Portland

The City of Portland’s Small Donor Elections program has placed a temporary hold on matching contributions from candidates or family members of candidates made after Aug. 7 after learning that many candidates appeared to agree to quid-pro-quo donations to each other.

"Ryan Poffenberger, 38, who has no listed address, pleaded guilty Tuesday to multiple counts of first-degree theft and second-degree burglary, as well as charges of being a felon in possession of a gun and unauthorized use of a car. The plea was part of a deal with the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office."

"In virtual meetings Thursday afternoon, the cloud software giant notified staffers who report to its Hillsboro office, thirty minutes outside of Portland, of its decision. Customer-success employees, who account for much of the Hillsboro office's staff, were given until November 26 to decide whether to take a severance package or relocate to Indianapolis, Atlanta, or Seattle, where Salesforce also has offices. Other employees were told they could continue to work for Salesforce remotely."

Between Sept. 22-28, for any book bought from Powell's Banned Book list, 20% of the sale will be donated. There are over 150 books on the list available to be purchased, including book titles such as "Hunger Games," "1984," "Heartstopper" and "The Color Purple."

Also applies to www.powells.com

https://powells.com/banned-books

"Members of the Multnomah County District Attorney Access Program also were on the scene, police said. They directed three people toward “deflection” – drug treatment. Two accepted."

33 arrested, 3 qualified for deflection, one would rather be arrested.

I posted about this 3 months ago and it was $750--glad to see the measure is going for it. The $1,600 is per person, not household. Minors count.

Large corps ($25m in revenue minimum) pay.

"How has Stein fared as a leader? By AOC’s perfectly reasonable standard, she’s done abysmally. As of July 2024, a mere 143 officeholders in the United States are affiliated with the Green Party. None of them are in statewide or federal offices. In fact, no Green Party candidate has ever won federal office. And Stein’s reign has been a period of indisputable decline, during which time the party’s membership—which peaked in 2004 at 319,000 registered members—has fallen to 234,000 today.

This meager coalition can’t possibly kick-start a legitimate political movement, capable of organizing voters and advancing ideas outside of perennial electoral events. It’s just large enough, however, to spoil the work of those who put in this kind of work."

"Portland mayoral hopeful Carmen Rubio has lost her second endorsement following a reported incident involving a Tesla days after reporting emerged on her driving record.

Rubio, who is currently a Portland City Commissioner, has accrued 150 parking and driving tickets since 1994, with the most recent being a municipal parking ticket for blocking a loading zone in July 2024, court records show."

I’m attending a Gothic Vampire Masquerade themed wedding. I need an outfit that is appropriate, but better than costume quality. A suit of some kind. More “Interview with a Vampire” and less “Hot Topic”

Any suggestions?

19% YOY usage drop last month, 3.6% bill increase. It's been like this for months. Even if you're trying to limit your usage and save money, you get fucked. Such bullshit. Meanwhile the PUC came out and said they don't want to not approve these large increases PGE has requested every year because "it would set a bad precedent". Talk about in another world.

Their "why are my electricity charges higher" are also incorrect on weather, actually the exact opposite--the same page notes the period was 1 degree cooler than last year.

Whatever way you take this:

• 1. A way to be able to remove anything that is deemed "offensive", "unpopular", or "unpalatable" and a good option
• 2. A way to ensure conversations critical of entrenched interests and dominant practices are censored and don't take place

It seems hopelessly broad attempt to shape discourse and thought. Even giving administrators the benefit of the doubt and saying this policy was created so if someone puts a swastika on their door they can take it down, it also means that anything someone claims is political could be removed. As we've seen in the last 10 years, is there anything that can't be politicized with enough money thrown at it? With this policy, if a history or biology teacher put "vaccines save lives" poster on their door, someone could say it's political and offensive. Giving extremists the opening to say something is "political" means that they could say, "Oh your LGBTQ poster is offensive and political to me", and it would be hard to make a case that would stand up under this crap policy that sexuality hasn't been politicized and that is should stay up to support diverse students. Hasn't diversity itself been politicized? The administrator's comment that "LGBTQ flags are ok because they support groups that have been marginalized" is 100% correct, but I don't think they're really working through how "political" and "personal" are so broad anything could be attacked and claimed "offensive", "political", or "personal". What if there was an educational poster about climate change? Economics? History? How, in any universe, could you have those discussions without broaching potentially "political" items?

TLDR; policy thought up by 5-year-olds who apparently haven't been watching the attacks on school boards, policies, postings and education elsewhere to understand where it will lead. Support your teacher's unions, the administrators leading them are scared of conflict and open dialogue and we can't educate without them.

The candidates who agreed to trade contributions include District 1 candidates Cayle Tern and Thomas Shervey; District 2 candidates William Mespelt and Sam Sachs; District 3 Candidates Kelly Janes, Luke Zak and Harrison Kass; and District 4 candidates Chad Lykins, Michael Trimble, Michael DiNapoli, Eric Zimmerman and Bob Weinstein. Willamette Week reported that District 4 candidate Ben Hufford also agreed to trade contributions.

Liv Osthus is the only mayoral candidate that The Oregonian/OregonLive obtained records showing she’d agreed to trade donations.

Three days after a just-married Oregon nurse was reported missing, she has been found dead and police have arrested one of her neighbors.

Melissa Jubane, 32, was reported missing on Wednesday after she didn’t arrive for her morning shift as a nurse at Providence St. Vincent Center in Portland, “raising concerns among her coworkers, friends, and family,” the Beaverton Police Department said in a Saturday morning Facebook post.

Multnomah County has announced it’s going to open two cooling shelters, at Portland Covenant Church and Cook Plaza in Gresham.

They will be open from noon until 9 pm.