Wolves are no longer an endangered species in Oregon. That’s the ruling of the state’s Fish and Wildlife Commission, after a fraught and sometimes tearful hearing in which biologists testified gray wolves have gotten a safe foothold here. Even with the lifted protection, it’s still mostly illegal to kill wolves in the state.
The Klan’s in Gresham, apparently, and hoping to lure avowed racists with root beer candies.
Good news for state Treasurer Ted Wheeler: His list of potential rivals has just about dried up. Multnomah County COO Marissa Madrigal, who’d been exploring a run for Portland mayor, announced yesterday she’s good where she is.
A little more than a month after the Umpqua Community College massacre, the campus now has an armed guard.
Remember how everyone was saying Oregon sold $11 million worth of pot in the first week of recreational sales, but no one actually had any idea if that was true? The Oregon Health Authority is considering tracking how robust state sales are.
The Marion County judge who hung up a portrait of Hitler, allowed a felon to hold a gun, and won’t marry same-sex couples has come before a state disciplinary board. His attorneys say the case is trumped up!
That University of Virginia frat that was the subject of the disastrous Rolling Stone rape expose? Suing the beleaguered magazine for $25 million.
SeaWorld revealed Monday that it won’t make orcas perform tricks at its San Diego location, but huffed extra loud that it’s NOT BECAUSE OF ACTIVISTS who’ve called the park out. Coercion at the theme park’s locations Texas and Florida is still on like Donkey Kong.
A trio of federal appeals judges in Louisiana does NOT buy President Obama’s ideas on allowing some undocumented immigrants to stay in the US. The panel ruled 2-1 that the president had exceeded his authority in the move last year, but there’s still time to appeal to the Supreme Court.
Dear god, this Starbucks cup thing.
Almost as bad: Another Republican debate tonight. 6 pm.
It’s been precisely 40 years since frigid Superior swallowed up the Edmund Fitzgerald, ore-laden as she was. In Michigan, where I am from, this is a thing. A thing that demands a little Lightfoot.