A12 Th e Bul l eTin • Th ur s day, Jun e 24, 2021
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TODAY
FRIDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
91°
LOW
58°
Mostly sunny and hot
Mainly clear and mild
92°
57°
97°
64°
Hot with brilliant sunshine
Record-tying temperatures
with sunshine
ALMANAC
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
93°
74° 97° in 2020
57°
43° 28° in 1920
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
0.01"
Record
0.53" in 1914
Month to date (normal)
0.46" (0.58")
Year to date (normal)
2.61" (5.60")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
29.92"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Fri.
Sun
5:23am/8:52pm 5:23am/8:52pm
Moon
9:25pm/5:02am 10:24pm/6:04am
Mercury 4:36am/7:13pm 4:33am/7:11pm
Venus
7:14am/10:28pm 7:16am/10:28pm
Mars
8:13am/11:00pm 8:12am/10:57pm
Jupiter 11:54pm/10:29am 11:50pm/10:25am
Saturn 11:04pm/8:47am 11:00pm/8:43am
Uranus
2:32am/4:44pm 2:28am/4:40pm
Full
Last
New
First
Jun 24
Jul 1
Jul 9
Jul 17
Tonight's sky: Full "Strawberry" Moon is at
its lowest altitude of the year at 18 degrees
above the southern horizon.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
5
10
10
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
Grasses
High
Trees
Moderate
Weeds
Absent
Source: Oregon Allergy Associates
SUNDAY
MONDAY
104°
65°
Very hot; dangerous heat
EAST: Sunny, breezy
and very warm
Thursday. Mostly clear
Thursday night. Sunny
and hot Friday.
Astoria
68/56
97°
61°
An afternoon thunderstorm
possible
Record-tying temperatures
with sunshine
Hood
River
NATIONAL WEATHER
As of 7 a.m. yesterday
Reservoir
Acre feet
Capacity
Crane Prairie
47488
86%
Wickiup
43067
22%
Crescent Lake
24874
29%
Ochoco Reservoir
8005
18%
Prineville
70198
47%
River fl ow
Station
Cu.ft./sec.
Deschutes R. below Crane Prairie
113
Deschutes R. below Wickiup
1120
Deschutes R. below Bend
131
Deschutes R. at Benham Falls
1450
Little Deschutes near La Pine
82
Crescent Ck. below Crescent Lake
52
Crooked R. above Prineville Res.
2
Crooked R. below Prineville Res.
255
Crooked R. near Terrebonne
65
Ochoco Ck. below Ochoco Res.
11
-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
Energy
Continued from A11
“The market is driving the
boom,” said Mark Zwieg, Hec-
ate Energy’s development man-
ager in charge of the Bonanza
project and other proposals.
“Our cost of materials is going
down every year.”
A megawatt of solar power
capacity requires about 5 to 10
acres and costs about $780,000
to $910,000 to install at the util-
ity scale, depending on the tech-
nology.
The Bonanza project alone is
projected to increase Oregon’s
solar capacity by 150-300 mega-
watts, depending on the config-
uration of the final design.
Though installation has
grown cheaper, siting remains a
challenging aspect of the solar
development process. Projects
require suitable land that’s close
enough to transmission lines
and substations to make eco-
nomic sense.
“You may start seeing clusters
of solar facilities in one area be-
cause of those attributes,” Zwieg
said.
Resistance from surrounding
landowners is a less tangible but
very real impediment to devel-
oping a solar facility.
Hecate Energy is still con-
ducting its due diligence on the
Bonanza site, which was cho-
sen partly because a natural gas
Restaurants
Continued from A11
In the Tampa, Florida, area,
restaurateur Andrew Koumi
bumped up his menu items by
2% to 4%.
Koumi, founder of a six-lo-
cation chain called Green Mar-
ket Cafe, tries to keep food
and paper costs below 35% of
his menu prices, but lately his
computers keep flagging items
that go above that parameter.
He’s paying twice as much to
buy chicken as he was in Janu-
ary, and other meats and paper
products have gotten more ex-
pensive, too.
