Most important story right now: Paris, and the extremely crucial—maybe hopeful?—climate talks that'll unfold there over the next couple weeks. They kicked off yesterday, with many world powers seemingly in a good frame of mind (particularly biggies like the US, China, and India). Here's what long shot success looks like. Mayor Charlie Hales plans to fly out later this week.

Hey, whoever keeps lighting fires inside Madison High School: It's not cute or cool. Cut it out. (And yes, I realize you're not reading this.)

A man died up on Mount Jefferson yesterday. Thomas Fountain was 32, and climbing with his wife when he fell into a crevasse.

A new homeless shelter for women that opened on Thanksgiving has seen immediate demand, with dozens of women hopping a shuttle in the evening to bed down in an old US Army Reserve building the city owns in SW Portland.

Lewis & Clark College has been racked by a series of racist sentiments and reported attacks that emerged shortly after the college hosted its yearly forum on race a few weeks back. To handle the situation, the college's president is planning a forum on race. Students aren't so keen on the idea.

Meanwhile, Oregon State University says it's enacting a policy aimed at weeding out sexual predators: If you've been kicked out of another higher learning institution in the last seven years, you're not going to OSU.

Sometimes you fire a warning shot at a weird stranger, and the stranger goes and gets a gun and fires his own shots, and you drive off. Then a mile or so later you realize, oh, you've been shot in both legs.

Today in terrorists: The alleged killer who began indiscriminately firing a rifle near a Colorado Planned Parenthood on Friday made his first appearance in court. He acted weird.

And four men have been charged in the shootings at a Minneapolis Black Lives Matters rally last week. It was mainly (allegedly) a super-racist 23-year-old who doesn't think tax laws apply to him. But he had some backup, too.

Black Friday: Either it was bad, and that's worrisome for people, or no one expects Black Friday to be much of a thing anymore.

Hey! 7 am and it's not below freezing! Super-cold rain, here I come!

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