Coming soon to the South Waterfront: Up to 1,200 probably quite expensive apartments, courtesy of San Francisco's top apartment builder.
A man who worked at Precision Castparts for nearly two decades says he was fired for complaining about inflammatory racial remarks. He wants a cool $600,000.
Also getting sued? Comcast. By the State of Washington, which says the company has been charging customers for a bogus protection plan. That'll be $100 million if the state gets its way.
Tragic and so avoidable: The 25-year-old woman killed at SE Flavel and 82nd over the weekend was bicycling eastbound on Flavel. A box truck driving alongside right-hooked her.
The NYT dips its gray old toes into the Columbia River to examine how the Mosier oil train derailment might put the brakes on a massive oil terminal in Southwest Washington.
Speaking of environmental cataclysm:Fire season's returned!
And speaking of efforts to fend off that cataclysm: Oregon's bottle/can deposit is about to go up to 10 cents next year—just like in the Michigan of my youth (also: present day Michigan). That was triggered when return rates dropped below 80 percent for two consecutive years.
Remember:
A To-Do List for Promoting Competitive Ride-Sharing Markets https://t.co/XD2yct8Ezhpic.twitter.com/esq0f1IzM5
— City Observatory (@CityObs) August 2, 2016
The Zika virus is taking off in the US, as has long been anticipated. It is not good news, but Oregon, at least, is not very welcoming to the two species of mosquito that carry the virus.
Oooh-weee! Republicans aren't calming down over Donald Trump's comments about the Muslim parents of a soldier killed in Iraq. Not even a little bit.
About the father of that heroic soldier: Khizr Khan's speech at the Democratic National Convention—which is what Trump lashed out at—has apparently inspired lots of people to buy the annotated pocket constitutions favored by the Harney County occupiers and their ilk. So, not great.
The latest polls?Sure.
Channing Tatum is about to be a merman, and people are losing their shit.
Please have a pleasant day.
