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Oregon rate of
unemployment
lowest in 42 years
California could reshape pot
rules as legal market struggles
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD
Associated Press
PORTLAND (AP) —
Oregon says its unemploy-
ment rate for July was the
lowest in 42 years of keep-
ing comparable records.
The state reported Tues-
day that the July rate was
3.9 percent, a slight dip
from June’s rate of 4.0
percent.
That’s the lowest rate
since 1976.
The U.S. unemploy-
ment rate exactly matched
Oregon’s rate in both
months.
During the past two
LOS ANGELES — The
nation’s largest legal mari-
juana market is struggling.
Illicit sales continue
to thrive. A shaky supply
chain has customers look-
ing at barren shelves in
some shops. There are test-
ing problems. And a pro-
posal to allow home mari-
juana deliveries in cities that
have banned pot sales could
lead to a courtroom fight.
A Los Angeles hearing
Tuesday provided a window
into the state’s emerging can-
nabis economy, in which
early enthusiasm for broad
legal sales has been followed
by anxiety and frustration
across a swath of the industry.
The state’s top marijuana
regulator, Lori Ajax, said
after the hearing that the state
remains in a challenging tran-
sition period as it attempts to
transform what was once a
largely illegal market into a
multibillion-dollar, regulated
economy.
“Unfortunately, there is
confusion out there,” Ajax
said.
California kicked off
broad legal sales on Jan. 1,
and since then temporary rules
have governed sales, grow-
ing and manufacturing of
everything from pot-spiked
munchies to infused lotions
and balms. The state is now
considering changes to those
rules, though it’s likely to take
months before any revisions
go into effect.
Pilot fighting northeast
Washington wildfire
survives plane crash
AP Photo/Noah Berger, File
JP Noda stocks cannabis at The Apothecarium shortly before the store opened for
its first day of recreational marijuana sales in San Francisco in January 2018.
At the hearing, dozens of
marijuana business owners,
industry lawyers, activists and
consumers each got 90 sec-
onds to tell Ajax what needed
to be done to create a more
orderly, fair and, hopefully,
prosperous marketplace.
Over two hours, she heard
complaints about big business
threatening
mom-and-pop
shops, a shortage of licenses
and various suggestions for
revamping testing rules that
are intended to ensure the
quality of products that reach
store shelves.
Others complained about
shifting rules for packaging.
A string of speakers
ity. That’s created so-called
pot deserts, where sales are
forbidden.
Mina Layba, from the Los
Angeles suburb of Thousand
Oaks, said the proposal would
conflict with a local law that
bans deliveries. If approved,
she said it would undercut
licensed shops.
“Who then gets the benefit
of taxes from deliveries?” she
asked.
The state Bureau of Can-
nabis Control has said it is
merely clarifying what has
always been the case: that
a licensed pot delivery can
be made to “any jurisdiction
within the state.”
focused on a proposed change
in state rules that the League of
California Cities says would
allow unchecked home mari-
juana deliveries in places that
have banned local pot sales.
To its critics, the change
would create an unruly world
of shady sales, but support-
ers say too many Californians
are cut off from legal pot, even
in a state where voters over-
whelmingly approved it.
The fledgling legal sys-
tem has created a patchwork
of local laws, with some cit-
ies and counties embracing
legal cannabis while others
have limited sales or outlawed
all commercial pot activ-
SPOKANE,
Wash.
(AP) — Authorities say a
pilot who was fighting a
wildfire in northeast Wash-
ington has survived a plane
crash.
A post on the Northeast
Washington Fire Informa-
tion Facebook page says an
aviation mishap occurred
on the Horns Mountain fire
at about 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The state Department
of Natural Resources tells
KXLY-TV that the pilot
survived the crash and
ington counties.
But the bulk of them have
occurred in Canyon County,
where 94 people have con-
tracted the disease. Some
of those patients have been
hospitalized, but health offi-
cials didn’t immediately
have that number available.
“July was the larg-
est number of cases we’ve
had so far this year with 33
cases,” said Jami Delmore,
environmental health super-
visor of Southwest District
Health. “We’re concerned
with the school season start-
ing up that the numbers will
go up.”
