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A Multnomah County decide declared Mayor Wheeler’s 2020 city-wide curfew as unconstitutional. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland
Completely happy Thursday, and Porcvvvvvvvvvvvvvvcccccccccccczzzzzz from my cat, Sprinkles, who simply stepped on my keyboard.
IN LOCAL NEWS
• Roads in Northeast Portland are again open after the Streetcar derailed early this morning at Grand and Weidler. Portland Bureau of Transportation reported {that a} truck ran a purple gentle, smashing into the practice, which popped off the tracks. There have been no accidents and every thing was cleaned up inside just a few hours! I positive would really feel unhealthy if I used to be the one who ran the purple gentle after which tousled a bunch of individuals’s mornings which is why I DON’T RUN RED LIGHTS.
ALERT: NE Weidler CLOSED at NE Grand for Portland Streetcar derailment after a automobile crashed into streetcar. Keep away from the world. One lane open on NE Grand. A and B Loop streetcar service CLOSED. Count on site visitors delays through noon. #pdxtraffic pic.twitter.com/Fo9KtCNAUX
— Portland Bureau of Transportation (@PBOTinfo) January 20, 2022
• Would you like extra information about site visitors within the Northeastern quadrant of Portland? Then I’ve received information for you, and it is this: The Feds are sending ODOT again to the drafting board on the proposed I-5 growth by the Rose Quarter as a result of adjustments within the undertaking imply that now they have to attract up a brand new Environmental Impression Assertion. Organizers hope this can put the brakes (haha) on the undertaking fully, though ODOT maintains they’re going to get the inexperienced gentle (!) to start out development later subsequent yr.
• A Multnomah County decide dismissed the case towards a protester arrested in the course of the 2020 George Floyd protests as a result of Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-wide curfew “was not sufficiently narrowly tailor-made to the federal government curiosity of stopping property harm and crime. As such, it was facially unconstitutional below the primary modification to the USA Structure.” Sure, the first modification. He would not have even needed to learn the Structure very far to get to that half!
A recent poll from The People for Portland campaign misrepresented Portland Street Response’s intent, suggesting it could be used in an enforcement role. An important reminder that PSR exists to assist those in need, not police them, @mkaiasand writes. https://t.co/w1NrBWix6t
— Road Roots (@StreetRoots) January 20, 2022
• Should you’ve been blaming the climate for being a lazy bag of bones, your luck has run out: it is wanting like we’re in for a number of days of gentle temperatures and no rain.
Canine, kids, and outdoorsy sorts: rejoice! Cats and cat individuals: stick with it.
Sprinkles the Cat has no idea of climate.
IN NATIONAL NEWS
• Immediately is the 2-year anniversary of the primary reported case of COVID in the USA. Since that day, there have been 69 million circumstances reported within the US and over 860,000 deaths. President Biden yesterday held a press convention the place he admitted they need to have ramped up testing sooner however testing was getting higher! Relatedly, right now I received an e-mail from my medical health insurance supplier about find out how to get house checks and I opened it, pondering testing was getting higher, and my medical health insurance supplier was identical to “need healthcare? LOL, not from us! Discuss to the Put up Workplace, byeeeeee.”
5 of you stand earlier than me however i solely have 4 at-home speedy covid checks in my arms pic.twitter.com/MaPxbpuuED
— bubblegum bitch! (@Iamujer_) January 19, 2022
• The forty fifth President’s grownup daughter has been requested by the January 6 Fee to voluntary cooperate of their investigation of simply what the previous President was as much as that day. The AP reviews that: “The committee says it needs to debate what Ivanka Trump knew about her father’s efforts.” Ivanka’s spokesperson responded with “Ivanka didn’t communicate on the January 6 rally,” which isn’t an actual response. That is like someone saying, “Elinor, we wish to talk about what about there not being any extra peach rings in your home regardless of there having lately been a big buy of peach rings” and my spokesperson says “Elinor didn’t communicate on the January 6 rally.” It is simply completely different data. (However no, I don’t have any touch upon the peach rings.)
• Talking of sweet: Mars, the corporate that makes M&Ms, has introduced an replace to the sweet characters that mirror a “extra dynamic, progressive world.” It is a nice strategy to make numerous web dorks mad, who will then write about it and generate a bunch of free publicity for a billion-dollar company. (Hello! Sorry, it is simply humorous to consider sweet having intercourse, LOL.)
For the file, Twix are bi.
— billy eichner (@billyeichner) January 20, 2022
