It’s NOT Columbus Day, for Portland schoolkids (who don’t have the day off anyway, no matter what it’s called). It’s Indigenous Peoples’ Day, thanks to a vote by the Portland Public Schools board last week that puts PPS in line with a bunch of other places who’ve decided the risk of offending Italians wasn’t worth the continued veneration of genocide.
WE ARE NOW AT WAR WITH PIT BULLS. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH PIT BULLS. Because the news has seen fit to highlight three recent attacks involving pit bulls, an oft-maligned dog breed. In the latest, a small Troutdale pug was nearly eaten alive.
Who knows if anyone still cares. But Alta—the same company we’ve now been talking to for years, literal years, about launching bike share in Portland—has managed to launch bike share in Seattle. Helmets and all.
And now Ebola has spread within the United States for the first time. One of the nurses who treated the now-dead Dallas man who carried the disease from Liberia was somehow infected despite wearing a containment suit. The line is she violated safety protocols, possibly when taking off her hazmat suit—designed to keep virulent bodily fluids from reaching new potential hosts. Healthcare workers are understandably disturbed by the implications. But I imagine it must be awful and awkward for African immigrant hoping to be seen about things like regular cold and flu symptoms.
Alaska was the first state to ban gay marriage. Now it’s just one in a long line to knuckle under and hand out marriage licenses, after a federal judge yesterday issued a ruling in favor of marriage equality.
Police reported seizing $2.5 billion, according to federal reports filed since 2008. The Washington Post read those reports, all 43,000, and figured out that “81 percent came from cash and property seizures in which no indictment was filed”—and that some agencies used that money for things like fancy equipment, luxury goods, and clowns.
Procrastination and hesitation among GOP donors has made this campaign season more expensive than a lot of people on the right might have hoped. By waiting so long to place bets on lackluster candidates, donors are paying a premium for ad space, a dynamic that play out again in 2016.
Highway guardrails are supposed to help you in the event of a crash. More and more, officials now worry, guardrails might actually be making things worse.
Not so fast, dear Americans! Despite what amounts to announcement saying so from the White House, Turkey has strongly disputed reaching a deal that lets US forces fighting ISIS use one of its airbases.
The battles between cops and protesters in Hong Kong seems to have gotten hotter after cops started taking down barricades that have been up for weeks now, and after some protesters started reinforcing those barricades with concrete.
Still no sign of Kim Jong Un. Business seems to be continuing like usual in North Korea, including some bellicose threats about doing bad things to the remains of American soldiers left behind after the Korean War.
In a meth binge described as a “spiritual journey,” a young man terrorized the town of Roy, Washington—breaking into houses and forcing his victims to do things like cook dinner and drive him to McDonalds.
SIZE 29 JEANS… RING A BELL?
“Indigenous Peoples Day”….???
Oh how precious. I can just imagine the congrats back-slapping after that vote.
But now I think some fine Italian dinner is calling.