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ICYMI: Check out an interactive map of the 120 properties city and county officials considered for potential homeless shelters.
Some more homeless news: "The Portland Business Alliance is now opposing a homeless shelter... at a property it suggested."
Portland's volunteer police oversight board—the Citizen Review Committee—may be merged with the bureau's Police Review Board. Some say the new plan may make things worse.
Our feature story out in print yesterday, making the case for Hillary Clinton: "But if you’re a disaffected registered voter who loved Bernie, and you’re Just Okay on Clinton, even though you’ll still vote for her, however lukewarmly—and you’re open to the possibility of feeling better about exercising your civic duty come November? Let’s do this."
Politics, man. "A volunteer for a Democrat running for a Clackamas County seat in the Oregon Legislature faces criminal charges for allegedly recording the Republican candidate talking politics with him in a private campaign office,"the Oregonian reports. It's illegal to record in-person conversations unless others are informed.
Modest Mouse singer Isaac Brock apparently fell asleep while driving and "hit the rear of a City of Portland Parks pick-up-truck, which hit a Subaru, which hit another Subaru, which likely hit a 5th car," police spokesperson Pete Simpson told the Oregonian about the most Portland car crash ever. Here's an entirely obvious but nonetheless very solid joke:
is this the same fucking guy who backed his car into a cop car the other day https://t.co/VUwbSIqJUN
— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) August 4, 2016
A North Portland churchwants to help with the city's housing crisis, the Portland Tribune reports:
Almost two years ago, University Park United Methodist Church’s members discussed the possibility of utilizing their property to build affordable housing units for low-income households. In April, when the church’s Board of Trustees of the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference agreed to guarantee the loan, University Park’s talk turned into action.
The church, at 4775 N. Lombard St., is now securing loans, hiring a contractor and awaiting permit approvals.
The congregation will build a 26-unit apartment building on its property, which will cost $2.1 million to construct, says the developer, Rob Justus. Funding will come from a bank loan and the profits of selling a home set aside to house the pastor, which is no longer needed.
Portland veteran (and former mayoral candidate) Sean Davis, a Purple Heart recipient, wrote a viral open letter to Donald Trump after the presidential candidate was gifted a Purple Heart before saying "I always wanted to get the Purple Heart, this was much easier."KATU spoke with Davis about the letter.
Speaking of Donald Trump, Politico reports this morning that his wife, Melania, may have been working illegally in the United States before she became a citizen. "Nude photographs published this week are raising fresh questions about the accuracy of a key aspect of Melania Trump’s biography: her immigration status when she first came to the United States to work as a model," they report. "The racy photos of the would-be first lady, published in the New York Post on Sunday and Monday, inadvertently highlight inconsistencies in the various accounts she has provided over the years."
Clint Eastwood, a crotchety old man, gave a crotchety interview to Esquire. America's youth are the "pussy generation," he said. Highlights of it in Jezebel.
In Gawker, "Overburdened Public Defender's Office Orders Missouri Governor to Defend Poor Client": "Taking advantage of a law that allows him to assign any case to any member of the state bar, Missouri’s chief public defender, Michael Barrett, appointed Missouri Governor Jay Nixon (a fiscally conservative Democrat finishing his second term) as the defense attorney of a poor client this week, citing the governor’s refusal to provide his office with the resources it needs."