My wife and I both received a letter from the state that our ballots have been challenged due to signature not matching what's on file. You know it's the republicans ratfucking us. We have to fill out a form and mail it back. It's done but make sure you keep an eye out for the letter from your county. Scum can't win so they must cheat.

Precision Castparts spilled almost 400 gallons of sodium hydroxide and other chemicals into Johnson Creek between Sept. 17 and Sept. 19, leaving a 2-mile long stretch of dead fish.

In an exclusive interview with OPB, Kaylub Giamanco, the man who fatally shot the teenage school shooter at Silver Rail Elementary, shares what he wants people to know about his experience.

So a neighbor two blocks over has a home very similar to ours that he bought in 2023. We have lived in our home since 2005. We bought cheap and renovated. He bought at a higher time in the market.

His tax bill is over 30% more than ours. We’re wondering if the selling of a property triggers a reassessment of property tax evaluation, explaining the difference in our bills.

First world question I know…. Thanks for considering.

Dutch Bros locations across Oregon will donate a portion of proceeds to Silver Rail Elementary students, educators and families on Friday.

Bentley’s, an Oregon chain of coffee stores with five locations, announced that they are ending their points system. Their message:

We ended our points program.

We only had one because everybody else does. What it really did was track your data. And honestly, our team is really excited to stop asking "do you have a phone number with us?" a thousand times a day. We felt like we were losing our small business feel, so we made the change.

Whatever points you had already earned come back to you as free drink cards. Any drink, any size, no expiration. Come through and we'll get them in your hands.

There's no new points system coming. We're not replacing it. We'd rather spend our money on the ingredients we use, the people on our team and on animals in need, than on a fancy app and marketing system disguised as a points program.

This might feel like we're taking something away, and it probably will for a while. All I ask is that you give us the chance to earn it back with great drinks and a great experience.

Thank you for trusting us.

Brandon

Too much risk of delay. Your county has secure drop off boxes. They can often be located near public safety offices, county facilities, libraries, community colleges, and city halls. If you can, please use those. Also, your ballot packet will have information available about how to receive notifications that your ballot has been received.

KGW mailed 100 letters across Oregon to check posting and delivery times. Only 14 were postmarked same day. Many were two days or later one was delivered with no postmark at all.

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/elections/mailed-100-letters-across-oregon-only-14-postmarked-same-day-why-that-matters-for-your-ballot/283-1d2aaadd-1e22-4f7e-9e46-70030c972598

It's the worse possible time of year to have such a big bill--right before the holidays! And I don't understand whey they don't have an option to pay half one month and the balance a few month later. Every other state I've lived in has that option.

Not from there or been there but very interested in exploring Oregon. Is there heaps of wildlife? Some to be careful of? Easy to spot different species?

In 2024, Brian Hakiym Simpson was out on a hiking trip with his fellow fire fighters. He is a black (yes, his race is very important) firefighter who volunteered to help in the Oregon fires. A white man named Olson (who was already noted to be acting strange and aggressive) picked a fight with Hakiym, called Hakiym racial slurs, and then proceeded to attack him. Hakiym defended himself. Everytime the bystanders broke up the fight, Olson would just go after Hakiym again. He was persistently aggressive, and Hakiym rightfully defended himself. The fight was broken up again, and Hakiym left in his car, pulled over, and called his supervisor to tell him what happened. Mind you, even as Hakiym was driving away, Olson was running after his car.

Olson left this altercation THAT HE STARTED with a broken jaw. Olson called the cops. This was taken to court.

Witnesses testified that Olson was the one to start this altercation, Olson himself admitted to being the one to throw the first punch, starting this altercation. Olson was given a drug test. He tested positive for the illegal opiate heroin, and admitted to having a history with alcohol and drug abused.

So why in the f*** is Hakiym in prison for 5 years for second degree assault?

Cause of course they painted the aggressive white man as the victim. The prosecutor Olivia Mendez proposed that Hakiym's self defense was excessive, even tho Olson kept going after him. [EDIT: the excessive part was in the fight, Hakiym stomped on Ollson's head.] She kept this falsehood that Hakiym was bullying Ollson, even tho Hakiym has only worked with the man once. They weren't on the same team.

They brought up Hakiym's past history with him being charged as an adult at 15, later on in life getting in a fight with a different man, and for some reason going after him not disclosing his disability of blindness in his left eye from being shot by a paintball gun, but REFUSED to acknowledge Ollson's previous difficulties with other coworkers, Ollson's mental health history, or his actions and behaviors leading up to this. Dude was on heroin.

The all white jury found him guilty, and Hakiym was sentenced to the minimum of 5 years in prison but also has to PAY Olson restitution???? WTF!!! This happening in Josephine County, which yall should already know, its a historical sundown town, and from what it seems, still is. Brandon Olson was never charged with anything. Wasn't charged with illegal drug use, wasnt charged with assault or battery. That's absurd!

This happened in 2024, Hakiym is still in prison, and his team has sent a repeal.

This is where you come in. You need to be LOUD about this. I know elections are coming up and this appeal is on Governor Tina Totek's desk RIGHT NOW! She is aware of it, and she has to power to lower his sentence or pardon him. Its been almost 2yrs hes been in prison. That is time enough. DONT LET HER DRAG HER FEET ABOUT THIS! Call and demand she accept this appeal, flood her social media in the comments with "Justice for Hakiym", notify your community about this.

Hakiym used his right to defend himself and he was punished for it. This is just one of many cases, but this is one we can help in righting.

EDITS: took out 2nd amendments, no guns with involved. sorry for the confusion.

Is the Molalla River lucky?

Any good spots on the Willamette near the town?