Elliot Njus

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Director of content @oregonian.com. The J is silent. 📍Portland, Oregon 🌐 Find me everywhere at elliotnj.us

Dominos Tracker with the steps “Placed,” “Make,” “Pick Up,” and “MMM!”
Under "Stories by Bill Oram," the headline "Westbound I-84 reopens after crash injures 1 in Columbia River Gorge"
A screen showing pre-game programming for Mexico vs South Africa instead of South Korea
An elk statue in a road that faces away from passing traffic
An logo for The Oregonian, OregonLive and Oregonian Media Group on a door.
A Coca-Cola mini-can with labeled Oregon, with a star and the silhouette of a leafed flower
People with protest signs shown gathered near a Portland bridge
A view of a wide, busy street with a bus that reads "20 to Beaverton TC"
Buildings in an Old West style downtown
A judge in a courtroom
Sap drips from a tap in a tree
Front page of The Oregonian on Dec. 4, 2025, featuring the newspaper’s first front page on Dec. 4, 1850.
City streets in Portland after dark
A double rainbow and crows through a window
The front page of The Oregonian, featuring a story headlined "24 hours at Ice: Is this what 'lawless mayhem' looks like?"
A planter at Lloyd Center
A former Hollister store now with a sign for a vintage store called Bauhaus Mode
Drawings representing various Lloyd Center businesses
A presenter points to words in a slide deck in comic sans typeface
A “Tree Protection Area” sign in comic sans typeface
Train stopped at a rail crossing
A train car at the end of the train is blocking the railroad crossing
A train car blocks a railroad crossing
An anthropomorphic rolled-up carpet with googly eyes is strapped to a hand cart and wheeled around by a Rose Festival official
Klarna said last year it planned to replace nearly 700 full-time customer service contractors with AI chatbots. However, last week, the company said customers would again have the option to speak with a human agent.
Dathon, an alien from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" whose species speaks exclusively in metaphor Disclaimer: This is about nothing in particular
Politics headline that reads "Oregon House passes bill encouraging beavers to fix impaired waterways"
Text that reads "Single PDF - Change Of Occupancy From A-2 To B, New Demising Wall And Ti For (2) Tenant Spaces Used As Restaurant And Urine Sample Collection. Restaurant - New Restroom, Kitchen Buildout."
Text that reads, "Single PDF: Clarify That Tree Originally Shown On Site Plan Does Not Exist"
A rainbow over the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland
Much cloudier skies than in earlier post
Blue sky with only wisps of clouds
A Quill magazine cover reads “Reborn in Print: Are magazines making a comeback?”
A double rainbow over a house and a no parking sign
The front page of The Sunday Oregonian with a headline, "Nike investigation of complaints left stones unturned" and a photo of a sculpture on the Nike campus that reads "Do the right thing"
An indistinguishable animal depicted in Christmas lights emerging from some kind of green log
A Christmas light triceratops
A light display showing polar bears. The first panel has plentiful ice and reads “today.” The second has one polar bear on a small ice chunk and reads “tomorrow?”
"For decades, my friend Ron Wyden has been a relentless force for finding creative solutions to break the gridlock in Washington debates, from health care to climate to civil rights to taxes and safeguarding our democracy. He starts with how best to improve the lives of people, and works backwards from there. He's a fellow wonk who gets things done, and this book is a great guide to that work."—Hillary Rodham Clinton, 67th U.S. Secretary of State "During his time in Washington, Sen. Ron Wyden has picked fights with Big Oil, insurance giants, greedy billionaires, and the surveillance state, while finding ways to make real change for working Americans in a deeply divided Senate. That is only possible with wisdom, patience, and a whole lot of coraje."—Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "A beautifully written and thought-provoking memoir by the most accomplished U.S. Senator in Oregon’s illustrious history. In riveting fashion, Wyden recounts his Jewish parents' escape from Nazi Germany to America and his own brave activism as a Gray Panther in the 1970’s. It reminds readers that this even-keeled and indefatigable Oregonian shines as the North Star of what a conviction-driven public servant in the 21st century should look like."—Douglas Brinkley, bestselling historian and author of Silent Spring Revolution
Mr. Burns from "The Simpsons" demonstrates his plan to block out the sun using a miniature model of the city of Springfield
Posts on X.com from Portland Fire & Rescue that read: Crews responding to a reported structure fire in NW Portland, 911 caller reports smoke on the 3rd floor of this 3 story apartment building. (posted 5 minutes later) This was burnt food, incident has been recalled.
A lacy eel poking its head out of a rock formation with its mouth open as if talking or smiling
Ocean waves crash and churn against rocks
An abandoned umbrella in an office building lobby
A collage of various pizzas, with more slices missing from the combination and pepperoni than other varieties
A headline in a newspaper reads "Report: World on pace for significantly more warming"
Text on the Washington Post website: "You can see my wealth and business interests as a bulwark against intimidation, or you can see them as a web of conflicting interests. Only my own principles can tip the balance from one to the other. I assure you that my views here are, in fact, principled, and I believe my track record as owner of The Post since 2013 backs this up. You are of course free to make your own determination, but I challenge you to find one instance in those 11 years where I have prevailed upon anyone at The Post in favor of my own interests. It hasn’t happened."
If the measure passes, the following language in the Charter would be amended: • Delete Charter Section 2-105(a)(50) to remove vague, archaic language to "prohibit persons from roaming the streets at unseasonable hours". Deleting this section of the City's specific powers would not impair the City's general powers and authority to protect and support public health and safety. • Delete vague, archaic language to regulate "offensive" businesses in Charter Section 2-105(a) (36). City would
This resolution does not formally endorse a project but establishes a direction that may eventually lead to a project to replace and/or renovate the Keller Auditorium. The resolution directs City staff to engage a consultant through an expedited procurement process to conduct a Market Feasibility Analysis, the cost of which is to be determined. It also directs City staff to undertake a traffic study, the cost of which is also to be determined. How the studies will be funded is still being worked out, with options including requests for General Fund one-time resources, or some combination of Office of Arts and Culture funding or Spectator Venues funding. However, oversight and responsibility for the City's performing arts theaters is transitioning out of the Spectator Venues Program and into the Office of Arts and Culture, so Spectator Fund resources may be less appropriate going forward.
A container with a Waste Management logo
An email app icon with an unread badge displaying the number 666
The "Epic Handshake" meme with one arm labeled "Star Trek" and the other labeled "Star Wars," and where they meet labeled "Having a 'The One with the Whales'"
A sign reads “erratic rock"
A van labeled "The Killers" pest control
A group of 18 students in a casual office setting, some seated at a couch. Another person is shown in an inset photograph.
A food delivery robot with illuminated red lines
A newspaper headline reads “How to annihilate your friends at cornhole”
Mayor Quimby from the Simpsons with a gavel. The caption reads "Just invite me to your social network and I'll join it."