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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!
Mayor Ted Wheeler isn’t sure a change is called for.
Stay up to date on Portland news and politics. Looking for fun? Here are the best Things to Do in Portland today.” Matt Wong The state’s $450 million proposal to widen I-5 has been called a boondoggle that runs contrary to Portland’s bold emissions goals—but could it also imperil schoolchildren? Portland Public Schools board member […]
Matt Wong To the many arguments that have been heaved at the $450 million proposal to widen I-5 in the Rose Quarter add one more: It could imperil schoolchildren. That’s the case that was made by Portland Public Schools board member Paul Anthony this afternoon, as Portland City Council continued the interminable process of creating […]
Activists with BikeLoudPDX protest speed conditions on SE Division in December 2016. Dirk VanderHart Forty-five people died on Portland streets in 2017, according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). It’s the highest number of traffic deaths Portland’s seen since 2003, when the city recorded 47, and well higher than Portland’s homicide tally from last […]
CSA IMAGES / GETTY IMAGES We can’t say it enough: Measure 101 is bewilderingly complex, but incredibly important. And while the Mercury‘s editorial board has urged a “yes” vote on Measure 101, what’s really important is that you vote at all. To date, just 20.5 percent of eligible voters have returned ballots statewide. And just […]
A local attorney believes the city’s NIMBYs can help fix homelessness—and now he has their numbers.
Now, state lawmakers say they have the key.
Corbett Fire Trouble on I-84, where a semi truck plunged into the frigid Columbia River last night near Corbett—apparently after a collision with a car. I got multiple texts yesterday, when news emerged that Cranberries front woman Dolores O’Riordon had died of as-yet unclear causes. I never get texts when celebrities die. This says something. […]
Mercury rendering. In September 2016, Old Town karaoke mainstay the Boiler Room was unceremoniously bounced from its long time home at the corner of Northwest 3rd and Davis—and then nothing happened. For nearly a year and a half, the property has sat unoccupied, though a recent flurry of noisy construction in the space has proven […]
THE PRESIDENT HAD A VERY BIG DAY: In a meeting with lawmakers on immigration, Donald Trump calls Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” and bemoans the fact that Norwegians aren’t coming to the US instead. This inspires a neverending cascade of sarcastic “The president is racist?!?!!” tweets on my Twitter feed, and also every major […]
Amanda Lamb Multnomah County A former Multnomah County analyst who was fired last month for sharing data about racial disparities in the justice system has found a new home: City Hall. Amanda Lamb began work Monday as a management analyst with the city’s Independent Police Review (IPR), a wing of the auditor’s office that investigates […]
And similar policies could soon spread to other areas.
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