Well, that didn't go great. The first day of the Democratic National Convention somehow managed to be even more rancorous than its Republican counterpart, with a massive march from Bernie Sanders supporters eclipsing anything last week in Cleveland, and Sanders himself getting booed at one point by his own people. Here's a quote that seemed typical of the sentiment: “I’m gonna boo, and I’m gonna do it for the next four days."

Sanders' campaign frantically tried to rein his supporters in, and it seemed to work to a degree. When the senator and other prominent speakers took the lectern Monday night (Sanders delivering a familiar speech), the dissent had quieted. Also people were quite excited about Michelle Obama's speech.


Into the maelstrom stepped Oregon Speaker of the House Tina Kotek with a short address. Kotek says Hillary Clinton has her back—and all of our backs. Senator Jeff Merkley also spoke, seeming to thread the needle with enough Bernie bullishness to hold off jeers when he endorsed Clinton.

Oh, uh, and be thankful the election wasn't held yesterday. FiveThirtyEight says Trump would win if it were. Michael Moore says it'll happen anyway, but he's mostly trying to stir people to action.

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Some interesting if unsurprising news: Bullseye Glass has maintained that the benign form of chromium it puts into its product does not turn into a lethal form while being melted. A new state report says that's not the case at all, which isn't good.

BETTER NEWS: Burger Week approaches!! You seen this year's offerings yet?

Bound to happen: A guy who (allegedly) faked his own kidnapping to extort money from his own mother had his plans dashed when he fell out of a car on I-205?

So apparently one of the contractors that Portland Public Schools has tapped to test its water for lead has been straying from US Environmental Protection Agency recommendations? The Salem Statesman Journal has the story.

Also: While it struggles with the fallout of a lead-in-the-water crisis, the PPS Board of Education decided yesterday to put off a $750 million bond measure it had planned to ask voters to approve in November. That's now slated for next year.

That was quick: The top banana at the Oregonian (technically "Oregonian Media Group") is moving on after a little more than a year. No telling what it portends, if anything, but Steve Moss is headed to another job with the paper's parent company.

Another thing you now have to answer for to your non-Portland friends/associates: An opera cart.

Awful news from Japan, where a 26-year-old man stabbed dozens of people at a facility for the disabled where he'd apparently worked. Nineteen people are dead. It's Japan's worst mass attack in decades.

RIP Tom Peterson, the Portland salesman who affably spoke in the third person while slanging televisions/furniture/hot deals.

Your weather? Not looking too terrible.

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