A12 The BulleTin • Wednesday, June 23, 2021
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TODAY
THURSDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
86°
LOW
57°
Mostly sunny and very
warm
Mostly sunny and hot
ALMANAC
Yesterday Normal
Record
90°
74° 92° in 1973
63°
43° 27° in 1906
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.00"
Record
0.43" in 1918
Month to date (normal)
0.45" (0.56")
Year to date (normal)
2.60" (5.58")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.90"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Thu.
Sun
5:23am/8:52pm 5:23am/8:52pm
Moon
8:14pm/4:11am 9:25pm/5:02am
Mercury 4:40am/7:17pm 4:36am/7:13pm
Venus
7:11am/10:28pm 7:14am/10:28pm
Mars
8:13am/11:02pm 8:13am/11:00pm
Jupiter 11:58pm/10:33am 11:54pm/10:29am
Saturn 11:08pm/8:52am 11:04pm/8:47am
Uranus
2:36am/4:48pm 2:32am/4:44pm
Full
Last
New
First
Jun 24
Jul 1
Jul 9
Jul 17
Tonight's sky: Moonrise at 125 degrees (SE)
and moonset at 239 degrees (SW).
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
5
10
10
4
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
Low
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
SUNDAY
97°
64°
Hot with brilliant sunshine
Record-tying temperatures
with sunshine
EAST: Sunny to partly
cloudy and very warm
Wednesday with an
isolated shower or two
in the southeast.
104°
65°
Record-breaking
temperatures with
sunshine
Astoria
66/54
A p.m. thunderstorm
possible; cooler
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47439
86%
Wickiup
43920
22%
Crescent Lake
24910
29%
Ochoco Reservoir
8078
18%
Prineville
70534
47%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
113
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1120
Deschutes R. below Bend
128
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1450
Little Deschutes near La Pine
82
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
42
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
1
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
177
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
76
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
12
-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
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: USDA Forest Service
Entrepreneurs
Continued from A11
Pandemic restrictions took
their toll on OMG! Burgers
in Pendleton like everywhere
else, Burt said. The cou-
ple were planning to open a
grilled cheese shop in Pend-
leton in 2020, but COVID-19
scrapped those plans.
Lately, however, Burt
said OMG! Burgers has had
its busiest time ever in the
restaurant’s three-year history
in Pendleton.
The Burts aren’t the only
ones opening new eateries
in Hermiston. In late March,
Daily Fix Nutrition opened,
offering smoothies, teas and
coffee.
Diana Pena, who opened
the shop with her husband,
Felipe Pena, said they were
looking at the 11th Street lo-
cation they settled in before
the pandemic started, but the
shutdowns and uncertainty
caused them to pull back for a
while before finally “taking a
leap of faith” this spring.
“It’s definitely scary, be-
cause you see so many busi-
Prescriptions
Continued from A11
But after Senate Bill 844 sat
for two months in the Ways
and Means Committee with-
out any public meetings on it,
lawmakers on the budget com-
mittee last week stripped out
the potential power of the pro-
posed Prescription Drug Af-
fordability Board to limit prices
for any prescription drugs. The
proposal, absent that power, is
now headed to the Senate for
a full vote after emerging from
the committee Monday evening
and must also pass the House
in the final six or fewer days of
the session if it is to become law.
