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We need your help. The economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis is threatening our ability to keep producing the quality reporting you've come to love. If you’re able, please consider making a monthly contribution to the Mercury. Good morning, Portland! And welcome to another Tuesday, another March, another dance through the simulacrum of life in a pandemic. On a totally unrelated note, here's another to-go cocktail recommendation for you. Anyway, here are the headlines. •...

Flower, pre-rolls, edibles, carts and more. These 4 Days of 420 are for you. In local news: • Last year, Portland City Council voted to disband the Portland Police Bureau's (PPB) Gun Violence Reduction Team, on the grounds that it disproportionately targeted Black Portlanders. Now, PPB has created a new unit meant to respond gun violence—and they're promising it will have less racist outcomes. Alex Zielinski has more. • Gov. Kate Brown is sending the Oregon National Guard to provide wellness checks to households that are still without power in Clackamas County. As of Friday afternoon, ...

Dropping by a bodega to get some eggs for tomorrow’s benedicts, more often than not, results in meeting its master. First, it’s the piercing eyes in the chips aisle that stare deep into your soul. Then, it’s the meow coming from nowhere. There may also be a furry tail lurking behind the stacked cartons of milk. If you see any of these, it’s a sign you have stumbled upon a bodega cat. Call it a breed of its own accord, a sub-category of atypically social felines that dwell solely in convenience stores, not too big, not too small. Thanks to the Bodega Cats social media project, which ha...