“MAN YELLED, ‘GET YOU SOME DICK!’ & ‘FUCKING TRASHY ASS BITCH!'” and other observations our city’s parking enforcers make on a daily basis, collated and made searchable for you by the Oregonian.
Remember City Hall two years ago? Business interests squaring off against lefty labor types over our now-established paid sick leave law? Same exact thing in Salem right now, but with less clear results.
Bringing it back even further, you know how our city leaders are always debating whether to rejoin the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force? That’s still on and popping. A vote’s expected next week in two weeks.
Probably won’t be an issue, but if Portland and surrounding towns continue their red-hot growth spurt, the folks at Metro could have to look at expanding the region’s Urban Growth Boundary this year. And that would be messy.
US Sen Ron Wyden doesn’t like all he’s heard about a proposed new facility for shipping liquefied natural gas down in Coos Bay. Now Wyden’s asking federal regulators to prove to him it’s a safe bet.
Oh great. Now the people of LA (if “people” is even the term), know about our gubernatorial strife.
The US economy: Crushing it. Crushing it harder than it has in a decade and a half, by some measures.
Ukraine and Russia are struggling to find a peace from the ongoing violence in Eastern Ukraine. It’s not helped by the fact Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposed cease-fire agreement pushes back Ukraine’s border.
Imagine the impotent frustrations of a couple military helicopter pilots, shot down in the skies over Iraq back in 2003, hearing NBC news celebrity Brian Williams lie about being in their craft again and again over the years. And the additional lumps of rage plunked over the top when no journalists would check into their story.
Baghdad’s about to be done with its 12-year-old midnight curfew, and everyone’s planning to tie one on beside the gentle Tigris.
“An individual’s choice about the end of her life is entitled to respect,” says Canada’s supreme court. Legal doctor-assisted suicide is coming to our northern neighbor next year.
Speaking of sunsets, ours comes at 5:24 pm today.
Why not Quit By Lazuh?