The proposal faced intense
opposition from the drug in-
dustry trade group PhRMA,
which spent more than
$790,000 on lobbying in Ore-
gon in the first three months
of the year, The Oregonian re-
ported. Total lobbying expen-
ditures for this year’s legislative
session will not be available un-
til after the session must wrap
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
87/64/Tr
Akron
67/54/0.04
Albany
63/59/0.28
Albuquerque
97/67/0.00
Anchorage
64/52/0.00
Atlanta
81/70/0.81
Atlantic City
78/71/1.73
Austin
87/72/0.02
Baltimore
74/70/0.37
Billings
97/56/0.00
Birmingham
81/70/0.08
Bismarck
88/48/0.00
Boise
98/71/0.00
Boston
87/72/0.95
Bridgeport, CT 77/70/0.34
Buffalo
64/53/0.00
Burlington, VT
66/64/0.15
Caribou, ME
78/68/0.18
Charleston, SC 80/73/0.43
Charlotte
83/73/0.06
Chattanooga
82/69/0.41
Cheyenne
90/52/Tr
Chicago
73/54/0.00
Cincinnati
71/57/0.01
Cleveland
65/54/0.01
Colorado Springs 95/48/0.00
Columbia, MO
82/55/0.00
Columbia, SC
83/74/0.32
Columbus, GA
85/71/0.13
Columbus, OH
71/57/Tr
Concord, NH
76/70/0.20
Corpus Christi
90/73/0.86
Dallas
86/66/0.04
Dayton
70/53/Tr
Denver
94/52/Tr
Des Moines
81/51/1.09
Detroit
69/45/0.00
Duluth
71/41/Tr
El Paso
100/73/0.00
Fairbanks
78/55/Tr
Fargo
79/46/0.00
Flagstaff
85/60/0.00
Grand Rapids
69/41/Tr
Green Bay
71/47/Tr
Greensboro
78/72/0.46
Harrisburg
70/65/0.61
Hartford, CT
73/70/0.17
Helena
93/55/0.00
Honolulu
87/73/0.00
Houston
93/76/0.32
Huntsville
81/66/0.10
Indianapolis
72/53/0.00
Jackson, MS
85/71/0.41
Jacksonville
85/71/0.96
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
97/75/s
97/75/s
75/58/s
84/66/s
72/49/s
78/55/s
96/69/pc 92/69/pc
62/55/r
61/53/r
84/68/pc 82/67/pc
71/61/s
74/65/pc
93/76/pc 94/76/pc
77/56/s
80/60/s
91/62/pc 86/55/pc
85/69/pc 87/71/pc
99/61/pc 89/61/pc
92/65/pc
94/63/s
76/58/s
76/60/s
77/59/s
75/61/s
72/58/pc
83/65/s
73/54/pc
82/61/s
67/45/c
78/52/s
84/70/t
84/68/t
81/63/pc
83/58/s
85/65/s
87/67/s
90/62/pc
78/54/t
80/65/pc
83/71/t
78/58/s
86/69/s
75/59/s
85/68/s
94/66/pc
86/58/t
85/69/s
88/75/t
84/66/pc 84/61/pc
87/70/pc
85/69/t
78/58/s
87/67/s
75/45/s
79/51/s
91/79/pc
94/79/s
94/78/pc
96/78/s
77/59/s
86/69/s
96/66/pc
86/58/t
87/73/pc
85/70/t
72/61/pc
84/69/c
83/65/s
81/59/c
102/77/s 101/78/pc
83/59/s
77/55/pc
94/63/pc 85/59/pc
72/47/t
73/45/pc
71/63/c
79/70/pc
78/66/c
81/67/t
77/58/pc
79/58/s
77/55/s
81/56/s
76/49/s
80/55/s
88/58/pc
83/56/c
88/73/s
87/73/s
92/79/t
94/79/pc
84/63/s
87/68/pc
77/59/pc
85/70/c
90/73/pc 92/74/pc
87/72/t
83/71/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
64/51/pc
91/76/s
58/40/s
108/81/pc
93/80/t
87/65/c
82/72/s
73/60/pc
65/48/pc
94/68/pc
60/55/sh
85/74/s
95/73/s
70/53/r
89/79/sh
61/54/sh
64/55/sh
77/57/t
70/48/pc
84/80/t
82/69/pc
79/67/s
62/44/s
67/63/pc
78/59/s
68/50/s
76/53/pc
90/81/t
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.
