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Abe Asher covers city news, politics, and soccer for the Portland Mercury. His reporting has appeared in The Nation, VICE News, Sahan Journal, and other outlets.
When the Portland Timbers announced the firing of head coach Giovanni Savarese on Monday afternoon, it didn’t come as a surprise. On Sunday night in the broiling heat in Houston, the Timbers put in one of the most pitiful performances of their entire MLS history: losing 5-0 to a team that was just a handful […]
Rebecca Newman is a forensic accountant, and a good one: she runs Portland-based Forensic Accounting Services, the state’s oldest forensic accounting CPA firm. For years, Newman has worked on cases for the lawyers at Oregon’s Office of Public Defense Services (OPDS)—the state office charged with providing “constitutionally competent and effective legal representation” to people in […]
It was a typical Saturday morning: Angeline Perla, a member of the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), was working as the charge nurse at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute on the Legacy Good Samaritan campus in Northwest Portland. Around 11 a.m., the clinic stopped taking new patients for around an hour. Some of the nurses left […]
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As cities across Oregon continue to celebrate Pride this year—Salem and Eugene in August, Newport and Seaside in September—they find themselves doing so at an ominous time for many in the LGBTQ+ community. States have advanced and passed bills targeting the LGBTQ+ community in record numbers, limiting access to gender-affirming care, discussions of gender and […]
Jordan Dinwiddie is a creative director at Wieden + Kennedy, but she wasn’t working in her professional capacity on Nike’s account with the agency when she had the idea to design an eye-catching billboard with a simple message: Bring the WNBA to Portland. Dinwiddie wanted to get to work on the billboard last year, but […]
On the heels of a five-day strike by Providence nurses in June, 3,500 nurses at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) hospitals in Portland and Hillsboro could become the second group of nurses to strike this year. OHSU nurses, who are unionized with the Oregon Nurses Association (ONA), are working on an expired contract and […]
Nearly 2,000 Providence nurses in Portland and Seaside have launched the region’s first nurses’ strike in more than two decades. Nurses at Providence Portland Medical Center began their strike at 5 a.m. Monday. Two hours later, nurses from Providence Seaside on the coast and nurses working on a home health and hospice unit run by […]
With summer fast approaching, Oregon once again does not have a functional state legislature. The Republican Senate caucus has walked out over objections to bills on abortion rights, transgender rights, and gun safety, and while negotiations to bring the Republicans back are ongoing, the legislative session remains imperiled with less than two weeks to go […]
In the summer of 2020, in the midst of a global protest movement against police violence, Portland Public Schools (PPS) Superintendent Guadalupe Guerrero announced that he was effectively discontinuing the presence of Portland police officers in district schools. “With new proposed investments in direct student supports (social workers, counselors, culturally-specific partnerships & more), I am […]
Portland Public Schools (PPS) has presented a trio of options to an atheist parent who pulled his children off their school bus after they told him the bus driver encouraged Christian singing and prayer. The parent, Tim Bartholomew, moved with his children to the East Columbia neighborhood in January and enrolled his children in first […]
A group of community-based organizations in the Portland area are calling on elected officials in city and county governments to raise the wages of social service workers who are struggling to survive economically doing demanding and critically important work. It’s a serious problem. Social service nonprofits comprise a major part of the region’s response to […]
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