Koumi isn’t too worried
about standing out with his
price increases, because “every-
one’s doing it. Some people are
doing it really drastically,” he
facility was approved there by
Oregon’s Energy Facility Siting
Council nearly 20 years ago.
The many objections to the
project — including the loss of
irrigated land, wildlife habitat
and cultural heritage — will be
worked through as the com-
pany discusses the details with
stakeholders, Zwieg said.
“We want to be good neigh-
bors. We want to minimize our
impacts,” he said. “You don’t
want to look at all the projects
the same. Your approach to op-
position needs to evolve with
each project.”
‘Really big problem’
Even so, the controversies re-
peatedly encountered by solar
projects in Oregon have taken a
toll on the industry, experts say.
“Anecdotally, we’re hearing
from developers that it’s a really
big problem,” said Max Greene,
regulatory and policy director
for the Renewable Northwest
nonprofit, which advocates for
solar, wind and geothermal
projects.
Unless Oregon comes up
with a way to make the public
more comfortable with solar
projects, it will be difficult or
even impossible to build new
facilities in the state, he said.
“I don’t think we’re there yet.
We’re at this flashpoint,” he said.
“It’s a sign we need to do some-
thing to get people together and
said. “Could it go up more? It’s
scary. I’m hoping that it levels.”
For now, there’s no sign of
abating.
Chipotle recently raised
menu prices by as much as
4%, after increasing average
pay to $15 an hour and hiring
thousands of workers to keep
up with demand. American
homestyle chain Cracker Bar-
rel Old Country Store Inc.,
which earlier this year raised
menu prices by 2.8%, is bump-
ing up that increase to about
3% amid continued pressure
from wage and commodity ex-
penses, including pork for sau-
sage and bacon.
McDonald’s Corp., which
raised its hourly wage by about
10% in May, hasn’t announced
any jump in prices yet but said
early this year that franchisees
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
97/73/0.00
Akron
77/50/0.00
Albany
70/46/0.00
Albuquerque
97/71/0.00
Anchorage
60/53/0.00
Atlanta
84/62/0.00
Atlantic City
72/54/0.00
Austin
94/73/0.00
Baltimore
78/51/0.00
Billings
94/68/Tr
Birmingham
87/60/0.00
Bismarck
101/61/0.00
Boise
92/60/Tr
Boston
75/59/0.04
Bridgeport, CT 75/54/0.00
Buffalo
73/53/0.00
Burlington, VT
73/48/0.00
Caribou, ME
68/47/0.23
Charleston, SC 84/70/Tr
Charlotte
82/63/0.00
Chattanooga
86/60/0.00
Cheyenne
92/57/0.00
Chicago
79/65/0.02
Cincinnati
76/51/0.00
Cleveland
75/52/0.00
Colorado Springs 94/61/0.00
Columbia, MO
85/63/0.00
Columbia, SC
86/69/0.04
Columbus, GA
86/64/Tr
Columbus, OH
79/50/0.00
Concord, NH
73/50/Tr
Corpus Christi
93/76/0.08
Dallas
95/75/0.00
Dayton
77/56/0.00
Denver
97/64/0.00
Des Moines
87/62/0.05
Detroit
74/51/Tr
Duluth
