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ICYMI, Mayor Charlie Hales is looking at more general fund cash than he's had as mayor, but he says it's not enough. The mayor laid out a budget Monday that includes raising taxes—$8.7 million a year—on city businesses. It's set up the most controversial budget Hales has proposed in his three-plus years, even as that budget pours millions into homelessness, housing, cops, and other widely agreed upon necessities.

The hazardous gas that the US Environmental Protection Agency recently detected on Hayden Island never showed up at levels that would present serious health concerns, the agency reported Monday. A couple oil re-refineries have been singled out as suspect sources. A boat was also blamed?

Sure, mercury. Sure, PCBs. But did you know those local oysters you so enjoy slurping down are also brimming with pharmaceuticals?

Blazers play a shorthanded Warriors team again tonight. Can they keep this one close, at least?

Stars Cabaret, that criminally gross Beaverton strip club, has been sold to a national chain of strip clubs. That doesn't change the fact management faces continuing fallout for the prostituting of minors from that location.

Donald Trump looks very much like he's going to win in Indiana, and that'll probably do it, folks. Damn.

Meanwhile, prominent Trump devotee Chris Christie orders all New Jersey public schools' water tested for lead. Washington tried that a while back. It didn't go great.

Your airport experience this summer: Terrible. The TSA doesn't have the manpower to get you smoothly through security, the NYT reports. There's talk of hours-long waits. Why not explore lovely Oregon, instead? But avoid the rampant wildfires.

ALSO: You ever heard of this show Hamilton?

Between you and me, I barely trust the Weather Widget anymore. I just let it think I do.

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