Good morning, Portland. Let's hit these links.

First up is this week's feature, out in print as of yesterday (pick up a copy, too), by music writer Mo Troper about the Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival: "For many country fans, the BMWCMF is paradise. As I make my way through security at the main gate, I’m force-fed an olfactory lasagna of halitosis, body odor, and Bud Light. Food trucks, stands selling cowboy paraphernalia, and a variety of other pop-up booths (my favorite being the Grizzly snuff peddler) encircle the massive main stage. The smaller Sunrise Stage is in another area entirely, separated by a connecting gate, like a small, barren planet orbiting a red-hot sun of American hedonism."

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Doug Brown

Writer Amanda Waldroupe on Donald Trump's DACA decision and the related Lantinx activism in Portland.

Elevators at the the county jail were down for a couple weeks, so attorneys and psychologists had a very hard time visiting people locked up, we learned:

“It was the perfect storm,” says Multnomah County Facilities Manager Mark Gustafson, who oversees maintenance of the Justice Center. “We had three floods in the matter of two weeks—floods that were totally unassociated with each other. I look like the bad guy here as the facility manager, which I’ve been for 29 years. It really has been bad luck.”

"The Portland Water Bureau announced this afternoon that it detected crypto—a parasitic microorganism that in some forms can lead to serious health problems in humans—in a water sample taken from the Bull Run watershed on September 24," we reported yesterday. "The crypto detections also put Portland out of compliance with a deal they'd struck with federal regulators in 2012 that allowed the city not to treat for the parasite. And that, in turn, led Portland officials to green light a massive filtration plant that will cost as much as $500 million, under current estimates."

The Multnomah County Republican Party is holding a raffle for a large rifle to raise money. They don't have much in the bank.

Via the Oregonian, Shenanigans in Douglas County: "Struggling Oregon county spent safety net money on pro-timber video, animal trapping."

"Portland hotel magnate and Republican donor Gordon Sondland is being vetted for a State Department security clearance, according to two of the businessman's neighbors. That kind of vetting suggests Sondland is being considered for an ambassadorship," the O reports. Sondland is the founder and CEO of Provenance Hotels—owner of the Westin Portland, Hotel Lucia, Hotel deLuxe, and others—donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration committee via his company.

The guy who duped a your gullible conservative Facebook friends with made up bullshit news stories is dead at 38 from an apparent drug overdose.

Speaking of assholes,


Well, this is fucking terrifying.


Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is dead. He was 91.