PORTLAND DRIZZLE

👨‍🎤Thursday for the boys. Sunny and 72 today — enjoy it, rain's back Saturday. City Council is voting on what to do with $106 million in unspent housing funds. David Byrne browsed the Peculiarium. A Portland man is suing the Albertsons cashier who stopped his robbery. Also there was a missing boy with autism yesterday- Abraham Tucco has been found safe.

David Byrne spent part of Monday afternoon browsing the Freakybuttrue Peculiarium on NE Sandy — the taxidermy museum and curiosity shop that is, by most reasonable definitions, extremely his vibe. He was in town for back-to-back shows at Keller Auditorium Tuesday and Wednesday night as part of his "Who is the Sky" tour. No word on whether he purchased anything. The Peculiarium, for the uninitiated, is a Portland institution full of staged gore, oddball taxidermy, and a life-size Bigfoot. So yes, makes sense. KPTV

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Portland City Council voted 8-4 Wednesday to spend $56 million in housing funds that sat undisclosed for months — money the housing bureau never flagged to elected officials. The package funds eviction defense, rental assistance, rent buydowns for affordable units, and the city's first attempt at publicly-owned "social housing." Another $8.6 million flows to the general fund to chip away at a $170 million deficit. The debate wasn't what to fund — it was who decides. Hand-pick the nonprofit winners, or trust the bureau that missed this money in the first place? They landed somewhere in the middle.Mayor Wilson drops his draft budget April 20. Buckle up. OPB

A Portland man is suing an Albertsons cashier — and the store — after getting beaten up while shoplifting. Joshua Merkel, 45, filled a cart with groceries at a Southwest Portland Albertsons in March 2024 and left without paying. Cashier Matthew Cooper chased him into the parking lot. What followed is partially on surveillance video and resulted in Merkel's shattered jaw. Cooper was tried for second-degree assault and found not guilty. Merkel has now filed a civil suit in Multnomah County Circuit Court seeking $10,000 for medical bills and mental distress. The Albertsons location has since closed permanently. KOIN

Greenway Bakes: I am so excited to share this amazing baking team I found. Their NE home bakery runs on Oregon cottage law, where Em and Sammi turn out incredible treats like these through a weekly preorder system — no food waste, no guessing. Sammi specializes in custom cake decorating, and they take custom orders too. Find their weekly menu and place orders through their INSTAGRAM.

I got to sample that cream pie in the picture and it was every bit as delicious as it looks! Soft chewy cookies, with this velvety cream that has so much flavor in it. Heaven. Heaven.

April 9, 1887: Portland's original Morrison Bridge opened — the first bridge across the Willamette River. It cost about $180,000. It was rebuilt in 1905 and again in 1908. Want to know a mnemonic for all the bridges in Portland from south to north? “Sheep Ran Through My House, Man. Bull Shit. Bull Fucking Shit”

Portland- where the shoplifter sues, but the judge is too busy campaigning to oversee it.

by Michael Simpson Contact: [email protected]