- erik ursin
It’s official: After years of outcry, acrimony, and protest the Mt. Tabor reservoirs have ceased delivering water to Portland homes. They’ll stay on as showpieces.
Have you ever been morbidly curious what it’s like inside a Donald Trump rally? Then let the Washington Post whisk you away to a land of Hispanic people being called “tacos” and old men throwing punches.
Today in recent victims: A 21-year-old man murdered in a drive-by in East Portland on Wednesday, had been working hard to improve his life after a recent conviction, his family says.
And the 38-year-old man who was run down on his bike by an apparently intoxicated driver had just moved to Portland a couple weeks ago, and was biking home from his first day on the job.
That crash has spurred the Trib to look at Portland’s progress around Vision Zero, the policy city leaders adopted last year with a goal of eliminating traffic deaths. So far, it’s still largely just a lot of hopeful words.
A new hut city for the homeless is on the way at a church in Vancouver! Wait, never mind. Someone’s threatened to sue.
Sad: A local debt factory is closing.
How is the federal government being rational about marijuana today? NO SENDING MARIJUANA ADVERTISEMENTS THROUGH THE MAIL.
They might have the money to enforce that policy, too, after the US House of Representatives passed a mammoth spending bill this morning, with $66 BILLION in new appropriations.
Shockingly, the guy who bought guns and explosive powder for the San Bernardino shooters—and also planned an abandoned attack several years ago with one of them—will face federal charges.
I was stoked for the new Star Wars. Somehow all the hype is making me less stoked. Is Liam Neeson even in this one?
One week from today it will be Christmas, and I will be in Michigan, and any weather that wintry state can throw at me will be better than this sodden misery.
Special Karaoke Friday PSA, y’all. “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is a terrible and terrifying song. Don’t sing it. Go nuts on this, instead.
So it is ok if I pee in the reservoirs now right?
Hmmm, Michigander transplants aren’t usually whiners. Get out there, be “unstoppable” and swim to the bar!
I’ll take Bad Water Santa over Hipster Santa any day.
In my lexicon a “vanderhart” is now someone who is painfully-politically-correct. Always.
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Todd: Every time I hear that song it gets squickier. Beyond the “product of its time” argument, what do you got?
I suppose you think she should’ve gone out in the cold… and maybe caught pneumonia? And died?
Of all the vanderharts in the world, you’re the vanderhartiest.
Stay in Michigan.