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GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! No one needs to remind you it’s hot outside, but as the city and county are in a state of emergency over this week’s high temperatures (today’s high is 102) I feel a civic duty to remind you, beloved reader, to STAY HYDRATED and go somewhere cool, if possible. It will be hotter today in Portland than some parts of the Mojave Desert. 🌞🌵 This is a good segue into Local News:.
Portland is about back on it's 100-degree bullshit
Nurses working on the Legacy Good Samaritan campus found that its safety measures woefully insufficient
Photos from Pickathon!
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