Julie Bennett / Getty images Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) In local news: • You might remember the strange case of Michael Reinoehl, the Portland antifascist activist who was killed by federal […]
Blair Stenvick
Blair Stenvick is a former news reporter and culture writer for the Portland Mercury.
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Watch This Short Film About a Portland Mutual Aid Kitchen
A still from Crisis Kitchen, by local filmmaker Gabriel Baron. Crisis Kitchen—a short film about a Portland mutual aid food organization of the same name—packs a lot into its nine-minute runtime. Created by local filmmaker Gabriel Baron, Crisis Kitchen puts a beautifully shot spotlight on a group of restaurant chefs and volunteers who started cooking […]
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Good Morning, News: Oregon Vaccine Eligibility Sped Up, Feds Find Fault in Portland Cop Oversight, and Hopeful HIV/AIDS News
motoya NAKAMURA / MULTNOMAH COUNTY Good morning, Portland! If today is already a crappy one for you, can I suggest getting a hot dog and a (checks notes)…. CBD margarita slushee? Here are the headlines. • According to attorneys with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Portland’s current police oversight board is relying on flawed—if […]
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Portland Environmentalists, Neighborhood Group Sue Federal Government to Stop I-5 Widening
MATT WONG Three Portland organizations are suing the federal government in an attempt to stop, or at least delay, a plan to widen a 1.7-mile stretch of Interstate 5 in Northeast Portland. A legal complaint filed Friday by advocacy group No More Freeways, environmental organization Neighbors For Clean Air, and Portland’s Eliot Neighborhood Association aims […]
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Good Afternoon, News: More Oregonians Vaccine-Eligible, Cop Killed at Capitol, and Georgia Faces Consequences for Voter Suppression Law
OFFICE OF GOV. KATE BROWN Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) In local news: • The three newest members of Portland City Council aren’t on board with Mayor Ted Wheeler’s plan to throw […]
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Five Things to Watch for in Top Chef’s New Portland Season, Premiering Tonight
Top Chef’s first Portland elimination challenge was cooked and served at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). David Moir/Bravo “Welcome to Portland,” host Padma Lakshmi tells 15 chefs in an industrial kitchen space located somewhere in the Portland metro area, “and season 18 of Top Chef!” That’s right: It only took 18 seasons […]
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Good Morning, News: The US Has Vaccine Privilege, Good News for Oregon Housing Crisis, and Teletubby Bitcoin
Yulia Reznikov / Getty images Good morning, Portland! Here’s our latest to-go cocktail recommendation from Hale Pele, because who couldn’t use a nice fruity tiki drink right about now? And here are the headlines. • President Joe Biden announced his $2 trillion infrastructure plan yesterday, aptly titled the American Jobs Act. Here’s a breakdown of […]
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Good Afternoon, News: Biden’s Infrastructure Plan, Slight Portland COVID-19 Uptick, and a Dispatch from Mars
MARS ROCK Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) In local news: • We’re seeing an uptick in COVID-19 cases in the Portland metro area—some of which could just be a data-collection issue caused […]
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Good Afternoon, News: Proud Boy Collabs with Portland FBI, Human Rights Violations in Oregon’s Justice System, and Another Sex Creep in Congress
GETTY IMAGES Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) In local news: • Joe Biggs—a leader of the Proud Boys who’s been indicted for his role in the January 6 attack on the US […]
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Oregon’s in Uncharted Territory with Therapeutic Psilocybin Use. That Means Creating Our Own Map.
Ryland Zweifel / Getty images For 10 years, Portlander Angela Carter has made the annual summer trip to attend Burning Man, a legendary counter-cultural festival in the Nevada desert. But Carter wasn’t there only as an attendee—rather, they volunteered as a medic with the festival’s emergency services department. Carter’s primary responsibility: providing harm reduction for […]
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Good Morning, News: Oregonians Arrested for Capitol Riot, Vaccine Misinfo Spreads, and the Transphobic Debate Over Women’s Sports
WIN MCNAMEE / GETTY IMAGES Good morning, Portland! Fancy a whiskey or three? Here are the headlines. • Unemployment claims across the US fell to their lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic began this week, likely as a result of vaccination efforts continuing to make progress and more businesses and communities opening things up. But […]
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Visit the Dinosaurs at OMSI and Remember Earth Has Seen This All Before
Blair Stenvick In geology, prehistoric time is delineated by marking different cataclysmic events. It’s not the promising beginnings or new creations that define a time period—rather, it’s the traumatic event which changes everything that gives a time its meaning. For the dinosaurs who roamed North America millions of years ago, it was actually multiple cataclysms, […]