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How to save a 400-million-year-old fish
August 10, 2023
Good morning, Portland! It appears that Portland police were lobbying for more funding in 2021 by publicizing the fact they’d no longer enforce traffic rules, according to Bike Portland. It’s a shocking revelation.
What's CITY Talking About?
Intel’s Multibillion-Dollar Oregon Investment
Intel officials confirm the company has plans for “a multibillion-dollar expansion and modernization” in Oregon. That’s after Gov. Tina Kotek gave the company $90 million from the subsidies that the Legislature passed for chip makers this year. [Oregonian]
- Related: Will Oregon’s best farmland start harvesting silicon? [City Cast Portland 🎧]
City Let East Portland Trees Die
East Portland doesn’t have enough shade during the summer. The city pledged to work on that problem and planted 30 trees in the Mill Park neighborhood. The city contractor tended the grove for a year. Then, when it was the Portland Bureau of Transportation’s turn to take over watering the trees, the bureau failed to do so, and the trees died. [Willamette Week]
Country’s Largest Rock Gym
Portland Rock Gym opened the second-ever rock-climbing gym in the U.S. back in 1988. Now its second location, planned for Beaverton’s Cedar Mill neighborhood, is expected to be the country’s largest, at 64,000 square feet. [Portland Tribune via KOIN]
What To Do
🎸 Peter Frampton | Thursday | 6:30 p.m.
The British rocker is swinging through on his Never Say Never tour. [$73.39+, Troutdale]
📚 Dian Greenwood: ‘About the Carleton Sisters’ | Thursday | 7 - 8 p.m.
The Portland writer is reading from her debut novel. [Free, Multnomah Village]
🍻 Small Batch Trivia from Geeks Who Drink at Shifters | Thursday | 7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Join this weekly trivia night, no reservation or team required. [Free, Lents]
Today on City Cast
Your Last-Minute Summer Road Trip Guide
A short road trip can be a great way to soak in the last weeks of an Oregon summer. Today on the show, Norther Emily of Wild Solitude Guiding, a self-described Oregon road trip expert, offers their best tips and route recommendations for a last-minute adventure.
Figure out where the weather is good and go there.
Enjoy the mild weather while it lasts. See you tomorrow.
— Rachel Monahan
Edited by Bryan M. Vance and copy edited by Giulia Fiaoni
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