81/53/0.00
El Paso
102/81/0.00
Fairbanks
84/58/0.00
Fargo
92/59/0.00
Flagstaff
71/54/Tr
Grand Rapids
72/48/0.14
Green Bay
77/49/0.00
Greensboro
78/60/0.00
Harrisburg
78/49/0.00
Hartford, CT
75/50/0.00
Helena
85/68/0.00
Honolulu
87/73/0.00
Houston
94/76/0.35
Huntsville
84/59/0.00
Indianapolis
77/58/0.00
Jackson, MS
90/68/0.00
Jacksonville
87/72/0.18
Today
Hi/Lo/W
98/76/s
84/66/s
78/52/s
89/67/pc
62/53/r
81/66/pc
73/66/pc
94/76/pc
79/58/s
87/57/pc
86/70/pc
88/61/pc
95/64/s
76/60/s
75/61/s
84/66/s
81/60/s
77/51/s
84/68/pc
83/60/s
87/66/s
78/55/t
81/70/t
86/69/s
85/68/s
86/57/t
87/75/t
83/61/s
82/67/t
87/68/s
79/50/s
92/79/s
96/78/s
86/70/s
85/58/t
83/71/t
85/70/pc
80/57/c
101/77/pc
80/54/pc
85/60/pc
71/45/pc
79/68/t
79/67/t
79/57/s
81/54/s
80/56/s
85/55/c
86/72/s
94/79/pc
87/68/s
84/71/c
91/74/pc
82/71/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
67/49/pc
94/76/s
59/48/s
111/83/pc
96/81/pc
75/67/t
83/75/s
68/57/t
65/48/pc
98/69/pc
63/49/sh
84/75/pc
97/74/s
68/53/pc
89/79/t
68/47/c
68/50/sh
70/54/t
71/50/pc
85/80/t
83/70/pc
82/67/s
63/45/s
66/63/pc
86/63/s
69/58/pc
84/58/s
92/81/t
Friday
Hi/Lo/W
97/75/s
84/69/t
77/63/pc
92/68/s
62/53/c
85/68/c
75/70/pc
94/75/pc
82/69/pc
78/57/pc
85/69/c
77/60/t
94/67/s
75/67/pc
74/67/pc
85/67/pc
82/68/pc
76/61/pc
82/73/t
81/67/t
88/68/c
64/51/c
82/68/t
81/70/c
82/68/t
78/55/t
92/75/t
83/69/t
87/70/t
85/70/t
76/60/sh
93/77/pc
95/77/s
81/70/t
75/55/t
82/69/t
78/67/t
77/56/c
101/75/s
75/53/pc
81/61/t
78/44/s
77/65/t
79/62/t
78/66/t
83/66/pc
77/65/c
81/57/pc
88/72/s
93/79/pc
86/69/c
78/69/t
89/72/t
85/71/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.
63/50/0.00
89/68/0.00
74/48/0.12
91/87/Tr
76/47/0.00
93/64/Tr
87/57/0.00
81/63/0.00
81/58/0.00
78/56/0.04
85/62/0.00
92/75/0.78
81/59/0.01
88/58/0.00
84/56/0.00
88/78/1.48
76/55/0.00
80/55/0.00
74/67/0.00
91/67/0.00
93/70/Tr
92/72/0.74
100/86/0.03
83/60/0.32
77/54/0.00
93/83/0.17
76/45/0.00
70/52/0.05
76/57/0.02
79/59/0.00
98/51/0.40
89/61/0.00
77/59/0.00
74/45/0.00
86/58/0.00
87/65/0.00
95/76/0.00
94/78/Tr
74/67/0.01
74/63/0.00
78/61/0.00
95/59/0.00
90/71/0.00
76/55/0.00
95/61/0.00
89/69/0.00
83/59/0.00
88/77/0.17
99/77/0.29
91/68/0.00
78/57/0.00
93/67/0.00
95/64/0.00
102/82/0.00
Today
Hi/Lo/W
59/54/r
91/75/t
82/68/c
97/78/s
84/66/s
91/71/t
93/76/pc
76/61/pc
89/73/s
76/68/t
91/76/s
85/80/t
77/69/t
88/67/c
90/71/s
89/78/t
78/62/s
79/62/s
76/66/c
95/76/s
90/72/t
86/73/t
104/75/s
79/70/t
80/60/s
104/84/s
82/61/s
74/54/s
76/60/s
81/61/s
85/59/t
85/62/s
80/56/s
83/62/s
85/57/s
89/76/t
79/64/t
93/78/pc
73/64/pc
73/59/pc
75/56/pc
89/58/pc
85/68/t
80/62/pc
89/66/c
89/65/s
91/75/pc
88/75/t
99/75/s
96/81/pc
80/61/s
100/77/c
96/66/s
104/74/s
Friday
Hi/Lo/W
61/56/r
92/70/t
79/66/t
100/80/s
80/68/c
86/67/t
92/76/pc
77/63/pc
82/72/c
80/66/t
89/75/c
87/80/t
79/67/t
84/66/t
86/72/c
89/77/t
76/68/c
79/69/c
82/72/t
