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Chuck Lovell is resigning as Portland’s police chief (www.opb.org)

Inept city government can't figure out how to enforce illegal parking laws (www-kgw-com.cdn.ampproject.org)

Ted Wheeler is an cretin, and so is the commissioner in charge of PBOT. Sweep this shit.

Portland Book Festival to return with extensive lineup of prized authors (www.koin.com)

Since they kind of bury the details:...

Portland mayor Ted Wheeler will not seek third term (www.opb.org)

I’m ok with this. He was a fucking shithead for letting people drive around with no tags, functioning DMV or not. He was a shithead for not replacing Eudaly and subsequently Hardesty as head of PBOT. He is ultimately responsible for the derelict cars and RVs left all over the city and a bureau that would take months, or years...

Pirates of the Columbia: Suspect steals Portland Fire & Rescue fire boat, escapes down river (katu.com)

Update: looks like said pirate ditched the boat in Kalama and was arrested sometime after....

Postal service offers $50,000 reward for information on USPS letter carrier robbery suspect in Portland (katu.com)

Police seek help finding missing 12-year-old girl (www.kptv.com)

‘Una librería para todos’ — Portland gets its first bilingual children’s bookstore (www.oregonlive.com)

Rose City Comic Con is this month (rosecitycomiccon.com)

Rose City Comic Con Sept 22-24!

Behind the Corporation Buying Up Portland’s Most Famous ‘Independent’ Restaurants (pdx.eater.com)

Sortis Holdings now owns nationally recognized Portland restaurants like Ava Gene’s, Bamboo Sushi, and Sizzle Pie. What does that mean for the city’s independent restaurant scene?

Advisory committee chair can't vouch for Multnomah County Homeless Services Office after virtual stonewalling (www.oregonlive.com)

The Joint Office of Homeless Services has failed to provide data and refused to answer questions posed by members of the community budget advisory committee, writes Daniel DeMelo, who chairs the committee. It is unclear how effective its efforts have been, despite its soaring budget

100% of sampled MAX trains test positive for low levels of meth (www.kptv.com)

According to a study by the University of Washington, 100% of sampled surfaces on TriMet light rails tested positive for low levels of meth.

Drug use soars among inmates in Oregon’s prisons; officials struggle to stop smuggling, offer treatment (www.oregonlive.com)

Trimet Blog - It’s time for a crackdown on public drug use (blog.trimet.org)

Rev Nat's Cider is closing at the end of September (www.instagram.com)

‘Big, loud commotion’: 2 stabbed on MAX train in SE Portland (www.koin.com)

Powell’s Books to close all locations as union strikes for ‘No’-Labor Day on Monday (www.koin.com)

Portland man must give up ownership of dog Bubbie that mauled runner, attacked poodle (www.oregonlive.com)

A Multnomah County hearings officer has ordered that Jessie Miller must permanently give up his pit bull mix Bubbie after designating the canine dangerous for mauling a runner in Southeast Portland in April, less than two months after he attacked another dog....

Anyone know what's going on with the air in Washington? (lemmy.zip)

The air quality in Portland was finally improving but what’s going on across the river?

I would like to give away my desk

I’ve had it for over 20 years. It’s really really heavy, it’s solid oak. It’s antique, I got it for free from a WWII widow who asked me to promise to take care of it and give it the love of my family. I did. It’s got the love of my family imprinted on it....

Hooray for rain!

It’s finally raining!

Wheeler asks downtown business leaders to mandate on-site work at least half of week, and other insane commitments to existing broken structures in our "weird" city that clings to outdated norms. (www.msn.com)

Everyone knows the debate ended a few years ago for most companies and positions where it was possible, and leaders felt company performance was more important than their physical ego stroking. Wheeler is asking businesses to require people to do what most workers who can, don’t want–mandate required office presence. I think...

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