63/51/0.07
87/53/0.00
69/42/0.08
105/84/0.00
71/59/0.01
92/54/Tr
81/58/0.00
76/62/0.00
75/61/Tr
72/46/0.00
81/62/0.00
92/83/0.00
75/54/0.00
76/51/0.00
81/63/0.01
87/75/0.26
78/73/0.25
80/73/0.17
88/79/0.49
83/54/0.00
93/58/0.00
92/72/1.59
102/83/0.00
76/49/0.00
76/71/0.30
110/87/0.00
66/56/0.03
82/63/0.12
84/69/1.10
78/76/1.03
88/46/0.00
92/69/0.00
82/76/0.64
64/55/0.00
83/59/0.00
82/56/0.00
100/73/0.00
90/75/0.04
72/67/0.00
76/64/0.00
78/60/0.00
95/60/0.00
77/72/0.57
76/58/0.00
85/47/0.00
92/63/0.00
79/52/0.00
92/78/0.07
98/80/0.00
85/57/0.00
75/71/0.39
85/58/0.00
97/62/0.00
107/79/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
62/53/r
87/74/pc
71/63/pc
94/77/pc
75/58/s
96/74/s
86/71/s
80/63/s
81/63/s
76/66/c
85/70/s
88/78/t
77/68/c
89/74/pc
84/63/s
88/78/t
76/61/s
79/59/s
75/65/pc
91/74/c
95/74/s
89/73/t
101/76/pc
81/65/pc
77/59/s
101/86/pc
74/55/s
74/51/pc
77/53/s
80/58/c
95/62/s
88/61/s
78/55/s
74/54/pc
86/57/s
85/70/s
93/65/pc
92/78/pc
73/64/pc
75/59/pc
75/57/pc
94/62/s
88/72/t
77/59/pc
95/70/s
88/61/s
85/70/s
90/77/t
96/77/s
89/78/pc
77/59/s
94/77/pc
96/62/s
101/76/pc
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W
59/54/r
91/78/t
81/70/c
97/78/s
84/66/s
92/68/t
92/76/pc
75/62/pc
89/71/s
80/69/t
90/75/s
87/80/t
80/71/t
90/68/t
89/71/s
90/77/t
78/63/s
79/63/s
76/68/c
94/75/s
89/68/t
87/74/t
104/74/s
83/70/t
80/62/s
104/84/s
82/61/s
74/54/s
77/58/pc
81/61/pc
78/57/sh
88/61/s
81/60/c
83/61/s
86/58/s
89/77/t
83/65/t
94/77/pc
72/63/pc
72/58/pc
74/55/pc
90/61/pc
85/70/t
80/62/pc
89/66/t
88/66/s
90/76/t
88/76/t
101/75/s
96/80/pc
80/63/s
98/77/c
96/68/s
105/73/s
116/84/0.00
80/59/0.38
64/55/0.04
91/64/0.00
73/55/0.00
90/80/0.00
104/85/0.00
84/70/0.14
61/54/0.34
61/52/0.00
65/59/0.14
72/66/0.02
86/66/0.00
63/37/0.00
63/57/0.18
79/57/0.00
82/65/0.01
89/71/0.00
88/77/0.00
76/63/0.04
62/49/0.00
87/79/1.57
84/71/0.00
79/68/0.02
64/50/0.02
73/61/0.00
86/66/0.00
90/68/0.31
109/79/pc
69/58/t
72/54/pc
93/71/pc
71/54/r
89/78/t
103/85/pc
86/67/pc
70/52/pc
72/52/pc
66/56/pc
74/64/sh
86/68/pc
54/38/c
65/52/pc
74/58/pc
79/65/pc
92/74/s
89/77/t
69/56/pc
67/58/c
82/78/t
83/76/s
75/67/r
75/60/pc
69/57/pc
87/68/pc
84/66/t
108/80/pc
71/56/t
83/61/pc
94/73/pc
72/53/pc
89/79/t
102/85/pc
83/69/pc
69/54/pc
82/61/pc
69/53/pc
77/64/pc
85/67/pc
56/41/pc
77/59/pc
73/58/s
81/65/pc
90/74/pc
87/76/t
72/56/pc
66/53/sh
88/80/t
83/75/s
79/69/pc
83/65/pc
71/61/c
91/65/t
84/65/t
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 116°
at Death Valley, CA
National low: 30°
at Cadillac, MI
Precipitation: 4.22"
at Opelousas, LA
FIRE INDEX
Moderate
Very high
High
High
Moderate
Sunny and warmer
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
67/58/0.00 66/54/pc 68/55/pc
La Grande
85/64/0.00 90/59/s 88/62/s
Portland
83/63/0.00 83/57/pc 86/61/pc
Baker City
85/55/0.00 89/53/pc 90/56/s
La Pine
86/50/0.09 84/50/s 87/51/s
Prineville
86/61/0.00 91/54/s 87/61/s
Brookings
56/49/Tr
63/52/pc 66/53/s
Medford
99/71/0.00 93/62/s 96/64/s
Redmond
92/61/0.02 91/53/s 93/55/s
Roseburg
90/60/0.00 86/56/s 90/59/s
Burns
83/62/0.01 90/53/s 91/56/s
