ICYMI, a new lawsuit against the city makes the same claims activists have for years: That the city's new underground water reservoirs are going to lead to radon in Portland's drinking water. This should be interesting.
Does ZOOM Care's convenience come at an unfair cost? People are protesting the fact that the ubiquitous Portland clinics don't accept Medicare and Medicaid. The company says they were never designed to.
Today in NIMBY: Man hates that there's a bike share station outside of his house! Because orange! And parking!
Remember the hullabaloo when cops arrested some members of the Gypsy Jokers Motorcycle Club for murdering one of their former members? The grim details of that murder have begun to emerge. They involve nails through feet.
In Southwest Michigan, a jail inmate somehow wrested a gun from a guard, killing two bailiffs and wounding two other people before being killed.
Bundy Bros Reunited! A federal judge says they can stay in the same jail and talk strategy, as they complain their rights to build a defense are being infringed upon.
How long until every newsroom has a reporter formally assigned to the Pokémon Go beat? Items of note lately in Oregon:
•A man in Eugene was playing the game when he witnessed a Chinese restaurant get vandalized. He called cops and they nabbed the jerk.
•Guy in Forest Grove is playing Pokémon Go, gets stabbed, doesn't care, and resumes playing Pokémon Go.
Read about how Tualatin's former police chief got to up his salary more than $100k by retiring, then continuing to come to work every day. Double dipping is the best.
Did you know that Donald Trump graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School? You wouldn't if backers of the Wharton School had any say in it. They want Trump to leave their institution out of his awful sales pitch.
Meanwhile, you may have heard Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pretty much hates Trump, and hasn't been shy about saying as much. That could have serious implications if the court is called to rule on the upcoming election, or—God forbid—the policies of a Trump administration.
China's bullying/clandestine island building in the South China Sea are officially illegal, an international tribunal ruled today. China doesn't give a damn. Check out this excellent interactive piece in the NYT for background on why it matters.
Poor Cleveland. It invited the Republican National Convention to town, now it's going to be grappling with seas of gun nuts—and a permissive open-carry law—just as post-Dallas paranoia is at its peak.
Actual summer returns tomorrow.
