Good Morning, Portland. If you are working today, your commute is being killed by an overturned truck that was filled with trail mix, a delicious and energy-rich development that has snarled traffic on I-5 north at the Terwilliger curves.
Things are worse east of Oregon, where it’s relentlessly frigid and the snows refuse to abate. I am watching it out of my Michigan window as I write this, and the situation is far more urgent in the Northeast.
The frigidity has Donald Trump pining for global warming—a extremely serious threat to human existence—because clearly.
“I know the details of taxes better than anybody. Better than the greatest C.P.A. I know the details of health care better than most, better than most.” That’s also Trump, in a rare, rambling, seemingly impromptu interview he gave a New York Times reporter at his West Palm Beach golf club.
If you’d like to know more about the backstory that preceded County Chair Deborah Kafoury calling County Commissioner Loretta Smith a “bitch” in a public meeting recently, the Tribune took the time to provide a helpful rundown.
The O asks whether Eugene has a white supremacy problem, and comes away thinking: yup.
Headline tells the glorious tale: “Man drives through doors of Wash. casino, starts gambling.”
Twelve people, including four children, have died in a tragic Bronx apartment fire that began with children playing with a stove.
Authorities on Thursday tracked a Washington County shooting suspect to Fairview, where he holed up in a stranger’s house and shot himself. Was it on purpose or an accident? It’s unclear, as is the suspect’s condition.
IT’S GOING TO BE 55 TODAY, PORTLAND. And I am excited to be back in that.
