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Doug Brown

Good morning, Portland. Here are some links curated specifically for you and and only you.

ICYMI: Ted Wheeler is now “leaning” toward local air regulations. “I took some heat early on for accusing the DEQ of being asleep at the switch,” Wheeler said. “They were nowhere near the switch.”

Two Portland State football players passed away this year. Read “Alex Kuresa, Portland State dedicate football season to deceased teammates Kyle Smith, A.J. Schlatter” in The Oregonian.

The Oregonian: “‘Had I not been a black male’: State lawyer in racial-profiling scandal files complaint“:

A top lawyer in the Oregon Department of Justice has filed a civil rights complaint in the wake of a racial-profiling scandal that erupted when a colleague tracked his social media messages while investigating Black Lives Matter supporters.

I missed this when KPTV ran it the other night and you probably did, too: A Portland tattoo artist is doing some pretty sweet “3D-like” designs. “It’s super rad,” the tattooist said about his new fame.

“We’re gonna lose every fucking station we have“: listen to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham freak out after some technical difficulties.

The New York Times has an interactive piece on Whale sonar. Spoiler alert: it sounds kind of like your grandpa’s farts.

A heck of an acronym. The New York Times has a story on the Bay Area housing crisis: “An activist who calls her group BARF is pushing for more housing, pitting cranky homeowners and the political establishment against newcomers who want the region to make room for them, too.”

In The Guardian: Supreme court considers taking case of man given life in prison for growing pot. “Lee Carroll Brooker, a 76-year-old disabled army veteran, says he was growing the marijuana in his Alabama back yard to alleviate his own health problems”

In The Atlantic: “Why luck matters more than you might think: When people see themselves as self-made, they tend to be less generous and public-spirited.”

Now go out there and approach the day with as much creativity as this high school softball player: