Not great days to be bigoted in Portland, y'all. A West Linn nurse is fighting off calls that her nursing license be revoked after she admitted writing blatant and terrible racist notes for a neighbor.

And Sweet Cakes by Melissa, the Gresham bakery fined more than $100,000 for refusing service to a same-sex couple, is taking a new tack to fend off the penalty: Parroting a right-wing journalist by asserting Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian is in too tight with the LGBT rights group Basic Rights Oregon.

You, the people, elected City of Portland employee Mike Rosen to serve on the school board of Portland Public Schools. Not that you really had a choice—Rosen was the only person running for his seat. Trouble is: No one's really sure what he's up to. He's been on leave from his job for a while now, and isn't responding to media.

This city's going to keep tearing down houses to put new ones in their place. We all know this. Now Mayor Charlie Hales is trying to convince developers to take houses apart piece-by-piece rather than demolishing them. It's more environmentally legit, but costs more.

The public works director of southerly suburb Gladstone is a registered sex offender, having been convicted of sexually abusing a person under 18 when he was 47. It's not a problem with his employer, and he sometimes makes presentations to schoolchildren.

Multnomah County, perpetually suing or being sued the people it hires to fix its bridges, has some new arguments about why fresh problems with the Sellwood Bridge aren't its fault.

Tragedy in China, where a four-story cruise ship capsized in the Yangtze River. It's looking like more than 400 people are dead at this point.

Meet the FBI's secretive aerial spy fleet, uncovered in detail by the Associated Press in a new report. Who knows what that low-flying Cessna's up to?

Oh, and also: Read about how these new and robust debates around the Patriot Act are all so much window dressing. Pretty much nothing's going to change about the Patriot Act.

Fresh troubles in Syria, where ISIS has launched a fresh campaign, further straining attempts to kill it dead.

Also: Militants in Yemen just released an American journalist, though they're apparently holding others. Casey L. Coombs is on his way back to Seattle.

Caitlyn Jenner is looking well.

Worth moving to New Jersey? There are beluga whales in the rivers.

Your future, rendered in crude drawings.

First rule of Divorce? "Don't worry about the details," turns out.