A stunning, eloquent, wonderful, sobering, sorrowing piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates, published 4 July at The Atlantic, excerpted from his upcoming book, Between the World and Me.
'And, he says, members share the concerns articulated by the Central Eastside Industrial Council (CEIC), an influential business group that's made a case that the city's on the verge of perverting its own stringent zoning standards, leaving the door open to dozens of new homeless encampments throughout the city.
"Our agenda turns out not to be very NIMBY-like, interestingly enough," McCullough says. "If we had a sense that there were six options and this was the best one, we'd probably support it."' ... McCullough 'wants the city's take on whether Portland's homeless population—largely focused near the social services of downtown—will even want to live near OMSI (he acknowledged there are already homeless people living in the neighborhood).' ... 'McCullough and his neighbors have waded into a hugely expensive land deal to save three towering sequoias.'
You can now tack on 20 of the city's neighborhood associations to the list of people concerned about the proposed relocation of homeless rest area Right 2 Dream Too.
The board of SE Uplift, a powerful coalition of mainly southeast Portland neighborhoods, voted last night to ask Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Amanda Fritz to better explain the planned move from beneath Old Town's Chinatown gate to a vacant, state-owned lot just east of the new Tilikum Crossing bridge.
"The vote last night was to support further discussion," says Robert McCullough, chair of the neighborhood coalition. "A letter's going out from our office probably today or tomorrow. It's gonna say we would like to roll up our sleeves."
McCullough took pains to stress his coalition's potential gripes have nothing to do with NIMBYism. Neighborhood associations are concerned about a lack of process, he says— casually invoking neighbors' hand in scuttling the proposed Mount Hood Freeway in 1974—and the fact homeless people living at the proposed site could be subjected to excess diesel emissions from nearby railways.
And, he says, members share the concerns articulated by the Central Eastside Industrial Council (CEIC), an influential business group that's made a case that the city's on the verge of perverting its own stringent zoning standards, leaving the door open to dozens of new homeless encampments throughout the city.
"Our agenda turns out not to be very NIMBY-like, interestingly enough," McCullough says. "If we had a sense that there were six options and this was the best one, we'd probably support it."
What the group is really asking for is that city staff account for itself. SE Uplift, like the CEIC, wants a written rationale for why a homeless camp should be allowed on a site zoned for industrial use, and a list of other potential sites. McCullough stresses his group has the highest regard for R2Dtoo, but wants the city's take on whether Portland's homeless population—largely focused near the social services of downtown—will even want to live near OMSI (he acknowledged there are already homeless people living in the neighborhood). And it's interested in the outcome of environmental impact tests the city is conducting.
SE Uplift's involvement throws important heft behind CEIC's request to hit the brakes on the R2DToo move—largely because it's willing to go to the mat for its chosen causes. The group, and particularly McCullough, emerged as a central doubter in the recent "street fee" discussions, going to court and agreeing to pay thousands of dollars just to check the city's math. More recently, McCullough and his neighbors have waded into a hugely expensive land deal to save three towering sequoias.
"As you know, we've litigated in the past," McCullough says. "No one has proposed that."
Hales and Fritz unveiled the proposed move in late April—a day after announcing it to the CEIC. City staffers had spent a year and a half scouring the city for suitable homes for the homeless encampment, and they said the central eastside plot was the best they'd found.
The move was presented at the time as a foregone conclusion. In 2013, Fritz had obtained an opinion from the city's Bureau of Development Services (BDS) that R2DToo could be classified as a "community service," a designation that made it suitable to set up shop on a wide variety of city lands. The CEIC has questioned that finding, though, and is asking (along with SE Uplift) for a fresh evaluation of the encampment's fitness on the new site. At very least, the group has suggested, the encampment would have to file for a building permit, since the city is planning showers and restrooms on the plot. That could open up the move to lengthy process.
The questions are made more interesting by Commissioner Dan Saltzman's sudden stewardship of BDS, which will have a big say in this process. Saltzman has been R2DToo's biggest foe on city council, overseeing thousands of dollars in fines levied on the camp before Fritz smoothed things over in 2013.
