Here's a wild one: The new mayor of Portland's toney southern suburb held an emergency closed executive session of the City Council yesterday to discuss something really urgent. We'd be willing to bet that he turned over a rock on his new desk and found something extremely ugly left there by his predecessor.

Could it have been, as the Trib suggested, connected to the predecessor's controversial plan to expand the Lake O. water treatment plant located in West Linn’s Robinwood neighborhood? It's hard for us to tell. But we won't be surprised if all sorts of weird-looking critters come to light as the Lake O. city government gets under new management. On first glance, that water plant expansion looks like a typical Portland stinker that merits a major timeout.