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Monday • June 28, 2021
Northwest heat wave builds, records fall
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Raegan Sack, 4, cools off at Max Patterson Park in Gladstone, in Clacka-
mas County, on Sunday.
ntense. Prolonged. Record-
breaking. Unprecedented.
Abnormal. Dangerous.
That’s how the National
Weather Service described the
historic heat wave hitting the
Pacific Northwest, pushing day-
time temperatures into the tri-
ple digits, disrupting Olympic
qualifying events and breaking
all-time high temperature re-
cords in places unaccustomed
to such extreme heat.
Portland reached 112 de-
grees Fahrenheit on Sunday,
breaking the all-time tempera-
ture record of 108 F, which was
set just a day earlier.
In Eugene, the U.S. track and
field trials were halted Sunday
afternoon and fans were asked
to evacuate the stadium due to
extreme heat. The weather ser-
vice said it hit 110 in Eugene,
breaking the all-time record of
108. Salem also recorded the
highest temperature in its his-
tory Sunday: 112, breaking the
old mark by 4 degrees.
According to AccuWeather,
whose numbers may differ
from the National Weather
Service, Bend reached a high of
105 on Sunday. AccuWeather
provides The Bulletin’s daily
weather map, which forecasts a
high of 107 on Monday.
Farther north, the tempera-
ture hit 103 at Seattle-Tacoma
International Airport, accord-
ing to the National Weather
Service.
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Charlie Riedel/AP
a sign displays the temperature at the time in Eugene, where olympic
track and field trials were delayed Sunday due to high heat. Story on a5.
PRIDE IN PRINEVILLE
Ryan Brennecke/The Bulletin
a crowd gathers to watch as Jasmine Powers, of Bend, lip-syncs to a song while performing a drag show during the Prineville Pride Festival on Sunday. Hundreds of participants filled Pioneer
Park in downtown Prineville throughout the afternoon to celebrate Pride Month and show their support for the LGBTQ community.
2021 OREGON LEGISLATURE
Session concludes in a crush of bills — and undone work
Oregon lawmakers put a bow on an unprec-
edented five-month legislative session Saturday,
passing major bills on clean energy, wildfire pre-
vention and police reform before adjourning
their chambers for a final time.
After breaking early Friday to some legislators’
dismay, the Legislature spent Saturday hustling
more than 50 bills in quick succession. In a ses-
sion that had sometimes been marked by rancor,
lawmakers closed out in collegial and lighthearted
fashion — some of them notably dressed down
for the affair in shorts and novelty T-shirts.
Carrying on a Capitol tradition, legislators
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Dangerous heat
High 107, Low 70
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in the House and Senate opened their cham-
ber doors shortly after 5:30 p.m., waving at each
other across a Capitol rotunda that has remained
eerily empty for more than a year as a final res-
olution adjourning the session “sine die” passed
in the House.
The flurry of bills passed Friday and Saturday,
characteristic of late-session chaos, capped five
months that were remarkable not only for the
policies enacted, but the manner in which they
were passed.
A session that House Speaker Tina Kotek said
early on would be “about crisis response and
helping people” certainly retained some of that
character, with lawmakers extending policies to
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protect renters from eviction and homeowners
from foreclosure, while pouring money into re-
lief for victims of 2020′s historic wildfires.
But legislators did far more, too. A package of
police reforms that passed with bipartisan sup-
port did not go as far as some advocates would
have liked, but still included serious changes to
the way law enforcement officers can respond to
protests and how they face discipline.
Meanwhile, Democrats needed the buffer
granted by their supermajorities to pass sweep-
ing environmental bills that set some of the na-
tion’s most ambitious goals for cleaning up the
power grid and ensuring producers have a stake
in whether their products are recycled.
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And lawmakers passed a record state budget,
marshalling shockingly strong revenue projec-
tions and billions in federal aid to outline a $29.4
billion spending plan that sent money to every
corner of the state, increased school spending
and made historic investments into housing and
mental health.
All that, by the way, occurred in an unprece-
dented virtual session where partisan tensions
and high-profile incidents of lawmaker mis-
conduct threatened to distract from policy and
budget work — and led to Oregon’s first-ever
expulsion of a lawmaker, former state Rep. Mike
Nearman.
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