People have been getting on my case when I point out how dramatic the weather’s been this month. I’m going to keep on speaking my truth, though. Yesterday, not only was wind pushing trees onto houses, slicing power lines, and bullying big rigs off of Marine Drive, but rain was ensuring this is Portland’s wettest December on record, with 10 days left to go. Let’s keep this hot streak going!
Oh wait, we’re gonna:
As we noted yesterday, the woman who plowed a car into a Las Vegas sidewalk filled with pedestrians this weekend lived in Portland until recently. The reason for the tragedy remains unclear. Cops say 24-year-old Lakeisha Holloway wasn’t under the influence. Her family thinks she was just super tired.
A man cops say is one of the city’s most-prolific bike thieves was caught recently when a TV network set up a sting bike in Portland. He might be going away for a year and a half.
How do the two most prominent mayoral contenders, Ted Wheeler and Jules Bailey, think the city should fund its lagging road maintenance? The O asked them.
The Trib revisits the $20 million the Portland Housing Bureau pledged to North and Northeast Portland after that Trader Joe’s ugliness a while back. The paper spoke with one resident who’s planning to fix up his home with city grant funds.
A New Jersey boy scout leader led his troop to a cave he knew well on Sunday. Too bad he wasn’t so well acquainted with the bear that was living there, and dragged him into its lair.
While all you fraidy-cat liberals are preaching increased restrictions on gun ownership, the good-idea folks down in Missouri went ahead an nixed most of their restrictions way back in 2007. And Missouri’s homicide rate? It’s up.
Meanwhile, Virginia’s decided not to recognize other states’ concealed carry licenses.
Elon Musk and his Space X coterie finally did it. Months after one of their rockets disintegrated, SpaceX sent another into space, and successfully coaxed its engines back to a safe landing. Probably a big deal.
You’re not the only one upset with Donald Trump for being a racist. So’s his former pal Russell Simmons. Not Don King, though.
No criminal charges in the death of Sandra Bland, the young black women who authorities say took her own life in a rural Texas jail, and who quite clearly should never have been arrested to begin with.
Posting. In case no one has this year yet.
Your link for Russell Simmons goes to the space x link.
Not any longer. Thanks.