Pullout: The Portland Mercury SAD Issue
Amy Jenniges
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Slave for Signatures After weeks of effort, the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) finally tracked down the owner of a petition-gathering company that allegedly violated wage laws while collecting signatures for a number of conservative ballot measures. On Monday morning, January 23, BOLI served Brian Platt of B&P Campaign Management with a subpoena […]
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Mayor Pollyanna
Potter Hypes “Vision Project” in State of the City
On January 20 at downtown’s Governor Hotel, Mayor Tom Potter gave his first State of the City speech, to a capacity luncheon crowd of community, business, and political leaders. Potter, better known for gathering input than for laying out a concrete agenda, lived up to his reputation during the Friday speech: “My real interest today […]
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Shot Before Dawn
Cop Shoots at Moving Vehicle Despite New Police Policy
One week after the Portland Police Bureau’s first shooting of the year, all that’s left at the scene—on NE 64th, just south of Alameda—is a scar on the side of a stubby, gnarled tree. That’s where Dennis Lamar Young—driving a stolen Oldsmobile Cutlass—ran into the tree before dawn on Wednesday, January 4. Moments later, after […]
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Petition This!
Say Hello to 2006’s Initiatives
For better or worse, Oregonians love their initiative process. So far, 142 initiatives for the 2006 elections have landed at the Oregon Secretary of State—many of them already have signature gatherers on the street, trying to meet the July 7 deadline. Still others are awaiting approval before printing up signature sheets. Already, the mid-term season […]
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20 Things Not Invited Back to 2006!
As human beings evolve, doesn’t it make sense that things should get better? Then why are there still so many annoying things annoying us? Well, we’re putting an end to all things annoying RIGHT NOW. Here’s our list of things from 2005 that AREN’T invited back to 2006! Vancouver, WA Take a drive up I-5 […]
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Standing Up for Art
Mural Painter Intervenes in Clear Channel Lawsuit
Joe Cotter did not expect the judge to rule in his favor on Thursday morning, December 22. Cotter—a 56-year-old from Eagle Creek, near Estacada, who paints for McMenamins when he’s not designing and painting murals throughout the region—was hoping to intervene in a long-running lawsuit between Clear Channel and the City of Portland. Someone, Cotter […]
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Bishops Break-in Early in the morning on December 19 someone broke into Bishops Barbershop on Alberta Street. The culprit threw a brick through the shop’s glass, accompanied by a scrawled one-page rant: “Dear Sirs… We have watched your kind invade our neighborhood and occupy like we were a Third World country,” the note read, apparently […]
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Rotten Producers
Broadway Hit’s Film Version Stinks
It’s fitting, really, that The Producers‘ storyline centers around a theatrical flop that rakes in money: A producer and his accountant—Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, played by Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick respectively—scheme to make millions by collecting cash up front from little old ladies, then opening a terrible show (Springtime for Hitler), put on […]
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Super Legal
Bikers Obey the Law to Protest the Law
Elly Blue pedaled her bike across the damp grass at Colonel Sumners Park after work on Thursday, December 8, and zoomed up a hill toward her crew. In the bright lights of a tennis court, a dozen of her fellow bikers were assembled, waiting for Blue to kick off the night’s “Super Legal Bike Ride.” […]
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Loaded Zones
Citizens Speak Out Against Drug-Free Zones
On Thursday night, December 1, Mayor Tom Potter got another dose of community opposition to Portland’s controversial Drug-Free and Prostitution-Free Zones (DFZ). Dozens of citizens jammed into city council chambers for an emotionally charged two-hour public hearing on the zones, which allow cops to give suspected drug dealers or prostitutes a “notice of exclusion,” barring […]