Slog AM: The National Guard Heads to Portland, a Shooting at a Mormon Temple, and a Cement Company That Just Loves Burning Tires

Slog AM: The National Guard Heads to Portland, a Shooting at a Mormon Temple, and a Cement Company That Just Loves Burning Tires

The Stranger's morning news roundup. by Hannah Murphy Winter National Guard Heads to Portland: Trump is deploying two hundred members of the Oregon National Guard to “war ravaged” Portland to “protect” immigration enforcement officers and government buildings from largely peaceful protesters. A memo from the newly-Christened “Department of War” said the deployment would last 60 days, and compared it to the federal intervention in Los Angeles in …