Good morning, Portland. Please enjoy these links.
Just in time for Design Week, our design issue came out online and in print yesterday. Make sure to pick up a copy of the paper and check it out here.
For more than eight years, it appears Portland glass outfits Bullseye Glass and Uroboros Glass have been required to use pollution control devices on their stacks under US Environmental Protection Agency rules. These devices—”baghouses” are a common type, though there are others—would have been highly effective at keeping metals like cadmium, arsenic, and chromium from escaping the factories’ glass melt furnaces and making it into nearby air.
Just enough time for an extra game of freeze tag. “Portland Public Schools students in kindergarten through fifth grade will have a minimum of 30 minutes of recess after a unanimous board resolution passed Tuesday, April 12,” reports the Portland Tribune.
The Trail Blazers clinched the fifth seed for the Western Conference playoffs. Here’s the TV schedule for the opening round against the fourth seed L.A. Clippers. The first game is 7:30 p.m. Sunday, on TNT/KGW.
The person who runs the Trail Blazers twitter account got into a fake argument with the person who runs the Dixie State University twitter account. The school just adopted “Trailblazers” as its new nickname and hilarity (I’m kidding) ensued on the ol’ social media.
Kobe Bryant, who is one of the most selfish players in league history and actively made the Los Angeles Lakers bad this season, played his final NBA game of his 20-year career last night. Bye.
Have they not heard of the Streisand Effect? UC Davis spent at least $175,000 on consultants to try to remove internet references to the 2011 “pepper-spray incident” and it didn’t work, the Sacramento Bee reported. Check out the contracts here.
RIP: “Howard Marks, British drug smuggler and countercultural scofflaw, dies at 70“
Paul McCartney, who will be in Portland tomorrow, performed “A Hard Day’s Night” last night for the first time since the Beatles broke up.