A call to Hales' office about SE Uplift's vote hasn't been returned, but spokesman Dana Haynes said last week the move was on track for late summer. Once the city's environmental review process is complete, officials will need to negotiate a deal to purchase the site at SE 3rd and Harrison from the Oregon Dept. of Transportation.
Birds occasionally become a factor during MLB games, whether they are being hit by a Randy Johnson fastball or landing in the outfield looking for food. Some seagulls are one thing. A duck landing on the field and casually taking in some action is an entirely different situation. That's exactly what happened at Wrigley Field on Tuesday.
Carlos Martinez and some of the other Cardinals seemed to enjoy it.
The Cardinals seem to attract animals while they are on the road. Earlier this year a few skunks invaded the St. Louis dugout when the Cardinals were playing the Dodgers.
Last year, whenever women asked Jazmin Hupp about starting a medical-marijuana business in New York, she responded with a question: “Do you have a million dollars?” No one said yes — until Amy Peckham and her daughters Hillary and Keeley called her last September.
Director Paul Feig continues to tease us with images of iconic Ghostbusters items, updated for the his new film. The latest is Ecto-1, which Feig tweeted with “#whattheygonnadrive.” It looks pretty great!
Once-prolific hip hop artist Talib Kweli has been relatively quiet of late; although he put out a live album last year, and has continued to drop the occasional mixtape, the Black Star member hasn’t had a major release since 2013’s semi-autobiographical Gravitas. So members of the Kweli Club were in for a nice surprise today, when the artist announced, sans fanfare, the release of a new album of unreleased tracks and B-sides, including performances from big names like Killer Mike, Kanye West, and Common. Titled Train of Thought: Lost Lyrics, Rare Releases & Beautiful B-Sides Vol. 1, the album is a mix of unused songs from a variety of Kweli’s projects over the years, including “Bright As Stars,” an unreleased Black Star cut. The track listing for the album, which also includes production credits for Hi Tek and DJ Quik, is available below. Train Of Thought can ...
Did you actually go on dates with any of these dudes?
I did - people ask if I posted the ad just to make the book, but I was looking for dates in earnest in 2005. I went on dates with two dudes, and both were very cute and very nice. One guy (he was really into puzzles) wrote to me after our first date that he wasn’t over his ex and didn’t want to go out again. The other guy (he did research at the south pole) I went out with twice, but on the second date we ran out of things to talk about. Neither of us bothered to call the other to try and set up a third.
Were you surprised by these responses, or were they pretty much what you expected from posting a craigslist dating ad?
I was surprised to get so many responses! And I got, like, two dick pics. I can’t remember if I knew to expect that or not. Online dating was still pretty new in 2005. Dedicated dating sites like <a href="http://Match.com" rel="nofollow">Match.com</a> and OK Cupid were just starting to take off, but people were still doing a lot of dating through Craigslist - having to set up a profile on a dating website seemed like such a hassle back then.
Are there any dudes in the zine who you didn’t go out with but sort of wish you had in hindsight?
Looking back, I wish I had tried to go out with more than two guys. I mean, the goal was to find someone to make out with, and I went through all that trouble and didn’t get to do any making out. I remember there was at least one other cute dude I was emailing with (he had sent me a picture of himself on a boat), but after I had set up the other dates I was telling myself DON’T GET GREEDY.
Tell us where you met your husband. Was it ON THE INTERNET? Do you hate internet dating?
I don’t hate internet dating! The craigslist experience certainly didn’t turn me off it - I went on OK Cupid afterward and also this site that probably no one else remembers call Consumating (I was totally obsessed with my rating on that site even though I never met a single person from it).
And yes, I met my husband on the internet! I was in college before the invention of Facebook. At the time, we all used Livejournal. The web of people involved is sort of confusing, but I had some online friends in Virginia who connected me with their friend when I moved to California. Greg and I were Livejournal friends for a long time, then real life friends, then real life friends who made each other mix tapes, then friends who made each other mix tapes and smooched a bunch. The internet is magical!
