A12 The BulleTin • Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2021
TODAY
THURSDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
77°
LOW
43°
Warm with sun and some
clouds
Yesterday Normal
Record
75°
63° 90° in 1924
37°
35° 19° in 1953
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.56" in 2015
Month to date (normal)
0.03" (0.27")
Year to date (normal)
1.40" (4.40")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.10"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Thu.
Sun
5:42am/8:22pm 5:41am/8:23pm
Moon
6:18am/9:34pm 6:49am/10:35pm
Mercury 6:39am/10:20pm 6:39am/10:22pm
Venus
6:21am/9:25pm 6:21am/9:27pm
Mars
8:46am/12:21am 8:45am/12:20am
Jupiter
2:37am/1:06pm 2:33am/1:03pm
Saturn 1:54am/11:41am 1:50am/11:37am
Uranus
5:16am/7:22pm 5:12am/7:18pm
First
Full
Last
New
May 19
May 26
Jun 2
Jun 10
Tonight's sky: Conjunction of the waxing
crescent and Venus below the western
horizon. (Not visible.)
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
5
8
8
5
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
POLLEN COUNT
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
EAST: Partly sunny
and warm Wednesday.
Fair Wednesday night.
A mix of sun and
clouds Thursday; still
warm.
CENTRAL: Partly
sunny and warm
Wednesday. Fair
weather at night. A
little cooler Thursday;
clouds and sun.
WEST: Warm Wednes-
day; a mix of clouds
and sun. Partly cloudy
Wednesday night.
Partly sunny Thursday;
warm.
82°
48°
Nice and warm with plenty
of sunshine
Astoria
63/49
Mostly sunny and
remaining very warm
Mostly sunny and not as
warm but pleasant
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47725
86%
Wickiup
90565
45%
Crescent Lake
23205
27%
Ochoco Reservoir
11062
25%
Prineville
87774
59%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
105
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1190
Deschutes R. below Bend
81
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1490
Little Deschutes near La Pine
158
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
15
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
45
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
247
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
60
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
12
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Base
42-82
Mt. Hood Meadows
0
0-0
Timberline Lodge
0
0-141
T-storms
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
67/55/0.36
Akron
55/43/0.00
Albany
56/38/0.00
Albuquerque
79/54/0.00
Anchorage
52/41/0.13
Atlanta
78/63/0.00
Atlantic City
64/46/0.02
Austin
78/61/0.06
Baltimore
69/46/0.00
Billings
60/36/Tr
Birmingham
74/60/Tr
Bismarck
68/29/0.00
Boise
70/41/0.00
Boston
66/53/0.00
Bridgeport, CT 67/47/0.00
Buffalo
51/39/0.04
Burlington, VT
60/42/0.04
Caribou, ME
62/40/0.45
Charleston, SC 87/67/0.00
Charlotte
73/58/0.00
Chattanooga
71/54/0.00
Cheyenne
35/31/0.32
Chicago
56/36/0.00
Cincinnati
61/43/0.00
Cleveland
54/39/0.00
Colorado Springs 41/33/0.30
Columbia, MO
59/41/0.00
Columbia, SC
80/60/0.00
Columbus, GA
83/66/0.08
Columbus, OH
57/45/Tr
Concord, NH
62/46/0.03
Corpus Christi
