As you slaver indecorously in preparation for Burger Week, feast on this rotten news: Little Big Burger and Hooters are about to owned by the same folks.
This Clean Power Plan from the president—mandating a 32 percent decrease in carbon emissions from 2005 levels by 2030—is the strongest-such proposal the US has seen (though there are plenty of people who’ll argue it’s feckless). And the plan’s already got a very well-prepared army of naysayers willing to waste oodles of time fighting the thing in court. Their basic argument: It’s more important to avoid more expensive energy bills than climate catastrophe.
Meanwhile, Oregon’s sitting prettyunder Obama’s proposal, but that’s partly because we’re sort of cheating. The state has only one coal plant, which is slated to close, but we burn plenty of coal-based electricity from other states, and we’re building more natural gas plants.
The bad kind of Wall Street Journal attention. The paper writes that the Port of Portland’s collapse of shipping business is emblematic of what smaller ports face these days.
There’s still no telling if Portland will succeed in buying that US Postal Service complex in the Pearl District it’s been lusting after (and burning money on) for years. But if we do? Here are some colorful drawings of what the city might want to put there.
Death, taxes, and Newberg, Ore., drama, amirite? There are whisperings that City Manager Jaque Betz put the police chief on leave because he was looking into an “inappropriate relationship” between her and a police officer. (I’ll leave this here.)
Off to a predictably stupid start: The 2016 Republican Presidential Contest, which kicked off with an awkward candidates’ forum (NOT a debate) in New Hampshire. (Though there are “some doozies” being planned by the Fox News moderator of Thursday’s debate.)
That stage was short several candidates, who stayed back in Washington to try, and failed, to defund Planned Parenthood over the fetal tissue blowup you’re going to be hearing about forever.
Pretty sure Scott Walker doesn’t realize what the front of this sign says: pic.twitter.com/dmeftDAWBz
— Jenna Johnson (@wpjenna) August 3, 2015
A simple and elegant way to punk a terrible candidate: Write fawning praise for said candidate on one side of a poster board. When he/she agrees to pose for a picture, flip it over to reveal your actual feelings, as a pair of 20-somethings did to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Let’s make this the trend of the 2016 Election—for both sides.
Circus-style tents have been collapsing from strong winds around the country this week, injuring and killing people.
I will gladly tolerate this, weather.
Man. Bowling.