1. Portland is now ticketing cars with expired registrations. Since the new regulations went into effect on Nov. 15, the city has issued 1,567 tickets for unregistered vehicles, a violation previously left up to police to enforce. (PH)
2. A day after the House of Representatives passed a measure to ban TikTok if it is not sold by its Chinese parent company, former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he would be interested in buying the platform with a group of investors. “It’s a great business and I’m going to put together a group to buy TikTok,” Mnuchin told CNBC. (JN)
3. Yesterday Sen. Bernie Sanders held a hearing to introduce a bill called the “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act,” which would reduce the U.S. workweek to four days with no loss of pay for employees. “Today, American workers are over 400 percent more productive than they were in the 1940s. And yet, millions of Americans are working longer hours for lower wages than they were decades ago. That has got to change,” the Vermont Independent said in a statement. (JN)
4. Today is World Essential Workers Day, celebrated each year across the world on March 15.
5. St. Patrick’s Day is on Sunday, and the parade in Portland kicks off at noon from the Portland Fish Pier on Commercial street. (PH)
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