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COVID-19 data for Thursday, May 6:
Deschutes County cases: 8,465 (95 new cases)
Deschutes County deaths: 73 (zero new deaths)
Crook County cases: 1,045 (14 new cases)
Crook County deaths: 20 (zero new deaths)
Jefferson County cases: 2,150 (4 new cases)
Jefferson County deaths: 33 (zero new deaths)
Oregon cases: 189,162 (763 new cases)
Oregon deaths: 2,514 (5 new deaths)
COVID-19 patients hospitalized at
St. Charles Bend on Thurssday: 30 (6 in ICU)
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Bill would ban lawmakers from
holding party leadership posts
BY CHRIS LEHMAN
The Oregonian
Two Republicans in the Or-
egon Senate have introduced a
bill aimed squarely at the po-
litical ambitions of two of their
fellow Republican senators.
Senate Bill 865 would ban
anyone elected to a statewide
elected office, a judicial po-
sition or the state Legislature
from also holding a leadership
role in a state political party.
That would currently affect
two people in Oregon: Dallas
Heard and Dennis Linthicum.
Both are Republican state sen-
ators, and both were elected to
leadership roles in the Oregon
Republican Party in February:
Heard as its chair, and Linthi-
cum as its treasurer. Heard is
from Myrtle Creek, and Lin-
thicum is from Klamath Falls,
both in Southern Oregon.
The bill is sponsored by Sen.
Bill Hansell, R-Athena and Sen.
Lynn Findley, R-Vale. Vale and
Athena are in Eastern Oregon.
The measure states that it was
introduced at the request of
LOCAL BRIEFING
COCC delays reopening
to students, public
Oregon Repub-
lican state Sen.
Dallas Heard
speaks to pro-
testers gathered
in Salem Jan. 6
at the Oregon
Capitol as law-
makers con-
vened in Wash-
ington, D.C.,
to confirm the
Electoral College
vote won by Joe
Biden.
Dave Killen/
Oregonian file
the local Republican parties of
three Eastern Oregon counties.
Hansell and Findley released
a joint statement.
“We have been contacted by
our constituents both in and
out of the Republican Party
who are concerned about the
mixing of party politics and
legislative policy-making,” the
statement said. “All of a sud-
den, certain votes are being
seen as official positions of all
Republicans in Oregon when
they aren’t, and vice versa .”
A legislative aide for Heard
said Wednesday that the sen-
ator was not available for
comment. Linthicum did not
respond to a request for com-
ment. Neither lawmaker was
present for Wednesday’s Sen-
ate floor session, during which
senators cast votes on a gun
safety bill that passed on yes
votes cast solely by Democrats.
The bill to regulate party lead-
ership is the latest sign of divi-
sion among Senate Republicans.
Since the start of the session, the
caucus has seen two of its mem-
bers leave to become self-iden-
tified independents: Sen. Brian
Boquist of Dallas and Sen. Art
Robinson of Cave Junction. Bo-
quist and Robinson continue to
vote with Republicans on most
bills, but neither considers him-
self a part of the caucus.
Central Oregon Commu-
nity College will not reopen
to students and the public
June 14 as planned due to
the rise of COVD-19 cases
in the region.
The college does not
have a new reopening date
planned, but the college’s
leadership team has identi-
fied late summer as a goal
to reopen.
COCC’s summer term
begins June 21. The delayed
reopening will not im-
pact the limited in-person
classes already scheduled
for the term.
Since the fall, the college
has offered about 20% of
courses in person and will
continue to in the summer
term.
Student support services
will remain available via
phone, and computer labs
on all four COCC cam-
puses will remain open to
students, according to the
college.
Employees already work-
ing from home will con-
tinue to work remotely.
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Umatilla tribes release online dictionary of fading language
Associated Press
MISSION — The Confeder-
ated Tribes of the Umatilla In-
dian Reservation have released
an online dictionary of their
language to preserve it and
help new learners pick up the
dying tongue.
The project is a collabora-
tion between the confederated
tribes’ language program and
Amazon Web Services, an Am-
The tribe established a language program in 1996 to
preserve Umatilla by recording elders and teaching the
language to tribal youth and adults.
azon subsidiary that provides
cloud-based platforms on a
pay-as-you-go basis, the East
Oregonian reported Wednes-
day.
The prevalence of the Uma-
tilla language has diminished
over the years as many of its
fluent speakers have died.
The tribe established a lan-
guage program in 1996 to pre-
serve Umatilla by recording el-
ders and teaching the language
to tribal youth and adults. The
reservation in northeast Ore-
gon is home to a union of three
area tribes, the Cayuse, the
Umatilla, and the Walla Walla.
In a statement, the tribe
credited tribal member
Twáway, also known as Inez
Spino-Reves, with working
with linguists and providing
key details about the languages’
grammer and vocabulary.
Members of other Pacific
Northwest tribes, including
the Nez Perce and the Yakima,
also played important roles, as
well as biologists and historians
who helped with plant and ani-
mal identifications and
The online dictionary,
which includes a Umatilla key-
board, is available for free here:
https://dictionary.ctuir.org.
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Feud breaks out among Republican
lawmakers over Snake River dams
BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
The Associated Press
SPOKANE, Wash. — Some
Republican members of Con-
gress from the Northwest are ac-
cusing a GOP Idaho lawmaker
of conducting secret negotia-
tions with the Democratic gov-
ernor of Oregon over a contro-
versial proposal to breach four
dams on the Snake River to save
endangered salmon runs.
But Rep. Mike Simpson,
R-Idaho, replied that he has for
several years been telling “every-
one who would listen” about his
proposal for a comprehensive
solution to save salmon.
“How is that secret?” Simpson
asked. “My staff has had discus-
sions with nearly every gover-
nor, member of Congress and
U.S. senator in the Columbia
Basin on this proposal.”
Simpson’s plan to remove the
Ice Harbor, Little Goose, Lower
Granite and Lower Monumen-
tal dams also includes a 35-
year moratorium on lawsuits,
ending costly litigation over the
dams’ environmental impact.
That provision prompted more
than a dozen Northwest envi-
ronmental groups to oppose
the plan. Democratic lawmak-
ers have also been lukewarm to
the proposal.
On Wednesday, U.S. Reps.
Dan Newhouse, R-Washing-
ton, Cathy McMorris Rodgers,
R-Washington, and Cliff Bentz,
R-Oregon, issued a strongly
worded statement upon learn-
ing of a Freedom of Informa-
tion Act release detailing coor-
dination between the offices of
Simpson and Oregon Gov. Kate
Brown regarding the proposal to
breach the four dams.
“For months, Rep. Simpson
has been speaking with us about
his sweeping dam-breaching
proposal, touting transparency
and an open process while tell-
ing us it was simply a ‘legislative
concept’ for the Northwest dele-
gation to consider,” the lawmak-
ers, who oppose breaching the
dams, said.
“What he didn’t tell us was
that he has been coordinating
for months with Oregon Gov-
ernor Kate Brown’s staff behind
the scenes to shepherd his pro-
posal through Congress with
little to no support from Pacific
Northwest representatives —
Republican or Democrat,” the
lawmakers said.
“It’s clear this proposal is not
just a starting point, but rather
a radical and fully-baked plan
he is actively seeking to put into
law,” they said.
The three Republicans also
suggest Simpson’s discussions
with Brown could hurt an
agreement signed last year by
the governors of Washington,
Idaho, Oregon and Montana
to work together on solving
an issue that has bedeviled the
Northwest for decades.
The documents were re-
leased in response to a pub-
lic information request by the
Center for Biological Diversity,
a conservation group that op-
poses Simpson’s plan.
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