Periods of rain. High around 60F. Winds light and variable. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch..
Tonight
A steady rain this evening. Showers continuing overnight. Low 53F. N winds shifting to WSW at 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 100%. Rainfall near a quarter of an inch.
FREE NEWS: At a recent public meeting about the financial health of OPERF, the $100 billion Oregon Public Employees Retirement System Fund, an activist criticized the Oregon State Treasury for losing money when it recently sold $4.5 billion in private equity holdings from the fund.
The Columbia Gateway Urban Renewal Agency board was conflicted Wednesday about how to deal with a request by the owners of Sunshine Mill to have a balloon payment of $350,000 forgiven 12 days before its due date.
The state said it didn’t have enough resources to investigate a claim by an electrician that large cash reserves from building codes fees were improperly used as internal loans by the entity that manages building codes services. The March 2 letter from the state’s building codes division to that managing entity, the Mid-Columbia Council of Governments, said, “The division does not have adequate staff resources to evaluate these loans or further this investigation.”