What are you working on (zine projects or otherwise) now?
Right now I’m working on a book about Wikipedia. Back when my insomnia was bad, I would read Wikipedia on my phone until I fell asleep - and I ended up in some pretty weird places. It’s been fun digging through some of the odder lists and categories; hopefully the end product will be humorous (or at least help someone else fall asleep at night).
Who’s another zine-maker that you like a whole lot and want to tell everyone about?
I’m a big fan of the ladies at Paperlinks Press. There’s a lot of talent on that blog!
Thanks Amy! You can see more of Amy’s work on her website, buy stuff on etsy, and follow her on tumblr!
Waze, the traffic-mapping app that Google acquired in 2013 for upwards of $1 billion, launched its first spin-off app on Monday. The new app, RideWith, sees Waze and Google entering the carpooling business.
The app is now live in the Google Play store for Android devices, but it currently only works in Waze's home country of Israel (and you'll need to turn Google Translate on if you visit the official site and don't read Hebrew). An announcement at Waze's official blog described the app as a "carpool pilot," and it clarified that hopeful passengers will need to download and load the new app while drivers could opt into the program directly through the Waze app. With the RideWith app, riders can enter their commute info, then wait for an alert when a route-friendly driver has been found. Users can suss out drivers by way of profiles, prior riders' reviews, and even through a chat option.
The announcement explained that the app creates a price quote, based on distance and wear-and-tear values, when someone seeks a ride (which they can edit with their own "maximum" value). Potential drivers can then decide whether or not they want to accept that payment and take the passenger in question. The app handles payment with an apparent "nominal Waze commission" added to the price. The announcement didn't clarify an amount, and a Google spokesperson declined to answer our question about the exact figure.
“Stick with me and trust me that I am joking. I go in and out of playing an irreverent idiot. That includes making dumb jokes involving race …You can call it a ‘blind spot for racism’ or ‘lazy’ but you are wrong. It is a joke and it is funny. I know that because people laugh at it. Even if you personally did not. I am not going to start joking about safe material…. Trust me. I am not racist.”
Amy Schumer apologies if she “hurt anyone” with a joke that calls Hispanic men rapists.
Next you're encouraged to complete your profile by specifying hair color and length, eye color, build, and height. The app pulls your age from Facebook if connected. The idea is to allow Cityglancers to find people they have seen on previous commutes and connect with them. You could also just look for someone whose appearance floats your boat. (Permalink)
The gun used to kill a 32-year-old woman on San Francisco’s waterfront was stolen from a federal agent in a car burglary in June, sources close to the investigation said Tuesday.
The .40-caliber pistol was stolen from the agent not long before Kathryn Steinle was shot to death July 1 at Pier 14 on the Embarcadero, said one source, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the case publicly.
In a 2013 audit, the library’s inspector general warned that millions of items, some from as far back as the 1980s, remained piled in overflowing buildings and warehouses, virtually lost to the world. In addition, just a small fraction of its 24 million books are available to read online, 200 years after Thomas Jefferson laid the foundation for a vast national library by selling Congress his personal collection of books after the War of 1812.
The latest government investigation, delivered in March, accused the library of “widespread weaknesses” in managing its technology resources and cited a “lack of strong, consistent leadership” in that area. That report, and other recent complaints about Dr. Billington’s leadership, had caught the attention of the library’s congressional patrons.
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Brewster, Jason and Carl should run whatever we’re going to call the Library of Congress going forward.
The Internet Archive (archive.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
Founded in 1996, the Internet Archive has an historical web collection (the Wayback Machine) of over 150 billion web pages, about 240,000 movies, over 500,000 audio items (including over 70,000 live concerts), over 1,800,000 texts, 1600 education items, and over 30,000 software items. And we’re growing bigger every day!
The Internet Archive’s Collections Team started this blog to highlight new collections and interesting items. We hope you enjoy it!
