Labor Day has passed, and it’s time for Oregon’s politicians and politician wannabes to start signaling their political ambitions. Ted Wheeler, widely seen as a potential challenger for Mayor Charlie Hales, will make a decision very soon, he tells the Trib. And state Sen. Richard Devlin, something of a pooh-bah where the state budget is concerned, is tossing his hat officially in for secretary of state, meaning he’ll be taking on high-profile Democratic colleagues Rep. Val Hoyle and Brad Avakian.
More than five years after his disappearance, the family of Kyron Horman was out searching again this weekend—this time with dogs hauled in from out of state to help scour pieces of land where the boy’s remains might be.
The police chief of tiny Clatskanie, 60 miles to the northwest, has resigned after some alleged terrible racism, including imitating a monkey when referring to a black woman. Clatskanie’s mayor, meanwhile, is lauding the man in the city’s newspaper (known as The Chief). So that’s happening.
TriMet’s gonna vote on raising payroll taxes around the region next week, and businesses are doing what businesses do: Promising to forego hiring and purchases as a result.
Ravenous stoner deer hordes are coming for your hemp crop. You’re gonna need more than barbed wire.
Here’s an interesting look at how Portland homes are being snatched up by Wall Street investors. Not a group known for compassion or sensitivity, at a time when the city’s housing market could use a bit more of both.
Los Angeles just approved a plan to revolutionize its fabled car-centric streets, making them much more attractive and useful to people on bike and on foot. The city is losing its collective shit, and not in a good way.
We hear a lot about Arctic drilling these days, but the pace of activity isn’t nearly what international energy companies—and some countries—have long dreamt of. They want much more. Neat.
People always get shot at New York’s West Indian Parade—in the last several years, at least. This time, a gubernatorial aide was one of the victims. Meanwhile, the city’s former police commissioner says rising violence in the city’s the result of police not being able to profile and harass anyone they want.
Who helped Mexican drug lord El Chapo escape? Oh, just intelligence officials, a prison control room staffer, and some guards. Pretty much the usual.
Congress has less than a month to agree on new spending plans, meaning you can count on more fun government shutdown brinksmanship—this time likely tied to Plan Parenthood and Iran.
Oh hey, summer’s back.
