The O had a couple of good local stories this week. One was on the City of Portland's paying private landlords for office space for its agencies while ample city-owned office space sits empty. (It might have been interesting to see the landlords' names as well as the names of their buildings, though. Bet there are some familiar names there.)

In the other story, Maximum Maxine revealed that the city's police and fire disability fund doesn't even bother trying to recoup the cost of claims from people who negligently caused officers' disabilities. Sometimes the officers collect twice; sometimes the negligent party gets away without paying the full damage that he or she caused.

Dumb and dumber. Good job by the local daily on both of these.