WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
SATURDAY
TODAY
SUNDAY
Hot with plenty
of sun
Hot with plenty of
sunshine
98° 64°
98° 65°
MONDAY
Sunny and hot
Sunny to partly
cloudy
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
102° 69°
101° 65°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
102° 65°
102° 67°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
97°
90°
109° (1928)
62°
60°
40° (1908)
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"
0.28"
6.49"
11.30"
7.86"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
101°
90°
109° (1939)
60°
60°
45° (1936)
0.00"
0.00"
0.18"
5.10"
6.59"
5.88"
SUN AND MOON
July 27
Aug 4
New
Aug 11
5:33 a.m.
8:30 p.m.
8:35 p.m.
5:21 a.m.
First
John Day
95/61
Ontario
100/65
Bend
94/54
Burns
94/50
Caldwell
99/61
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
Hi
67
96
94
67
94
90
92
95
102
95
92
94
91
100
61
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100
100
98
91
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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102
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100
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
89
91
86
85
77
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WINDS
Medford
100/63
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Full
Last
Albany
91/54
Eugene
92/50
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
105° 67°
Spokane
Wenatchee
90/64
96/71
Tacoma
Moses
88/56
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 98/66
90/55
70/56
86/53
98/63
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
85/57
100/69 Lewiston
100/63
Astoria
98/66
67/55
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
91/63
Pendleton 90/54
The Dalles 102/67
98/64
99/67
La Grande
Salem
94/54
93/56
Corvallis
89/53
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
106° 71°
Seattle
88/62
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
105° 65°
Today
TUESDAY
Mostly sunny and
hot
101° 65°
Friday, July 27, 2018
Klamath Falls
92/50
(in mph)
Today
Saturday
Boardman
Pendleton
W 4-8
W 6-12
NW 4-8
NW 6-12
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Times of clouds and
sun today, except low clouds followed by
sunshine in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Plenty of
sunshine today; hot. A moonlit sky tonight.
Plenty of sun tomorrow; hot.
Western Washington: Mostly sunny today,
except mostly cloudy at the coast.
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Cascades: Plenty of sunshine today. Clear
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Northern California: Clouds, then sun at the
coast today; hot in central parts. Sunshine
elsewhere.
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National Summary: Severe storms may topple trees in parts of the Northeast today. Storms
will riddle the steamy Southwest as the Midwest turns cooler. More heat will bake the West
as more storms drench the Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 117° in Needles, Calif.
Low 33° 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
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Louisville
86
Memphis
87
Miami
89
Milwaukee
77
Minneapolis
78
Nashville
86
New Orleans
94
New York City
87
Oklahoma City
86
Omaha
79
Philadelphia
90
Phoenix
110
Portland, ME
82
Providence
86
Raleigh
92
Rapid City
67
Reno
102
Sacramento
102
St. Louis
84
Salt Lake City
96
San Diego
81
San Francisco
71
Seattle
88
Tucson
101
Washington, DC 92
Wichita
88
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Oregon officials
In twist, Trump administration
backs Obama’s monument decree consider limiting
opioid prescriptions
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — A dispute
over acts of Congress in 1906
and 1937 has put the Trump
administration in court —
and into the unusual position
of supporting a proclamation
by former President Barack
Obama.
Contrary to President
Donald Trump’s numerous
efforts to shred Obama’s leg-
acy, U.S. Justice Department
lawyers are in Obama’s cor-
ner as they defend his expan-
sion of a national monument
in Oregon.
That puts the Trump
administration in direct
opposition with timber inter-
ests that Trump vowed to
defend in a May 2016 cam-
paign speech in Eugene.
However, that opposi-
tion may be temporary in
a case full of ironic twists
that centers on a unique hab-
itat where three mountain
ranges converge. It is home
to more than 200 bird spe-
cies, the imperiled Oregon
spotted frog, deer, elk and
many kinds of fish, including
the endangered Lost River
sucker.
A federal judge is being
asked to consider limits of
power among all three gov-
ernment branches. For the
Trump administration, the
case is about protecting the
power of the president of the
United States, even if it was
Obama who exercised his
authority under the Antiqui-
ties Act of 1906 that allows
a president to declare a
national monument.