88/72/0.03
Dallas
62/57/1.49
Dayton
57/44/0.03
Denver
43/33/0.36
Des Moines
61/41/0.00
Detroit
56/36/Tr
Duluth
59/26/0.00
El Paso
89/73/0.00
Fairbanks
68/49/0.00
Fargo
65/29/0.00
Flagstaff
71/28/0.00
Grand Rapids
57/34/0.00
Green Bay
58/33/0.00
Greensboro
67/53/0.00
Harrisburg
65/44/0.00
Hartford, CT
66/48/0.00
Helena
63/33/0.02
Honolulu
84/73/0.15
Houston
90/77/0.13
Huntsville
70/52/0.01
Indianapolis
58/44/Tr
Jackson, MS
75/64/0.09
Jacksonville
88/66/0.08
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
63/52/c
71/56/pc
59/35/s
63/41/s
61/39/pc
67/44/s
74/51/s
81/57/s
52/40/c
53/40/pc
61/49/r
61/48/pc
63/52/s
63/51/s
66/57/r
72/56/pc
67/46/pc
70/46/s
62/46/pc
65/46/t
65/51/r
66/45/pc
70/42/pc 70/43/pc
80/52/s
81/52/s
65/50/pc
67/54/s
64/49/s
67/50/s
59/41/pc
62/43/s
61/40/t
68/46/pc
54/38/sh
62/38/c
67/49/r
63/53/pc
55/43/r
68/47/pc
61/49/c
66/49/pc
53/35/pc 66/39/pc
62/41/s
67/46/pc
62/40/s
66/43/s
57/37/s
61/41/s
53/37/pc
70/46/s
65/42/pc 68/46/pc
60/45/r
65/49/pc
70/51/r
64/48/pc
61/37/s
65/41/s
62/39/pc
70/44/s
77/65/r
78/67/pc
65/55/c
73/57/pc
61/38/s
65/42/s
61/41/pc 73/46/pc
64/42/pc 66/48/pc
62/40/s
66/45/s
64/43/pc 67/45/pc
82/57/s
86/62/t
61/40/c
62/39/pc
71/45/pc 70/46/pc
74/34/s
76/38/s
62/36/s
66/38/s
64/39/pc 68/43/pc
55/42/sh 67/44/pc
67/43/s
69/45/s
65/43/s
70/46/s
66/46/pc 69/45/pc
84/73/pc 84/73/pc
75/62/r
79/60/pc
64/49/c
67/45/pc
61/40/s
65/44/s
66/56/r
72/51/pc
87/61/t
67/57/t
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
60/47/pc
76/61/pc
67/51/sh
104/75/pc
97/82/t
82/57/s
77/64/s
62/51/c
68/50/c
75/54/sh
64/50/s
88/77/s
89/63/s
63/41/pc
89/80/s
53/39/sh
55/43/sh
61/46/sh
75/50/s
90/82/t
69/53/s
75/60/s
74/48/s
68/62/s
68/54/r
60/50/pc
69/43/pc
98/82/pc
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
63/50/0.67
81/63/0.00
65/57/0.55
100/82/0.00
92/82/0.03
77/47/0.00
79/68/0.00
84/59/0.72
68/50/0.08
84/52/0.00
63/48/0.00
95/75/0.00
88/68/0.00
54/37/0.05
90/80/0.00
55/43/0.00
62/48/0.52
61/50/0.41
73/51/0.00
92/79/0.12
66/52/0.00
83/62/0.00
71/49/0.00
69/62/0.00
64/52/0.02
61/45/0.00
66/46/0.00
95/81/0.00
62/47/pc
78/62/s
59/44/r
107/76/s
96/82/s
83/59/pc
76/63/s
62/48/c
67/50/pc
64/51/sh
65/51/s
91/74/pc
91/65/s
61/38/c
90/79/pc
55/41/sh
53/42/c
57/43/sh
74/51/pc
90/81/t
72/58/s
74/58/s
74/49/s
68/62/pc
69/56/pc
60/49/sh
70/50/pc
97/83/s
Space
Seed
Continued from A11
Continued from A11
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic aims
to kick off tourist flights next year, just
as soon as he straps into his space-skim-
ming, plane-launched rocket ship for a
test run from the New Mexico base.
And Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch a
billionaire and his sweepstakes winners
in September. That will be followed by a
flight by three businessmen to the Inter-
national Space Station in January.
“We’ve always enjoyed this incredible
thing called space, but we always want
more people to be able to experience it as
well,” NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough
said from the space station May 5. “So I
think this is a great step in the right di-
rection.”
