LONG LIVE OREGONIANS! And rest in peace to Cover Oregon. The worst health insurance exchange in all the land was officially scrapped yesterday. We’ll shop for our plans on the federal site, like God-fearing Alabamans (and most of the rest of the country). Here’s a fun development as voters decide whether to put the Portland […]
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Russia has offered a deal—a deal for “peace”!—in the face of shoulder-hunching tension and war drills and military clashes in eastern Ukraine. It goes like this: Boot out the nationalists who’ve camped out in Kiev, dear friends in Ukraine, and we’ll magick away the pro-Russian demonstrators who’ve been taking over your towns along our border. […]
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Cliven Bundy has become a Fox News folk hero thanks to his standoff with the feds over illegal cattle grazing, a real “patriot” lauded by the types of Republican leaders who like to see themselves on TV. He’s also astonishingly racist. At one of his daily news conferences he held forth about “one more thing […]
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Marriage equality foes have launched a last-ditch effort to be heard in court, days before oral arguments that could land a death blow on Oregon’s gay marriage ban. Arguments in two cases challenging the law are scheduled for tomorrow afternoon in Eugene, and will be decidedly one-sided since Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum says she won’t […]
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GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! So, stop the complaints and drop the order restraints. Our sex life’s a game so bat me down in the paint. LET’S GO TO PRESS. More than 30,000 runners join today’s Boston Marathon—on the anniversary of last year’s bombing tragedy. A terrifying 234 girls may be missing, and probably kidnapped by Islamic […]
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One scuttled, disastrously tone deaf plan for a new interstate bridge? That’ll be $200 million. It’s a dispiriting amount of money to have paid for a Columbia River Crossing that will never be built—especially since much of the data generated is probably not useful for future efforts. But here’s one interesting tidbit: According to The […]
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“I didn’t piss in the fucking water.” The skateboarding teenager caught on security footage maybe peeing in the Mount Tabor Reservoir—giving rise to another international point-and-laugh session at Portland’s expense after officials decided to flush 38 million gallons of drinking water—has told the Oregonian‘s former night cops reporter his potty-mouthed side of the story. He […]
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GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! We rollin’ on twenties, with the top back. So much money, you can’t stop that. LET’S GO TO PRESS. Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced his plans to create the country’s largest gun control organization, designed to rival the NRA. In response, gun owners cried, peed their pants, and bought […]
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First and most-pressing: The Blood Moon demands tribute, Oregon. It’s Tax Day. Pay the Arts Tax. A friendly reminder from the Oregonian: When the new light rail bridge’s name (Wy’East? Abigail Scott Duniway?) is revealed on Wednesday, that poster you got your dad last Christmas will be outdated. The plight of the long-shot: The Tribune […]
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GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Sexy, independent, down to spend it type that’s gettin’ his dough. I’m not being too dramatic, that’s the way I gotta have it. LET’S GO TO PRESS. A Missouri hate-spewing anti-Semite is the primary suspect in the murder of three people outside Jewish community centers in Kansas City. The suspect was spotted […]
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Kshama Sawant, the Socialist Seattle City Councilwoman who won in a stunning upset last year, is paying us a visit this month to talk about the issue that led her to victory: a $15 minimum wage. The rally, which doesn’t have an announced location, is in partnership with the campaign of Nick Caleb, a Concordia […]
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It’s a start! Even if it’s a small one… Pope Francis, for the first time, publicly sought forgiveness from the thousands of people molested and abused over several decades by Roman Catholic clergy. Previously, the pope had been thin with his contrition—and it’s still a long way from acknowledging the systemic coverups in the church […]