Newport
61/54/0.01 60/51/pc 62/52/s
Eugene
87/56/0.00 85/51/s 88/57/s
North Bend
62/53/Tr
64/53/pc 66/55/s
Salem
88/57/0.00 85/54/s 88/59/s
Klamath Falls
87/64/0.01 86/51/s 88/51/s
Ontario
102/70/0.00 97/65/pc 98/69/s
Sisters
87/58/0.00 87/55/s 91/57/s
Lakeview
83/54/0.16 86/53/s 87/54/s
Pendleton
93/66/0.00 94/63/s 93/65/s
The Dalles
94/73/0.00 93/63/s 94/66/s
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
97°
61°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
98/65
Rufus
Hermiston
87/62
98/66
95/66
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
96/63
84/52 83/57
89/54
Wasco
89/55 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Very warm
Tillamook
87/55
91/63
94/63
Sandy
93/63
McMinnville
66/51
Wednesday with
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
81/55
Maupin
Government
84/51
sunshine and a few
90/59
86/57
Camp
94/62 Condon 89/63
Union
Lincoln City
clouds. Also a brief
87/58
74/53
91/56
Salem
62/53
Spray
shower or two in the
Granite
Warm Springs
85/54
Madras
94/57
Albany
79/54
south.
Newport
Baker City
91/56
93/55
Mitchell
60/51
80/52
89/53
WEST: Mostly sunny
Camp Sherman
88/56
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
Wednesday; a warm
87/55
91/53
76/51
Day
Prineville
60/52
85/53
afternoon. Clear and
Ontario
Sisters
91/54
Paulina
91/56
97/65
comfortable at night.
Florence
Eugene 87/55
Bend Brothers 88/52
Vale
Sunny and warmer
63/52
85/51
86/57
85/51
Sunriver
97/67
Thursday.
Nyssa
83/54
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
98/67
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
84/50
87/51
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
94/56
83/57
88/54
Fort
Rock
65/52
90/53
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
87/51
89/54
High: 102°
84/50
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Ontario
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
63/53
86/56
88/51
86/53
Low: 49°
Marsh
Lake
89/52
Port Orford
82/49
87/51
at Brookings
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
65/54
Pass
89/59
Chiloquin
88/54
96/62
Rome
Medford
84/52
Gold Beach
93/62
90/59
62/53
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
88/57
90/63
86/51
89/53
63/52
86/53
Seaside
65/52
Cannon Beach
64/52
TUESDAY
81°
53°
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
541-683-1577
WATER REPORT
Bend
Redmond/Madras
Sisters
Prineville
La Pine/Gilchrist
MONDAY
OREGON WEATHER
TEMPERATURE
Grasses
High
SATURDAY
92°
57°
91°
57°
Clear and mild
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
FRIDAY
nesses struggling,” she said.
Daily Fix Nutrition sells all
Herbalife products, including
meal replacement shakes.
“We wanted to bring some-
thing healthy and new to the
community,” she said.
Hermiston has a few more
new developments in the
restaurant industry com-
ing up, “new and exciting
changes” promised by Ye
Olde Pizza Shoppe, a reno-
vation of the city’s food truck
pod and a move by Delish
Bistro from a space with out-
door dining only to a new, far
larger location just south of
its current spot.
