Here's an interesting twist on a story first reported in the Mercury: City officials, after blessing a weird arrangement where a security company owned by the head park ranger was being paid to patrol a city park, apparently has changed its mind. The city put Park Ranger Supervisor Hasan Artharee on paid leave last week.


Janelle Monae and her crew swung through Portland yesterday to show solidarity with Don't Shoot PDX protesters and play a free show at the Roseland. That was solid of you, Janelle Monae and crew.

Kicker! Looks like you're getting a partial refund of your 2014 taxes. How partial? That'll become clear tomorrow.

It's not your imagination—this fire season is over-the-top awful. A fire burning in Northern Washington is the largest in the history of the state.

Not just limited to the wilderness, either. Harrison Park School caught fire this morning (for electrical reasons).


Everyone lost their minds over the stock market yesterday, as exchanges around the world saw worrisome declines. Most people tie the plummet to concerns over China's economy, though they're more nuanced than all that. So what's your play? Don't sell, say many experts. And they're right. Markets are up this morning.

The NYT wants to act like Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush is swinging back against the crass pugnaciousness of Donald Trump. The evidence? He called Trump's immigration ideas "unrealistic" and "acidly recommended that the businessman read Mr. Bush’s book 'Immigration Wars' to acquaint himself with a practical solution." ZING! Wow, you got him.

Laughing While Black is the name of a new movement shaping up on social media after a book club made up of black women was tossed from the Napa Valley Wine Train for laughing too loudly.

The amount of Middle Eastern refugees and migrants drowning in their attempts to reach Europe this year is staggering, and set to get worse.

People were freaking out about the destruction of a Syrian temple yesterday, but ISIS has plenty more antiquities on hand to destroy.

Rain's coming!

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