Remember earlier this month, when we reported on all the city employees who make very little money, even as the city council advocates a higher minimum wage? Well, Mayor Charlie Hales is now saying we should pay a smallish portion of them $15 an hour, an announcement he made in yesterday’s State of the City address. Nothing discernibly changes for the rest.
Governor John Kitzhaber, that accessible populist, showed up in Portland yesterday to take all your questions about his fiancee’s relationships with influence-seeking organizations. Summary: He’s done nothing wrong, and she’s done nothing wrong… but, uh, she’s kicked out of the administration and he can’t really comment on her tax filings.
The O profiles Kaleb Whitby the luckiest man in the Pacific Northwest. You probably remember the photo taken of him, unscathed, in a Chevrolet sarcophagus fashioned by semi trucks earlier this month. If I’m Whitby, I’m spending out the rest of my days as a paid spokesman for Chevy Silverado. He could be the Jared of grisly highway death, avoided.
Dave Dahl, he of the killer bread, won’t be imprisoned or institutionalized after a nasty run-in with cops in 2013.
Here’s the latest installment in the Oregonian‘s ongoing series on homelessness.
You know insufferable politicians will be dogging your every step any day now, and all the way to November 2016. But which ones?
Not Mitt Romney, as we learned earlier this week, in an n that sent other Republicans scrambling to win over his big-money backers.
The United States declared the measles dead a decade and a half ago. Now it’s roaring back. Thanks, vaccine skeptics!
Sure, you could head to the pharmacy to treat that oncoming cold. A more stylish alternative? Go to Manhattan, and try to buy cocaine from a stranger.
“It is a killing method used by terrorists and gangsters.” Oh, and the United States and Israel, who car bombed a Hezbollah leader, mafioso-style, some years back.
Today’s sunset? 5:15 pm. Your grandparents are going to be eating supper by daylight, which is a lovely thought.
Linda simply refuses to listen.