It's Election Day, everyone! Not the shiniest of election days, but important. Four members of the Portland Public Schools Board of Education will be elected (find out about them here). Of course, it's far, far too late to mail your ballot. Instead, get it to one of these drop boxes by 8 pm. The O answers other questions you might have. Seriously, get going. Let's not make this another 2009.

With less than a month and a half until recreational pot is officially legal, things are getting interesting in Salem. A new set of amendments unveiled yesterday would ditch the voter-approved tax structure set forth in 2014's Measure 91 (a tidy $35 an ounce for pot flowers, and less for other parts of the plant) in favor of a dreaded sales tax, which some say makes most sense. Also: There's fresh buy-in to an idea that would let adults cop recreational pot from medical dispensaries beginning in October, until a proper recreational system can be set out. And there's still drama over proposed limits on the medical marijuana system.

Pembina Pipeline has been pretty quiet since Mayor Charlie Hales came out in opposition of the $500 million terminal they were planning in North Portland. Now, they've opened up to the Tribune (which editorialized against Hales' change of heart), releasing a supportive letter the mayor sent back in February, criticizing his about-face, and admitting they're trying to lobby Portland's four city commissioners on the merits of the proposal.

Things that seem ominous this morning: 10 houses, apparently set ablaze, in Vancouver. Seven dump trucks aflame in Milwaukie. What's this, then?

Poor PCC President Jeremy Brown. He got called out for looking for new employment, and now the college board has let him go—with a measly $300,000 to keep him warm.

Guns? Oh just keeping us safer. A Montana teenager heard someone knocking at his bedroom window, so figured he'd shoot whoever it was. And it was his 15-year-old friend, now dead from a bullet to the head.

One big reason ISIS was able to take the major Iraqi city of Ramadi over the weekend: An opportune sandstorm.

Bertha, that enormous drill that's supposed to be tunnelling away under Seattle like some sort of TMNT conveyance has officially reached Droopy Dog-level pitifulness.

Sun's coming.

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Maybe sort of rainy today, though. Shield yourselves.