Happy Sunday, Blogtown! Here’s a little bit of news for you.
Football isn’t my thing, but I could tell from the social medias yesterday that the state wept when the Oregon Ducks failed to win in Michigan. What’s up with those helmets, anyway?
Need something to raise your spirits after yesterday’s loss? How about waterfalls and wine? Seems like a good combination for a mild afternoon.
Better get your wine and waterfalling in now, because it’s going to get wet mid-week:
The weather is cooling down, but the wildfires are still going strong. Thousands of people in California are being evacuated as the Valley Fire continues to burn.
City Commissioner Steve Novick is considering putting a gas tax on the May 2016 ballot. The money would be used for street maintenance to gain some ground on a backlog of needed repairs to Portland’s streets.
Here’s a Sunday long read about a 23-year-old woman who died of cancer and had her brain frozen in hopes of being resurrected. Wow, science.
Germany enacted strict border controls in an attempt to stem the flow of refugees, most of them from Syria, into the country.
Yikes: A riot in an Oklahoma prison resulted in the death of at least three inmates. It’s the second time in several months inmates rioted at this prison.
Watch the video of tennis star James Blake’s mistaken tackle and arrest by New York police: