Milwaukie City Council on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution to increase the minimum wage to $15 for all city workers, which is great, except no one actually gets a raise as a result. Don’t get me wrong, symbolically it’s great. The city approved increases for all workers—including part-time, contract, a seasonal ones. The only thing […]
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Good Morning, News!: An Airbnb Gaffe, 28 Lightsabers, and a Litigious Camerawoman
One more day ’til Friday, Blogtown! Let’s have some news! Dear Airbnb: You done screwed up with these tone-deaf and offensive ads. Love, The Whole World. Former first lady Cylvia Hayes’ closely guarded emails were apparently a big pfffffft. The Oregonian fought for months, and Hayes’ lawyer fought back, to get their hands on what […]
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Portland’s Finally Deciding on Whether to Clamp Down on Oil Train Transport
And Guess What! Environmentalists and Businesses Have Very Different Thoughts on That
And guess what! Environmentalists and businesses have very different thoughts on that.
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The City is Finally Suing a Short Term Rental Company, and It’s Not Airbnb. Update: But, Wait! Airbnb Has Been Warned to the Tune of Nearly $1 Million
The city is finally making good on its threat to sue short-term vacation rental companies that don’t follow the rules. The Portland Revenue Division on Tuesday filed a $2.5 million lawsuit naming HomeAway.com and VRBO.com as defendants and demanding the companies immediately stop listing short term rentals in the city. The lawsuit alleges the companies […]
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Good Morning, News!: A Pot Stigma, a Mud Wall, and a Cheating Employee
Clouds and rain The US announced it’s curbed two drilling operations in the Arctic. Yay for polar bears! Portland police arrested a man in a 28-year-old murder case. Chris Mintz released a lengthy statement about his horrifying experience at the UCC massacre. Weed advocates say there’s still a stigma in Oregon, even though it’s legal. […]
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Better Late Than Never: Former PSU Student Returns Library Book 40 Years After “Borrowing” It
“I’ll let you decide their fate now.” A former Portland State University student with a guilty conscience returned two books to the school library earlier this month… 40 years late. The books were rubber banded together and accompanied by a slightly creepy note saying the borrower got them in 1963 for a high school speech […]
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Good Morning News!: A Bizarro Love Triangle, Some Stuff About Housing, and an Exploding, Ammo-Filled Van
London Zoo The foxy llama-keeper in question. All hail Thursday! Let’s have some NEWS! We’ll start strong this morning with this doozy: “A meerkat-keeper has been ordered to pay £800 in compensation after glassing a love-rival monkey handler in a row over a llama-keeper at a Christmas party,” according to The Guardian. These are special […]
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A Papier Mache Governor Kate Brown Today Delivered a Letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commision
Trip Jennings Governor Kate Brown and her supporters Activists with Portland Rising Tide on Wednesday demonstrated in Pioneer Square and in the Federal Energy Regulation Commission (FERC) offices inside the Fox Tower, calling on Governor Kate Brown to publicly oppose all planned natural gas projects planned in North Bend and Warrenton They did it in […]
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The Hidden Costs of Moving Unexpectedly
Local Math Instructor Crunched the Numbers and Found Moving Is More Expensive Than Many Realize
A local math instructor found that moving is more expensive than many realize.
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An Anti-Gay Marriage Judge from Washington County is Retiring
Oregon State Bar Association Happy retirement, Judge! Washington County Circuit Court Judge Thomas W. Kohl—the second Oregon judge to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples based on his religious beliefs—is retiring. A news release from Governor Kate Brown announced Kohl’s retirement and thanked him for his service. The LGBTQ community, on the […]
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New Affordable Housing is Coming to the Pearl District
Jason Sturgill The Portland Housing Bureau announced Wednesday it’s selected a local nonprofit developer to build an affordable housing development on city-owned property in the Pearl District, according to a news release. Innovative Housing Inc. will build at least 30 family-size units—which means two or more bedrooms—to be priced as affordable to households earning 30 […]
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Dozens Turned Out to Welcome Students and Staff Back to UCC
On Monday morning students at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg returned to classes for the first time since the Oct. 1 massacre that left nine students and faculty members dead and nine others injured. There’s been a lot of attention paid to Roseburg in the last week-and-a-half. Some of it directly about the horrible tragedy […]