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I'm a news reporter for the Mercury. I've spent a lot of the last decade in journalism — covering tragedy and chicanery in the hills of southwest Missouri, politics in Washington, D.C., and other matters elsewhere.
I've been in Portland three years, love it and want to help make it better. Let's keep it amicable!
New allegations against the former mayor need to be investigated—no matter what.
ALABASTER PIZZO Bogged down in two lawsuits over the matter, the City of Portland has released the names of roughly 600 employees represented by a public-employee union to an anti-labor group. As we reported last week, the city has freely released the names of union-represented employees in the past. But faced with a recent request […]
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images NOT GOOD: It turns out the US Air Force forgot to flag a domestic violence court-martial against the man who committed a massacre in Texas on Sunday. If it had, he might have found it harder to purchased the weapons he used while killing 26 churchgoers. It also emerged Monday […]
Four former assistant chiefs are held blameless.
Adams denies it.
spencerforportland.com UPDATE: The site was live this morning, but has apparently been taken down since we published. PSA: If you’re actually looking for information about newbie Portland City Council candidate Spencer Raymond, you’ll want spencerforportland.com, not spencer4portland.com. The former is Raymond’s actual campaign site. The latter is a mockup, being used to lampoon the bar […]
I don’t want to be overly dramatic about the departing Twitter employee who briefly put the kibosh on Donald Trump’s account on Thursday, but I think I speak for many people when I say: The events of November 1, 2017 will sing on in all of our hearts for years and decades to come. We […]
JOHN MOORE / GETTY IMAGES Three Multnomah County deputies had a simple answer when asked by internal investigators recently why they assisted federal immigration agents: They’d been doing it for years, and no one told them not to. Investigatory reports released by the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office today shed light on the reasons the deputies—Keith […]
J. Maus/BikePortland A man found dead in Colonel Summers Park on Tuesday morning appears to be a local musician and bike messenger. While police still haven’t identified the person found in the Southeast Portland park around 7:43 am yesterday, friends and acquaintances online have identified him as 40-year-old Boyd Littell. (UPDATE: Police have confirmed it’s […]
Portland’s HR director just resigned abruptly, but her replacement was picked months ago.
But just two months ago, officials said they were public records.
ANOTHER BELIEVER / CC 3.0 The City of Portland is now ensnared in two lawsuits as part of a public records standoff with an anti-labor group. As expected, last week, the Portland City Council voted unanimously to fight a district attorney’s order that it release the names of city employees represented by the union Laborers’ […]
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