Digital Librarian http://openlibrary.org http://brewster.kahle.orghttp://archive.org @internetarchive @openlibrary – Brewster Kahle.
Proprietor of http://TEXTFILES.COM , historian, filmmaker, archivist, famous cat maintenance staff. Works on/for/over the Internet Archive – Jason Scott.
Public.Resource.Org! “Making Government Information More Accessible”- Carl Malamud.
Ahead of the release of "Constantine: The Hellblazer" #2, Ming Doyle talks with ROBOT 6 about embracing her desire to write more, the storytelling influence of her parents, and collaboration.
'Jughead returns to his roots as a nuanced voice of dissent and, though he's still a food vacuum, he's sharper than he's been allowed to be in a very long time. In fact, one of the issue's subplots may just prove that he is the wisest person in the book.'
always been true tho
Mark Waid and Fiona Staples' "Archie" #1 is "a must-read comic for anyone looking for fun, engaging characters and beautifully drawn, on-trend style."
The United States women’s soccer team and winner of the 2015 Women’s World Cup are paid pretty poorly. While professional male soccer players in the US receive a minimum salary of $60,000 per year, professional women players can receive as little as $6,842.
The women get a cut of the prize money for their victory, but that too is much lower than their male counterparts: $2 million compared to the $35 million that Germany’s winning male soccer team took home last year, a discrepancy that has put the game under scrutiny before.
The pay gap means the men’s team is guaranteed a salary that, while unglamorous compared with their European counterparts, at least beats working for minimum wage. Should the women’s team want to live on their minimum income from soccer alone, they would find themselves well below the US poverty threshold. (Instead, professional female footballers depend on sponsorships or second jobs to supplement their annual wages, which are capped at a maximum of $37,800.)
Here’s how those salaries stack up against athletes for other American sports which, while popular at home, don’t get to export the US’s glory via such tournaments as the World Cup:
“We forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name.”
Recently, I went pseudo Paleo.
I say pseudo, because, like most things in my life, I’ve jumped in headfirst without putting any thought or research into it (this is also how I ended up taking a workout class called “Insanity.” Afterwards, I was drooling and delirious. So I guess it delivered).
This is supposed to be a cookie.
So, despite being totally unclear on what Paleo entailed, I figured I would try it because the hot guy from the gym told me I ate too many carbs.
Parenthetically, I really should stop listening to people just because they’re attractive. If Jeff Goldblum told me to get a bowl haircut and rob a bank, I totally would.
As far as I can tell, Paleo is based off of the premise that humanoids were never sexier or healthier than when they were cavemen. Even though they had no birth control or Penicillin or dental floss, and everyone was probably covered in lice, they were super cut and sexy and that’s a lifestyle to which we should aspire. Behold:
And:
Creating an unhealthy body image since 1960.
The Paleo diet demands that you only eat what cavemen did, which means that you need to chew raw woolly mammoth meat for hours with a mouth full of rotting teeth, and wash it down with a nice refreshing gourdful of mud.
I KID! I kid. Apparently with Paleo, you need to eat a lot of protein, in the form of meat, seafood, and eggs. Plus a ton of veggies. A crazy quantity. Like, “the neighbors will start asking if you are in trouble with the local CSA-mob” number of veggies. “You might be having an affair with the guy from the farmer’s market” quantity of veggies.
This has curious side effects, especially gastrointestinally. Without going into too much detail, some days are … biologically slower than others. And some days … on some days things flow way too quickly. Like, I’m basically a human Play-Doh press.
Paleo also requires you to give up processed food, refined sugars, and alcohol, which makes sense because those things are wonderful. But you’re also supposed to avoid grains, starches, and natural sweeteners (like honey), and you are supposed to limit your fruit intake. It’s sort of like the Inquisition, but less fun.
In some respects, it’s worked: being Paleo has killed my will to live, so I’m too sad to snack. My abs look pretty damn good, but I suspect that’s from all the nights I spend wracked with sobs because I can’t eat anything fun. I would take a selfie to show you, but this isn’t Facebook and I’m not your misguided teenage niece.