Numbers from the Idaho
Department of Health and
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THURSDAY
TODAY
Hazy sun
Hazy sunshine
97° 67°
98° 63°
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
Pleasant with
some sun
Partly sunny
SUNDAY
Abundant sun and
very warm
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
91° 62°
92° 62°
96° 62°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
101° 64°
99° 66°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
LOW
90°
88°
107° (1933)
53°
58°
40° (1910)
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"
0.18"
6.49"
11.37"
8.13"
through 3 p.m. yesterday
HIGH
LOW
91°
88°
105° (1992)
51°
58°
44° (1931)
PRECIPITATION
0.00"
0.00"
0.09"
5.10"
6.65"
6.01"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
Aug 18
Aug 26
5:55 a.m.
8:03 p.m.
11:02 a.m.
10:44 p.m.
Last
New
Sep 2
Albany
91/55
Eugene
91/56
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95/67
Tacoma
Moses
90/53
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 97/61
92/61
71/56
89/53
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Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
87/56
98/72 Lewiston
99/64
Astoria
98/69
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Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
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Pendleton 93/59
The Dalles 99/66
97/67
101/69
La Grande
Salem
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93/56
Corvallis
87/54
HERMISTON
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ALMANAC
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Sep 9
John Day
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Ontario
98/65
Bend
92/57
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Caldwell
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Astoria
Baker City
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Burns
Enterprise
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Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
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La Grande
Meacham
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Medford
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Klamath Falls
89/53
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Boardman
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SW 3-6
N 4-8
WSW 6-12
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UV INDEX TODAY
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: Cloudy this morning, then
some sun in central parts this afternoon;
partly sunny elsewhere.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Hot today
with hazy sun. Partly cloudy tonight, except
clear across the north.
Western Washington: Hazy sun today. Clear
to partly cloudy tonight.
Eastern Washington: Sunny today, except
hazy sun across the south and toward the
Cascades.
Cascades: Hazy sunshine today; very warm
across the north. Clear to partly cloudy
tonight.
Northern California: Mostly sunny today.
Partly cloudy tonight, but clear in central
parts.
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Dr. Charles Davis with
the Saint Alphonsus Med-
ical Group told the Idaho
Press in an emailed state-
ment that Nelsen was a neu-
rologist with the group who
practiced in Saint Al’s facil-
ities in Nampa and Fruit-
land before retiring about a
year ago.
Authorities say Watts
was piloting the plane that
left from Caldwell.
The cause of the crash is
being investigated.
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NAMPA, Idaho (AP) —
Authorities say a fatal plane
crash in eastern Oregon
killed two people including
a retired Idaho doctor.
The Baker County Sher-
iff’s Office says 77-year-
old William J. Watts and
70-year-old Mihoko Mat-
suda Nelsen were identi-
fied as the two passengers
killed when a small passen-
ger airplane nosedived into
a hay field near Baker City
on Saturday.
Welfare show counties in
central and southern Idaho
have also been hit, with
nearly 260 cases reported
statewide so far in 2018.
That compares to just 32
reported for all of 2017.
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crawled to a nearby road
to get help. The pilot was
flying one of five FireBoss
single-engine
amphibi-
ous scooper air tankers
assigned to the fire.
DNR spokesman Joe
Smillie told SeattlePI.com
that the pilot was being
evaluated for injuries.
The fire, which started
Saturday, is burning near
the U.S.-Canadian border.
It was sparked by lightning
and has burned more than
1 square mile.
Small plane crashes near
Baker City, kills 2 people
Whooping cough outbreak worsens in southwestern Idaho
BOISE, Idaho (AP) —
Health officials say a whoop-
ing cough outbreak has now
sickened roughly 122 people
in southwestern Idaho, and
they’re warning those num-
bers could increase with the
start of the school year.
Cases of pertussis have
been found throughout the
Southwest District Health
region, which includes
Adams, Canyon, Gem,
Owyhee, Payette and Wash-
years, Oregon’s unemploy-
ment rate has been remark-
ably low and steady.
The rate was either 4.1
percent or 4.2 percent each
month stretching from Jan-
uary 2017 to May 2018.
In July, Oregon’s non-
farm payroll employment
rose by 5,400 jobs, fol-
lowing a revised over-the-
month gain of 6,600 jobs
in June.
Monthly job gains were
concentrated in retail trade,
construction and health
care and social assistance.
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0-2, Low
3-5, Moderate 6-7, High;
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11+, Extreme
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National Summary: Downpours will drench northern New England today and may bring
the risk of localized flooding to the middle Mississippi Valley. Storms will dot the Southeast
and Southwest. Most of the West will stay dry.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 110° in Needles, Calif.
Low 32° in Angel Fire, N.M.
NATIONAL CITIES
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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
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