WEATHER
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
WEDNESDAY
TODAY
Partly sunny and
hot
Hot with sunshine
102° 68°
96° 64°
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Sunny, breezy and
pleasant
Sunny and
beautiful
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
84° 56°
84° 57°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
100° 64°
105° 69°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
103°
90°
107° (1929)
63°
60°
40° (1933)
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"
0.35"
6.49"
11.30"
7.93"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
102°
90°
106° (2003)
59°
60°
46° (1953)
0.00"
0.00"
0.21"
5.10"
6.59"
5.91"
SUN AND MOON
Aug 4
Aug 11
5:37 a.m.
8:25 p.m.
10:33 p.m.
9:19 a.m.
First
Full
Aug 18
Aug 26
John Day
99/62
Ontario
100/71
Bend
95/56
Caldwell
101/68
Burns
96/54
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
100
95
62
96
97
89
99
105
99
93
99
97
99
61
67
100
103
102
90
98
91
98
96
89
102
104
Lo
56
57
56
51
54
58
50
67
69
62
51
61
57
62
54
55
71
65
68
61
53
56
67
54
57
73
63
W
c
pc
s
pc
pc
pc
s
s
s
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
pc
s
pc
s
s
s
pc
pc
s
pc
s
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Wed.
Hi
65
97
91
61
95
92
85
94
100
95
89
94
91
95
60
64
102
99
96
86
93
87
93
91
85
97
97
Lo
57
52
49
51
47
54
51
61
64
58
45
56
53
57
54
56
69
59
64
60
46
55
62
51
57
67
56
W
pc
s
s
pc
s
s
s
s
s
s
pc
s
s
pc
pc
pc
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
s
WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
96
91
84
77
76
76
83
90
98
71
90
Lo
80
82
66
55
56
57
64
72
80
50
80
W
s
sh
s
pc
t
s
pc
s
s
s
pc
Wed.
Hi
95
90
84
78
76
80
87
91
99
68
93
Lo
78
81
68
57
53
60
65
72
82
46
82
W
s
c
s
pc
t
s
pc
s
s
s
s
WINDS
Medford
99/62
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Albany
89/54
Eugene
89/50
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
88° 53°
Spokane
Wenatchee
98/67
103/70
Tacoma
Moses
83/53
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 104/65
95/60
67/54
82/52
104/63
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
83/55
102/73 Lewiston
104/69
Astoria
102/70
67/56
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
90/61
Pendleton 97/58
The Dalles 105/69
102/68
99/68
La Grande
Salem
99/61
91/56
Corvallis
87/53
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
87° 55°
Seattle
84/57
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
91° 60°
Today
SATURDAY
Mostly sunny and
nice
88° 58°
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
93/51
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Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today,
except sunnier toward the Cascades. Mainly
clear tonight.
Cascades: Abundant sunshine today. Mainly
clear tonight. Pleasant tomorrow with
sunshine.
Northern California: Sunny at the coast
today. Hot in central areas with a high fi re
threat and area of smoke.
Wednesday
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Partly sunny today, except
sun and areas of low clouds across the
north.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Hazy sunshine
and hot today; however, sunnier near the
Cascades.
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0s
showers t-storms
10s
rain
20s
flurries
30s
40s
snow
50s
ice
60s
cold front
70s
80s
90s
100s
warm front stationary front
110s
high
low
National Summary: Areas of torrential rain, locally gusty thunderstorms and isolated flood-
ing are in store for the eastern third of the nation today. Most areas from the Plains to the
Pacific coast will be dry and sunny.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 115° in Needles, Calif.
Low 30° 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
88
85
79
83
91
83
102
81
86
81
80
79
90
85
78
93
82
89
88
92
76
87
81
104
83
87
Lo
67
70
75
73
60
70
71
71
76
68
63
67
70
56
65
74
60
59
76
74
64
75
62
87
65
70
W
t
t
c
c
pc
t
pc
pc
pc
t
pc
r
pc
s
sh
t
pc
pc
pc
t
r
pc
pc
pc
t
pc
Wed.
Hi
93
80
85
86
91
82
102
85
87
80
83
78
93
84
82
96
69
73
87
95
80
88
87
107
87
87
Lo
68
67
75
72
64
68
66
76
76
66
67
66
68
58
64
76
54
47
78
75
64
74
65
88
63
70
Today
W
pc
t
t
t
s
t
s
c
t
t
c
t
s
pc
sh
pc
r
pc
pc
pc
t
t
s
s
s
pc
Hi
Louisville
81
Memphis
82
Miami
88
Milwaukee
79
Minneapolis
85
Nashville
82
New Orleans
88
New York City
80
Oklahoma City
82
Omaha
84
Philadelphia
84
Phoenix
107
Portland, ME
81
Providence
81
Raleigh
83
Rapid City
83
Reno
100
Sacramento
94
St. Louis
80
Salt Lake City
98
San Diego
82
San Francisco
66
Seattle
84
Tucson
98
Washington, DC 83
Wichita
85
Lo
67
67
77
64
64
65
74
72
60
64
74
87
65
70
71
58
66
58
65
73
73
53
57
78
75
62
W
t
c
pc
pc
s
t
t
c
s
s
c
pc
pc
pc
t
s
pc
pc
t
pc
pc
pc
s
pc
c
s
Wed.
