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 / TANG MING TUNG Good morning, Portland! Here’s today’s installment of “Holiday Music That Doesn’t Suck”: […]
Blair Stenvick
Blair Stenvick is a former news reporter and culture writer for the Portland Mercury.
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Some News That Doesn’t Suck: First Oregonians Vaccinated
Dentist Ryan Thrower vaccinates Ansu Drammeh against COVID-19 Wednesday at OHSU. screenshot Oregonians watched some of the state’s first COVID-19 vaccinations, administered at three different hospitals Wednesday morning, the same way most everything is experienced in 2020: through a grainy, audio-challenged Zoom-based livestream. At 11 am, a group of frontline healthcare workers at Oregon Health […]
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Good Morning, News: Gov. Brown Calls Special Session, FDA Finds Moderna Vaccine Effective, and Pornhub Purges Videos
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. MOTOYA NAKAMURA / MULTNOMAH COUNTY Good morning, Portland! Today, in holiday music that does not suck: Here are […]
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The First COVID-19 Vaccines Have Arrived In Oregon
Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant yesterday in Portage, Michigan. morry gash / Getty images The first shipment of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines arrived at Oregon medical centers at 7 am Monday. Two Legacy Health sites—one in Northeast Portland and one in Tualatin—each […]
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Blair’s Grocery Games: A Cheap, Festive Holiday Meal From Grocery Outlet
A beacon, a clarion call, a light in the dark. Blair Stenvick [Here’s another great article from our 2020 Holiday Food & Drink Guide! Check the rest out here to make your holidays extra festive!—eds.] High on my list of pandemic comfort watches is the Food Network show Guy’s Grocery Games, in which chefs gather […]
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Oregon Preps for “The Vaccine Campaign of Our Lifetimes”
Gov. Kate Brown As Oregon’s COVID-19 case counts continue to rise, the state is prepping for a massive vaccination effort to begin later this month. Oregon Health Authority (OHA) will report 1,611 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, bringing Oregon’s total case count since the pandemic began above 90,000. According to Dean Sidelinger, Oregon’s state epidemiologist, […]
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Q&A: Your TriMet Bus Driver Wants You to Wear a Mask
TriMet provides free disposable masks for any riders that don’t have them. trimet This has been a brutal year for all frontline workers who have been forced to weigh the risks of working during a global pandemic. That’s true for healthcare providers, grocery staffers, retail and restaurant workers—and TriMet bus operators. The Mercury recently spoke […]
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Good Morning, News: Red House Protest Continues, US Breaks COVID-19 Death Record (Again), and How You Can Help Hungry Portlanders
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. Hospitals across the country are nearing or at capacity due to the coronavirus. go Nakamura / Getty images […]
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Blair’s Grocery Games: A Cheap, Festive Holiday Meal From Grocery Outlet
Blair Stenvick [Here’s another great article from our 2020 Holiday Food & Drink Guide! Check the rest out here to make your holidays extra festive!—eds.] High on my list of pandemic comfort watches is the Food Network show Guy’s Grocery Games, in which chefs gather in a sound-stage grocery store and compete to see whose […]
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Good Morning, News: UK Starts COVID-19 Immunization, FDA Okays Pfizer Vaccine in US, and Holiday Munchie Recs!
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. Margaret Keenan, 90, is applauded by staff as she returns to her ward after becoming the first person […]
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Supreme Court Dismisses Anti-Trans Case Against Oregon School District
4KODIAK / GETTY IMAGES The United States Supreme Court has rejected an Oregon-based lawsuit seeking to strip transgender students of their rights. On Monday, the Court declined to hear an appeal from Parents for Privacy, an anti-trans group that in 2017 sued Oregon’s Dallas School District over a policy that allowed a trans high school […]
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Blair’s Grocery Games: A Cheap, Festive Holiday Meal From Grocery Outlet
High on my list of pandemic comfort watches is the Food Network show Guy’s Grocery Games, in which chefs gather in a sound-stage grocery store and compete to see whose dish can get Guy Fieri to say “That’s killer” and “Oh, man!” the most times. A common conceit on GGG: Chefs must create delicious, indulgent […]