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WHAT TO KNOW:
- Health officials announced yesterday that visitors to the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry on Jan. 19 may have been exposed to measles.
- A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed the details of a Jan. 27 encounter between Portland comedian Mohanad Elshieky and Border Patrol agents at a Spokane, Wash., Greyhound station. But the agency defended its actions.
- Crater Lake National Park resumed operations yesterday after the 35-day government shutdown—with clean toilets!
- U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden and U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer are urging federal officials to help the state’s craft beverage makers post-shutdown. Some fear they’ve lost huge investments waiting for regulatory approval.
- A judge dismissed a $500,000 lawsuit filed by Don’t Shoot PDX organizer Teressa Raiford against Portland, which argued that police singled her out and falsely arrested her during a 2015 protest.
- Lawmakers will consider a bill which would expand Oregon’s organ donation system to facilitate the donation of whole bodies. It would also help a company recently raided by the FBI.
MUST-LISTEN:
- The Dandy Warhols’ new album is a summary of the band’s 25-year-long career. The silver anniversary celebration feels a free-wheeling jaunt through the band’s disparate influences and talents.
POT ISN'T THE PROBLEM:
- In an editorial, a WW contributor argues that pot isn’t the problem in this country, it’s the lack of accessible health care. “Drugs of all kinds—legal and otherwise—have always been infinitely easier to obtain than actual, preventative health care.”
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