94/74/c
84/67/t
86/73/t
106/76/s
82/71/t
82/69/c
106/82/s
83/65/s
69/61/sh
77/65/pc
80/68/t
67/54/t
91/65/s
82/69/pc
86/65/c
90/59/s
91/78/t
86/64/t
95/77/pc
72/63/pc
71/59/pc
77/57/s
89/59/s
85/72/t
87/66/pc
80/63/t
93/66/s
92/75/t
88/76/t
102/74/s
96/78/pc
82/70/pc
95/72/t
101/69/s
106/71/s
107/84/0.00
74/60/0.41
72/50/0.00
91/68/0.00
71/54/0.00
89/79/0.04
104/86/0.00
84/68/0.10
72/54/0.00
72/43/Tr
62/55/0.00
73/66/0.26
86/66/0.00
52/43/0.14
64/55/0.00
75/56/0.14
81/63/0.04
91/72/0.00
90/79/0.04
70/54/0.03
71/52/0.00
84/75/0.53
83/73/0.00
76/69/0.05
73/48/0.00
72/57/0.00
83/68/0.00
81/68/0.00
106/81/pc
70/58/t
83/61/pc
94/72/pc
73/53/pc
88/78/t
102/85/pc
82/70/pc
70/52/pc
82/63/pc
68/51/pc
76/65/pc
84/66/pc
56/42/pc
75/59/pc
72/60/sh
81/67/pc
90/74/s
87/76/t
70/56/pc
69/53/sh
89/79/t
84/73/s
79/70/pc
82/67/pc
71/61/pc
92/65/t
86/64/t
106/81/pc
70/55/t
84/68/c
93/71/pc
72/53/pc
88/78/s
102/83/pc
83/70/c
68/50/c
81/66/c
73/58/pc
79/66/pc
83/63/pc
52/36/sh
78/59/pc
75/58/sh
82/67/c
88/75/pc
87/77/t
71/58/pc
65/47/s
90/80/sh
87/74/s
80/71/c
80/66/t
78/64/s
79/63/s
72/59/t
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 109°
at Tucumcari, NM
National low: 26°
at Bodie State Park, CA
Precipitation: 1.58"
at Punta Gorda, FL
FIRE INDEX
Moderate
Very high
High
High
Moderate
Partly sunny and hot
NATIONAL
Yesterday
Today
Friday
Yesterday
Today
Friday
Yesterday
Today
Friday
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
66/54/Tr
68/56/pc 74/59/pc
La Grande
90/63/0.04 88/61/s 93/63/s
Portland
83/58/0.00 85/62/pc 93/69/pc
Baker City
90/51/0.13 89/53/s 94/57/s
La Pine
87/42/0.00 87/49/s 88/57/s
Prineville
90/48/0.00 93/60/s 88/63/s
Brookings
63/50/0.00 63/52/s 66/53/s
Medford
94/59/0.01 96/63/s 98/69/s
Redmond
94/55/Tr
92/55/s 95/59/s
Burns
88/42/0.03 91/56/s 91/55/s
Newport
61/54/0.13 61/53/s 63/54/pc
Roseburg
89/58/0.00 90/60/s 93/63/s
Salem
86/58/0.00 87/60/s 93/66/pc
Eugene
86/55/0.00 89/57/s 92/62/s
North Bend
64/55/0.02 65/56/s 67/56/s
Sisters
88/50/0.00 91/56/s 94/62/s
Klamath Falls
88/44/0.00 88/49/s 90/55/s
Ontario
95/58/0.03 99/68/s 99/68/s
The Dalles
95/67/0.00 93/68/s 104/70/pc
Lakeview
86/41/0.00 85/53/s 88/59/s
Pendleton
94/65/0.00 93/65/s 99/65/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°
63°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Umatilla
97/69
Rufus
Hermiston
89/66
97/69
96/71
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
96/68
86/58 85/62
86/56
Wasco
88/57 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
CENTRAL: Mostly
Tillamook
86/56
92/68
93/65
Sandy
93/68
McMinnville
69/56
sunny and very warm
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
83/61
Maupin
Government
88/59
Thursday. Fair weather
88/61
86/57
Camp
95/65 Condon 88/64
Union
Thursday night. Sunny Lincoln City
86/61
76/55
89/58
Salem
64/55
Spray
and hot Friday.
