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Alert! Alert! Valentine's Day is THIS FRIDAY, so you have two tasks: Send your shmoopie-woopie a FREEÂ Mercury VALENTINEÂ for all the world to see, and read our very romantic, entertaining, and horny LOVE/SEX Issue, currently on these streets in more than 500 spots citywide. It's got everything: your reader valentines, self-care tips, horny books, how to find love (on a bike), an interview with a sex worker, the hilariously (un)scientific SEX SURVEY poll results, and lots more! And now? Prepare to fall in love (and/or get very horny for) today's NEWS.
IN LOCAL NEWS:
⢠ICYMI, last week our new City Council raked Michael Jordan, Portlandâs interim city administrator, over the coals due to a lack of communication with the council and turning a blind eye to the city's open-armed invitation to Zenith to continue their dangerous oil transportation practices, and whose very existence threatens every person in Portland. (More on that here.) That said, the council still overwhelmingly agreed to allow Jordan to stay on the job until the end of 2025âbut it is NOT an auspicious start to his relationship with council. Our Courtney Vaughn has the juicy deets.
Gender Reveal presents Gender Ordeal: Gender on Wheels is a variety show featuring the star power of show-host Tuck Woodstock, cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky, and author Calvin Kasulke. As titles go, this one really seems to convey the vibe: multi-part, goofy, about gender.
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⢠Get ready for the shock of your life: Two Oregon Republican representativesâone of whom owns part of a trucking businessâhave introduced legislation that threatens to defang Oregonâs ACT regulations, which aims to increase the number of zero-emission trucks on the road. Trucking business leaders, like GOP Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis (whose family owns Boshart Trucking, Inc), would rather torpedo the progressive, environment-saving regulations to... well... save themselves money at the expense of everyone else on the planet. Our Taylor Griggs has more.
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