OR House Republicans Want to Make It Illegal for Teachers to Strike (www.wweek.com)
Portland transportation director readies plan to remove key downtown protected bike lane – BikePortland (bikeportland.org)
This seems to not be based on safety at all and is probably Mapps and Williams spending money PBOT doesn’t have because of complaints by business owners that are not based on data....
Trees Planted by the City in East Portland Two Years Ago Are Dead Because the City Didn’t Water Them (www.wweek.com)
Portland City Government Compromised with Oil Industry in Private, Documents Suggest (www.desmog.com)
Portland Police decide an Accountability Board passed overwhelmingly by voters in 2020 doesn't fit their style; plan their own ballot measure to revoke & weaken it. (www.oregonlive.com)
Mystery of the slime on Willamette River near Portland solved (www.oregonlive.com)
Study says drug decriminalization in Oregon did not cause more overdose deaths (www.opb.org)
Visiting Friend Pleasantly Surprised By City’s Open Hostility Toward Homeless People (www.theonion.com)
Trimet Proposed 2024–25 Service Changes (trimet.org)
Street racer who killed young mother at bus stop gets only 5 years prison time. (www.oregonlive.com)
These man children playing with their toys and what is the punishment, only 5 years? The victim’s child, who will now be 7 has no mother for the rest of his life....
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.
Hooray for rain!
It’s finally raining!
‘It's all hands on deck right now': Oregon’s largest homeless shelter could close in three weeks (www.kgw.com)
WA Democrats ask Buttigieg for $200M to plan B.C.-Seattle-Portland bullet train (www.seattletimes.com)
Columbia River Gorge flying into Portland (lemmy.world)
Mt. Hood usually gets all the plane shots, but I was on the wrong side coming home from Chicago this afternoon, and have plenty anyhow.
Andy Ngo loses civil lawsuit against Portland activists (www.oregonlive.com)
Red Castle Games burglarized 08/06 (www.kgw.com)
… and more!
USPS considers consolidating services from Medford and Eugene to Portland (www.opb.org)
Just rode an electric bus. (beehaw.org)
I had no idea we even had these things. So quiet and smooth! You don’t realize how damn loud a normal bus is until you’re wooshed around on an electric one. TriMet doesn’t even say it’s electric anywhere. Just that it’s “zero emissions”.
Multnomah County lost record $1 billion in income between 2020 and 2021 as residents moved away (www.oregonlive.com)
Doing the math so you don’t have to…...
Kotek and Blumenauer Tell Local Officials: Fix Rampant Drug Use on Portland Streets, Now (www.wweek.com)
Oregon motorists might soon be able to pump their own gas (www.opb.org)
Portland is losing the ‘graffiti war’ | CHAOSTOWN S1FINALE (youtu.be)
Northern Lights from the Columbia River Gorge (lemmy.world)
A cellphone shot of the gorgeous aurora tonight. It wasn’t quite this dramatic to the naked eye, but this is actually pretty representative of what we could see. I have a bunch of other pics too but I’m sure there will be pics everywhere tomorrow from better photographers.