COFFEE BREAK
B8 — THE OBSERVER & BAKER CITY HERALD
TuESDAY, MARCH 22, 2022
Beau shows no desire to grow relationship
because it’s heavily populated and
he thinks my town is geared more
toward a younger generation.
I really would like to take our
relationship to the next level.
I have been trying to do it for
four years, but he ignores my
subtle hints. I can’t imagine life
without him. I have even consid-
ered getting pregnant to make
this relationship go further, in
spite of knowing he doesn’t
want a baby. Advice? — GET-
TING DESPERATE IN THE
HEARTLAND
DEAR GETTING DES-
PERATE: You have wasted four
years of your life on the wrong
man. Brent is centered on himself
and would be a negative, disrup-
tive influence in your children’s
DEAR ABBY: I have been
dating “Brent” for four years.
Prior to meeting him, I was
divorced with two children. Brent
shows little interest in my kids’
lives. He doesn’t want us to live
together before the kids are out of
the house, and he never plans to
get married. (My youngest is 10.)
Even if he would agree to
move in now, I don’t want to
move to his city because my kids
need to be close to their school,
their friends and their father.
Brent doesn’t want to relocate
lives. Your first responsibility
must be to them. If they were
miserable, you would be too.
Trust me on that.
As to the idea of “trapping”
him by becoming pregnant in
spite of the fact that he doesn’t
want to be a father — I don’t rec-
ommend it. You could get a rude
awakening and end up parenting
a child you didn’t really want all
by yourself. So start imagining a
life without him. It will be a hap-
pier one that way.
DEAR ABBY: I have a
co-worker I enjoyed talking to
and being around. I’m 27, and she
is 41. We used to sit together at
lunch and during our break. All
of a sudden, she stopped sitting
with me during the first break
but she still ate with me at lunch.
Then she stopped eating with me
at lunch!
I asked her if I said or did any-
thing wrong and she said no. I
asked her if she was avoiding
me or had found something
wrong, and she insisted there
was nothing wrong and I worry
too much. So now I sit alone and
she sits somewhere else by her-
self with her phone. I was nice to
her. We talked about our day and
sometimes shared snacks during
the break. All that is gone now.
I know people grow apart, but
it stings. Being an adult means
moving on, but when something
happens for no apparent reason,
there has to be an explanation.
Can you share your insight on
this dilemma? — LUNCHING
ALONE
DEAR LUNCHING
ALONE: There is always a
reason. Perhaps you should
believe your co-worker when she
says you didn’t do or say any-
thing wrong. What may have
changed are her circumstances.
You mentioned that rather than sit
with you, she now sits alone with
her cellphone. It’s possible that
something is going on with her
family — or her personal life that
requires her attention. I know it
stings, but you have to let it go.
Find someone else to socialize
with during breaks. It would be
less painful if she explained it to
you, but your co-worker may be a
private person.
Time to retool census? Some think so after minorities missed
measure of the U.S. popu-
lation, the American Com-
munity Survey, produces
11 billion statistics from
interviews with 3.5 million
households each year, and
the once-a-decade census
tallies every U.S. resident
for a count used in divvying
up federal funding and con-
gressional seats among the
states as well as redrawing
political districts.
“What we have today
largely is still a 20th cen-
tury, survey-centric statis-
tical system,” Ron Jarmin,
the chief operating officer
of the Census Bureau, said
last December when he
was serving as the agency’s
acting director.
Even before the release
of the 2020 report card ear-
lier this month, the Census
Bureau had been developing
new ways of gathering data.
Chief among them is the
embryonic Frames Program
that would combine all
kinds of data sets, including
administrative records from
the private sector and gov-
ernment agencies, as well as
surveys and censuses that
have been staples of Census
By MIKE SCHNEIDER
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Is it
time to rethink the census
and other surveys that mea-
sure changes in the U.S.
population?
Policymakers and
demographers have been
asking that question since
results released by the U.S.
Census Bureau this month
showed Black, Hispanic,
American Indian and other
minority residents were
undercounted at greater
rates in 2020 than in the
previous decade.
On the top of that, results
from a version of its most
comprehensive survey
that compares year-to-year
changes in U.S. life had to
be mostly scrapped because
disruptions caused by the
pandemic produced fewer
responses in 2020.
“The current model of
coming up with a master
address list, mailing every-
body an invitation — like
you’re inviting people to
a party and hoping they
respond, and if not, you’re
going to track them down
Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press, File
Census Bureau Director nominee Robert Santos testifies before the
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee,
Thursday, July 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Santos said
Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, that he has gone on a listening tour with
stakeholders and the agency is making permanent community outreach
efforts in an effort to restore any trust that was lost following attempts
by the Trump administration to politicize the nation’s head count.
administration, but under-
counts of racial and ethnic
minorities are nothing new
to the census; they’ve been
persistent for decades.