Hi
83
85
89
82
79
85
86
85
86
89
87
110
77
84
86
81
99
92
86
96
82
66
79
101
88
89
Lo
66
67
78
68
56
67
73
74
65
65
75
86
68
75
71
60
61
56
67
72
72
53
57
79
74
65
W
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t
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s
t
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sh
t
t
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s
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sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.
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Supreme Court ruling in union
dues impacts Oregon case
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
SALEM — An Oregon
state employee and a labor
union have reached a settle-
ment over her lawsuit seek-
ing payback of obligatory
union fees, marking the first
refund of forced fees since
the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled in late June that gov-
ernment workers can’t be
required to contribute to
labor groups, the employee’s
lawyers said Monday.
Debora Nearman, an
employee of Department of
Fish and Wildlife, said in
her lawsuit filed in April in
federal court that the state’s
practice of forcing her to pay
fees to fund union activity
violated her First Amend-
ment freedoms on religion,
expression, assembly, and
the right to petition.
She also said the Service
Employees
International
Union, or SEIU, opposes her
political and religious views;
and even led a campaign
against her husband when
he ran as a Republican can-
didate for the state Legisla-
ture. Nearman is a member
of a state-wide bargaining
unit represented by SEIU but
doesn’t belong to the union.
The National Right to
Work Legal Defense Foun-
dation, which was involved
in both the Supreme Court
case and Nearman’s, is han-
dling some 200 other cases
across the country, includ-
ing a class-action lawsuit in
California by 30,000 state
employees, said Patrick
Semmens, the group’s vice
president.
If the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals rules in
favor of the plaintiffs in the
California case, they stand to
be refunded more than $100
million, Semmens estimated.
Melissa Unger, execu-
tive director of SEIU Local
503 in Oregon, said the
union chose to settle Near-
man’s lawsuit rather than
go through a costly and
time-consuming legal battle.
“The settlement we
entered into last week was
about being the best stew-
ards of our members’ dues
money as possible, period,”
Unger said in a statement.
The Oregon branch of
the nationwide SEIU claims
72,000 members who work
in state, local government,
nonprofit agencies and
higher education. Its spokes-
woman, Jill Bakken, said the
Supreme Court’s ruling that
eliminated obligatory fees
has led to a drop in mem-
bership “well within our
expectations.”
“While we’re not sure
what the long-term impacts
will be yet — the case is still
relatively new — we’re very
encouraged,” Bakken said.
Nearman, whose husband
Mike Nearman is a mem-
ber of the Oregon House
of Representatives, will be
refunded $3,000 she paid
over two years. A statute of
limitations prevented her
from recovering earlier pay-
ments, Semmens said.
The Supreme Court ruling
on June 27 involved Illinois
state government worker
Mark Janus, who argued
that everything unions do,
including bargaining with
the state, is political and
employees should not be
forced to pay for it.
“The Janus case said it
violates public employees’
First Amendment rights to
be forced to fund a labor
union,” Semmens said.
“This (Oregon) case takes
the precedent and follows it
to its logical conclusion.”
The fact that SEIU spent
$53,260 to oppose Mike
Nearman’s candidacy by
campaigning against him
and distributing fliers that
disparaged him “it’s a vivid
example of why people fre-
quently don’t want to fund a
labor union,” Semmens said.
Michael Weiss/Center for Whale Research via AP
In this photo taken July 24, a baby orca whale is
being pushed by her mother after being born off the
Canada coast near Victoria, British Columbia.
Orca carries dead calf for
week during ‘deep grieving’
SEATTLE (AP) —
An endangered orca that
spends time in the waters
of the Pacific Northwest is
still carrying her dead calf
one week after it died.
Experts with the Whale
Museum on San Juan
Island have been monitor-
ing the 20-year-old whale,
known as J35, since her
calf died shortly after birth
Tuesday. For days now, the
whale has been balancing
the dead calf on her fore-
hand or pushing it the sur-
face of the water.
Jenny Atkinson, the
museum’s executive direc-
tor, says the orca was still
carrying her dead calf on
Monday afternoon.
Atkinson says the orca
and her pod are going
through “a deep grieving
process.”
The calf was the first
in three years to be born
to the dwindling popula-
tion of endangered south-
ern resident killer whales.
There are only 75.
Portland homeless shelter project already over budget
PORTLAND (AP) —
A push to open a homeless
shelter in downtown Port-
land, Oregon, has run into
budget issues over the cost
of cleaning up the site where
it’s planned.
Soil at the location
beneath the Broadway
Bridge is contaminated from
nearby railroad tracks and
must be covered with a pro-
tective cap estimated to cost
$170,000, according to city
documents.
Lisa Marandas, deputy
director of Oregon Harbor
of Hope, said the develop-
er-run nonprofit overseeing
the project has blown past
its $100,000 budget for site
cleanup and spent “in the
$600,000 range.
“The costs are starting
to rise and we’re looking at
every avenue we can,” she
told Portland’s develop-
ment commission at its July
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Mayor Ted Wheeler said
he is aware of the issue.
Columbia
Sportswear
CEO Tim Boyle announced
in April that he had donated
$1.5 million for the proj-
ect. A spokesman for Boyle
declined to comment Friday,
The Oregonian/OregonLive
reported.
Project backers set an
aggressive timeline, say-
ing the shelter would open
this fall. Marandas said they
are still hoping to make that
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So far, no work has
started to erect structures.
A representative
of
Wheeler signaled the city
will cut its losses if the proj-
ect doesn’t work out.
“We’re not going to
throw good money after
bad ... if it doesn’t pen-
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Nelson, a senior adviser to
Wheeler, told the develop-
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