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I used to live in rural Oregon, it is not as easy to find ballot dropoff sites as just bicycling over to a nearby Multnomah County Library branch if you live in Portland. But the solution might be to increase rural ballot drop boxes (schools, fire houses) than just counting on the USPS.

I did not know Oregon allowed late ballots to be counted, apparently that's a recent development. I used to hear on the TV news on the Thursday before an election, "It's too late to mail your ballot, take it to a library or the county elections office."

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We lost Martin Luther King Jr. this day in 1968.
May have only been 2yrs old, but as soon as I learned about him and our loss of him and his care for our future, I cried about his loss.
It’s our duty to continue his vision for our children and all of the children who see what is happening now!

Portland selects company to build 15 new streetcars The City of Portland has selected CAF USA to build and deliver 15 new streetcars as part of an expansion and modernization of the Portland Streetcar system, officials announced this week.

Portland selects company to build 15 new streetcars

Hegseth Holds Protestant-Only Religious Service at Pentagon According to a Friday report from HuffPost, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon held a Protestant-only Good Friday service at its in-house chapel, with no Catholic Mass scheduled for one of Chri...

Anti-Catholic bigot Pete Hegseth Holds Protestant-Only Religious Service at Pentagon. Hegseth banned a Catholic service for the first time. I keep telling people: The white GOP evangelicals have long hated Catholics www.mediaite.com/media/news/h...

"Four Catholic faith leaders washed feet and offered Communion to 14 DHS detainees at the ICE facility in Broadview IL on Holy Thursday..."

"Outside in rain and heavy winds, 50 Catholic faithful held a Holy Thursday liturgy, blessed the delegation and held their own Washing of the Feet ritual..."

‘He’s very angry’: These 2 cabinet members could be next on Trump’s chopping block “He’s going to be moving people.”

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And Howard Lutnick as well

There are some chatters that Lori Chavez-DeRemer might be the next in line to be fired

Measles cases are increasing in Oregon. Here’s what to know • Oregon Capital Chronicle As of April 3, a total of 13 measles cases have been reported in Oregon since the start of 2026, according to the Oregon Health Authority.

Oregon is on track to surpass the number of measles cases it had during its peak outbreak year in 2024, according to the Oregon Health Authority.

Trump's 'Homeland empire' Mass deportations, smash and grab wars, attacks on domestic civil rights, the hijacking of the economy. Professor Nikhil Pal Singh asks: What if President Donald Trump’s ramping up of militarism at ho...

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Cover of Street Roots April 1, 2026 issue. Large text says, "Treated and Trapped. Why are patients at the Oregon State Hospital cleared for release but still unable to leave? PAGE 4."

🗞 In the new issue of Street Roots: Patients at Oregon State Hospital stuck in limbo, Oregon farmworker activists reflect on the movement, April Arts for All calendar and more.

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Broken Elevators Reduce Access to a Southeast Portland Railroad Crossing Sophie Peel

Two elevators that allow cyclists and people with mobility challenges to use the pedestrian bridge over train tracks in Southeast Portland are both out of service.

This sounds worse than Joe Biden saying something about "beating Medicaid."

Any yahoo can go to a 5.11 store (there's one on Barbur Blvd and another one in Tualatin) and buy almost everything they need for their ICE costume, except for a gun and a badge.

Since last spring there have been many documented cases of ICE impersonators committing various crimes across the U.S., and now also in Portland.

DOJ Admits ICE Has Engaged In Illegal Courthouse Arrests For Most Of The Past Year This is big. This is going to cause a whole lot of problems for the administration in the hundreds of ICE-related lawsuits it’s defending itself against. It’s a Perry Mason moment, albe…

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It remains to be seen if Kennedy v. Bremerton SD and Chiles v. Salazar would affect the foster parents. Chiles deals with a licensed professional in private practice, and Kennedy deals with a public school teacher.

Polling has an AI respondent problem Democracy doesn't know what's coming.

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Foster parents are agents of the state to care for children who are wards of the state. So they are kind of quasi-public officials (or government contractors doing the state's job on its behalf). So the foster parents' religious liberty is more limited.

New COVID-19 variant, ‘Cicada,’ mostly infecting children, health officials say A mutated version of COVID-19 appears to be mostly infecting children.

New COVID-19 variant, ‘Cicada,’ mostly infecting children, health officials say

Trump’s Anti-Migrant Surge Is Now A Mudslide That’s Wiping Out What’s Left Of His DOJ Trump’s do everything all at once approach to immigration enforcement is starting to go off the rails. Trump’s plainly stated hatred of “shithole countries” and their inhabi…

brain drain

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A Biden student loan plan has ended. Here’s what borrowers need to know. • Oregon Capital Chronicle A federal court order last month capped years of chaos for more than 7 million student borrowers enrolled in the program.

A federal court order last month to effectively axe a Biden-era student loan repayment plan capped years of chaos for more than 7 million student borrowers enrolled in the program. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/02/r...

Does the "important new job in the private sector" mean one of the Trump businesses?

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

The Belmont Goats settling in at Pier Park - North Peninsula Review Share thisBy Barbara Quinn The Belmont Goats, the famed herd originally brought in to devour overgrowth at a vacant lot in Southeast Portland in 2012, are now firmly established at Pier Park in St. Jo...

The Belmont Goats settling in at Pier Park northpeninsulareview.com/the-belmont-... #PDX #Portland

It's worth noting that D'ump throws women under the bus first to save his own ass.