It’s all rooted in Shepard’s 15-minute
flight on May 5, 1961.
Investigators later deter-
mined the company mislabeled
161 seed lots as K-31, totaling
207 infractions. Each lot equals
up to 55,000 pounds of seed.
False labeling is a violation
of both the Federal Seed Act
and Oregon seed laws, regulat-
ing the sale and commerce of
agricultural seed crops.
“It’s all about consumer pro-
tection,” said Elizabeth Savory,
Seed Regulatory Program man-
ager at the Oregon Department
of Agriculture. “You want to
make sure what’s on the label,
that’s the seed they’re getting.”
Savory made the compari-
son to someone buying a bag
of M&Ms, only to open the bag
and find out there were Skittles
inside — they’re both round
candy, she said, but not the
same thing and not what the
person thought he was buying.
K-31 is sought after for its
heat and drought tolerance,
low maintenance and durabil-
ity, fetching a premium price
for growers.
Second in space
Shepard was actually the second person
in space — the Soviet Union launched cos-
monaut Yuri Gagarin three weeks earlier,
to Shepard’s everlasting dismay.
The 37-year-old Mercury astronaut
and Navy test pilot cut a slick sci-fi figure
in his silver spacesuit as he stood in the
pre-dawn darkness at Cape Canaveral,
looking up at his Redstone rocket. Im-
patient with all the delays, including an-
other hold in the countdown just minutes
before launch, he famously growled into
his mic: “Why don’t you fix your little
problem and light this candle?”
His capsule, Freedom 7, soared to an
altitude of 116 miles before parachuting
into the Atlantic.
Twenty days later, President John F.
Kennedy committed to landing a man on
the moon and returning him safely by de-
cade’s end, a promise made good in July
1969 by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin.
Shepard, who died in 1998, went on to
command Apollo 14 in 1971, becoming
the fifth moonwalker — and lone lunar
golfer.
Following in his footsteps
Since Gagarin and Shepard’s pioneer-
ing flights, 579 people have rocketed into
space or reached its fringes, according
to NASA. Nearly two-thirds are Ameri-
can and just over 20% Soviet or Russian.
About 90% are male and most are white,
although NASA’s crews have been more
diverse in recent decades.
A Black community college educa-
tor from Tempe, Arizona, sees her spot
on SpaceX’s upcoming private flight as a
symbol. Sian Proctor uses the acronym
J.E.D.I. for “a just, equitable, diverse and
inclusive space.”
NASA wasn’t always on board with
space tourism but is today.
“Our goal is one day that everyone’s a
Maxim Marmur/AP file
Reporters and officials at the Mission Control Center outside Moscow watch space tourist
Dennis Tito, a California businessman, speaking from inside the International Space Station in
May 2001. Russian cosmonauts Yuri Baturin, left on the screen, and Talgat Musabayev, right,
listen. Tito paid $20 million to visit the space station.
space person,” NASA’s human spaceflight
chief, Kathy Lueders said following the
recent splashdown of a SpaceX capsule
with four astronauts. “We’re very excited
to see it starting to take off.”
Twenty years ago, NASA clashed with
Russian space officials over the flight of
the world’s first space tourist.
California businessman Dennis Tito
paid $20 million to visit the space station,
launching atop a Russian rocket. Virgin-
ia-based Space Adventures arranged Ti-
to’s weeklong trip, which ended May 6,
2001, as well as seven more tourist flights
that followed.
“By opening up his checkbook, he
kicked off an industry 20 yrs ago,” Space
Adventures co-founder Eric Anderson
tweeted last week. “Space is opening up
more than it ever has, and for all.”
There’s already a line.
A Russian actress and movie director
are supposed to launch from Kazakhstan
in the fall. They’ll be followed in Decem-
ber by Space Adventures’ two newest cli-
ents, also launching on a Russian Soyuz
rocket. SpaceX will be next up in January
with the three businessmen; the flight
from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center was
arranged by Axiom Space, a Houston
company run by former NASA employ-
ees. And as early as 2023, SpaceX is sup-
posed to take a Japanese entrepreneur and
his guests around the moon and back.
The cost
While no fan of human spaceflight —
he prefers robotic explorers — Duke Uni-
versity emeritus history professor Alex
Roland acknowledges the emergence of
spaceflight companies might be “the most
significant change in the last 60 years.” Yet
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
51/43/0.20
62/46/0.00
56/32/Tr
87/69/0.00
63/38/0.00
64/41/0.00
63/56/0.93
72/61/0.00
67/48/0.00
59/30/0.00
69/55/0.10
90/76/0.00
53/37/0.00
63/36/0.00
72/45/0.00
81/71/1.70
67/49/0.00
70/50/0.00
70/55/Tr
57/50/0.84
63/41/0.00
91/71/0.00
99/66/0.00
60/40/Tr
67/48/0.00
95/68/0.00
56/40/Tr
63/49/0.01
66/49/0.00
70/55/Tr
61/31/Tr
76/42/0.00
73/46/0.00
54/36/Tr
93/53/0.00
61/43/0.00
64/42/0.00
86/63/0.15
67/62/0.00
72/51/0.00
83/53/0.00
74/42/0.00
87/66/0.00
70/46/0.00
62/29/0.00
69/43/0.00
60/41/0.00
91/77/0.00
93/57/0.00
58/46/0.44
70/52/0.00
61/47/0.00
77/41/0.00
96/68/0.00
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
51/41/c
48/40/c
63/42/pc 68/50/pc
61/35/s
65/39/s
94/72/s
98/71/s
61/40/s
63/39/s
64/43/pc 70/51/pc
64/49/c
71/46/s
77/60/pc 74/60/pc
66/44/s
68/46/s
64/38/pc 67/42/pc
67/50/c
71/49/s
89/76/t
89/75/t
58/41/s
62/46/pc
67/46/pc 67/49/pc
65/46/c
69/44/s
78/68/t
76/63/pc
65/49/pc
68/52/s
67/49/pc
70/51/s
60/50/pc
67/49/s
61/46/c
70/51/pc
65/44/pc 68/50/pc
90/72/t
83/67/t
102/72/s 102/71/s
63/39/pc 66/43/pc
67/47/s
70/50/s
99/71/s
101/71/s
58/36/pc
63/41/s
62/43/pc
67/48/s
65/46/s
69/49/s
55/41/r
69/44/pc
58/37/t
64/42/pc
84/52/s
86/52/s
65/44/pc
71/44/s
59/41/s
64/42/s
93/53/s
90/52/s
65/42/pc 69/46/pc
73/52/s
83/58/s
69/61/r
75/61/pc
69/62/pc 70/62/pc
70/50/pc 66/52/pc
81/53/s
77/52/pc
71/43/pc
79/47/s
74/51/r
62/54/c
69/51/pc 71/50/pc
66/45/pc 62/50/pc
71/47/pc 74/49/pc
61/39/pc 66/44/pc
90/74/pc 85/69/pc
95/65/s
99/67/s
65/46/pc
71/51/s
67/48/s
70/51/s
62/42/c
69/50/pc
80/47/pc 80/51/pc
98/63/s
100/65/s
106/75/0.00
75/60/0.84
55/44/0.12
72/41/0.00
70/63/1.67
88/70/0.01
102/77/0.00
76/59/0.00
54/45/0.00
52/38/0.09
59/48/0.15
79/65/0.00
69/55/0.16
75/41/0.00
77/58/0.00
62/45/0.00
79/45/0.00
79/73/1.47
91/80/0.29
73/46/0.00
64/60/0.12
95/77/0.00
83/69/0.00
66/57/0.00
50/36/0.01
61/45/0.00
83/59/0.00
81/54/0.00
105/77/s
75/56/t
62/42/pc
70/52/sh
72/59/t
88/76/pc
97/75/pc
73/64/sh
54/49/r
61/40/pc
61/48/pc
79/69/pc
69/57/pc
76/43/s
73/58/t
62/47/pc
79/56/pc
81/67/c
87/78/t
65/49/pc
68/56/pc
97/78/pc
78/69/s
71/63/pc
61/42/s
60/49/pc
61/53/sh
77/51/s
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 101°
at Zapata, TX
National low: 16°
at Dakota Hill, CO
Precipitation: 3.27"
at Shreveport, LA
SKI REPORT
New snow
0
Partly sunny, a couple of
showers possible
NATIONAL
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
65/40/0.00 63/49/c 61/48/pc
La Grande
69/35/0.00 75/46/c 74/51/pc
Portland
76/48/0.00 77/52/pc 77/53/pc
Baker City
67/27/0.00 76/40/pc 76/43/pc
La Pine