A smoothie shop called Get
Fit Nutrition will open soon
in the former Yo Country Yo-
gurt building . Owner Laura
Davis said she wanted to open
it not only to provide healthy
options for the community,
but also to provide a “cool
place where people can hang
out, get distracted and forget
about this pandemic that it’s
affecting all of us.”
She doesn’t yet know ex-
actly when she will be able to
open, because she is waiting
on an inspection from the
health department.
That’s a common refrain
from local restaurant owners
who aren’t ready to announce
an opening date yet.
Burt said OMG! Burgers is
hoping to open its Hermis-
ton location in mid-July, but
that will all depend on how
quickly they are able to hire
enough staff, and how quickly
they can get the green light
from Umatilla County Public
Health. Every day they can’t
check off those items is reve-
nue lost, he said.
Health inspections
Umatilla County Public
Health Director Joe Fiumara
acknowledged that waits for
food service plan reviews
have been longer than usual
for the past year.
That hasn’t been because
of more requests from restau-
rants than normal, he said,
but rather that staff have been
far more busy with other
things, including vaccina-
tions and reviewing plans for
events to see if they meet the
criteria for COVID-19 pro-
tocols.
“A lot of that fell to the en-
vironmental health folks,” Fi-
umara said.
While Umatilla County was
in what was first known as
baseline and later changed to
extreme risk — for more days
than any other county in the
state, thanks to its high spread
of COVID-19 — the health
department wasn’t allowed by
the state to do on-site inspec-
tions at all unless responding
to a complaint. That not only
hindered inspections, but also
made it difficult to get a new
environmental health staff
member trained.
“So many restaurants were
forced into new methods of
operation, but at the same
time, we were not allowed to
do inspections,” Fiumara said.
Requests for site plan re-
views for restaurants, bars,
food trucks and other eat-
ing establishments actually
stayed fairly steady year over
year, Fiumara said. In the first
half of 2019, there were 21
requests. In the first half of
2020, there were 20. This year
so far there have been 22.
up June 27. PhRMA has argued
that limiting the price that pur-
chasers can pay for the costliest
drugs would cause manufactur-
ers to delay introducing innova-
tive treatments in Oregon and
would cut into the drug indus-
try’s spending on research and
development.
Democratic chief co-spon-
sors of the proposal said it’s
nonetheless a step in the right
direction, since the bill would
still create the board to make
recommendations by the end
of 2022 to make prescription
drug prices more affordable for
Oregonians. Lawmakers could
then consider passing a bill to
implement the recommenda-
tions in 2023. Rep. Kim Wallan,
a Republican from Medford,
was originally a chief sponsor
of the plan but quietly dropped
her support.
Deb Patterson, a Democrat
from Salem and a chief sponsor
of the bill, told The Oregonian
on Monday, “It’s a comprise that
I wasn’t thrilled about because
I really thought we needed a
solution right away ... This is an
interim step at this point, but I
still think it’s a step absolutely in
the right direction.”
Rep. Rachel Prusak, a Dem-
ocrat from West Linn, wrote in
an email that she heard objec-
tions to the bill from indepen-
dent pharmacists and chains
including Fred Meyer, Safeway
and Rite Aid, plus an associa-
tion that represents hospitals
around the state and Oregon
Health & Science University.
Pharmacists and hospitals told
lawmakers it would be unfair
if they ended up as the only
health system players that have
to follow payment caps on the
highest priced drugs, since in-
surers and middlemen known
as pharmacy benefit managers
had the opportunity to opt out,
Prusak wrote.
Under the new version of
Senate Bill 844, the afford-
ability board will coming up
with a system for setting upper
payment limits on drugs “that
… apply to the entire supply
chain” and recommending
“legislation to achieve lower
costs for all Oregonians,” Pru-
sak wrote.
