REGISTER TO VOTE, DAMN YOU. The November 4 election is fast approaching, and today’s the deadline to register, or make sure you’re registered at the correct address. It is easy. Everything about voting in Oregon is easy, and it’s extremely frustrating that you’re even considering not filling out a ballot.
Especially with all we’ve got going on! Why, today alone you have your only shot at seeing Sen. Jeff Merkley and his main challenger, Republican Monica Wehby, square off in a face-to-face debate. Will it get ugly? Almost certainly. Gov. John Kitzhaber and his main challenger, Dennis Richardson, will also debate, though we’ve seen that several times by this point.
Speaking of Kitzhaber, want to know more about his fiancee? It’s open season on Cylvia Hayes’ past, these days, and now KOIN has prompted the second regret-laden statement from the Oregon’s first lady in less than a week, learning Hayes and a former boyfriend purchased a parcel of land in rural Washington to grow pot 17 years ago.
Michael Graves, famed architect responsible for the Portland Building, is pissed off—for all sorts of reasons, not just because everyone’s talking about tearing down his building. He tells the Tribune all about it.
Serious question: Can we even count on small hospitals to contain Ebola? Or should we send any new cases that (hopefully never) emerge to larger, regional facilities? That’s just some of the hand-wringing taking place as health officials try to figure out how a Texas nurse contracted the disease.
That nurse, 26-year-old Nina Pham, has received a blood transfusion from Ebola survivor Dr. Kent Brantly—a so-called “convalescent serum” that officials hope will help Pham’s system fight off the virus.
Meanwhile, Ebola’s still running rampant through West Africa. The World Health Organization estimates there may be 10,000 new cases A WEEK by December.
Shucks, out on the folksy South Dakota plains they don’t have much truck with big-city politics. Mostly just “cowboy poetry” and straight talk, says the New York Times.
KIM JONG UN IS BACK. And sporting a fresh new cane.
Turkey’s been resisting calls to fight ISIS. It’s more than happy to busy its air force with bombing runs on Kurdish factions in its own borders.
Oil prices are at a four year low! Probably because of shady fracking, which will probably be put forward as an argument to continue shady fracking.
I’ve made my peace with the summer. Bring on the Rain.
Oh, you were angry at the awful video I posted in yesterday’s GMN? Let’s see how you feel about shimmering falsetto delight.