To give you an idea of the waking nightmare that is my life, I’d like to walk you through today’s Paleo abomination, in which I endeavored to make something called “carrot cake cookies” – a name which is at best a misnomer, and at worst a cruel mockery. The recipe describes them as “savory cookies” which is something that, if your blood sugar is low enough, you can almost pretend is a real thing.
But it’s not. Savory cookies do not exist. There are real, honest-to-god cookies, which are filled with sugar and flour and all sorts of wonderful things that some random hot guy said I can’t eat. And then there are crumbly pucks of carrot and nut that are held together by the indelible resilience of failure and good intentions. I ate three in a matter of seconds. And you know what? They weren’t bad … though they were seasoned by a bit of forbidden honey and the salt of my own tears.
Carrot Cake Cookies (a.k.a., Pucks of Suffering)
Ingredients:
Carrots
The salt of your own tears
Nuts or something
Ennui
You know what? It doesn’t matter what I list here. You should not make these.
If you want to go Paleo, you’ll probably need a food processor, which doesn’t really make sense, because cavemen didn’t even have pants, so they obviously didn’t have food processors or ovens or organic coconut oil. Take your ingredients, none of which are even remotely cookie-like, and grind them in the food processor until they resemble cat vomit.
(This is the first and only time in my life I didn’t want to eat the cookie dough.) Take the mushy chunks and form them into little patties of sadness.
Bake them in the oven for 30 minutes at 350, or just toss them directly into the trash because life is meaningless.
I have no words to describe these unholy abominations.
Remember when we cared about things? Remember when our great aunt sat us on the counter of her kitchen in Rome and we watched her fold tortellini by hand, which she made just for us? And how she smiled as we sat there, staring intently at her hands?
Remember that little girl? Who spoke Italian effortlessly and ate carbs with abandon? What would she think of all this?
“We forgot the taste of bread, the sound of trees, the softness of the wind. We even forgot our own name.”
The cookies look exactly the same before they are digested as after. They are eternal and unchanging. As time passes, they don’t decline in quality or taste because they can’t. They’ve already started out at theoretical zero on that scale.
I weep as I take a bite. These cookies will outlive me unless I destroy them.
Seriously, what the hell have you become? You traded your soul for nice abs.
Tomorrow, I am getting a slice of cake from the French bakery down the street and eating the entire thing. Then I will eat a plate of pasta, and think of people I loved who are no longer with me. Tomorrow, I will do this. And the cookies will be waiting, watching.
Fucking Paleo.
P.S. – You don’t want the actual cookie recipe. You don’t. But here it is.
' “Broward County officials implemented one of the most onerous regulatory frameworks for ridesharing in the nation,” a Uber spokesperson told Miami Herald. “Unfortunately, these new rules raise substantial barriers for local entrepreneurs and make it impossible for us to continue providing the standard of service people have come to expect in Broward County.”
CBS reports that some of those new regulations include vehicle inspections, updated driver registration, background checks and fingerprints of drivers.'
Uber announces it's leaving Broward on July 31 Miami Herald Ride-sharing service Uber has confirmed it is pulling out of Broward County on July 31, citing some of the most “onerous” regulations in the country. A spokesperson for Uber said, “Broward County officials implemented one of the most onerous regulatory ...
There was a lot of things to get excited about at this years’ Anime Expo in Los Angeles this year, but one particular announcement made me rise from my seat and cheer.
Princess Jellyfish is coming to Crunchyroll Manga!
Stay with me, I know you have questions: Crunchyroll has a manga service? Why would the serialization of the Princess Jellyfish manga get you so excited?
First off, yes, Crunchyroll does have a manga service. It’s free if you’re a premium subscriber, AND they simulpub all of their titles. So as soon as a chapter hits stands in Japan, it’s up on the Crunchyroll service.
This is the future, people. And we’re living in it.
