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Denis C. Theriault
Denis C. Theriault is the Portland Mercury's News Editor. He writes stories about City Hall and the Portland Police Bureau, focusing on issues like homelessness, police oversight, insider politics, and civil liberties. Before arriving in Portland, Denis wrote and edited for the San Jose Mercury News, covering the California Legislature and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as the city of San Jose—a real-live million-person town.
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Where the Money Goes
Think City Hall Can Cut Its Way out of a Street Fee? That Depends on How Deep You Want to Cut.
Think city hall can cut its way out of a street fee? That depends on how deep you want to cut.
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Hall Monitor
Protecting the Parks Bureau
Amanda Fritz, Charlie Hales, a parks bond, and a street fee.
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The Money’s on Election Reform
Business Wants a “Top-Two” Primary in Oregon. Labor Does Not.
Business wants a top-two primary in Oregon. Labor does not.
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Good Morning, News!
Most of the unaccompanied children—tens of thousands of them in makeshift detention centers—caught trying to cross the American border after long treks from Central America will likely be deported back home. The White House, under pressure with President Obama looking to attempt at least limited immigration reform, has enraged traditional allies in calling for a […]
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Good Morning, News!
“Bringing firearms to Target creates an environment that is at odds with the family-friendly shopping and work experience we strive to create.” Yes, yes… after months of dithering, Target finally told off, if corporately and gently, the open-carry enthusiasts who’d made the dressed-up discount chain their stage. Hurricane Arthur does as its pleases. (For now, […]
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Hall Monitor
Taking Off the Cap
There’s more to Dan Saltzman’s children’s levy than we usually hear.
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Next for the Wrecking Ball… Iconic Dive Bar Club 21? Someday?
It’s entirely tentative—not even a Formal Project yet. But a developer’s well-developed push to build a large apartment complex around and atop the site of one of Portland’s iconic dive bars—the lodge-looking, historic landmark Club 21—appears to be gaining a bit of notoriety in a town spooked, of late, by harrowing tales of demolished history […]
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Free to a Good Home: the Greek Cusina Octopus!
HOLY HELL. Look, gang! The octopus from the old Greek Cusina downtown has popped up on Craigslist! Greek Cusina, on SW 4th and Washington, closed down more than four years ago, in January 2010—after a blistering code fight between owner Ted Papas and then-zoning Commissioner Randy Leonard. (That code fight later spilled into a court […]
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City Attorneys Basically Dare Federal Judge to Reject Police Reform Deal over Procedural Imbroglio
With just days before US District Judge Michael Simon gets ready to decide the fate of police reform in Portland, attorneys for the city and the Portland Police Association have submitted lengthy legal defenses of their attempt to push the case through without giving Simon precisely what he wants: annual courtroom updates from the city, […]
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Good Morning, News!
Let’s get this out of the way. Most of won’t you be reading this any time soon. You’ve called in sick so you can sit in a bar and drink in the morning like it’s a Sunday and you’re not ready to let go of Saturday and there’s soccer on and it’s the American team […]
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Hall Monitor
A Lesson on Transparency
The cops stopped reporting force against “transients.” Worse? They didn’t say why.