PREST-O CHANGE-O! AGAIN! Faced with the near-certain defeat of his and Commissioner Steve Novick’s latest change-up to the controversial street fee, which was due for its first hearing tonight, Mayor Charlie Hales changed the whole game once more. The residential fee has been dumped for now—and voters, next May, will instead be asked to choose a replacement.
The cost of watching over suicidal inmates in Multnomah County is steep. Because the sheriff’s office has just one paid position for the work, deputies pressed into service wound up collecting $900,000 in overtime pay last year, says a new grand jury report.
Are you the butthole who scattered tacks on the Hawthorne Bridge’s bike lanes? Actually, don’t answer that. Just stop.
In a pilot project that cops hope will ward off fatal heroin overdoses, a handful of officers in Central Precinct will carry doses of the drug naloxone—an antidote to opiate intoxication.
The massacre at Charlie Hebdo won’t keep the French satirical paper from coming out next week, its remaining staffers have declared. One suspected gunman has turned himself in, and French cops are working through a desperate hunt for his two alleged accomplices, detaining several people in their search.
Anti-Muslim nativists, surging in prominence throughout Europe after years of demographic changes, are seizing on the mass shooting as cause for a wider cultural war.
The Sony hack really was the work of North Korea, the FBI insists—despite questions from the cybersecurity community. Skeptics “don’t have the facts I have, they don’t see what I see,” says the FBI’s director.
Now that Congress might start producing laws again—albeit laws passed with a Republican congressional majority, like permission for the Keystone XL pipeline—President Obama has oiled up his veto pen for the first time in forever.
The plummeting price of oil has finally begun cutting into America’s domestic oil bonanza—because it’s suddenly way more expensive to extract shale and tar sands oil than that oil’s worth on the market. That’s bad for Texas and North Dakota, less bad for Saudi Arabia.
Solitary confinement will stop for inmates facing mental health issues. But just in Pennsylvania.
Antibiotic resistance, growing exponentially as nature adapts faster than medical science, is a notorious antagonist for public health officials. So imagine the cautious relief over news that a new class of antibiotics, resistant to resistance, has been discovered.
Everyone still talks about that one day when a FIVE AND A HALF FOOT LONG SNAKE disinterestedly slithered its way out of the office toilet.
HERE. THIS IS ALSO HORRIFYING.