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Set at the Dunder Mifflin paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania, it was very much in the spirit of the original, at least initially: a deadpan mockumentary centred on a megalomaniac manager (Steve Carrell's Michael Scott), who like Ricky Gervais's David Brent before him was a friend first, and a boss second and probably an entertainer third. The Office: An American Workplace ran for nine seasons, setting aside some of the original's cringe comedy aspects in favour of something with a little more heart.

GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! 👋 Expect another day of extreme "hot" with temps expected to hit 95 degrees before "cooling down" (HAHAHAHAHAAAA!) on Tuesday with a high of 92. The rest of the week is predicted to be much more reasonable, with the temps varying between the low-80s and mid-70s, but don't pack away those thongs just yet! Instead? Let's pack away some NEWS.

SB 79, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, mandates that six- to seven-story residential buildings be built within a half-mile radius of any qualifying transit stops, which include some bus stops. This is beyond what has already been mandated along linear corridors and with the housing elements plan. A single-family home neighborhood currently has about eight houses per acre. These will be near developments that cannot be stopped if this bill passes.

Wednesday's budget discussions resurfaced tensions over police funding, particularly after a few councilors threw around the word "defunding" to describe the shift of an extra $2 million from the Portland Police Bureau's budget to the parks bureau. Councilors Angelita Morillo and Candace Avalos chastised their colleagues who used a boogeyman approach to drum up public fear over the move. "I'm not interested in slogans that are just trying to make political tension out of what is a fiscal responsibility," Avalos asserted.

The Paper is a new mockumentary series set in Toledo, Ohio, focused on a struggling local newspaper, featuring a fresh cast alongside familiar faces from The Office.