Granite
Warm Springs
87/60
Madras
93/61
Albany
80/55
Newport
Baker City
93/59
94/59
Mitchell
61/53
85/58
89/53
WEST: Mostly sunny
Camp Sherman
88/56
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
and warm Thursday.
90/56
92/55
81/57
Day
Prineville
87/56
Clear and comfortable 62/54
Ontario
Sisters
93/60
Paulina
89/58
99/68
Thursday night. Sunny Florence
Eugene 91/56
Bend Brothers 88/52
Vale
and turning hot Friday. 65/55
89/57
91/58
86/51
Sunriver
98/70
Nyssa
89/54
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
98/70
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
87/49
87/52
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
96/58
86/57
91/58
Fort
Rock
67/55
91/56
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
89/51
89/56
High: 99°
85/49
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Hermiston
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
65/55
90/60
89/50
88/54
Low: 41°
Marsh
Lake
90/55
Port Orford
86/47
89/49
at Lakeview
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
67/56
Pass
91/61
Chiloquin
87/54
98/64
Rome
Medford
87/51
Gold Beach
96/63
94/59
63/54
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
92/59
92/64
88/49
89/55
63/52
85/53
Seaside
68/55
Cannon Beach
67/55
WEDNESDAY
96°
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
TUESDAY
OREGON WEATHER
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
SATURDAY
figure this out.”
Solar projects are among the
most commonly approved non-
residential uses in farm and for-
est zones, according to the state
Department of Land Conserva-
tion and Development.
At 966 megawatts, solar ca-
pacity in Oregon grew by more
than 30% in 2020 alone, accord-
ing to the Solar Energy Indus-
tries Association. The industry
is expected to expand by 1,646
megawatts during the next five
years. A megawatt is enough
to power about 190 homes for
a year, according to the associ-
ation.
“Solar energy development
is rapidly growing in Oregon,”
said the state Department of
Land Conservation and De-
velopment. “Many utility scale
solar facilities are opting to lo-
cate on land zoned (exclusive
farm use) due to proximity to
high-voltage powerlines and
substations with interconnec-
tion opportunities, lower land
acquisition or lease costs, avail-
ability of unobstructed sunlight,
and ease of development due to
flatter slopes.”
Statewide inventory
The Oregon Farm Bureau
believes a statewide inventory
or map of lands available for so-
lar development could expedite
those projects that are broadly
beneficial, said Samantha
Bayer, the organization’s policy
counsel.
Co-locating new solar facili-
ties with continued agricultural
uses — known as agrivoltaics —
offers one possibility for com-
promise.
Chad Higgins, an associate
professor at Oregon State Uni-
versity, began studying the sub-
ject after noticing some sheep
congregating under solar panels
at a campus installation.
His research has determined
that grass below the panels
grows slower but reaches dor-
mancy later in the season, con-
suming less water while extend-
ing the pasture’s productivity in
summer.
The growth rate of sheep isn’t
reduced if they graze beneath
the panels, which they preferred
to do because of the shade.
Higgins is now comparing
several agrivoltaic arrange-
ments at another site, though he
acknowledges the co-location
strategy may face obstacles and
limitations.
“Any grower who looks at
an array, their first question is:
How do I get a tractor in there?”
he said.
Farmland preservationists
say the idea is worth exploring,
though they’re concerned that
solar panels may permanently
hinder the types of crops and
equipment a property can sup-
port.
could handle labor inflation
“between judicious pricing on
the menu as well as just think-
ing about productivity savings.”
Historically, restaurant oper-
ators tend to raise menu prices
a few times a year. Between
2015 and 2019, that amounted
to increases of about 2.5%, ac-
cording to BTIG analyst Peter
Saleh. This year, the rate may
reach about 4%, Saleh wrote in
a note to investors.
