GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! What the guys go crazy for, they lose their minds. The way I wind, I think it’s time. LET’S GO TO PRESS.
The beleaguered and scrutinized Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton is indicating that he might step down from his position, and his own union is giving him a shove.
More gunfire in NE Portland, with a teenage girl on TriMet nearly getting struck by a stray bullet.
Oregon’s largest private employer, Intel, is laying off 12,000 employees worldwide due to continuing poor PC sales.
According to a new report, a Portland resident needs to make $60,000 per year to live comfortably in this city. On the upside, ummmm… it still costs a lot more in Seattle and San Francisco? Huh? No?
Students at PNCA protested for a second day in a row over what they consider to be unfair treatment of adjunct faculty.
In last night’s New York primaries, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump win big for their parties. (While Sanders did well with white men and those under 40, Clinton dominated with women as well as black, latino, and older voters.)
HOWEVER! Many Bernie supporters are crying foul and voter suppression:
100k voters not allowed to vote in #NYPrimary because they were “dropped” from rolls!
Cheaters aren’t winners.
— Australia for Bernie (@OzForBernie) April 20, 2016
Meanwhile House Speaker and RNC chairman Paul Ryan sounds kind of like this: “(Ahem.) Uhhhh… GUYS! Heh, heh. It’s important to show up at the GOP convention even if you don’t like the person we’re picking! Okay?? We’re serving free hot dogs!”
Up to four people could take the fall for the Flint water crisis, as the attorney general prepares to declare who will be charged today.
In extremely good news, North Carolina may very well cost the state millions in lost revenue thanks to their hateful anti-LGBT law. All together now… HA. HA. HA.
In more good news, a transgender student wins the right to use the boy’s bathroom in his high school.
A predominantly Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles is using hardline tactics to stop gentrification from taking over where they live.
Let’s look at the WEATHER in the sky: Another warm day with a high of 82, but possible thunderstorms late in the afternoon.
And finally, HAPPY 420 DAY, DOPE LOVERS! Who wants to see a weed artist make a smokable unicorn? I thought so.
Since when does fighting against religious persecution in America called hate? Do we really need urinals in the women’s bathrooms? Mass insanity.
EVERYBODY COOL IT FOR A SECOND, XELAJU IS FEELING RELIGIOUSLY PERSECUTED.