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WEATHER East Oregonian Page 2A REGIONAL CITIES Forecast THURSDAY TODAY Sunny, hot; breezy in the p.m. Abundant sunshine 95° 61° 93° 57° FRIDAY SATURDAY Sunshine Today SUNDAY 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 Mostly sunny and beautiful Mostly sunny and pleasant PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 93° 57° 89° 57° 89° 58° HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST 96° 59° 98° 64° PENDLETON through 3 p.m. yesterday TEMPERATURE HIGH LOW 99° 89° 110° (1918) 65° 59° 43° (1913) 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" 0.00" 0.17" 6.49" 11.30" 7.74" through 3 p.m. yesterday HIGH LOW 105° 89° 108° (1941) 73° 59° 45° (1939) 0.00" 0.00" 0.12" 5.10" 6.59" 5.82" SUN AND MOON July 19 July 27 5:23 a.m. 8:39 p.m. 12:10 p.m. none Last New Aug 4 Bend 90/52 Hi 67 91 90 74 92 88 87 93 98 92 92 91 87 96 65 68 100 98 95 81 93 86 89 87 80 96 94 Lo 54 49 52 56 44 50 50 60 64 59 48 53 49 59 49 54 63 58 61 57 50 55 60 47 56 67 56 NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Thu. W pc s s pc s s pc s s s pc s s s pc pc s s s pc s pc s s pc s s Hi 67 92 91 74 92 89 84 91 96 94 92 91 88 96 63 66 98 95 93 79 93 83 87 88 78 93 93 Lo 54 50 49 57 50 51 47 55 59 59 48 49 46 57 47 53 62 53 57 54 46 51 57 46 52 62 56 Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day. W pc s s pc s s pc s s s s s s s pc pc s s s pc s pc s s pc s s WORLD CITIES Today Hi 89 90 88 79 75 77 84 87 88 67 92 Beijing Hong Kong Jerusalem London Mexico City Moscow Paris Rome Seoul Sydney Tokyo John Day 92/59 Ontario 100/63 Caldwell 99/61 Burns 92/44 Lo 76 82 68 58 52 66 64 68 72 46 80 Thu. W pc t s pc t pc pc s s s pc Hi 92 89 87 83 76 74 88 87 89 71 91 Lo 79 80 67 60 52 65 66 68 73 54 82 W t t s c t sh pc s pc pc c WINDS Medford 96/59 PRECIPITATION Sunrise today Sunset tonight Moonrise today Moonset today First Full Albany 86/55 Eugene 87/50 TEMPERATURE 24 hours ending 3 p.m. Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Last year to date Normal year to date 94° 60° Spokane Wenatchee 89/60 92/63 Tacoma Moses 76/51 Lake Pullman Aberdeen Olympia Yakima 96/59 86/54 67/56 75/48 94/56 Longview Kennewick Walla Walla 75/55 96/67 Lewiston 98/62 Astoria 95/62 67/54 Portland Enterprise Hermiston 81/57 Pendleton 88/50 The Dalles 98/64 95/61 91/62 La Grande Salem 91/53 86/55 Corvallis 87/54 HERMISTON Yesterday Normals Records 93° 59° Seattle 77/58 ALMANAC Yesterday Normals Records 94° 57° Wednesday, July 18, 2018 (in mph) Boardman Pendleton Klamath Falls 92/48 REGIONAL FORECAST Aug 11 www.eastoregonian.com To subscribe, call 1-800-522-0255 or go online to www.eastoregonian.com and click on ‘Subscribe’ WSW 7-14 W 7-14 2 Eastern Washington: Sunshine today. Mainly clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow. 5 8 8 Cascades: Brilliant sunshine today; pleasant across the north. Mainly clear tonight. The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index™ num- ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2018 -0s showers t-storms 0s 10s rain 20s flurries Local home delivery Savings off cover price EZPay $14.50 41 percent 52 weeks $173.67 41 percent 26 weeks $91.86 38 percent 13 weeks $47.77 36 percent *EZ Pay = one-year rate with a monthly credit or debit card/check charge Single copy price: $1 Tuesday through Friday, $1.50 Saturday Circulation: 541-966-0828 30s 40s snow 50s ice 60s cold front 70s 80s 90s 100s warm front stationary front 110s high low National Summary: Steamy air will fuel drenching storms in the Deep South and severe storms in parts of the Plains today. A few storms will dot the deserts while much of the rest of the nation will be free of rain. Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states) High 111° in China Lake, Calif. Low 32° in West Yellowstone, Mont. 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 93 92 84 87 94 92 99 81 89 82 79 77 106 95 81 99 72 83 88 98 82 89 86 104 89 86 Lo 70 73 65 61 63 69 63 64 73 57 64 59 82 61 60 76 55 64 77 78 62 75 71 87 73 70 W pc pc s s s pc s pc t s s s s s s pc c pc pc pc s t t pc t pc Thur. 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Today WSW 10-20 W 8-16 -10s 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 Judge throws out 2 charges against Petition would link public employee wages to private sector FBI agent indicted in Finicum shooting By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE Capital Bureau SALEM — Supporters of a new initiative petition want to amend the state’s consti- tution to require that public employees receive roughly the same pay and benefits as private sector workers in sim- ilar jobs. They claim public employees receive greater total compensation — includ- ing retirement, health benefits and leave — than many pri- vate sector workers. The chief petitioners on the measure are Kim Sor- dyl, an education activist, and Erica Hetfeld, the execu- tive director of Priority Ore- gon, a self-styled government watchdog group. Priority Oregon, a 501(c)4 nonprofit formed in early 2017, has been in the head- lines before for producing ads critical of Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat up for reelection this year. The group contended Tuesday, in announcing an initiative petition that could put the issue before voters in 2020, that current compensa- tion packages prevent limited state resources from going to “classrooms and other essen- tial services.” The petition would change the