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| What Portland's Talking About |
| PGE Rate Decrease for Residential Customers | After years of increases, Portland General Electric wants to lower residential customers’ rates — by 1.3%. The proposal, which still needs approval from state regulators, comes after a new state law requires data centers to fully foot the bill for their massive electricity use. PGE’s proposal also calls for a 29% increase in rates for data centers. [KGW] | | Longview Investigation Rescued From Trump Cuts | Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D., Wash.) successfully championed an amendment to protect the federal agency investigating the Longview paper mill disaster. Trump's budget proposed eliminating funding to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board. The Trump budget, if approved, could have ended the attempt to discover what went wrong in the disaster that killed 11 people. [KGW] | | Sexual Misconduct Allegations at Portland Buddhist School | The spiritual leader of a Tibetan Buddhist university has been placed on leave after a woman came forward alleging that she was pressured into a five-year sexual relationship with him. Yangsi Rinpoche co-founded Maitripa College, which offers master’s degrees in applied Buddhism or in divinity. Rinpoche has been the school’s spiritual leader since 2005. [City Cast Portland 🎧] |
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| | | PaintCare makes recycling leftover paint easy, and there are simple ways to reduce paint waste in the first place. Buy only what you need, use up what you have, and if you still have some paint leftover, recycle the rest at a PaintCare drop-off site near you. | |
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| |  | A new Portland building goes local. (Stephan Vertal / reader submission) |
| Last week’s scavenger hunt was for a new addition to Portland. | | “On the brand new apartment building on Interstate right next to Overlook Park, it's a mural of Margaret Carter, the first black woman elected to the Oregon State Legislature,” writes reader Lindsey H. | | A shoutout to Lindsey H. as well as Irisa P. — the two readers who named the correct location. | | This week’s scavenger hunt comes from reader Nancy Boykin: | |  | A spot of color. (Nancy Boykin / reader submission) |
| Where is this mural? | | Please click here to submit the location — and, for unofficial bonus points, anything you know about it. | | If you’re new to the newsletter, there’s a scavenger hunt every Friday. In next week’s newsletter, I’ll reveal the answer and shout out the first 10 readers who respond correctly. | | | |
| | 📸 Want to submit a photo? Please email me a snapshot of somewhere in the Portland metro area, and we’ll consider it for an upcoming “Where Is It?” segment! |
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🍒 It’s looking like it will be a good year for the Pacific Northwest’s cherry orchards — as long as there’s no rain. But the harvest starts now. |
| — Rachel Monahan | Thanks to John Notarianni, Giulia Fiaoni, and Natalia Aldana for editing this week. |
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