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Matt Davis
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
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It’s Still a Secret
Appeals Court Blesses City’s Hidden Roster of Addicts
The Oregon Court of Appeals says Portland’s hidden roster of targeted addicts is constitutional.
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An Opaque Revolving Door
County Hires WW News Boss without Interview
WW editor offered plum county job without even an interview.
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BREAKING: Oregonian Editorial Page Editor Bob Caldwell In Jail This Morning On A DUI
Caldwell is yet to return a call for comment. CALDWELL: EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR OF THE PAPER OF RECORD Caldwell is the editorial page editor who defended endorsing a candidate for state senate last year without calling any of her would-be opponents. Editor Peter Bhatia referred us to publisher Chris Anderson for comment—Anderson is on a […]
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Things I Will Always Remember About The Mercury #3: Gary Blackmer
Oh, sssweet Gary Blackmer.
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Read The Goddamn News
The Un-Smoked Cigars Can Public Campaign Financing Survive Another Brutal Election? V for Vindictive About as original as titling your police story “Cop Out.” Another Mentally Ill Man Dead Will a Police Shakeup Change Anything? Help Is On The Way…Perhaps Promised Mental Health Center “Relatively Certain…” BRETT SUPERSTAR
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Hall Monitor
V for Vindictive
Dan Saltzman deserved to be demoted for siding, stupidly, with former Police Chief Rosie Sizer.
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The Un-Smoked Cigars
Can Public Campaign Financing Survive Another Brutal Election?
In May election, the incumbents are in, idealists out!
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Saltzman Slams Leonard’s $5million Computer
Fresh from his election victory last night, City Commissioner Dan Saltzman has slammed fellow Commissioner Randy Leonard’s budget request for a $5million loan from the city’s general fund to pay for a new computer system at Leonard’s permitting bureau. Saltzman said he didn’t see how it could be justified. “We’re not so much in a […]
Posted inElection 2010
$29 Of Your Money Per Vote: Are Voter Owned Elections Dead, Now?
The big story last night was the trouncing of Jesse Cornett. I was on KBOO this morning with Lisa Loving, trying to find the right word for it. The thrashing of Jesse Cornett? The whipping? What? It’s obviously embarrassing for me, personally, as the outgoing news editor of the only paper in town to endorse […]