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I-5 will be closed for over 4 miles from 9 p.m. Friday, June 28 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 1
Southbound I-5 will close between the SW Terwilliger Boulevard off-ramp and the SW Capitol Highway on-ramp. Northbound I-5 will close between the SW Barbur Boulevard off-ramp and the SW Terwilliger Boulevard on-ramp.
Several on-ramps will also close to prevent drivers from getting on I-5 in the area during the closure.
Southbound on-ramp closures:
S Harbor Drive.
Interstate 405 southbound exchange to southbound I-5.
Northbound on-ramp closures:
SW Spring Garden Street.
SW Capitol Highway.
OR99W/SW Barbur Boulevard.
SW Haines Street.
Kruse Way.
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Proposed Oregon Corporate Tax to fund resident $750 rebate headed to ballot.
www.oregonrebate.org Oregon Rebate 2024The Oregon Rebate (IP 2024-017) is a ballot initiative qualifying for the November 2024 election to rebate every Oregonian (regardless of age, income, or status) about $750 every year, after increasing corporate taxes over $25 million in Oregon sales.
Full bill text: https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2024/017text.pdf
TLDR; Oregon corporate tax has a minimum rate of 1%. This ballot measure would raise it to 3% and give $750 to each Oregon resident (including children).
Get ready for an Uber/Lyft level of corporate ads and media spamming to try to sink this common sense bill.
- www.koin.com Officials rescue 28 riders trapped upside-down at Oaks Amusement Park
A ride at Oaks Amusement Park in Portland, Oregon, malfunctioned on Friday afternoon, trapping 28 people upside down, but no injuries were reported and all riders have since been evacuated and medi…
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Oregon DOT PSA explains new bike passing law
bikeportland.org ODOT latest PSA explains new bike passing lawWish this was required viewing for all Oregonians.
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Portland is losing the ‘graffiti war’ | CHAOSTOWN S1FINALE
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Northern Lights from the Columbia River Gorge
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.
- www.opb.org Dump on Marion County farm worries neighbors. Oregon environmental agency investigating
A Marion County excavating company was ordered to shut down its operations at the site after allegedly unloading debris on a farm without a permit or local code enforcement approval. Environment regulators are currently investigating.
- www.oregonlive.com Nathan Vasquez leads in matchup against Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt, poll finds
The results “indicate strongly that Mike Schmidt has got real challenges, that there's an opportunity for Nathan Vasquez,” said pollster John Horvick.
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Protesters hold onto PSU library
kolektiva.social Alissa Azar (@[email protected])Attached: 2 images After a long and brutal day of standing off with cops and being subjected to police violence for 12 hours, the students are still standing ground and have taken back the library! I don’t believe anyone is inside but on the portico by the library entrance/steps where this all star...
> After a long and brutal day of standing off with cops and being subjected to police violence for 12 hours, the students are still standing ground and have taken back the library
- www.opb.org Selling RedTail could jeopardize Portland’s public golf courses, committee says
The city of Portland could sell the RedTail Golf Center to the Portland Diamond Project, who want to bring an MLB team to Oregon. But the city's Golf Advisory Committee says doing so would make the golf system financially unstable.
Am I the only one that thinks putting the stadium out in Beaverton seems like a terrible idea from a travel/density perspective? Locating it in the Lloyd District seems like such a no-brainer...
- katu.com Portland put costly corner improvements on business owner despite upcoming state project
A North Portland real estate agent said city work requirements tied to her office renovation sent her and her business partner into debt.
- www.opb.org Portland Mayor Wheeler unveils a new public camping ban policy
After legal hangups skewered his first attempt, Mayor Ted Wheeler is giving a ban on outdoor camping in Portland a second try.
- www.oregonlive.com Washington County has eliminated homeless encampments
Washington County’s largest initial expansion was growing the number of shelter beds from 46 to 426 over two years
- pdx.eater.com Ask Eater: What’s Going on With the Flock Food Hall Downtown?
Some of the tenants are saying the project should open before the summer, but the Block 216 team has been tight-lipped
This is about the alleged food hall that was going to be coming to the Ritz Carlton Tower. They made a big show about how they'd be offering spots to the food carts they displaced.
Well now e-mails are bouncing and there's radio silence from everyone involved about whether there even will be a food hall anymore.
It sounds shocking, I know, but it certainly seems like the olive branch that they offered to assuage everyone's anger about the food carts they were displacing was a lie.
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Columbia County resident under investigation for allegedly freezing puppies to feed pet snake
katu.com Oregon resident under investigation for allegedly freezing puppies to feed pet snakeOfficials say during the execution of the search warrant, the sheriff's office recovered and seized 18 frozen dead puppies.
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Trader Joes Portland Area Boycott?
www.theguardian.com Major US corporations threaten to return labor to ‘law of the jungle’Trader Joe’s and SpaceX are among businesses challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board
Proposing general boycott of Trader Joes. They have joined an unholy trinity of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Starbucks, because they've lost so hard in the past few years against workers forming unions (to push back against awful wages and lack of safety and terrible working conditions pronounced by COVID) that since they can't win fair in union elections under law that has been around for 90 years, want to dismantle the entire apparatus of the NLRB.
If successful, their complaint and other arguments and conclusions that would follow, would lead to loss of labor power that would be strikingly similar to what happened when Trump was allowed to appoint 3 justices and upend the Supreme Court which quickly lead to Roe v. Wade being overturned.
40 hours a week then overtime? Probably deemed unfair to the profit rights of our poor megacorps. Discrimination protections at work? Struck down federally but states allowed to pass their own, for a while, then those would be overturned by SC when challenged. Those would be week 1.
It's sad to see Trader Joes, who espouses lots of human values on its website becoming a mouthpiece for unfettered capitalist abuse of hourly workers.
