WHAT TO KNOW:
- Two local black-owned cannabis businesses each received a $30,000 grant today to expand their companies from a fund established by Portland to promote equity in the marijuana industry.
- At his monthly press conference last week, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said he favors a controversial bill that would end single-family zoning in Oregon cities.
- How many apartments are under construction and expected to come online in 2019? Are we about to see a glut and resulting rent reductions all over town?
- An activist group is asking Portlanders to rally against the local ICE detention center in superhero costumes. They also plan to release an anti-ICE album and video game.
- Jeanne Atkins will not seek re-election as chair of the Democratic Party of Oregon. She warned her fellow Democrats that the party is threatened by in-fighting.
DRUNK HISTORY:
- It was love at first fight. At least, that’s what the legend says. And Courtney Love. But it does make a certain, cosmic sense that one of rock’s most doomed romances would start on the floor of Portland’s scuzziest punk club—Satyricon.
WHERE TO EAT:
- Lazy? Hungry? Trying to plan the perfect date night? Here’s our round up of the top five places to eat in Portland this week.
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