73/27/0.00 76/38/pc 76/44/pc
Prineville
72/30/0.00 81/42/pc 76/49/pc
Brookings
82/60/0.00 66/50/pc 64/49/pc
Medford
84/44/0.00 87/51/pc 86/55/pc
Redmond
76/33/0.00 79/40/pc 79/47/pc
Burns
70/31/0.00 80/42/pc 79/44/pc
Newport
55/39/Tr
58/47/pc 57/47/pc
Roseburg
77/46/0.00 82/51/s 81/52/pc
Eugene
75/44/0.00 79/48/pc 78/49/pc
North Bend
61/44/0.00 61/49/s 60/50/pc
Salem
76/44/0.00 80/51/pc 79/52/pc
Klamath Falls
73/32/0.00 80/41/pc 80/43/pc
Ontario
75/38/0.00 83/53/pc 85/55/s
Sisters
71/30/0.00 79/43/pc 79/48/pc
Lakeview
74/29/0.00 78/41/pc 78/44/pc
Pendleton
75/39/0.00 79/47/c 79/54/pc
The Dalles
81/48/0.00 83/52/c 83/55/pc
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
-10s
61°
34°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
84/46
Rufus
Hermiston
81/51
84/46
84/52
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
84/51
77/47 77/52
73/41
Wasco
74/43 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
71/42
81/51
79/47
Sandy
83/52
McMinnville
67/46
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
74/50
Maupin
Government
79/47
75/46
71/44
Camp
82/48 Condon 77/46
Union
Lincoln City
74/47
66/42
75/43
Salem
60/49
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
80/51
Madras
81/45
Albany
68/40
Newport
Baker City
80/44
81/43
Mitchell
58/47
76/48
76/40
Camp Sherman
76/45
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
78/43
79/40
74/48
Day
Prineville
58/48
74/41
Ontario
Sisters
81/42
Paulina
77/46
83/53
Florence
Eugene 79/43
Bend Brothers 77/41
Vale
63/49
79/48
77/43
75/39
Sunriver
83/54
Nyssa
77/39
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
84/55
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
76/38
77/40
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
82/47
78/49
80/51
Fort
Rock
62/47
80/42
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
79/40
79/41
High: 84°
76/38
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Medford
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
59/49
82/51
80/40
76/45
Low: 27°
Marsh
Lake
80/43
Port Orford
76/38
80/40
at Meacham
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
63/50
Pass
83/43
Chiloquin
81/41
87/53
Rome
Medford
78/40
Gold Beach
87/51
84/41
64/53
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
80/47
84/50
80/41
76/46
66/50
78/41
Seaside
63/48
Cannon Beach
62/49
TUESDAY
73°
38°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
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WATER REPORT
Ski resort
Mt. Bachelor
MONDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
Moderate
SUNDAY
75°
43°
Pleasantly warm with
clouds and sun
Partly sunny and warm
ALMANAC
SATURDAY
74°
42°
77°
48°
Mainly clear
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
FRIDAY
he wonders whether there will be much
interest once the novelty wears off and the
inevitable fatalities occur.
