Good Morning, Portland. Hopefully your election hangover has worn off by now.
ICYMI, Ted Wheeler earned more than half the vote and was elected mayor, avoiding a November runoff. Check out our election night dispatch that made it into this week's print issue.
Portlanders who rent are dumb, says this tone deaf billboard, seen from the Hawthorne Bridge. A bunch of people are talking about this on Reddit: "'Hey, yeah, I am too smart to get a mortgage from a stodgy old bank! I'm going with that hip company whose logo is my lock screen password!'"
A group of senior citizens played the Moda Center on Tuesday night. Check out Ned Lannamann's post about an amazing show from The Who.
The Oregonian: "Portland is the 26th largest city in the U.S., new census figures show":
As of July 1, 2015, Portland had 632,309 residents, according to census estimates. That lands the City of Roses between Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, which ranks 27th, and the Nashville-Davidson area in Tennessee, which ranked 25th on the total size ranking.
There's been 7,578 millennials-in-the-workplace trend pieces published by news outlets in the last month. KOIN has the latest one.
Donald Trump ally Rep. Chris Collins says his Mexico wall plan is a metaphor, or some shit:
The first member of Congress to endorse Donald Trump for president doesn’t envision one of Trump’s main campaign promises – a wall at the Mexican border – ever becoming a reality that stretches from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
“I have called it a virtual wall,” Rep. Chris Collins said in an interview with The Buffalo News.
Vice has an interesting story about a Florida city "nearly destroyed by poverty and Corruption":
"It's a small poor city that has never had good government," Robert Jarvis, a legal ethics professor at Nova Southeastern University, told me. "Opa-Locka was formed in the 1920s, a time when there was a lot of swindling and phony land deals going on in Florida. When you add on top of it poverty, crime and real urban ills, the chances of having a clean government are basically non-existent."
The New Yorker: "Lessons from America's first memory world champion."
Joe Biden, a national treasure: