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The upper echelons of the Portland Police Bureau look almost completely different today than they did yesterday. First, the city got a new police chief. Mike Marshman, formerly a captain, leapfrogged a host of commanders and assistant chiefs to take on the bureau's top role at the behest of Mayor Charlie Hales. Former-chief Larry O'Dea, beset by a scandal that began when he mistakenly shot a friend, will retire.

It was big news in and of itself—then Marshman tipped the first tile in a virtual Domino Rally of changes. All of the bureau's four assistant chiefs are either demoted to captain or retiring, and there are reassignments all over the place. It's a tectonic shift.

For more about the new chief, here's the O's longer piece on his appointment and enforcement philosophy

Don't feel bad, Portland air, it's not just you. Bullseye Glass has apparently also been dumping trash into the city's sewers. The controversial Portland art-glass factory faces a $300 fine for putting large shards of glass into the sewer system.

"Over five years ago when I was 54, I made a mistake in judgment. I am 60 now and I paid a heavy price for that mistake..." A Gresham sex offender really wants his right to own guns restored.

The latest effort to get Portlanders to consider instituting district-based elections for City Council (as opposed to citywide) has failed. Now one of its primary proponents is moving to Camas.

So a new temporary homeless shelter may go in at the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office building at NE 122nd and Glisan. IF, that is, the sheriff's office employees can move to a Portland Police Bureau site on East Burnside.

The Supreme Court's enormous backhanded slap against laws that aim to kill and limit abortion clinics on Monday will likely have wider reverberations in the fight for reproductive rights, the NYT reports. Plenty of stupid laws out there that the decision might well affect.

Oh! And the court just overturned the corruption conviction of a former Virginia governor, because prosecutors couldn't prove the gifts he accepted influenced his policy decisions. That might be a boon for former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber.

Sheiße!! Volkswagen reportedly might pay out an incredible $14.7 billion for that scheme where it trained its "clean diesel" vehicles to only have "clean diesel" when they were being inspected for their "clean diesel." And that's just in the US.

Buzzfeed visited the British town that voted most overwhelmingly for the Brexit to talk to people. They hate how their city's gotten flooded with outsiders. You can relate.

Summer's here, and it's not even July 5 yet.

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