WEATHER
East Oregonian
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REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
Breezy with
sunshine
Mostly sunny and
pleasant
91° 59°
81° 55°
SUNDAY
Mostly sunny and
beautiful
Mostly sunny and
seasonably hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
89° 58°
94° 60°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
85° 56°
94° 61°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
96°
90°
108° (2009)
64°
60°
41° (1897)
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"
0.01"
6.49"
11.30"
7.96"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
97°
90°
109° (2009)
70°
60°
41° (2002)
0.00"
0.00"
0.01"
5.10"
6.59"
5.93"
SUN AND MOON
Aug 4
Aug 11
5:40 a.m.
8:23 p.m.
11:23 p.m.
11:24 a.m.
First
Full
Aug 18
John Day
90/52
Ontario
99/63
Bend
86/47
Burns
90/43
Caldwell
96/61
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
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91
86
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90
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90
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Fri.
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WORLD CITIES
Today
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
Hi
97
92
81
86
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WINDS
Medford
90/56
PRECIPITATION
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
Last
New
Albany
78/56
Eugene
79/54
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
99° 60°
Spokane
Wenatchee
87/56
90/61
Tacoma
Moses
70/57
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 93/58
85/53
65/57
70/55
92/53
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
70/58
92/63 Lewiston
96/62
Astoria
94/60
66/57
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
77/60
Pendleton 86/47
The Dalles 94/61
91/59
86/62
La Grande
Salem
89/51
79/58
Corvallis
76/56
HERMISTON
Yesterday
Normals
Records
92° 61°
Seattle
71/58
ALMANAC
Yesterday
Normals
Records
87° 57°
Today
MONDAY
Nice with sun
mixing with clouds
83° 58°
Thursday, August 2, 2018
(in mph)
Boardman
Pendleton
Klamath Falls
86/43
REGIONAL FORECAST
Eastern Washington: Plenty of sunshine
today. Clear tonight. Partly sunny tomorrow.
Western Washington: Cloudy most of the
time today; a passing shower at the coast.
Northern California: Clouds, then sun at
the coast today; hot in central parts. Hazy
elsewhere.
Aug 26
Cascades: Pleasant today with plenty of
sunshine.
Friday
WSW 10-20
WSW 8-16
UV INDEX TODAY
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Mostly cloudy today; a
shower across the north. Clouds, then sun
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny today;
hot in the south with hazy sun.
Today
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AP Photo/Timothy J. Gonzalez, File
Avakian claims statehouse leaders
allowed hostile environment
a bill that extends protection
against sexual harassment to
student interns.
Rubanoff, in an email to
the AP, said “those allega-
tions are false.”
“I did not tell Student A
or Student B that there was
no legal definition of their
status, and I did not tell them
that there was no way for
them to file a suit,” Rubanoff
said.
A review of laws and poli-
cies about workplace harass-
ment at the Capitol is being
conducted by the Oregon
Law Commission at Kotek’s
and Courtney’s request.
In order to provide rec-
ommendations by year’s
end, a commission work-
group has been receiv-
ing testimony and is hold-
ing a meeting on Aug. 21 at
the Oregon State Bar in the
Portland suburb of Tigard.
Kotek and Courtney
also announced Wednesday
they have established a new
option to report unwanted
behavior, to Rubanoff, in
addition to other existing
avenues.
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Memphis
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Miami
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Milwaukee
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Minneapolis
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Nashville
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New Orleans
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New York City
87
Oklahoma City
92
Omaha
87
Philadelphia
88
Phoenix
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Portland, ME
88
Providence
89
Raleigh
84
Rapid City
92
Reno
98
Sacramento
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St. Louis
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Salt Lake City
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Washington, DC 87
Wichita
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Corrections
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NATIONAL CITIES
Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney, left, and
Speaker of the House Tina Kotek confer.
SALEM — Oregon’s
labor commissioner on
Wednesday accused polit-
ical leaders in the Legisla-
ture and officials in the state
Capitol of permitting “a gen-
erally hostile environment
based upon sex.”
The complaint is among
the latest in the #MeToo
wave of sexual misconduct
allegations against men in
power to hit Oregon’s Leg-
islature and many other
statehouses nationwide. It
started with an expose last
year of movie mogul Harvey
Weinstein.
In his complaint, Labor
Commissioner Brad Ava-
kian said Senate Presi-
dent Peter Courtney, House
Speaker Tina Kotek and oth-
ers failed to act quickly on
complaints that then-Sen.
Jeff Kruse was sexually
harassing women. Kruse
resigned in February after an
investigation.
Avakian said that as early
as March 2016, the leg-
flurries
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Today
AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File
By ANDREW SELSKY
Associated Press
rain
20s
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 113° in Needles, Calif.
