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Good morning, Portland! Select which acts you'll be viewing at Pickathon (or from your couch) this weekend, and settle in.
Here are the headlines.
The Reformer: Candace Avalos, a Portland State University student advisor, is the latest person to announce her candidacy for Portland City Council in 2020. Mercury news editor Alex Zielinski caught up with Avalos to talk about her platform, which includes changing Portland's outdated form of city government.
Changes: Multnomah County's biannual count of homeless people was released yesterday. Those numbers have their limitations, but we can still glean some info from them—for example, Native Americans remain the most overrepresented demographic in the county's homeless population.
Rumors Fly Ball: The Portland Diamond project is reportedly in talks with the owners of Lloyd Center to build a major league baseball stadium on the site. For those keeping score at home: No, we do not have a major league team yet.
Commute News: Do you take the MAX on a regular basis? If so, you'll want to get up to speed on TriMet's planned two-week track improvement project, which starts Sunday. See how it might affect your commute here.
Which Democratic presidential candidate has attracted the largest number of individual donors? We analyzed each candidate's fund-raising to see how widespread their support was across the U.S. https://t.co/vcJNpTxqU6
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 2, 2019
In This Economy: The latest US economic news confirms what we pretty much already knew: We're not technically in a recession, or even heading toward one, but low unemployment numbers don't make up for poor hours and shitty wages.
Who can use Lake Oswego’s Oswego Lake?
— OPB (@OPB) August 2, 2019
The Oregon Supreme Court doesn't know. Or at least it didn't decide. @meerahpowell has the details on their decision to kick it back to a county circuit court. https://t.co/LOmZ0oR0Qv
Here He Is, Portland's Funniest Person: Our own Suzette Smith was one of the judges of Helium's annual Portland's Funniest Person contest, and the victor was Adam Pasi. My personal favorite joke from his winning set: "I think soapy cilantro mouth is an MSG headache for millennials."
It's summer, Portlanders! Go drink some $5 hard slushies, then laugh so hard your insides get slushy at the I, Anonymous Show!