During his last week in
office, Obama nearly dou-
AP Photo/Jeff Barnard, File
In this 2000 photo Pilot Rock rises into the clouds in the Cascade-Siskiyou National
Monument near Lincoln. Contrary to President Donald Trump’s numerous efforts to
shred Obama’s legacy, U.S. Justice Department lawyers are in Obama’s corner as
they defend his expansion of the national monument in Oregon.
bled the size of Cascade-Sis-
kiyou National Monument
in heavily forested southern
Oregon, to more than 150
square miles. Commercial
timber harvesting is prohib-
ited in the monument except
for ecological restoration, so
logging companies and local
governments were deprived
of revenue from timber that
was suddenly placed out of
their reach.
In March 2017, the Amer-
ican Forest Resource Coun-
cil, a timber-industry advo-
cacy group, sued the federal
government in U.S. Dis-
trict Court for the District
of Columbia, charging that
Obama’s expansion of the
monument was unlawful. A
group of Oregon counties
that receive revenue from
logging sued separately in
the same court.
The advocacy group
insisted Obama exceeded his
authority because Congress
in 1937 designated much of
the land in question for tim-
ber harvesting to allow local
communities to prosper.
The expanded area included
62 square miles designated
by Congress for “perma-
nent forest production,” the
group said, telling the court
its members “rely on timber
sourced from federal lands
in and around the Monu-
ment to support profitable
operations.”
Some observers, seeing
the Trump administration
develop a record of favoring
business interests over envi-
ronmental concerns, figured
it wouldn’t fight the lawsuits.
“I was worried that the
timber industry and DOJ
would come to an agreement
that would not be good for
the monument,” said Susan
Jane Brown, an attorney for
environmental groups.
Instead, after a lengthy
pause in the court proceed-
ings, Justice Department
attorneys in June asked the
judge handling both lawsuits
to rule in the government’s
favor without trial.
“I don’t see this at all
as the administration sid-
ing with the environmental-
ists, but rather doing all they
can to shore up presiden-
tial power,” said Rhett Law-
rence, conservation director
of the Sierra Club’s Oregon
chapter.
BEND (AP) — A proposed change to the state’s Med-
icaid program aims to reduce the overprescribing of opi-
oids, which has caused an epidemic of overdoses, Oregon
officials said.
The proposal would limit coverage for five broad
chronic pain conditions to 90 days of opioid pain reliev-
ers, The Bulletin reported Wednesday.
It would also taper off patients who have been taking
opioids long-term from those medications within a year.
In turn, it would introduce alternative treatments pre-
viously unavailable under the Oregon Health Plan.
“Individuals with chronic pain really face debilitat-
ing conditions that impact
quality of life, yet we’re
“Individuals with
faced with this significant
chronic pain really face
opioid epidemic where
we know there’s a lot of
debilitating conditions
misuse and overprescrib-
that impact quality of life,
ing,” said Dr. Dana Har-
yet we’re faced with this
gunani, chief medical
officer for the Oregon
significant opioid
Health Authority. “We’re
epidemic where we
trying to use evidence to
guide us, but we really know there’s a lot of mis-
welcome public input into
use and overprescribing”
the process.
Many chronic pain
patients have voiced opposition to the proposal. Alterna-
tive treatments don’t work for everybody, they said. They
believe the decision to limit opioid medications should be
made by physicians, not a government agency.
Currently, the Oregon Health Authority does not cover
treatments for fibromyalgia, chronic pain syndrome,
chronic pain caused by trauma, other chronic postproce-
dural pain and other chronic pain.
Many patients suffering from those conditions are
being prescribed opioids, according to the government
agency. Because the agency has no way of knowing if
the patients are being prescribed those medications for
chronic pain conditions or for a covered service, it can’t
simply decline to cover those prescriptions.
Instead, they plan to cover alternative treatments such
as yoga, acupuncture or physical therapy, while scaling
back the use of opioids.
Corrections
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Board revokes ex-Portland chief’s police certification
PORTLAND (AP) — A
state board, citing dishon-
esty, has voted to revoke the
police certification of former
Portland Police Chief Larry
O’Dea for 10 years.
The Oregonian/Oregon-
Live reports the Board of
Public Safety Standards and
Training took Thursday’s
action based on findings
that O’Dea misled investi-
gators about his handling
of an off-duty shooting and
failed to immediately act on
an employee’s complaint of
a hostile work environment.
O’Dea retired two years
ago amid controversy over
his shooting of a friend
during a camping trip in
southeastern Oregon. O’Dea
told a Harney County dep-
uty on the day on the shoot-
ing that he thought the friend
had shot himself.
O’Dea also waited sev-
eral days before telling
Portland officials about the
shooting.
The board voted 10-5 to
revoke O’Dea’s certifica-
tion. Current Portland police
Chief Danielle Outlaw was
among those voting against
it.
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