Low 31° in Gothic, Colo.
Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian speaks during an
interview on August 23, 2011, in Portland.
responded: “As a woman
and person in a position of
leadership, I have absolutely
taken every complaint that
was brought to my attention
seriously.”
Ironically, also named
in the complaint is Dian
Rubanoff, a private lawyer
who conducted an indepen-
dent investigation of Kruse
that determined he had
harassed women in the Cap-
itol building with prolonged
hugging, groping and other
unwelcome physical con-
tact. Kruse, a Republican
from the former timber town
of Roseburg, announced
his resignation two days
after Rubanoff’s report was
released.
Both interns said they
had been sexually harassed
by Kruse and subjected to
unwanted touching.
Avakian claimed that
Rubanoff told the two stu-
dent interns, whom he iden-
tified only as Student A and
Student B, there was no legal
definition of their status and
no way for them to file a
lawsuit. Avakian noted the
Legislature in 2013 passed
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National Summary: The risk of flooding downpours will extend from the Gulf coast to
upstate New York and New England today. Storms are forecast for parts of the Midwest,
Rockies and deserts. The rest of the West will be dry.
— Tina Kotek, Speaker of the House
islative leaders “knew or
should have known of Sen-
ator Kruse’s conduct and
the broader sexually hostile
environment in the Capitol,
but did not take immediate
and appropriate action to cor-
rect his conduct or otherwise
protect individuals from the
hostile environment.”
Avakian, Courtney and
Kotek are all Democrats.
In response, Court-
ney and Kotek said in a
joint statement: “We wel-
come additional scrutiny
and a thorough investigation
related to the Commission-
er’s Complaint.”
Oregon Public Broadcast-
ing earlier reported on Ava-
kian’s complaint, which he
sent to the civil rights divi-
sion of the Bureau of Labor
and Industries that he heads.
Avakian blamed Court-
ney and Kotek for allow-
ing Kruse’s office to employ
two student interns, in late
2016 and early 2017, after
complaints had already been
made about the senator’s
behavior by two female sen-
ators. Courtney and Kotek
are co-chairs of a committee
that controls Capitol facili-
ties and performs adminis-
trative functions, including
personnel.
Kotek, in an email to
The Associated
Press,
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showers t-storms
“As a woman and person in a position of leadership, I have absolutely
taken every complaint that was brought to my attention seriously.”
BOLI commissioner
levels complaint for
failure to act against
Courtney, Kotek
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BRIEFLY
State legislators
ask Congress
to legalize
marijuana
SALEM (AP) — Law-
makers from Oregon say
state legislators from
across the nation are urg-
ing Congress to legalize
marijuana.
In a joint statement, they
said a directive they crafted
was approved Wednesday
by the National Confer-
ence of State Legislators at
its annual meeting in Los
Angeles. It calls on Con-
gress to help legal cannabis
businesses access banking
services.
Oregon Senate Republi-
can Leader Jackie Winters
said the cannabis indus-
try is making big contri-
butions to her state’s econ-
omy, and giving it access
to secure banking is criti-
cal to their success.
Marijuana remains ille-
gal under federal law, so
financial institutions are
reluctant to provide it with
banking services.
Oregon Senate Major-
ity Leader Ginny Burdick,
a Portland Democrat, said
operating as a cash-only
business invites crime.
This policy directive
will help guide NCSL’s
advocacy
efforts
in
Washington.
Madras boys
charged in fire
that destroyed 4
mobile homes
MADRAS (AP) — A
central Oregon sheriff says
two boys, ages 10 and 7,
started a fire that destroyed
four mobile homes in
Madras.
Jefferson County Sher-
iff Jim Adkins tells KTVZ
the boys admitted setting
a fire with lighters, and it
“got away from them.”
The boys were issued
citations in lieu of custody
for reckless burning and
illegal burning. They were
released to their parents.
Adkins says 17 peo-
ple living in three mobile
homes have been dis-
placed by Tuesday’s fire.
The other place was unoc-
cupied. There were no
injuries.
The boys, who are
friends, live several homes
down from the ones that
burned at Tops Trailer
Court.
It was the fifth fire at the
trailer park in the past five
years.
Appeals court:
Sale of Elliott
State Forest
parcel illegal
PORTLAND
(AP)
— The Oregon Court of
Appeals has ruled that
the sale of a tract of the
Elliott State Forest to a pri-
vate timber company was
illegal.
The ruling Wednesday
overturns the sale of 788
acres to the Seneca Jones
Timber Company and is
a victory for environmen-
tal groups who had sued to
stop it.
The Elliot State Forest
was intended to be man-
aged to generate money for
public education.
But logging on the land
was curtailed by environ-
mental lawsuits.
The state backed away
last year from a plan to
sell the forest to timber
interests.
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