GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Tell the leaves not to turn, but don’t ever tell me I’ll learn, no, no. LET’S GO TO PRESS.
Most students will return to classes today at Umpqua Community College, greeted with hugs and comfort dogs.
Is the cannabis gold rush killing off medical sales? Some think so:
Industry insiders say a mix of factors is causing shops to close: oversaturation, bad locations, a lack of business savvy and the difficulty and added costs of operating cash-only businesses.
Southwest Airlines has apparently fixed the glitch that screwed up hundreds of flights yesterday in Portland and beyond.
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day everybody, and sorry Chris Columbus. It sucks to be you, I guess.
Is #IndigenousPeoplesDay finally close to replacing #ColumbusDay? http://t.co/p7C9pBhe1c
— Complex (@ComplexMag) October 12, 2015
On the same exact day as the Umpqua Community College massacre, America had it’s 1,000th mass shooting since Sandy Hook, in the town of Inglis, Florida. Let’s not forget them.
Tomorrow night is the Democrats turn to debate, and you can bet a hot topic of discussion will be immigration.
President Obama tells 60 Minutes that Hillary Clinton made “a mistake” in her private email scandal, but didn’t leak confidential material, and that haters are making a mountain out of a mole hill. (He also stated the obvious, that Donald Trump will NOT be the next president.)
Detained for more than a year, Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian has been reportedly convicted by Iranian authorities.
Zimbabwe will not be pressing charges against the dickhead hunter who shot Cecil the Lion.
A Texas councilman was tasered outside his home by police while practicing a dance routine. That was an interesting sentence I just typed!
Now let’s check in with the WEATHER gods: SUMMER’S NOT GONE YET. A warm week ahead with highs in the low to upper 70s.
AND FINALLY, let’s start this week off with Arcade Fire’s Will Butler’s song “Anna” featuring a dancing Emma Stone. THERE. THAT’LL MAKE EVERYTHING BETTER.
