GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Come on baby, let’s get away. Let’s save your troubles for another day. Come go with me we’ve got it made. Let me take you on an escapade (let’s go). LET’S GO TO PRESS.
In case you missed it, our beloved Blazers beat those “Bay Area shit horses,” the Golden State Warriors on Saturday in game three of the Western Conference playoffs. Our Ian Karmel has the hilariously smart recap! (Game 4 is tonight!)
A new homeless camp is going up—and without the city’s permission—to temporarily house women who are victims of frequent sexual abuse on the streets.
“We cannot wait anymore.” A new camp for homeless women is going up on city property today without permission. https://t.co/H3H4ijNrTx
— Dirk VanderHart (@dirquez) May 8, 2016
If you’re a public transit rider, it may be of interest to you that TriMet is closing down a long section of the MAX line downtown for repairs starting yesterday to May 21. Good luck with that!
North Carolina is filing a lawsuit against the federal government saying, “How DARE you try to interfere with our transphobic bathroom bill, and blatant disregard for human rights? Also… YEEEHAW!!”
Donald Trump is convinced he doesn’t need Republican party unity to win the presidency. Or a moral compass. Or a soul that isn’t dark, and filled by ravenous crows.
The dark, littered soul of Donald Trump also threatened to block non-supporter Paul Ryan from his job as GOP convention chairman.
For someone so rich, Trump doesn’t seem to really understand how money works, because he believes the US can buy their way out of debt by just “printing more money.”
And according to this story, with divisive figures like Trump and Clinton on the ticket, the normally staid electoral map could very easily go all screwy.
Jury selection starts today in a civil trial against the Cinemark movie chain for their alleged failures during the 2012 Colorado mass shooting at one of their theaters.
Uber and Lyft pull out of Austin after voters put strict and entirely reasonable rules on the company, and because WAHH-WAHH-WAHH.
The repeatedly tardy Lauryn Hill was two hours late to her Atlanta concert, claiming that she “aligning her energy with the time.” On the upside, she only performed for 40 minutes.
Now let’s look at this WEATHER situation: Cloudy skies will peel away to sun, with temps in the low 70s and warming up through the week.
And finally, just so you know, if Trump is elected president, this is what we’ll all be forced to drive every day. (Video from our own Doug Brown at Friday’s Trump rally in Eugene! Read all about it here.)
Why hasn’t the Mercury reported on the fact that the Students for Trump leader at PSU is a white supremacist?