Happy All Saints Day, Blogtown! I’m exhausted from a long night of being a Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper, but there is news occurring.
There’s a decent chance you spoke to the man found, apparently murdered, in his NE Portland home Thursday. Jerry Ephrem was a mainstay in the bars and restaurants around downtown, where he tirelessly peddled roses. Cops are hoping you can help find whoever murdered Ephrem and his wife.
The O points out a fairly devastating omen for aspiring governor Dennis Richardson. Nate Silver’s giving him practically no chance to win on Tuesday. (To my home state of Michigan, on the verge of re-electing its terrible Republican governor: cut it out.)
Everyone’s excited for Tuesday, right? Tuesday is going to be interesting. Please vote.
One thing your ballot almost certainly won’t affect: The solid odds that Republicans clutch control of the US Senate. The New York Times says there’s a 70 percent chance that happens.
In case you missed it, a Liberian woman is in a locked area of Providence Milwaukie Hospital, while health officials work to figure out if she has Ebola. That’s no reason to panic. Please don’t panic.
And hey! The New York City doctor who infamously bowled a few frames while carrying around the virus is improving. And there’s not a mass terrifying outbreak in one of the country’s densest population centers. So that’s good.
Cops are pretty sure whatever asshole ran down two trick-or-treaters and their adult minders in Vancouver last night was drunk. Or high. Ugh. And the same thing happened in California.
Oh, by the way, it’s time for the most soul-withering event of the year: Setting your clocks back an hour. Nighttime comes at 3 pm from here on out! Why haven’t we killed this practice yet?
Vladimir Putin’s pals are suddenly controlling what Russian schoolchildren are taught. And they’re making a fortune in the process.
A test pilot is dead after one of Richard Branson’s experimental space shuttles exploded in the American southwest yesterday. Now everyone’s wondering: Is commercial space travel such a great idea?
What’s ISIS up to? Oh, just lining up dozens of men and women and murdering them, according to the Iraqi government.
Forecast: Dark in an hour, and senseless clock tampering.
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