
states last year — more than
three times the 26,715 animals
the agency says the land can
sustain.
“As currently managed, by
the summer of 2019, there will
likely be well over 100,000
wild horses on BLM-man-
aged land, with up to 20,000
more the year after,” said the
agency, which says it has the
capability to round up about
20,000 animals annually.
Last year, the agency spent
nearly 60 percent of its $81
million budget on animals that
have been removed from the
range and estimates “the cost
of caring for the 46,000 un-ad-
opted and unsold animals
currently in holding will top
$1 billion over their lifetime.”
Free adoptions to qualified
owners often topped 9,000
annually in the early 1990s,
but have fallen to 3,000 or
fewer in recent years.
A new incentive program
offering providers $1,000 at
the point of adoption “would
save money for the taxpayer
and the BLM program in the
first year of implementation
alone,” the agency said.
“Over a period of 25 years,
holding that same animal in
an off-range corral would
have cost the taxpayers nearly
$46,000.”
Ranchers whose livestock
compete with the horses for
forage praised the agency for
developing a range of options
to save taxpayers money and
better protect rangeland for
wildlife, including the imper-
iled sage grouse.
“We have been in a stale-
mate on this issue for years in
Congress and the result of that
stalemate is unhealthy horses,
degraded resources on the
range and program costs that
are spiraling out of control,”
said Ethan Lane, the National
Cattlemen’s Beef Associa-
tion’s executive director for
federal lands.
His group believes lifting
current congressional prohi-
bitions on the sale of horses
for slaughter “would be the
quickest route to a healthy
population on the range,”
Lane said.
He said paying people to
adopt horses also would be
“money well spent.”
The federal agency said it
will continue to use short-term
fertility control vaccines to
slow population growth but
that “permanent sterilization
techniques would be a more
effective long-term solution.”
“Under all options, the
BLM will utilize permanent
sterilization techniques to take
advantage of this fact.”
Wife of Oregon lawmaker files suit against union
By TOM JAMES
Associated Press
SALEM — The wife of
an Oregon lawmaker has
filed a lawsuit against the
state’s largest union, joining
a national push by an anti-
union group to let workers
avoid paying fees to unions
where they work.
Debora Nearman, wife
of Rep. Mike Nearman,
a Republican from Inde-
pendence, filed suit late
Wednesday against the
state branch of Service
Employees
International
Union, claiming fee-pay-
ment requirements violate
her First Amendment rights.
“She feels that she should
not be forced to pay any
money to an organization
that campaigned against her
husband,” said Jill Gibson,
an attorney for Nearman.
The National Right
To Work Foundation is
assisting Nearman, part of
a broader effort involving
parallel lawsuits in the U.S.
Supreme Court and other
states to create “right-to-
work” policies.
Under
federal
law,
government
employees
such as teachers and admin-
istrative workers can be
required to pay partial dues
to unions at their work-
places even if they choose
not to become members.
The partial dues can usually
only be used by unions for
bargaining and workplace
organizing, not political
campaigns or other outside
activities, said Vanessa
Williamson, a researcher at
the Brookings Institution.
Nearman is an employee
at the Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife.
Melissa Unger, director
of SEIU 503, the group
targeted in Nearman’s suit,
said through a spokesman
Thursday afternoon that she
couldn’t comment on the
lawsuit because the group
hadn’t been served with a
copy.
The case comes as the
latest in a broader legal
battle over right to work
policies. On one side, said
Williamson, workers and
anti-union groups have
argued against paying dues
to unions which may hold
views or support politicians
they don’t personally agree
with.
That’s the heart of a U.S.
Supreme Court case, Janus
v. American Federation of
State, County and Munic-
ipal Employees, which
Right to Work Foundation
lawyers are also working
on, said Patrick Semmens,
a spokesman for the group.
In that case and others
like it the group is pursuing
in lower courts, Semmens
said, the group has claimed
that
even
bargaining
over mundane workplace
details
like
restroom
accommodations amounts
to lobbying. That makes it
a form of political speech
that members shouldn’t be
forced to support, he added.
“Anytime the union is
speaking to the govern-
ment, whether it’s lobbying
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at the state legislature or
bargaining, they’re really
all lobbying,” Semmens
said.
Supporting an organi-
zation that takes positions
contrary to Nearman’s
religious beliefs, and which
fought her husband’s elec-
tion, is a violation of her
rights to free speech and
association, the organiza-
tion said in a release.
On the other side,
Williamson said, unions
have argued that when they
negotiate a contract, all the
employees in a government
agency benefit, and that
they should be allowed
to charge nonmembers a
limited fee to cover the cost
of that work.
“There’s the argument
that you’re getting benefits
for free,” Williamson said.
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