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CJ McCollum raising his hand up
Bye CJ—you'll be missed! Matthew Stockman / Getty Images

Good afternoon, Portland! It's been a busy day. Let's get you caught up.

IN LOCAL NEWS:

• The terms of the city's tentative new four-year contract with the Portland Police Association has been released. The contract does not include a body camera policy, but does include crisis intervention training and allows for the expansion of the Portland Street Response program. City council and a majority of PPA members still have to approve the deal.

• The Portland Trail Blazers have traded star shooting guard CJ McCollum to the New Orleans Pelicans as part of a midseason makeover of the team's roster that has seen five players depart. The trade marks the end of the backcourt partnership between McCollum and Damian Lillard, and, likely, the Blazers' ability to compete in the near future.

• The Oregon Justice Resource Center is suing the city Brookings on behalf of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon after the city passed an ordinance that limits the number of days per week local churches can offer free meals. John Ross Ferrara has more on the story.

• The Oregon Health Authority is expected to release new draft rules for the state's psilocybin system that would only allow the use of a single mushroom species and ban chemically synthesized psilocybin. The new system is scheduled to go into effect next January.

• There have been murmurs for years about how much (or little) time conservative Democratic U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader spends in his Oregon district. New reporting reveals he spends... not very much time there at all.

IN NATIONAL NEWS:

• Starbucks has fired a group of workers at a unionizing store in Memphis over what it claims are "significant violations" of company policy. Those workers just so happen to be organizing the union push. Go figure.

• The freezing of Afghanistan's central bank reserves has sunken the country into a humanitarian crisis that has left millions in danger of starvation. Aid agencies are calling on countries like the US to release Afghan assets.

• Hundreds of students in the Twin Cities walked out of class this morning and marched to the governor's mansion in St. Paul to protest the killing of Amir Locke by Minneapolis police last week. The state has not yet charged anyone with Locke's death.

• In another sign that things are going very normally and well, the anti-vaccination trucker convey in Canada has now blocked the bridge that connects Windsor, Ontario, with Detroit. The truckers have also gridlocked the Canadian capital of Ottawa.

• In case you missed it this morning: the 2022 Oscar nominations are out, with the Power of the Dog leading the way with 12 nominations. I, however, will be unabashedly rooting for Kenneth Branagh's Belfast, which I've already seen twice.

• It’s back for 2022! America’s sexiest, funnest dirty movie fest, HUMP! Coming at ya starting February 24 at Revolution Hall—GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

• Finally... an important culinary musing.