It’s Saturday all day, Blogtown. Let’s have some news!
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales spent the last few days in a West Coast mayors summit discussing, among other things, the homelessness crisis. On Thursday the group announced they’ll work together as a West Coast Mayors Alliance to fund research into why people become homeless. *scratches head*
We hear a lot about Utah “ending” chronic homelessness, and people wondering why we can’t do the same in Oregon. There have been many articles attempting to explain why, but here’s another one.
Ol’ Blue Eyes Frank Sinatra has his 100th birthday today. A Portland “math geek” has found what he says is an interesting connection between the crooner and the number 12.
Happy birthday, Frank!
Reese’s has been getting a lot of flack from people who don’t think their tree-shaped holiday candy is tree-shaped enough. The company issued a response that’s pretty clever.
Delegates from nearly 200 countries have been in talks in France on how to save the planet from catastrophic climate change. Apparently they have come up with a plan.
Not everyone is happy about it, though. James Hansen, a former NASA scientist who’s been outspoken on the need for drastic measures to reduce carbon emissions, calls the whole thing “a fraud.”
This isn’t really shocking news, but it’s going to keep on raining. All. Week. Long. And probably until July:
Martin Shkreli, price gouger of Aids drugs and purchaser of Wu-Tang albums, is again showing how he’s the world’s worst person. This time, he’s announced plans to jack up the price of a drug treating Chagas disease, which often affects poor people.
Know what’s fun on a Saturday? Watching a bunch of politicians come to fisticuffs.
I can’t decide what I like best about this video: the actual stunt, the colors of the houses and the water, or the sun that it feels like we haven’t seen in forever. Either way, it’s worth a watch if you missed it the other day: