We checked, and the new bag-searching protocols at Portland City Hall could cost nearly $190,000 per year.
Subpoena time! The City of Portland has only issued a legislative subpoena once, OPB reports, but Commissioner Dan Saltzman is ready to do it again. He wants Uber to hand over the goods on “Greyball,” a tool it used to selectively deny service to users. The company has said it’s not Greyballing anymore.
The rank-and-file like Mike Marshman: The Portland Police Association released the results of a member survey yesterday indicating most cops don’t want Mayor Ted Wheeler to conduct a search for a new police chief, as the mayor has pledged to do since before taking office. Wheeler is staying the course.
A bill in the Oregon legislature could finally close a gaping loophole that allows lead dust from home demolitions to spread unchecked. We reported on the loophole last year.
I bet this is quite the check: United Airlines settles with the doctor who was forcibly wrenched from an aircraft in Chicago earlier this month.
Your Daily Reminder: Oregon is having fits trying to close a $1.6 billion budget shortfall for the next two years. So yesterday Gov. Kate Brown announced a three-pronged strategy for at least thinking about how to paper over the gap. One idea: sell off state property?
Very much tied to the budget problems are costs associated with the state’s public employee pensions. That’s why discussions over the fund that pays for those pensions—and how much it should plan on earning back from investments—is crucially important. This Oregonian story goes deep into the wonk hole.
Hey look! Another Oregon legislator introduces another piece of federal legislation that has no chance of passing.
How have guns made YOU safer today? Well, a Gresham gun dealer was just burgled for a bunch of them, including an AR-15. So that’s great.
“Clearly, in Mexico, this should be seen as a type of tantrum of a spoiled child who did not get the presents he expected for his birthday, for the 100 days.” This is a pretty great story about how Mexican officials are learning to see through Trump’s toxic monkeyshines.
Also: The latest effort to repeal Obamacare is breaking apart.
And BTW: Trump’s corporate-tax-slashing budget proposal isn’t just sharply dividing Republicans concerned about massive debt increases, it’s also threatening to kill affordable housing projects nationwide.
Did I mention that Trump told Reuters he thought being president would be easy?
The Beatles’ lawyer types have YouTube on lockdown, so this will have to do for the weather report.