🚗 Commissioner Carmen Rubio, who is also running for mayor, was seen on video footage hitting a parked Tesla in a parking lot last week and walking away, just one week after news reports showed how she racked up over 150 parking and traffic violations over two decades.
In obtained text messages with the Tesla's owner, Rubio said she was humiliated and that she would "rather drop out of my race, honestly." (The Oregonian)
💾 Gov. Tina Kotek plans to use new executive powers to expand the urban growth boundary of Hillsboro to include 373 rural acres with the hopes of landing a sprawling semiconductor research hub backed by billions of dollars in federal investment. (OPB)
💸 The Portland Housing Bureau made $15 million available last month for affordable housing developers to buy existing — albeit struggling — partially-vacant apartment buildings instead of building new ones, but so far no one is biting. (Willamette Week)
🚪 James Beard award-winning chef Gregory Gourdet is offering a back door into scoring a coveted reservation to Kann: Through its sister basement bar, Sousòl, which will now serve some of the restaurant's signature dishes. (Portland Business Journal)