Although food costs will
likely moderate once sup-
ply bottlenecks are resolved,
higher wages and labor short-
ages will persist even after pan-
demic relief has dried out, be-
cause people are yearning for
greater work-life balance and
flexibility in a post-COVID-19
world, Saleh wrote. That will
create “inflation that in our
view is not transitory,” Saleh
said.
Some chains are coming up
with creative solutions to avoid
raising prices.
Wingstop Inc., for one, is
only planning its typical 1% to
2% menu price increase this
year. To save costs, the com-
pany is now buying whole
birds instead of cut-up legs and
breasts, selling less-used thigh
pieces from a new delivery and
takeout brand.
“The big price increases —
the 4% price increases you’re
seeing other chains do, that
won’t be us,” Chief Executive
Officer Charlie Morrison said
in an interview. “Large price
increases that are promoted
and then passed on to the con-
sumer tend to have a negative
reaction.”
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AstraZeneca
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It ordered $1,872,000
in noneconomic damages
for emotional distress and
harm to reputation and
$510,423 for lost wages after
a weeklong trial before U.S.
Magistrate Judge Jolie A.
Russo in the Mark O. Hat-
field United States Court-
house.
“Suzanne alerted Astra-
Zeneca to bad behavior
and, instead of fixing the
problem, the company pun-
ished her,” said Anita Ma-
zumdar Chambers, one of
her lawyers. “Today, a jury
of regular people told Astra-
Zeneca that’s not acceptable
in our society.”
The jury did not find the
company had discriminated
against Ivie based on her
age, as she had alleged. She
was one of the older staff
members at 51. Nor did it
find AstraZeneca liable un-
der the False Claims Act
after Ivie had alleged her
supervisor encouraged the
use of prescription drugs
for unapproved, or off-label,
purposes.
Ivie said she complained
in December 2018 that a
supervisor appeared to be
promoting “off-label mar-
keting” for two prescription
Big Tech
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The legislation, passed 29-
12 and sent to the full U.S.
House, would increase filing
fees for proposed tech merg-
ers worth more than $500
million and cut the fees for
those under that level.
A second bill would give
states greater powers over
companies in determining
the courts in which to pros-
ecute tech antitrust cases.
Many state attorneys general
have pursued antitrust cases
against big tech companies,
and many states joined with
the U.S. Justice Department
and the FTC in their anti-
trust lawsuits against Goo-
gle and Facebook, respec-
tively, last year. The measure
medicines to treat pulmo-
nary disease, Bevespi and
Daliresp.
She said she faced retal-
iation in response. She was
removed from leadership
jobs, wrongly accused of
not completing a certain
number of hours of coach-
ing her sales representatives,
pressured to work weekends
and had her bonus reduced,
she said.
AstraZeneca’s lawyer Me-
linda S. Riechert countered
that Ivie was fired because
she wasn’t doing the work
expected of her as a district
sales manager.
She said the company’s
compliance unit found that
Ivie’s allegations regarding
off-label drug marketing of
the two drugs were “unsub-
stantiated.”
“Ms. Ivie was fired for not
meeting the expectations of
the job,” Riechert said.
After the jury was dis-
missed, Reichert, Astra-
Zeneca’s lawyer, raised to
the judge the company’s
previously unsuccessful ar-
gument that Oregon whis-
tleblower law shouldn’t
apply to Ivie, who is not an
Oregon resident. Ivie’s law-
yers countered that Ivie per-
formed some work in Or-
egon, entitling her to relief
under the law.
drew many Republican
votes and was approved
34-7.
The panel then dug into
a complex measure that
would require online plat-
forms to allow users to
communicate directly with
users on rival services. Pro-
ponents said it also would
give consumers more power
to determine how and with
whom their data is shared.
The advance of the mas-
sive, bipartisan legislation
comes as the tech giants al-
ready are smarting under
federal investigations, epic
antitrust lawsuits, near-con-
stant condemnation from
politicians of both parties,
and a newly installed head
of the powerful FTC who is
a fierce critic of the industry.