
“The fire started because the Lounge Lizard vent system was dirty, coated with the residue of flammable materials, was serviced by substandard electrical appliances and wiring, and not properly inspected and maintained,” alleges the lawsuit filed Oct. 5 fire started in the ventilator system of Lounge Lizard’s paint booth. Really Good Stuff owner Evan Shlaes alleges the Oct.

VINTAGE SHOP SUES FURNITURE STORE OVER FIRE: The owner of vintage shop Really Good Stuff has sued neighboring furniture store Lounge Lizard over the three-alarm fire in the Hawthorne District that consumed both of their businesses this month. The plan is likely to proceed to the Portland City Council after that. A public comment period is open until Nov. It’s a big break for the city’s largest smokestack industries, such as Evraz Steel, which would have paid $2.72 million a year under the earlier proposal but would pay $163,000 under the new plan. 27, 2021), the new plan would levy a tax of $250 per ton on nitrogen and sulfur oxides and particulate matter. Instead of taxing carbon emissions generally at the rate of $25 per ton (“Glass Houses,” WW, Jan. Both the permit fee and the tax on emissions have been scaled back, and the new proposal exempts public and nonprofit emitters such as Oregon Health & Science University and Providence Health and Services. The new version would raise about $2 million. He could not be reached for comment.ĬITY TRIES AGAIN ON EMISSIONS TAX: After a proposal for a new carbon tax and permit fee that would have raised $11.2 million flopped earlier this year, the city’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability launched a new proposal Oct. John McCain (R-Ariz.) before founding a political news analysis platform and going to work for Facebook. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) and the presidential campaign of the late Sen.

Meanwhile, we are printing money in the basement, and we are fine.” Bounds, 42, a University of Oregon alum who lives in Southwest Portland, was a spokesman for former U.S. “And then in a few weeks they will move onto something else. “Some legislators will get pissy,” the affidavit alleges Bounds said. A whistleblower affidavit obtained by The Washington Post last week alleges that Facebook’s vice president of communications Tucker Bounds shrugged off concerns about Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. PORTLAND MAN LANDS IN FACEBOOK PAPERS: A Portland tech executive is at the center of the latest public relations nightmare for Facebook. Evraz Steel (Wesley Lapointe) By WW Staff Octoat 5:20 am PDT
