Here’s a good story about how neighboring businesses (and city bureaucrats) helped save the Mississippi District’s last black-owned building, after neighbors (and city bureaucrats) made it very, very likely the owner would have to give it up.
That Salem judge who’s refused to perform same-sex marriages is one step closer to not being a judge any more, after a “scathing” report from a state commission. The Oregon Supreme Court will be the final arbiter of Marion County Judge Vance Day’s future.
Honestly, what is wrong with you people? Local progressive radio host Carl Wolfson is already giving up the biz because of all the vitriol over his opinion that Hillary Clinton is more electable than Bernie Sanders. Now someone’s smeared “Fuck Hillary,” in poop, on his car.
Washington woman finds cat wedged behind her car engine https://t.co/4PDDDAtYuJ pic.twitter.com/OJUAY1wjg4
— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 25, 2016
CAT ANTICS: Thomas the cat hitched a ride to(ward) Spokane nestled snugly behind a car’s engine block—with nothing but a scratch and some singed hair to show for the awful and doubtlessly confusing ordeal.
The Comprehensive Plan is important. It’ll set the growth policies through which Portland accommodates hundreds of thousands of new residents in coming decades. And after years of toiling, Portland City Council is finally getting ready to vote on an update to the plan. There’s a work session this morning—the first of several before anything is set in stone.
“Hey, if you’re pregnant, if you don’t have to go to these countries, don’t go.” “These countries” are probably about to include the US, as the mosquito-borne Zika virus—which has been linked to an uptick in serious birth defects—makes its way around the Americas.
ICYMI late last week, local architect Stuart Emmons, who’s taking on Steve Novick for the right to help plot Portland’s finances, had to file for bankruptcy when the Great Recession waved its shitty magic wand. He says that makes him more qualified.
Well, well, well. A Texas-based investigation into whether Planned Parenthood broke any laws—spurred by a smear campaign alleging organ harvesting—didn’t turn up any wrongdoing. Unless you consider what it found out about the people who made the smear campaign, who now face felony charges.
What inanity are the Harney County occupiers offering these days? They’re crowing over convincing some guy in New Mexico to stop paying the feds to graze his cows on public land.
And then whatever the hell this is:
President Obama is banning solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prison, because it’s dawning on everybody that solitary confinement is awful.
The Iowa caucuses are on Monday, and the blood is slowly draining from the collective face of the Republican establishment as its favorite sons tear each other limb from limb while Ted Cruz and Donald Trump coast.
Weather!
The seductive power of fanaticism sucks in sucks in all persuasions.
Remember how those well-meaning do-gooders, the Nader voters handed Bush the election and we were then forced into 8 years of Bush Presidency and a Gulf War?
Seems like they have a lot in common with todays’ Bernie enthusiasts.