Columbia Basin and Willamette Valley may hit 100°F later this week – Ingalls Weather
https://ingallswx.com/2024/09/03/columbia-basin-and-willamette-valley-may-hit-100f-later-this-week/
Price gouging, worker and customer safety, and even less choice; Kroger Albertson's takeover bid and why it's awful for everyone except monopolists.
KOIN TV Workers Allege Outrageous Union-Busting Tactics from Management
https://www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/08/07/47346851/koin-tv-workers-allege-outrageous-union-busting-tactics-from-management
KOIN-TV’s videographers, photographers, engineers, directors, and other production staff have always worked hard to get Portland’s news out to television screens across the city. But for the last several years, employees have had to put up with more than grueling overnight shifts and the typical ups and downs of the news industry. Since massive media conglomerate Nexstar purchased KOIN in 2016, unionized production staff at the station say they’ve experienced relentless union-busting tactics from their...
Concrete planters for calming traffic removed after frequent collisions
https://bikeportland.org/2024/07/30/concrete-planters-for-calming-traffic-removed-after-frequent-collisions-388923
Some might think they worked as intended.
I-5 will be closed for over 4 miles from 9 p.m. Friday, June 28 to 5 a.m. Monday, July 1
Oregon Department of Transportation : Project-Details : Projects : State of Oregon
https://www.oregon.gov/odot/projects/pages/project-details.aspx?project=20486
Oregon Rebate 2024
https://www.oregonrebate.org/
The 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.
Officials rescue 28 riders trapped upside-down at Oaks Amusement Park
https://www.koin.com/news/portland/rescue-multiple-riders-trapped-upside-down-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…
Oregon DOT PSA explains new bike passing law
ODOT latest PSA explains new bike passing law
https://bikeportland.org/2024/06/13/odot-latest-psa-explains-new-bike-passing-law-387534
Wish this was required viewing for all Oregonians.
Portland is losing the ‘graffiti war’ | CHAOSTOWN S1FINALE
https://youtu.be/7npnxP_6poA
... but that doesn’t mean the writers are winning either. The state is spending $4 million to buff graffiti, but will throwing money at the problem really pu...