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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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A Measure of Faith
City Hall Wants to Help More Churches Help More People off the Streets
City hall wants to help more churches help more people off the streets.
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Portland’s Urban Renewal Agency Has a Deal in Place to Purchase Right 2 Dream Too’s Old Town Lot
Another looming shoe seems ready to drop in the long-running saga over Right 2 Dream Too’s quest to trade its land on NW 4th and Burnside for a more permanent home. According to city documents (pdf) obtained by the Mercury, the Portland Development Commission will vote as soon as this Wednesday on a tentative deal […]
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City, Feds, Police Union Reach New Compromise on Police Reform—if Judge Goes For It
Attorneys for the US Department of Justice, the city, and the Portland Police Association have devised another possible end-run around a federal judge’s request for annual updates on a wide-ranging package of police reforms, according to court documents filed Friday afternoon—potentially lifting the last major obstacle in front of a deal expected to have been […]
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Sorry, America. Your cities have basically never been savaged in foreign wars. No occupier in 200 years has put its hand around your throat. But now you know pain. Watch the brilliant header that sliced out and urinated on millions of the world’s wealthiest and most entitled hearts. The advance of the Sunni militia carving […]
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Gone to Chili’s lately? Of course you have! Because you like “the deals”! Because you appreciate salt and casual, family-friendly dining options in strip malls and along six-lane state highways! And now guess what? Our friends at Chili’s are making it even easier to put their sumptuous wares right into your road-weary maws: Expensive, overwhelmed […]
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Return of the Brewhaha! The Battle for Open Primaries in Oregon!
After a very long time (so long I don’t actually remember how long) the fine folks at the Bus Project and Mercury are teaming up and bringing back our old series of semi-monthly politics and policy salons better known as ye olde Brewhaha. It’s always been simple. You show up at an adult place. You […]
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Town Hall on Street Fee (the One for Businesses) Moves to Larger Location
Unsurprisingly keen interest in the future of Commissioner Steve Novick and Mayor Charlie Hales’ proposed new “transportation user fee” has forced city officials to relocate one of two town halls on the fee scheduled for next week.Instead of meeting to talk about the non-residential portion of the proposed fee at Venture Portland’s headquarters next Tuesday, […]
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GLOBAL CRISIS AVERTED. Holy moly macaroni, you guys… Facebook was down for 31 minutes, it’s longest outage in four years… and it was terrible… because people… they had to idly scroll through other social networks (do those even exist)… or… and this one’s almost too terrible to contemplate… not look at screens at all. President […]
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Hall Monitor
Silence Between the Lines
What city hall isn’t saying about the minimum wage matters more.
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Mending the Gap
The Hunt for a Police Reform Monitor Is Back on Course
The city’s hunt for a police reform monitor has resumed course.
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UPDATED: Cops No Longer Publicly Tracking Use of Force Against “Transients”
Despite promising a deeper look of officers’ use of force against “transients” and people with mental illness, prompted by an apparent spike in both categories in quarterly force reports last year, the Portland Police Bureau seems to be changing its mind. Without releasing any findings from its promised review—meant to answer whether the rise was […]