It’s CINCO DE MAYO, everybody, and you know what that means: Get ready to feast your eyes on Mayor Charlie Hales’ first crack at next year’s budget! The city’s got almost $50 million more to play with than last year, and unending demands on that money. The O has a helpful preview of things to watch for.
Oregon’s incremental, oft-defeated proposal to close background check loopholes for gun sales is a done deal. The state House of Representatives passed the bill yesterday, and Gov. Kate Brown’s best signing pen is being made ready. Gnash those teeth, gun rights folks.
While protestors rioted over the lack of information coming from Baltimore authorities about Freddie Gray’s death last week, the Baltimore Police Department allowed a reporter to sit in on its in-depth investigation into how it went down. So Justin George was there to see cops’ stunned faces when criminal charges were announced against their own.
Also in Baltimore, people are mad again, after cops arrested a black man who was allegedly toting a hand gun. There was maybe a shot fired in that incident, but accounts are confused and conflicted. The only certainty is the usual certainty: Do NOT trust Fox News.
ELECTION WATCH 2016: Hillary Clinton’s going to take a bold stance in the immigration debate today, advocating for “nothing less than a full and equal path to citizenship.”
Oh, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is going to announce a run today —again. And the Guardian has this look at how your Republican choices feel about modern science. (They don’t feel great about it.)
ISIS says it orchestrated the attack on a Dallas-area center that was showing Muhammad cartoons on Sunday. It’s the first time the group’s copped to an attack in the US, but there’s also no reason to believe its claim.
Where most of your rage should be focused today: The nation’s top-earning hedge fund managers, who make more than a billion dollars a year.
And not just because they make all that money, either. The super rich are helping fuel a Manhattan building boom some argue will soon shroud Central Park in darkness.
ROLL DAMN TIDE.