And why am I so excited about the serialization of Princess Jellyfish? Well, if you haven’t watched the anime, I highly recommend you do so immediately. After doing that, I imagine you won’t need me to explain. But for those who don’t heed my advice: it’s one of the most unique and heartfelt josei I have had the pleasure of watching. But don’t take my word for it: there was also a great writeup on the series previously on The Mary Sue.
However, as with most great anime, it’s run was far too short and left viewers craving more. Fortunately, the manga can sate that need. As a manga, Princess Jellyfish has been running since 2008 with a total of 15 tankobon volumes and counting. Until now, the manga has been unlicensed in the US, leaving no legal means to continue reading the story.
So be sure to check out Crunchyroll Manga on July 15 at 5pm PT for the first four volumes of Princess Jellyfish. There’s no word on how quickly the other volumes will follow suit, but for now I simply can’t wait for more of the Amars!
Jess is just your average chaos-organizing, world-traveling, tech-loving otaku. She’ll brazenly defend her love of Harry Potter and Sailor Moon to any who challenge it, and firmly believes that “growing up” is for suckers. Find her on Twitter: @jessicauelmen.
'“Work is so focused on an intervention tailored toward making people positive so that they work harder,” he tells Quartz, pointing to the wealth of perks some businesses now offer. “We don’t really question how businesses are intrinsically run.”
Take Google, a pioneer in terms of the perks it provides employees, which has secured it a place at the top of “best places to work” lists for nearly a decade. But Davies suggests we look closer at the reason for the perks, which is to extract more hours and greater loyalty from employees—making work a place that you never need to leave.
“It’s almost shameful to complain about work in America,” says Davies, who is based in the UK. “They [American workers] seem to want to believe they should be the last person to leave the office. Brits want to get to the pub as fast as possible.” He gives an example of a casino worker in Philadelphia who shared that he and his colleagues are regularly required to dance to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” with their manager.'
Recently, there’s been something of a happiness backlash against America’s obsession with feeling happy at work. That’s because some companies have been going about it in the wrong way, working on short-term solutions that tend to treat employees more like children than adults who add real value to an organization.
In his book The Happiness Industry, political economist William Davies argues that the discourse around the popular psychology movement entirely misses the point. Instead of discussing ways to improve morale and happiness at work, he pushes us to consider a more fundamental question: Why we are having this discussion in the first place?
“Work is so focused on an intervention tailored toward making people positive so that they work harder,” he tells Quartz, pointing to the wealth of perks some businesses now offer. “We don’t really question how businesses are intrinsically run.”
Take Google, a pioneer in terms of the perks it provides employees, which has secured it a place at the top of “best places to work” lists for nearly a decade. But Davies suggests we look closer at the reason for the perks, which is to extract more hours and greater loyalty from employees—making work a place that you never need to leave.
“It’s almost shameful to complain about work in America,” says Davies, who is based in the UK. “They [American workers] seem to want to believe they should be the last person to leave the office. Brits want to get to the pub as fast as possible.” He gives an example of a casino worker in Philadelphia who shared that he and his colleagues are regularly required to dance to Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” with their manager.
As we’ve moved away from a post-industrial society into an information age, knowledge and customer-service work make up a greater portion of all labor. This kind of work places more social and psychological demands on workers, says Davies, and CEOs have increasingly adopted the role of chief psychologist for their companies, managing the well-being of their employees.
Research shows that how we feel about a job absolutely does affect our performance. But instead of focusing strictly on meeting physical needs/desires through unlimited snacks and beer, free massages, and on-campus gyms, companies should consider motivating employees by making them greater participants in the business. “Involve them into discussions about policies, ask them what they want, and distribute authority,” Davies suggests. He also recommends CEOs recognize that most employees want clearer boundaries between work and the rest of their lives: “A system where employees can go to work, and just do the work.”
Many companies have emulated Silicon Valley in adopting perks as a hiring strategy, but the next level in which they’ll compete is not by attracting them with physical amenities, but by extending more trust and allowing employees to work more autonomously.
