WEATHER
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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
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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
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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
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t
s
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Hi
92
89
87
83
76
74
88
87
89
71
91
Lo
79
80
67
60
52
65
66
68
73
54
82
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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
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Mainly clear tonight. Sunny tomorrow.
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8
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Cascades: Brilliant sunshine today; pleasant
across the north. Mainly clear tonight.
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ber, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
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ice
60s
cold front
70s
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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
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t
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s
s
s
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c
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pc
pc
s
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t
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t
pc
Thur.
Hi
96
90
81
86
88
93
96
78
86
87
84
83
107
98
83
101
70
76
87
100
84
87
92
104
95
87
Lo
72
73
66
63
60
72
66
63
71
69
69
67
83
60
67
77
55
61
76
78
68
74
71
87
75
70
W
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s
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s
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pc
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c
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Today
Hi
Louisville
86
Memphis
92
Miami
91
Milwaukee
76
Minneapolis
83
Nashville
90
New Orleans
91
New York City
86
Oklahoma City
98
Omaha
83
Philadelphia
87
Phoenix
104
Portland, ME
82
Providence
85
Raleigh
89
Rapid City
81
Reno
103
Sacramento
102
St. Louis
88
Salt Lake City
98
San Diego
77
San Francisco
76
Seattle
77
Tucson
96
Washington, DC 87
Wichita
95
Lo
66
71
79
64
67
64
79
64
73
71
62
87
58
63
67
63
69
62
69
73
70
60
58
77
68
73
W
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pc
pc
pc
t
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pc
s
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pc
pc
pc
s
pc
Thur.
Hi
88
92
92
82
75
91
93
82
104
91
86
107
80
83
88
87
101
96
87
98
79
79
77
98
87
100
Lo
70
75
79
68
63
69
80
68
80
70
65
87
59
63
67
59
70
64
75
74
70
60
57
76
67
75
W
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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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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
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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.
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