johnson & johnson 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: • HOT VACCINE NEWS: All Oregonians aged 16 and older will be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by July 1, […]
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Blair Stenvick is a former news reporter and culture writer for the Portland Mercury.
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Good Morning, News: Congress Considers LGBTQ+ Equality, Oregonians to be Taxed for Stimulus, and Former President to Speak Sunday
We need your help. The economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis is threatening our ability to keep producing the quality reporting you’ve come to love. If you’re able, please consider making a monthly contribution to the Mercury. LGBTQ+ people are easy to spot, because we’re required by law to always be waving this flag! MOTORTION […]
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Good Afternoon, News: Portland No Longer Anarchist, COVID Restrictions Eased in Nearby Counties, and Assault on Voting Rights Continues
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’!) mercury staff In local news: • Portland city attorneys have agreed to pay more than $2 million to settle a federal lawsuit filed by the family of […]
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Good Morning, News: Thousands of Oregonians Still Without Power, Biden’s Kids in Cages, and New Info on Elijah McClain’s Killing
We need your help. The economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis is threatening our ability to keep producing the quality reporting you’ve come to love. If you’re able, please consider making a monthly contribution to the Mercury. Getty images Good morning, Portland! Okay, here’s your daily allotment of good news: Portland has to-go Boba cocktails […]
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Good Afternoon, News: Portland Police Hatch New Gun Violence Response Team, Oregon National Guard Helps With Snowstorm Relief, and Weather Causes Vaccine Backlog
Winter weather has left many Texans without clean water access. Joe Raedle / 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: • Last year, Portland City Council voted to disband […]
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Good Afternoon, News: Pack Your Bags for Mars, Portland Street Response Launches, and Thousands of Oregonians Still Without Power
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’!) A shot of Mars from the Perseverance rover taken as it touched down today. NASA In local news: • The Portland Street Response—a pilot program that aims […]
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The Right Place at the Right Time: Portland Got a Gucci Store, Baby!!!
Surely this will save us. courtesy of Gucci It’s been a rough few days, but things are finally starting to look up. Last Friday, my 20-year-old heater stopped working, under duress from a historic snowstorm that ripped through Portland. On Monday morning, I woke up shivering, confused as to why my electric space heater had […]
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Good Afternoon, News: Disturbing New Details About COVID-19 Jail Conditions, Opening Impeachment Arguments, and Double-Masking Proven Effective
Two are better than one. 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: • Our story about a protest inside a Portland jail over lax COVID-19 policies has been updated […]
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Author Rebecca Carroll Survives—and Defies—the White Gaze in Absorbing New Memoir
Simon & Schuster Rebecca Carroll didn’t meet another Black person in her tiny, rural New Hampshire town until she was eight years old. Carroll, a Black woman who was adopted by an all-white family as a child, remembers the experience vividly in her new memoir Surviving the White Gaze, which recounts her time as a […]
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Portland Area Moving From “Extreme” to “High” COVID-19 Risk
GETTY IMAGES / D3SIGN Starting this Friday, the Portland metro area—meaning Multnomah, Clackamas, and Washington counties—will move from Oregon’s “extreme risk” category for COVID-19 restrictions, into the “high risk” category. The change in designation comes as the Metro area, and Oregon as a whole, is seeing a dip in new COVID-19 cases. That means that […]
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Streaming the Pandemic: The Assorted Horrors of Host
Host film still Welcome to Streaming the Pandemic, our column in which we evaluate pop culture produced during and/or about the COVID-19 pandemic. Got a movie, TV show, album, etc. you think should be reviewed? Email me here. The 17th Century French dramatist Jean Racine once wrote that “Life is a comedy to those who […]
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Good Morning, News: West Linn Cop Brings Blackface to School, Oregon’s Vaccine Rollout Hits More Hurdles, and an Uber for Militias
We need your help. The economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis is threatening our ability to keep producing the quality reporting you’ve come to love. If you’re able, please consider making a monthly contribution to the Mercury. ohsu Good morning, Portland! In case you’ve forgotten, it’s almost Valentine’s Day—time to send your annual FREE Valentines […]