In recent years, the cost
of censuses and surveys
have grown while public
participation rates for sur-
veys have declined. The
bureau’s biggest between-
census effort to take the
— I think it’s an obso-
lete system,” said Arturo
Vargas, CEO of NALEO
Educational Fund, a non-
partisan nonprofit that
supports Latino political
engagement.
The undercounts in the
2020 census were blamed
on the pandemic, natural
disasters and political inter-
ference from the Trump
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Bureau data-gathering for
decades.
Under the concept, one
data set such as an individu-
al’s IRS file would be linked
to another, such as the indi-
vidual’s Census Bureau
survey response. Eventu-
ally, data related to people’s
addresses, demographics,
businesses and jobs would
all be linked together.
In 2030, when the next
census takes place, the pro-
gram could help count
people with good admin-
istrative records or links
to other records, and more
resources could be devoted
toward households that are
the hardest to count, Census
Bureau Director Robert
Santos said in a recent inter-
view with The Associated
Press.
“We are looking to take
advantage of existing tech-
nology, and that necessarily
includes the merging of
large databases on people,
not to create a Big Brother
society, but to supplement
and reduce the burden
on our population when
it comes time to gather
data,” said Santos, who was
AROUND OREGON AND THE REGION
Astoria
Longview
47/54
Kennewick
48/57
St. Helens
48/60
50/57
Condon
48/67
51/58
Mainly clear
Baker City
La Grande
9
41 66 39
Comfort Index™ 10
Enterprise
36 65 40
Comfort Index™ 10
64 38
68 37
Eugene
8
10
10
50/60
58 33
64 42
67 40
9
10
10
10
62 42
67 41
9
10
10
10
NATION (for the 48 contiguous states)
High Sunday
Low Sunday
High: 90°
Low: -6°
Wettest: 1.90”
45°
26°
46°
32°
48°
34°
PRECIPITATION (inches)
Sunday
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Normal year to date
0.00
0.06
0.47
0.45
1.76
Trace
0.47
1.10
2.34
4.00
0.06
1.56
1.46
7.11
7.07
Powers
51/58
AGRICULTURAL INFO.
HAY INFORMATION WEDNESDAY
Lowest relative humidity
Afternoon wind
Hours of sunshine
Evapotranspiration
35%
S at 8 to 16 mph
0.4
0.13
RESERVOIR STORAGE (through midnight Monday)
Phillips Reservoir
Unity Reservoir
Owyhee Reservoir
McKay Reservoir
Wallowa Lake
Thief Valley Reservoir
7% of capacity
47% of capacity
31% of capacity
62% of capacity
32% of capacity
82% of capacity
STREAM FLOWS (through midnight Sunday)
Grande Ronde at Troy
4600 cfs
Thief Valley Reservoir near North Powder
1 cfs
Burnt River near Unity
7 cfs
Umatilla River near Gibbon
352 cfs
Minam River at Minam
266 cfs
Powder River near Richland
52 cfs
TUE.
Sunrise
Sunset
Moonrise
Moonset
WED.
6:52 a.m. 6:50 a.m.
7:07 p.m. 7:09 p.m.
none 12:54 a.m.
9:08 a.m. 9:45 a.m.
MOON PHASES
Last
Mar 24
New
First
Mar 31
Apr 8
Full
Apr 16
Jordan Valley
35/70
Paisley
36/74
Frenchglen
Diamond
38/73
Klamath Falls
33/72
Lakeview
33/73
McDermitt
Shown is Wednesday’s weather. Temperatures are Tuesday night’s lows and Wednesday’s highs.
City
Astoria
Bend
Boise
Brookings
Burns
Coos Bay
Corvallis
Council
Elgin
Eugene
Hermiston
Hood River
Imnaha
John Day
Joseph
Kennewick
Klamath Falls
Lakeview
Hi/Lo/W
54/39/r
70/38/pc
69/43/s
57/45/c
70/35/s
54/41/r
61/38/c
60/38/s
67/39/pc
60/42/c
74/41/pc
60/40/r
70/46/pc
73/37/pc
63/39/s
74/41/pc
72/30/s
73/36/s
Hi/Lo/W
55/40/c
66/36/pc
66/41/pc
59/44/pc
64/34/c
58/38/c
59/39/pc
57/32/pc
58/36/pc
59/41/pc
64/36/pc
63/40/pc
58/38/pc
60/37/pc
55/36/pc
64/37/pc
71/28/pc
70/35/s
33/71
RECREATION FORECAST WEDNESDAY
REGIONAL CITIES
THU.