"If eligible students apply for and receive federal grants for community college, Oregon will pay the balance of their tuition. The recipients must have lived in Oregon for 12 months, take courses required for graduation and maintain a 2.5 grade point average. (And it's not entirely free—each student must pay a minimum of $50 per term.)"
More than 10,000 students are expected to benefit from a last-minute bill passed by legislators this week that makes Oregon only the second state (after Tennessee) to offer free community college.
The idea, according to state Sen. Mark Hass (D-Beaverton), is that a lot of needy students who might like to attend community college are currently failing to apply for federal grants that could pay for much of their education.
The new legislation, Senate Bill 81, offers a carrot: If eligible students apply for and receive federal grants for community college, Oregon will pay the balance of their tuition. The recipients must have lived in Oregon for 12 months, begin their community college course work within six months of finishing high school or the equivalent, take courses that are required for graduation and maintain a 2.5 grade point average. (And it's not entirely free—each student must pay a minimum of $50 per term.)
In legislative testimony, Hass cited state estimates that it costs about $14,000 a year in social services and indirect costs to support each of the 70,000 Oregonians between the ages of 18 and 24 who are unemployed and have no education beyond high school.
"A lifetime of food stamps is much more expensive than the annual community college tuition of $3,000," Hass told lawmakers on May 28.
In Tennessee, more than 80 percent of the students that took part last year in that state's new program got full or partial grant (not loan) funding from federal Pell grants. The state then paid the balance.
If Gov. Kate Brown signs the bill, Oregon will begin its program in 2016, with expenditures capped at $10 million per year. Hass says that, because the program is new, no one is quite sure how many students will take advantage of it. Legislative estimates put the number at between 10,000 and 12,000.
The Senate approved the bill last Thursday. The House then OK'd it late Friday, with 14 of the chamber's 25 GOP members voting for it, led by Rep. Mark Johnson (R-Hood River), who worked closely with Hass on the bill.
Hass says a bipartisan approval for a new program that costs money is a sign of how Oregon's economy has changed. A generation ago, there were jobs in forests and mills that are now gone forever.
"People in timber country supported this bill," Hass says. "It wasn't contentious."
That's appears to be at least a full box of Lucky Charms. Hopefully the Cup got washed since Antoine Vermette put his baby daughter in it, otherwise that cereal may have tasted a little funky.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been stripped of the welterweight world title he won after beating Filipino Manny Pacquiao this year for failing to comply with rules, the World Boxing Organization said on Monday.
Serena Williams does not think the problem is limited to Wimbledon, but after beating Victoria Azarenka Tuesday she had some thoughts she wanted to share.
As she mentioned, she wasn't just talking about the court assignments at Wimbledon, but clearly she doesn't feel the women's game is getting its proper due and attention this week.
Even her opponent had some thoughts on the double standards in tennis.
Azarenka blasts media for double standard re: grunting: "I was practising next to Nadal & he grunts louder than me" pic.twitter.com/49OgIKkGhb
Yes, I know it’s “just” an audio play, but I don’t care. My ear-holes are going to be so goddamn happy.
According to an MTV exclusive, writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez’s award-winning fantasy comic trilogy Locke & Key is being made into an audio play for the Amazon-owned Audible Studios.
The series has been rumored in the past for both a TV adaptation and a movie trilogy, but Audible’s production will be the first sure thing Locke & Key fans have had to look forward to in some time.
The audio play will be free from October 5 to November 4 before becoming available for purchase in the Audible Store, and will feature a cast of 50 actors with strong ties to geekdom. In addition to narration by Maslany and Haley Joel Osment, the cast will also include Hill, Hill’s father Stephen King, and Kate Mulgrew. Holy cow holy cow holy cow.
You can preorder a copy here and pick up a signed, limited-edition poster at IDW’s SDCC booth (#2743) on Thursday from 12-1.
Super Opinionated.
More than 10,000 students are expected to benefit from a last-minute bill passed by legislators this week that makes Oregon only the second state (after Tennessee) to offer free community college.
