"I believe that if right now there is a huge increase in salaries forced by the government, the organization I know best will have to do the very thing that will kill it: cut its quality."

It’s no wonder that gun rights, racism, white nationalism and issues of masculinity continue to swirl together in a toxic brew.

Portland has not become a micro version of Hong Kong; most of the activity is not directed against a repressive government. It’s primarily a staged event for social media, used to recruit for a motley assortment of fascists and white nationalists on the right and masked and violence-prone pushback on the left.

If ever a film was sure to raise cries of “It’s not like the book,” Where’d You Go, Bernadette? is that film.

We aren't getting better-quality candidates. The coming city council is likely to have five of nine rookies. Everyone runs with 50 shades of blue, contrary to the hopes of the conservatives who pushed through this reform. Voters tune out.