Add Multnomah County Commissioner Jules Bailey to the mayoral race ledger you’ve been feverishly scribbling in since Monday. He’s willing to at least ponder what it’d be like to take on state Treasurer Ted Wheeler for the city’s top office.
Morrow County, Ore., still has the plague. I mean—the plague! Please! A teenage girl caught the Bubonic plague while on a hunting trip, state officials say. She’s in intensive care.
Add the City Club of Portland to the growing chorus of voices who insist Portland needs a higher minimum wage, and that the state law that prevents us from setting our own is stupid and targeted primarily at tamping the wage down. Also: read the club’s entire report. It’s got plenty of meaty stuff from both sides of what’s only going to become a more fractious debate in coming months.
The state’s made strides in limiting carbon emissions in recent years, but it’s not enough to meet longterm goals according to the state’s Global Warming Commission. We still rely heavily on coal power wired in from out of state, the commission points out. A carbon tax could help!
SPORRRTS We’ll have a far better recap up soon, but the Timbers advance in the Major League Soccer playoffs after what, Internet consensus tells me, was the best shootout in the league’s history last night.
And then the Oregon Ducks, who so many of you seem to favor, won in dramatic, triple-overtime fashion. SPORRRTS!
A plane left Portland for Salt Lake City this morning, then came right back. Either engine hiccup or small engine explosion(?). Something.
Somebody in Hillsboro has taken to hanging up the deer carcasses left along their road by speeding motorists. Not everybody’s happy with the imagery.
Senate passed a spending bill last night! We can stop talking about a government shutdown for a couple months, maybe.
NO RACIST CARICATURES THIS HALLOWEEN, PORTLAND. No black face. No Native American headdresses. Stop it. Heed the lamentations of the president of the University of Louisville, who thought it’d be funny to dress up in a sombrero while his staff shook maracas and wore enormous fake mustaches.
Windy out there!
What to sing for KARAOKE FRIDAY: Halloween Edition? Keep your “Thriller” and your “Monster Mash.” Today we’re going understated.
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A carbon tax – another selectively enforced tax that expands government power and ends up punishing the middle class while the big polluters sit overseas, good plan.