34/72
35/74
Fields
47/72
WED.
Grand View
Arock
36/73
37/75
Medford
Brookings
The Dalles
Crater Lake
Astoria
SUN & MOON
Silver Lake
35/68
Boise
39/69
51/70
47/57
Juntura
35/73
34/74
Chiloquin
OREGON
On March 22, 1784, an unusual cold snap
in the Carolinas damaged buds on the
peach trees. Most people look forward
to mild weather as soon as the season
begins, but winter often has a few more
tricks.
51/63
Ontario
37/70
33/70
37/70
Beaver Marsh
Grants Pass
Huntington
38/65
Burns
Brothers
33/66
Roseburg
34/60
34/68
44/70
Oakridge
47/54
WEATHER HISTORY
40/73
Seneca
50/60
Coos Bay
Fort Myers, Fla.
Antero Reservoir, Colo.
Quillayute, Wash.
High: 57°
Low: 11°
Wettest: 0.20”
40/69
Council
34/63
John Day
Bend
Elkton
SUNDAY EXTREMES
TEMPERATURES Baker City La Grande Elgin
37/63
43/68
Florence
Comfort Index takes into account how the weather will feel based on a combination of factors. A rating of 10 feels
very comfortable while a rating of 0 feels very uncomfortable.
ALMANAC
Sisters
49/60
56 35
36/60
Baker City
Redmond
46/53
47/55
Halfway
Granite
48/61
Newport
60 34
10
40/72
49/61
50/60
Corvallis
Enterprise
36/65
41/66
Monument
45/70
Idanha
Salem
SAT
Partly sunny and Times of clouds Partly sunny and Mild with some
mild
and sun
mild
sun
34 63 37
Comfort Index™
FRI
Elgin
38/67
La Grande
44/64
Maupin
THU
45/67
Pendleton
The Dalles
Portland
Newberg
47/58
Lewiston
43/68
Hood River
44/69
46/53
WED
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Walla Walla
41/74
Vancouver
49/57
TIllamook
TONIGHT
appointed by President Joe
Biden.
Relying on adminis-
trative records may have
its own problems because
some groups, such as people
in the country illegally,
often have little paper trail.
Besides naming an
unusually high number of
political appointees to the
Census Bureau, the Trump
administration unsuc-
cessfully attempted to use
administrative records to
get a tally of the number of
people in the country ille-
gally so they could be elim-
inated from the count used
for allocating congressional
seats.
Any effort to revamp
how the count is conducted
will need to be protected
from similar efforts to
misuse the count for polit-
ical purposes, said Paul
Ong, a professor emeritus of
urban studies at UCLA.
“The 2020 enumeration
was a wakeup call,” Ong
said. “The Census Bureau
has a very important and
fundamental function in our
society. It is the keeper of
our demographic truths.”
City
Lewiston
Longview
Meacham
Medford
Newport
Olympia
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Powers
Redmond
Roseburg
Salem
Spokane
The Dalles
Ukiah
Walla Walla
WED.
THU.
Hi/Lo/W
68/47/pc
57/38/r
67/40/pc
72/45/pc
53/39/r
55/37/r
70/43/s
72/42/pc
69/40/c
58/42/r
58/48/c
69/38/pc
63/47/c
60/38/r
62/38/c
67/42/c
67/34/pc
67/43/c
Hi/Lo/W
60/41/s
59/39/c
57/33/pc
74/41/c
54/41/pc
57/36/c
69/38/pc
66/37/pc
60/38/c
60/41/c
66/42/c
64/34/pc
68/41/c
59/39/c
55/35/pc
65/42/pc
58/34/pc
59/40/c
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain,
sf-snow fl urries, sn-snow, i-ice
ANTHONY LAKES
PHILLIPS LAKE
A shower
Sunshine and mild
46
29
62
34
MT. EMILY REC.
BROWNLEE RES.
Mild with some sun
Mostly sunny; nice
55
37
66
40
EAGLE CAP WILD.
EMIGRANT ST. PARK
Mostly sunny
A p.m. shower
48
27
61
34
WALLOWA LAKE
MCKAY RESERVOIR
Mostly sunny; mild
Mainly cloudy
63
39
69
40
THIEF VALLEY RES.
RED BRIDGE ST. PARK
Mostly sunny; mild
Partly sunny; mild
63
37
66
39
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