PORTLAND DRIZZLE

🦬Tuesday Shmuesday. Dry and mild today — upper 50s, which in Portland means people will be in shorts. The PCC strike has ended and the union is voting this very moment. Also: the Winterhawks are home tonight for a playoff game, and PDX TSA workers are finally getting paid.

Jesse Andre D'Breeze — also known as Jeffrey Paul Cutlip — died Sunday in hospice care at Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla. He was 76, serving three consecutive life terms with no possibility of parole. D'Breeze killed three Portland women across nearly two decades: Marlene Carlson, 44, in 1975; Julie Bennett, 15, in 1977; and Nielene Doll, 33, in 1993. The cases went cold for nearly 40 years. Then in 2012, living in Brownsville, Texas, he called Portland police and confessed. Nobody came looking for him. He just picked up the phone. He was extradited, convicted, and died in custody. The families waited a long time for that to mean something.

After nearly three weeks of canceled classes and tense negotiations, the strike at Portland Community College is over.Faculty walked out earlier this month, demanding cost of living increases to keep up with rising inflation. The standoff disrupted thousands of students across the Portland metro area, many left refreshing inboxes for updates. By late Monday, a tentative agreement was reached. It includes pay increases for faculty of 2% this year and 3% next year plus one time lump sum payments to compensate for the time that were on strike and the catch-up work to be done. The faculty union is set to vote at 8am Tuesday , 30 minutes before this newsletter ships. Agreements have been made for when final grades will be submitted and while spring term will be one week shorter it will end on the original planned date. The union and staff feel victorious and are eager to get back to work.

The NBA's Board of Governors voted unanimously Monday to approve the $4.25 billion sale of the Portland Trail Blazers to a group led by Tom Dundon — the same guy who turned the Carolina Hurricanes from a laughingstock into a perennial playoff team. The deal closes in two parts, with 80.1% transferring Tuesday. All proceeds, per the late Paul Allen's will, go to philanthropy. Allen bought the team in 1988 for $70 million. Dundon is a Dallas-based investor whose money came from subprime auto lending — a detail Oregon's former attorney general called "predatory" back in 2020. So: new era, complicated biography.

Reddit User u/faviobean posted this photo of the security line at PDX. I love this city.

On March 31, 1917, the Vesterlide was launched at a Portland shipyard — the first all-steel steamer ever built in the city. A small flex from a town that was just getting started.

Last day of March. The Winterhawks are in the playoffs and Les Mis is at Keller. Portland's doing alright.

by Michael Simpson Contact: [email protected]