First up is this week’s feature (pick up a print copy, too) by Megan Burbank. It’s tremendous story about the Northwest Abortion Access Fund: … Unless something drastically changes, this will be the reality for women in the Pacific Northwest and across the country: If they can’t afford an abortion, they will need to call […]
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The Force Shadows the Beleaguered Oakland Police Department
And There Are More Similarities to the Portland Police Department Than You Think
And there are more similarities to the Portland Police Department than you think.
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County Commissioner Loretta Smith Faces Election Law Complaints in her Bid For a City Council Seat
County Commissioner Loretta Smith Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith is facing two complaints today that she’s violating both state and county campaign law in her bid for a Portland City Council seat that’s up for grabs next year. The complaints to the Secretary of State and Multnomah County were filed by Seth Woolley. Woolley is […]
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The Effort to Make the Criminal Justice System less Devastating for Mentally Ill People
Mercury staff A report released by Disability Rights Oregon (DRO) last March made it abundantly clear: The Multnomah County Detention Center, the downtown jail operated by the sheriff’s office, is a dreadful place for people with severe mental illness. The limited staff is not well trained, and jail facilities and policies are harmful, the report […]
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Multnomah County’s Jail is a Devastating Place for Mentally Ill People
Officials and Advocates Are Attempting to Make the System Less Terrible
Officials and advocates are attempting to make the criminal justice system less terrible.
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News Reporter Doug Brown’s Wish List
It’s the Mercury staff wish list—and we’re very greedy.
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Commissioner Eudaly Staffer, Who Attended an Avocado-Toast Based Party With Portland Tenants United, Cleared of Wrongdoing By Elections Officer
Avocado toast at the Spaceroom Lounge Margot Black Did a key staffer for Commissioner Chloe Eudaly violate city rules by being too cozy with lobbyists? An anonymous complainer said so. The city elections officers says no. The issue at hand: Whether Jamey Duhamel, Eudaly’s policy director, had too much avocado toast at an impromptu Portland […]
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Report: Radar, Air Traffic Control, Fighter Jets Couldn’t Track “Mystery Aircraft” Flying Over Oregon Last Month
screencap via flightradar24 Was it a drug smuggler en route to Canada? Was it a top-secret military plane? Something else? Who the fuck knows. The Warzone’s Tyler Rodgoway, an aviation wonk, has an intense story of a regionally coordinated effort last month to try to figure out what the hell a plane was doing flying […]
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Good Morning, News: The First Protest Lawsuit, Uber’s Future in Portland, and Bad Al Franken News
Good morning, Portland. Here are some links for you this morning. First up is this week’s feature (pick up a print copy, too), by Joe Streckert, about the Ku Klux Klan in Oregon. Portland cops detained roughly 200 people on June 4. SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES The ACLU of Oregon filed the first of […]
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First of Several Protest Lawsuits Filed Against Portland
Downtown Portland on June 4 SCOTT OLSON / GETTY IMAGES The ACLU of Oregon has repeatedly claimed that the Portland Police Bureau’s heavy-handed tactics at protests over the last year have been unconstitutional. Now, it’s asking a federal jury to agree. On Wednesday morning, the civil rights group planned to file the first of a […]
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The ACLU Just Filed the First of Several Lawsuits Over Recent Police Protest Tactics
It Hopes to Stop Cops from Using a Controversial “Kettle” Maneuver
It hopes to stop cops from using a controversial “kettle” maneuver.
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Man Arrested for Stabbing a Guy on the MAX Yellow Line
Tim Adams Yet again, a man was stabbed on a Max Train. The Portland Police Bureau announced that two men were “fighting” on the Yellow Line this afternoon when the train was in North Portland’s Kenton neighborhood. One of them stabbed the other. The cops found the victim at the the Denver Avenue Transit Station, […]