state’s constitution to require public employee compensation to be between 95 to 105 percent of compen- sation for comparable jobs in the private sector. In cases where a job — such as a police officer — doesn’t have a suitable equiv- alent in the private sector, the amendment would direct the state to set compensa- tion based on similar jobs in neighboring states. The initiative petition comes weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public employee unions couldn’t require non-mem- bers to pay fees to cover col- lective bargaining costs. The outcome of the case, Janus v. AFSCME, is likely to diminish the financial and political power of public sec- tor unions. Hetfeld said the petition was not influenced by the Janus decision. “If Gov. Brown isn’t going to take the appropri- ate steps to make government employee compensation equal to that of similar jobs in the private sector, the peo- ple should decide that issue,” Hetfeld said. Detractors, including some of the state’s larg- est public employee unions, expressed skepticism about the petition Tuesday. “This does not appear to be well thought out,” said John Larson, a Hermiston teacher and president of the Oregon Education Associa- tion, in a prepared statement. “When considering educa- tion and experience, profes- sional educators already earn 20 percent less than the pri- vate sector ... if you followed (Priority) Oregon’s logic, you would actually see dramatic increases in pay for educators across the state.” Priority Oregon, as Larson acknowledged elsewhere in his statement, is targeting not only wages, but benefits and other compensation such as paid leave. Melissa Unger, execu- tive director of SEIU 503, dismissed Priority Oregon’s efforts Tuesday as an attempt to stir up publicity ahead of this year’s election. Brown’s main rival in her reelection bid is State Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, whose platform includes pen- sion and spending reforms. “This is not about 2020,” Unger said. “This is about 2018, and making teach- ers and firefighters and so many other people the enemy during the election cycle.” The state, cities, coun- Corrections The East Oregonian works hard to be accurate and sincerely regrets any errors. If you notice a mistake in the paper, please call 541-966-0818. ties and school districts con- tinue to struggle with esca- lating public pension costs, a dilemma that prompted Brown to convene a task force to find ways to reduce the unfunded liability of the pension system last year. Petition supporters touched on that problem as well. “The average Oregon gov- ernment employee receives benefits that most people can only dream about and it’s draining money from our schools,” Sordyl said in a pre- pared statement. Meanwhile, state gov- ernment is facing a wave of impending retirements, which are poised to create succes- sion planning and recruiting challenges, particularly in a strong economy with a his- torically low unemployment rate, top officials say. PORTLAND (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out two of the five charges against an FBI agent who allegedly lied about firing two rifle shots at the pickup of an Oregon refuge occupation spokesman at a roadblock in January 2016. The Oregonian/ OregonLive reports U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones on Monday struck one count of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of justice against W. Joseph Astarita. In a trial set to start next week, Astarita still faces two counts of making a false statement and one count of obstruction of justice in the incident in which he allegedly fired two errant shots at the truck driven by Robert “LaVoy” Finicum. Astarita has pleaded not guilty. “The government has no eyewitness who will testify that they saw Special Agent Astarita shoot. The government has no video recordings showing that Astarita shot. And the government has no ballistics evidence matching a bullet to Special Agent Astarita’s firearm,” defense lawyers wrote in their trial brief. The judge dismissed a count that alleged Astarita made a false statement by giving a snide response at the shooting scene to a FBI supervisory special agent. The judge also dismissed an allegation stemming from a group interview of FBI agents who had been at the shooting scene. When asked by state police if any of the agents had fired shots, a supervisory FBI special agent responded that none of them had. Finicum was a spokesman for the Ammon Bundy-led group that took over the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. The disputed gunshots came as he emerged from his pickup as police moved in to arrest the leaders of the armed occupation. Astarita, a member of the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team, is accused of falsely denying he fired one bullet that went through the pickup’s roof and another that went astray. Moments later, two state troopers fatally shot Finicum. Prosecutors say forensic evidence, as well as audio and video recordings, will prove that Astarita fired the errant shots and then lied to FBI supervisors and state police investigators. Astarita’s lawyers counter that the government’s case is based on weak evidence. L ET ’ S S TIRRUP S OME F UN ! August 7 - 11 F AIR K ICK -O FF P ARADE S ATURDAY ,A UG . 4 TH 6:30 PM Wildhorse ino Resort & Cas Main Stage at the Fair Tues. • Aug. 7 th • 9pm Sawyer Brown New Rides! 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