Rose City Rundown

🌮 Santa Fe Taqueria, which has been on NW 23rd Avenue since 1986, will close later this month with a farewell party and fire sale of the restaurant's chairs, plates, tables and more. (The Oregonian)

🚸 More money, this time from a $9.6 million U.S. Department of Transportation grant, will go toward making safety improvements along NE 82nd Avenue — adding raised medians, crossing signals and "no turn on red" signs. (Portland Business Journal)

📖 Artist Carson Ellis' new memoir features diary entries from her first week living in a SE Portland warehouse and details her "bickering but inseparable" relationship with her husband, Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy. (Portland Mercury)

🔥 Republicans in the Oregon Legislature are calling for the rollback of regulations and conservation plans to allow for more logging, a move they said could prevent the severity of large wildfires. (Oregon Capital Chronicle)