So... I guess we're paging Governor Kate Brown now? The ongoing ethics scandal swamping Governor John Kitzhaber's office—over the blurred lines between his fiancée's private consulting work and public business and responsibilities—churned through another round of bad headlines yesterday, prompting the Oregonian's editorial board to call for Kitzhaber's resignation just months after it held its nose and endorsed his re-election. Kitzhaber's said he won't resign. But if he did, Secretary of State Kate Brown, D-Comcast, would take over.
The Lloyd Center's attempted reinvention, in an era when malls are the worst and/or dying, is weirdly interesting.
Dan Saltzman's pessimism over ambitious 30-year goals for affordable housing downtown apparently allows for a faint ray of hope: The city, he says, could scratch developers' backs with new incentives while working with Salem to win the right to mandate affordable units in every project proposed.
Portland's police bureau is gently asking—without actually asking—for a larger share of the city's budget next year. It wants to hire nine analysts to comply with federal reforms and to run a new body camera program—but it also makes it painfully clear that doing so will mean taking away property crime detectives, gang and drug team officers, and a couple of patrol spots.
Cleveland's police department, under federal review after cops shot unarmed 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year, is rushing ahead with body cameras for 1,450 officers over the objections, cautions, and complaints of the city's rank-and-file police union.
Mississippi is last or near last in a bunch of the smart stuff, so the stereotype goes. (But also facts.) That's not the case with vaccines. Thanks to some unwaveringly strict rules, Mississippi's maybe the most immunized state in the nation.
A Girl Scout selling cookies in Indiana was hospitalized after a drive-by shooting in the parking lot of her family's apartment complex. It says something awful about the world that news reports saw fit to make clear the 9-year-old wasn't the intended target.
NBC anchor Brian Williams recounted a harrowing war story, on the air and in excruciating detail, that wasn't even remotely like what he and his crew endured.
Boko Haram, a band of kidnappers and massacre enthusiasts marauding through West Africa, have sprawled from Nigeria over to Cameroon, killing 90 civilians and injuring 500 more in one of the Islamist militia's lesser attacks.
The "lost" (aka "classified") pages of the government's September 11 report, purportedly connecting Al-Qaida's hijackers with prominent Saudi Arabian officials and financiers, are once again the subject of congressional clamor after a convicted 9/11 participant talked up his contacts on the Arabian Peninsula.
The license plate readers placed all over America by the DEA are also recording and storing millions of pictures of our faces.
A woman in adorably named Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, tried bringing an 8-month-old baby kangaroo—a therapy animal adorably named Jimmy and also adorably wrapped in a blanket—to her local McDonald's. Someone horrible then called the cops.
HERE YOU GO, OLD-TIMERS! FONDLY REMEMBER YOUR SEPIA-TINGED, PANIC-INFUSED CHILDHOODS!