Then there’s the high price of admission.
The U.S., Canadian and Israeli entre-
preneurs flying SpaceX early next year are
paying $55 million — each — for their
1½-week mission.
Virgin Galactic’s tickets cost consider-
ably less for minutes versus days of weight-
lessness. Initially $250,000, the price is ex-
pected to go up once Branson’s company
starts accepting reservations again.
Blue Origin declined to give a ticket
price for future sales and would not com-
ment on who else — besides the auction
winner — will be on board the capsule in
July. A couple more crew flights, each last-
ing minutes, would follow by year’s end.
As for SpaceX’s private flight on a fully
automated Dragon capsule, tech entre-
preneur Jared Isaacman won’t say what
he’s paying. He considers his three-day
flight a “great responsibility” and is taking
no shortcuts in training; he took his crew-
mates hiking up Mount Rainier recently
to toughen them up.
“If something does go wrong, it will
set back every other person’s ambition to
go and become a commercial astronaut,”
Isaacman said.
John Logsdon, professor emeritus at
George Washington University, where he
founded the Space Policy Institute, has
mixed feelings about this shift from space
exploration to adventure tourism.
“It takes the romance and excitement
out of going to space,” Logsdon said in an
email this week. Instead of the dawn of a
new era like so many have proclaimed, it’s
“more like the end of the era when space
flight was special. I guess that is progress.”
Rent
Continued from A11
Congress also passed two
rounds of federal assistance
for renters, the latest round
approved in March. Oregon’s
senators announced May 10
that the state will be in line for
$222.5 million from President
Joe Biden’s pandemic recov-
ery plan, which became law in
March.
Among other provisions of
SB 282, which was brokered by
Sen. Kayse Jama, D-Portland,
with tenant and landlord ad-
vocates:
• Potential landlords would
be barred from screening out
applicants based on COVID-
era evictions. The bill would al-
low sealing of evictions during
COVID from a tenant’s record.
• Credit history reports would
be barred on any late payments
during the moratorium. Land-
lords would be barred from
screening out tenants based on
nonpayment of past-due rents
during the eviction moratorium
and grace period.
• Landlords could not evict
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About half of all K-31 grass
seed comes from Missouri,
Savory said, and the other
half is grown in Oregon. In
2017, Missouri experienced
a record-low harvest caused
by several years of difficult
weather. The shortage led to a
spike in demand and prices.
The state began an industry-
wide investigation in 2018 at
the request of the Oregon Seed
Association to root out bad
actors misrepresenting K-31
seed, based on anomalies in
the market.
The violations allegedly
committed by Dynamic Seed
Source and Abbott occurred
between 2016 and 2018. Un-
der the terms of the settlement
reached May 6, Abbott and
the company neither admit
nor deny any wrongdoing, but
agreed to pay the combined
$300,000 in fines and a one-
year license suspension.
In a statement, Abbott and
Dynamic Seed Source said
ODA’s case was “unnecessary,”
and they were always willing
to prepare their labels per the
state’s specifications.
tenants for doubling-up/occu-
pancy limits that are narrower
than current law, during the
COVID period when people
have had to share housing due
to the pandemic and wildfires.
• Increased damages would
remain in effect temporarily for
retaliation violations by land-
lords during the COVID era.
All of the votes against the
final version were cast by Re-
publicans, although three Re-
publicans joined Democrats to
vote for it.
“This bill has another side
that has not been given any
consideration,” Rep. Kim Wal-
lan, R-Medford, said.
A move by Republicans to
send the bill back to committee
failed on a party-line vote.
Rep. Jack Zika of Redmond,
said he sought an amendment
that would have allowed land-
lords to check some tenant re-
cords unrelated to finances. He
said his intent was not to block
the bill itself, and that he felt an
agreement was close.
“Nobody wants to see any-
body evicted,” he said.
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