PORTLAND DRIZZLE

🧑🏾‍🎤Monday- make the most of it. Pride weekend wraps, and summer actually shows up right behind it. Sunny and near 91 today, the first real heat of the year, with hotter still on the way midweek. Also today: every city councilor answered the same eight questions about paying for Moda Center, and the answers are not what you'd guess. Are you guys sick of hearing about the Moda Center yet? Well, it’s another great day in this Guiness World Record holding city- keep reading.

Oregonlive asked all twelve Portland city councilors the same eight questions about paying for Moda Center's renovation, then printed every answer side by side, no press release gloss. Some responses will surprise you. Some will just confirm what you already suspected about your own district's rep. The Council votes on this in a matter of weeks, with a work session already booked for July 22. If you only click one link today, make it this one. You do need to be a subsciber to read this one, and I want to encourage you to do so. Oregonian

Portland took Seattle's title Sunday morning. A record 1,060 e-bike riders looped downtown from Salmon Street Springs, across the Hawthorne and Tilikum bridges, and back, earning an official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for largest electric bicycle ride. Seattle's old mark of 405 never had a chance. The ride doubled as BIKETOWN's 10th birthday, with free citywide rides all day and comped Pride Festival admission for the first thousand finishers, courtesy of Nike. Nothing against Seattle, but Portland out-biked them by more than double, and it was not close. KGW

The Northrup Shelter finally has a closing date. The 200-bed Pearl District facility, the city's most expensive shelter, spent this year caught between a neighbor lawsuit, a budget shortfall, and complaints about crime and drug use. A May deal kept it open through year's end for a $108,000 penalty, leaving the actual closure a vague someday. The city has now committed to a real date, ending months of uncertainty for Pearl neighbors and the Salvation Army staff who run it. Whether it helps the people who slept there is separate. Oregonian

This is the Willamette Stone, which was placed near Skyline Blvd in 1851 and is the basis for all land surveying in Oregon and Washington. Thanks to Hidden Portland for the Curious for sharing this, along with more photos, on Facebook.

1934: Oregon's governor called out the National Guard to help break a strike on the Portland docks, part of a bigger standoff rippling up and down the West Coast.

Thank you guys for reading. If you follow me on Instagram I’ll be posting some fun things there this week that won’t make the Drizzle.

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