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Beating Traffic in This City Is Easy—with a Bike!
Here’s Everything You Need to Know
Dirk VanderHart
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!
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Old Town Neighbors Are Fighting a New Homeless Shelter by Citing a Decades-Old Agreement
They Sort of Have a Point
They sort of have a point.
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Hall Monitor: Saltz’s Last Waltz
Facing a Stiff Challenge, Portland’s Longest Commissioner Is Hanging Up His Spurs
Facing a stiff challenge, Portland’s longest-tenured commissioner is hanging up his spurs.
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In a Shocking Turnaround, Dan Saltzman’s Not Running for Re-Election
Dan Saltzman, the longest tenured elected official in Porltand City Hall, is calling it quits. In an announcement that’s caught City Hall staff and a political opponent off guard, Saltzman announced this afternoon he won’t run for re-election next year as planned, meaning his career in city governance is over at the end of 2018. […]
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Good Morning, News: Ted Cruz Loves Dirty Twitter, Irma Wreaks Havoc, and Nick Fish Stays in the Race
It’s pretty easy to find photos of Ted Cruz with a suggestively clenched fist. This one spoke the most to me. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images) TED CRUZ LOVES TWITTER PORN: Or “likes” it at least. His Twitter account was observed giving the old thumbs up to a porn clip yesterday, and from all anyone […]
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The NYT Thinks Portland’s a Top-Four City for Amazon’s New HQ
JurgaR via GettyImages Growth-wary factions of Portland began their practiced grumbling last week, when retail monolith Amazon announced it’s looking to build a second headquarters, and Portland officials promptly decided to put in for consideration. Any Portlander who’s watched the transformations in Seattle in recent years has a personal sense of how life might change—or […]
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Good Morning, News: The World is Falling Apart, Portland’s Water is At Risk, and a City Shake-Up
(Photo by NOAA GOES Project via Getty Images) NATURAL DISASTER RUNDOWN: Hurricane Irma is the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean. She’s knocked out Puerto Rico’s feeble power grid, caused much worse destruction in other islands, and she’s headed straight toward Florida. Get out, Florida. There is an incredible amount of aircraft […]
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A Shake Up at the City’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement has Managers Packing Their Bags
The axe finally fell at the city’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement on Wednesday. In a shake-up that had been expected for months, three managerial spots within the troubled bureau have been converted to lower-paying positions, sending two members of the ONI management team out the door in coming weeks. At the same time, two more […]
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Former Top Aide to Chloe Eudaly Has a New Job—and an Atypical Paycheck—in Two of Her Bureaus
Dave Austin City of Portland It took a while, but Commissioner Chloe Eudaly’s office finally found a way to pay a high-ranking aide the money it had promised: By giving him an entirely new job. Dave Austin—who joined Eudaly’s office as Deputy Chief of Staff but in recent months helmed the troubled Office of Neighborhood […]
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Oregon’s $450 Million Plan to Widen I-5 Has Portlanders Preparing for War
K. Marie You’re fucking sick of traffic. Maybe you love your car. Maybe you merely tolerate it. But chances are you’re one of the 67 percent of Portlanders who commute to work in a personal vehicle. And chances are you’re over it. You already know why you’re over it. People are moving to Portland in […]
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As Fire Creeps Toward Portland’s Water Supply, the City Could Switch to Well Water
Diego Diaz The Eagle Creek Fire incinerating the gorge is showing no signs of slowing its explosive growth. In the last 24 hours, the fire has joined up with another fire—the Indian Creek Fire. What was a 10,000 acre burn at this point yesterday is now estimated at 31,000 acres. And it’s creeping toward Portland’s […]
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Oregon’s $450 Million Plan to Widen I-5 Has Portlanders Preparing for War
But Can Activists Kill Another Highway Megaproject?
But can activists kill another highway megaproject?