October 4, 2026
Archived when that week’s edition left the homepage. The order is the live stack: comics, Salted Pork Sunday, then the Sunday papers.
Sunday comics
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Mayor Moneybags 
The Notice That Got Away 
News Desert Odd Couple 
Stuck With the Bill 
Passport Stamp Circus 
Federal Fine Print
Salted Pork Sunday
Sunday waste-watch with receipts — pork spending, soft language, and the budget priorities Congress would rather cure than cut.

Salted Pork Sunday: the tax bill that never leaves the smokehouse
Sunday papers
This week’s reads
Not a Hearing
Oregon hub cards that say they are not a scheduled hearing, versus the county calendar, OR-Alert, TripCheck, and a neighborhood poll that is not the November 3 ballot.
The 55% Box
FHWA Buy America manufactured-product rule that turned on October 1, 2026: made in the U.S. and more than 55% U.S. parts by cost.
A Row Is Not a Gavel
1,589 new tax-sale rows overnight; 131 counties with live rows; every Oregon county wired. A row is not proof the sale happened.
The Window Cling
A Made-in-USA window flag is not the car-loan interest test. Original use, U.S. final assembly, and a real loan.
Before the Keys Move
A weekend private sale needs the identifier copied off the plate, a written list, a cleared payment, and a handoff note.
Mail Follows the Form
After a move, USPS forwarding and updating each bill-sender are two jobs. A stranger text is not the post office.
Exclusives
Sunday Is for the Local Question
A plain guide to why a neighborhood poll matters, and how a vote on Ink Register stays separate from an email alert. Live tallies are visible before you vote.
Local pollspowered by Ink Register
Change your mail address before the bills do
A move is not finished when the boxes are in the new place. Mail still goes to the old one until you tell the post office, and then you still have to tell the people who send the bills.
Everyday errandssourced with Pasos USA
Before the driveway handoff: what both parties leave with
A weekend private sale often ends in a driveway, a slip, or a barn — not at a dealer desk. Before keys or cash move, both sides should leave with the same written story: who sold what, for how much, with which photos and payment proof.
Private-party salessourced with Record of Sale
The 55% test is on. Highway jobs funded this week have a new Buy America rule.
Starting October 1, many manufactured products on new federal-aid highway projects must be built in the U.S. and made mostly from U.S. parts.
Buy America waiverssourced with Flagcup

The window sticker does not decide the car-loan interest break
A “Made in USA” badge is not the same thing as a car built in a U.S. plant. Before you sign this weekend, ask three plain questions.
Car loanssourced with Assembly Alert
Counties posted 1,589 new tax-sale rows overnight
Early Saturday, TaxSaleNearby refreshed its public lists. 131 counties have live rows. 190 counties have a live fetcher. Every Oregon county is wired.
Tax salessourced with Taxsalenearby
Forty-seven Portland home-addition permits were issued in seven days
Portland’s public map of residential addition and alteration permits shows 47 issued from September 27 through October 3, 2026. A Sunday reading of that layer — and of the new-home layer beside it — without treating one pin as the whole story.
Building permitssourced with Filed Nearby
34,939 new federal contract awards landed in seven days
From September 27 through October 3, 2026, USAspending counted 34,939 new federal contract awards. A Sunday reading of that drop — and of the small-business slice inside it — before the grapevine arrives late.
Federal awardssourced with WonAlert
The calendar says October 3. The EPA file is still from September 27.
EPA said a new pollution-records file should arrive on October 3. The big file you can download is still the one from September 27.
Clean-water compliancesourced with SNCAlert
A FEMA repair under $1,093,800 counts as a small project
On September 29, 2026, FEMA said $1,093,800 is the line between a small disaster repair and a large one. RebuildAlert uses a different dollar line on its homepage.
Disaster aidsourced with RebuildAlert
This is a Notice Nearby Sunday Edition archive — the comics, Salted Pork Sunday, and Sunday papers filed for that Pacific Sunday. Not legal advice. Not a newspaper. Not Legal Publication. Record of Sale, LLC (Oregon).