An ugly scene in Southern California, where a man walked into a special needs class at an elementary school and shot his estranged wife and two children. The wife and one 8-year-old child died. The attacker committed suicide. Guns and safety.
Commissioner Chloe Eudaly has now pushed out the directors of both the bureaus she oversees. On Monday, longtime Bureau of Development Services Director Paul Scarlett announced he’s out at the end of this week. He’ll take a year’s pay to salve any hurt feelings.
So after cops went to the trouble of arresting a Portland activist outside a Portland City Council meeting last week, prosecutors have elected not to even file charges. James Krane was accused of knocking out aggressive, insufferable street preacher Grant Chisholm, who’d showed up to a protest of Donald Trump’s travel ban at PDX.
Portland and Multnomah County are pledging that all of the city/county’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2050. Which is great and all, except that that’s not really up to Portland and Multnomah County. They can only lobby for such progress.
Makes sense: Pollution in Linn County might be putting people at increased risk of cancer, but a judge won’t let state regulators talk about it.
A Gresham cop snatched a Portland activist’s phone in 2013, while she was taping an arrest. That was a bad move. Now the cities of Gresham and Portland, along with TriMet, have settled a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of Carrie Medina (the Gresham cop was policing TriMet, and in Portland city limits at the time). Medina will donate her $85,000 settlement to the ACLU.
Portland Public Schools is getting ready to ask you to pony up nearly $800 million so it can spruce up the district—and this time, it’s inviting the contractors and architects who stand to win big from that measure to pony up as much as they can for its passage.
Make no mistake: United would do it all over again.
Alabama’s governor was jailed briefly on Monday, in connection with campaign finance charges. More generally, Gov. Robert Bentley was accused of abusing his office to conceal an affair—that old song. Now he’s resigned.
Maybe you saw that a chunk of downtown was flooded on Sunday, when a water pipe burst? Blame the folks constructing the new county courthouse at the west end of the Hawthorne Bridge.
State Rep. Bill Post continues to be dumb on Twitter. The O decided to write about it.
Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday. Always a good opportunity to catch up on excellent journalism. (Definitely read “The Fighter“.)
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is in Moscow, and was talking tough about Syria and Russia before he got there.
Place your bets! Will the Trump White House completely flub the yearly Easter Egg Roll? Or just mostly?
Any of you old-timers remember a worse Spring?
