Are you really still holding onto your ballot? Fine. Whatever. Just drop it off before 8 pm tonight—at an approved dropoff site—so that way you, too, can help settle several important questions hovering over Oregon’s future. Should we legalize pot? Should we upend our entire election system? Should we demand GMO labels on food? Should a Southern Oregon Republican who doesn’t believe in marriage equality or a woman’s right to choose somehow be elected governor? If you’re still torn, be sure to give our endorsement guide one last spin.
In horrible news from the Coast, a woman who told authorities she was hearing voices threw her six-year-old son off the Yaquina Bay Bridge in Newport. The family had been enduring financial stress and medical issues—the boy who was killed had been diagnosed with autism and his father had been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy.
An attempt by Portland officials to ease disability payouts for injured firefighters healthy enough to return to productive and full-time light work—if not the rigorous firefighting work they’d initially been hired to perform—was turned aside by the Oregon Supreme Court last week.
Portland’s Bull Run water supply is guarded by a lone city employee, who lives in a city-owned manufactured house in the forest and drives a city-owned vehicle some 200 miles a day over rough backwoods roads.
Democrats are clutching at thin hopes that an amazing and magical get-out-the-vote push will somehow defy conventional wisdom and help fend off an expected Republican takeover of the Senate.
This little piece of Sierra Leone had been the last redoubt of good news in the country’s struggle with Ebola. But quarantine or no, the remote district of Koinadugu has finally been breached—with dozens of corpses awaiting medical burial.
One place Ebola’s still not penetrated? Kenya. And yet? A Kentucky teacher who’d visited there had to quit her dumb job after her dumb school decided she still needed to stay home for three weeks. Because they’re dumb.
The Islamic State, the radical Islamist group that’s carved up much of Iraq and Syria, owes its birth in large part to a massive American prison camp infamous for holding some of the Iraq war’s most notorious jihadists.
Oh, France. Do your stores really charge more for products labeled “feminine”? Why, yes. Yes, you do. Sigh.
Verizon and AT&T have infected your phones with Internet-tracking “supercookies” so persistent you can’t dodge them using private mode when browsing. Or maybe even delete them at all.
Silicon Valley and the Bay Area are national showpieces for the growing divide between America’s rich and poor. A brave congresswoman whose constituents include some of the country’s leading tech firms has come up with a brilliant idea: Prodding some of those billionaire CEOs into spending time at the homeless shelters straining to breathe under the shadow of all that profligate wealth.
A father in India reacted with vigor to news his daughter had been raped. He invited the accused rapist to his home for dinner under false pretenses—and then tortured him to death.
For the “bad Uber” file: Some drunk guy in Colorado was charged $539 for an 18-mile ride home on Halloween.
SOMETIMES? IT’S STUPID TO EVEN TRY. SO DON’T!