Oregon has been tracking
drug price increases under
2018 and 2019 laws that re-
quire pharmaceutical compa-
nies to report to the state any
price increases above specific
thresholds. As a result, the state
learned that drug makers in-
creased prices in 2020 on drugs
that had been profitable in
2019 and there was an average
profit margin of 19% in 2019
for drugs with 2020 price in-
creases high enough to trigger
reporting requirements. Six of
those drugs had profit margins
of more than 80%, “meaning
they make 80 cents of pure
profit for every dollar of reve-
nue from the drug,” state regu-
lators wrote.
In testimony in March, lob-
byists for groups that represent
pharmacists warned that phar-
macists and pharmacies would
take a financial hit if the state
were to limit the highest drug
prices.
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Cars
Continued from A11
“The market is very strange
right now,” said Yurchenko.
“Dealers need the inventory,
so they are paying lots of
money for their vehicles on
the wholesale market.”
Yurchenko has found 73
models of 1- to 3-year-old ve-
hicles being sold at auctions
where dealers buy their ve-
hicles for prices above their
original sticker, which is called
the manufacturer’s suggested
retail price.
Used vehicle price increases
accounted for one-third of
the large rise in inflation last
month, according to the La-
bor Department. Prices shot
up a record 10% in April and
another 7.3% in May, as in-
flation spiked 5%, the biggest
12-month increase since 2008.
The average used vehicle cost
$26,457 this month, according
to Edmunds.com.
Many of the models Yurch-
enko found were high-priced
trucks and SUVs or highly
sought-after loaded-out vehi-
cles, including the high-per-
formance Ford F-150 Rap-
tor pickup, the 2019 Jeep
Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon
SUV and the boxy Mercedes
G-Class AMG63 high perfor-
mance SUV.
But the two-wheel-drive Ta-
coma SR is the lowest-priced
model of Toyota’s top-sell-
ing small pickup. To be sure,
higher end versions of the Ta-
Employment
Continued from A11
He points to other indica-
tors that suggest Deschutes
County’s still seeing more
jobs: Demand for labor, mea-
sured by help wanted ads, is at
record-high levels, and unem-
ployment insurance claims in
the county are less than half of
what they were in January.
“To me, that should equate
to job growth, not job losses,”
the economist said.
According to Runberg, the
disputed job losses in De-
schutes County would be
worse than any month during
the Great Recession — and
Mecca
Mexico City
Montreal
Moscow
Nairobi
Nassau
New Delhi
Osaka
Oslo
Ottawa
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
Rome
Santiago
Sao Paulo
Sapporo
Seoul
Shanghai
Singapore
Stockholm
Sydney
Taipei City
Tel Aviv
Tokyo
Toronto
Vancouver
Vienna
Warsaw
coma also were on the list, but
even more mainstream vehi-
cles are selling for more than
their original prices. For in-
stance, the 2020 Kia Telluride
and Hyundai Palisade made
the list even though both are
considered good values com-
pared with more expensive
SUVs with three rows of seats.
Yurchenko says the crazy
prices are moving further
into more ordinary vehicles.
“Before we get through this,
prices for many mainstream
vehicles will get closer to their
manufacturer’s suggested re-
tail price,” he said.
It all started in April and
May of last year, when U.S.
automakers were forced to
close factories for eight weeks
to help stop the novel coro-
navirus from spreading. That
cut production, limiting in-
ventory even as demand re-
mained surprisingly strong.
The factories came back
faster than expected, and in
the meantime, computer chip-
makers had switched to man-
ufacturing semiconductors
for phones, laptops, gaming
systems and other consumer
electronics. That created a
shortage of automotive chips,
which is forcing car compa-
nies to temporarily close fac-
tories, leaving some dealers
with few new vehicles.
The lack of new vehicles
and higher prices have sent
more people into the used ve-
hicle market, so demand is
high there, too.
would mark the only time in
decades the county has posted
job losses in the hospitality in-
dustry during May.
The county’s economic pic-
ture should become clearer
over the next several months,
as state and federal agencies
revise the data using payroll
tax records, Runberg said.
In all three counties, un-
employment rates largely
remained steady between
April and May. Deschutes
County reported a 6.2% un-
employment rate in May,
Crook County a 7.5% unem-
ployment rate and Jefferson
County a 6.9% rate.
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