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Loretta Smith had herself a day on Thursday. The county commissioner learned that she was in violation of state election law, for not properly filing as a candidate for Portland City Council even though she clearly is. The gaffe will cost Smith $250, but also raises questions about whether she's required to resign her position.

Then Smith got into an argument with County Chair Deborah Kafoury at a county commission meeting. After Smith strongly suggested Kafoury's office is beset by institutional racism, Kafoury called her a "bitch." It was a whole thing.

Meanwhile in City Hall, Commissioner Chloe Eudaly is now facing a lawsuit. Mimi German, a local activist who's been a vocal critic of Eudaly, Mayor Ted Wheeler, and pretty much every other city official this year, believes that posts on Eudaly's private Facebook page that criticize German are unconstitutional. So we'll see what happens with that.

If you're curious: This is how Mayor Ted Wheeler feels about his first year in office.

You should check out this Tribune piece that takes a deeper dive into the county's firing of an analyst who'd shared racial disparity data, a situation we first reported on.

Click for the news that Gov. Kate Brown wants to find $5 million more to fight homelessness statewide (roughly half of which would go to Multnomah County). Scroll for the awkward pictures of Brown "washing dishes" (or as the O expertly captions: "sprays water on a few dishes") at a local family shelter.

How the Trump administration is gutting the Environmental Protection Agency: Demoralizing its employees until they quit, then not filling the vacancies.

Good News(?): The federal government isn't going to shut down, after Congress agreed to keep it running until January 19.

Steve's right: You should really check out this exhaustive report by the Guardian, which looked into the many programs around the country that bus homeless people elsewhere.

Heads up: The state legislature is going to take a swing at a carbon cap-and-trade policy when it convenes in February. It could be a very big deal, and this is how things are currently shaping up.

The images in this NYT presentation on the Rohingya humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are searing and terrible.

Weather not looking great this weekend. I'm getting the hell out of here. To Michigan, where at least it won't be icy as shit.

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Last GMN before my holiday break, y'all. Let's get it.