My boycott, as a 20-year shopper, starts today. I think there are lots of TJs shoppers who think of them as "not Kroger/Walmart/Safeway-Albertsons/etc." but honestly, by throwing in with Musk/Bezos/Starbucks they're no different.
I feel like starting a picket at a store or two, then growing would build some shopper awareness, maybe earn some folks who want to get involved and build from there. Want to join?
- katu.com OMSI crowned #1 Science Museum in 2024 Newsweek Readers' Choice Awards
OMSI was voted #1 Science Museum in the 2024 Newsweek Readers' Choice Awards.The museum made their debutOMSI WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1944... DISPLAYING IT'S FIRST
- cityobservatory.org Monkey-wrenching road pricing
R.I.P. Road Pricing in Oregon: Dead before its even tried More than just money, the demise of pricing monkey-wrenches state transportation policy It’s no surprise: ODOT’s attempts to i…
Here's the fallout from Kotek's decision to stop all tolling, as well as a history of promises made and then broken about tolling.
A couple of things I took from this article:
- Oregon has reduced GHG emissions for most sectors except transportation
- Tolling was part of the plan to reduce transportation emissions
- Tolling on the I-5 Bridge will drastically reduce traffic on it, which obviates the need for more lanes
- Only tolling on I-5 while leaving 205 free creates huge issues
- The state was counting on tolling money for all of its projects, so car dependence is hurting car dependence, which is a small silver lining
- www.oregonlive.com Contractor files lien against downtown Portland’s Block 216 tower
Contractor says it relationship with the building's developer remains strong
- www.oregonlive.com Gov. Tina Kotek shelves plans for I-5, I-205 tolls in Portland area
“The state’s path toward implementing tolling is uncertain at best,” Kotek wrote in a letter to state transportation commissioners.
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Anyone going to see ††† (crosses) this Sunday?
www.mcmenamins.com Crystal Ballroom - ††† (Crosses) - McMenaminsPubs, Breweries and Historic Hotels
I'm new to the area and would love to meet people interested in this kind of synthrock music. Or at least to hear about some local/regional bands with something similar going on.
(I'm not seeing any Portland music communities yet, so hopefully this is okay here)
- katu.com Corbett girls basketball returns home after first title in over 36 years
Y’all heard the young ladies! Go cardinals. Is what the town of Corbett has been screaming for this girls basketball team all season. And after 27 games, they w
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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 Portland police union seeks voting redo on planned accountability boardThe move, if placed on the November ballot and approved by voters, would strip the future board’s power to discipline officers.
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Downtown Portland's Central Library reopens with decor, tech and restroom upgrades
www.opb.org Downtown Portland’s Central Library reopens with decor, tech and restroom upgradesA new paint color, updated bathrooms and lots of portable chargers are just some of the changes that library patrons can expect.
- katu.com Portland's gun violence prevention efforts face financial cliff in 2024
Portland’s multi-million-dollar effort to stop and reverse historic gun violence faces a financial cliff in 2024, a KATU investigation has found.The city joined
- www.theguardian.com A gunman killed and injured protesters at a BLM march. Why did police blame the victims?
Survivors of a mass shooting have publicly shared video contradicting police claims that victims were armed and part of a ‘confrontation’
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Portland exhibit honors Bob Shimabukuro, activist for Northwest's Japanese American redress movement
www.opb.org Portland exhibit honors Bob Shimabukuro, activist for Northwest’s Japanese American redress movement"Craft, Community and Care" features Shimabukuro’s legacy as a journalist, a woodworker and an advocate for diverse social causes at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon through April 14.
- www.opb.org Salem-Keizer teachers move one step closer to potential strike, declare an impasse in bargaining negotiations
Class size and workload remain key sticking points in contract negotiations between the teachers and administration in Oregon’s second-largest school district.
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Apple lobbying against Oregon's right to repair bill that has teeth after "supporting" weaker CA bill.
www.404media.co Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair"It is our belief that the bill’s current language around parts pairing will undermine the security, safety, and privacy of Oregonians by forcing device manufacturers to allow the use of parts of unknown origin in consumer devices."
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AMR pressures Multnomah County over ambulance staffing shortages
www.opb.org AMR pressures Multnomah County over ambulance staffing rulesAmerican Medical Response said it has a plan to address chronic shortages of ambulances, if Multnomah County will loosen its regulations around staffing.
- www.opb.org Poll finds Portland teachers strike damaged public view of school board, state leaders
A poll conducted by the nonprofit Oregon Values and Beliefs Center found a majority feel the Portland teachers strike should have been avoided.
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Here's Gonzalez getting "accosted" on Max
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He filed a police report for someone brushing his shoulder walking through the aisle and then criticizing his homeless policies.
Him not riding Max anymore has nothing to do with "violent and antisocial behavior" and everything to do with him being unwilling to face his constituents.
- www.opb.org Portland City Council members may just have 1 staffer each in 2025
Portland is entering a historic new chapter in city government with an increasingly light wallet. Those tasked with overseeing the government change are now concerned that the city’s budget shortfalls could hinder its ability to start its next chapter off right.
- www.opb.org Portland State plans to become destination school for Indigenous doctorate students
Portland State University announced plans to dramatically increase the diversity of its Ph.D. programs with the help of a two-year, $250,000 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- www.opb.org Portland school and parks leaders announce agreement shifting control of Grant Bowl athletic fields
The turf field, which has been closed for repairs since last August, would be managed by Portland Public Schools under the proposal.
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Woman attacked outside downtown Portland apartment, suffers bruised eye
katu.com Woman attacked outside downtown Portland apartment, suffers bruised eye | KATUA woman is recovering after she says she was attacked outside her downtown Portland apartment. The victim now has a bruised eye.The woman did not want to give h