Candidates for City Commissioner Dan Saltzman’s seat are lined up at the Multnomah County Building on SE Hawthorne this evening, for a voter forum with the League of Women Voters. City Commissioner Nick Fish is here, too, along with his competitors. But there’s no Saltzman, so far. “Other candidates include Dan Saltzman who is double […]
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Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
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“Joke:” Jail Deputy Shocks Colleague With Taser
From Florida, via the Associated Press: A Collier County deputy was reprimanded after shocking a colleague with a Taser in an incident meant to be a joke. The December scene was caught on tape at the Collier County jail. A female deputy was seen showing a message on her iPod to Cpl. Wilmer A. Arencibia, […]
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PORTLAND MAN SENTENCED FOR RUNNING OVER ANOTHER MAN’S ARM!!! “A 29-year-old driver who ran over the arm of a man who was mocking him was sentenced to nearly two years in prison Monday,” begins Aimee Green’s story. BEATING OBESITY!!! Atlantic writer Marc Ambinder does the highbrow version of The Biggest Loser: TEN FOR SUPREME COURT!!! […]
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Meet A City Candidate: Mary Volm
Mary Volm is a former spokesperson for the City of Portland. She’s running to restore the city’s responsibility for basic services, instead of pet projects. And also, possibly, buy bus tickets for some of our transient kids. Read the Mercury‘s interview with Mary Volm after the jump! MARY VOLM: PISSED WITH CITY GOVERNMENT So how […]
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Nice On Desk Duty After Road Rage Incident
“Dan’s disappointed,” says Police Commissioner Saltzman’s chief of staff, Brendan Finn. “When Sergeant Nice returns from family leave he’ll be placed in an administrative position until the investigation is completed.” MERCURY STAFF NICE: ROAD RAGE INCIDENT SURFACED LAST WEEK What about Portland Police Association President Scott Westerman, who was involved in another road rage incident, […]
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Oregonian Endoses Saltzman: “Gumption? Nerve? Leadership? Saltzman fits the bill.”
Read the whole thing here. And why they don’t just come out and say, “we hope Nick Fish runs for mayor,” I don’t know. The whole, “we have very high hopes for him” line is woeful.
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Police Union Boss Scott Westerman In Road Rage Incidents: “See if he really is a cop with a problem, or just somebody pretending he’s a cop.”
Update, 2:20pm “I hope Scott Westerman does not resign from the PPA,” says Jesse Cornett, who is running against police commissioner Dan Saltzman for city council. “If he did, he would be back out on the street, and could be a real danger.” Original post: OMG. Maxine Bernstein has the scoop of the year: Portland […]
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TURN IN YOUR GODDAMNED CENSUS FORM
That’s the basic message, albeit with a “goddamned” thrown in, from County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury, who called up this afternoon because she’s concerned that “some of the folks who are reading your publication” might not be turning in their census forms. Multnomah County’s current turnout is 63% in the census. Mercury readers?! I get it. […]
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Tiger Woods Parody Videos…Ah…Yesssss…
Screw Wieden and Kennedy for making an ad so sick, yet stimulating, that not only is everybody disgusted by it, they’re also, kind of, talking about it, and making parodies that are funny, and ultimately, shifting more product for Nike, even though it’s sick and unfortunate. And yes, SCREW W&K for compelling me to blog […]
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Cornett Vs. Saltzman: On Police, Mental Health
Police and mental health issues dominated last night’s Buckman Neighborhood Association forum for candidates for Dan Saltzman’s council seat, at the Central Catholic High School on SE Stark. Not only Jesse Cornett and Dan Saltzman were on the panel, but the other six hundred million candidates for the seat, too. I only had a 50mm […]
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Black Bloc: Chasse Protest At NW13th & Everett
From sometime Mercury arts writer Stephen Marc Beaudoin, who is on the scene: “I was just passing,” he says. “And I saw it going on.” “There’s, it looks like, about 20 folks in black bloc attire ring-leading this,” he says. “And they cordoned off the intersection with Everett and 13th, which I guess is where […]
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Cop/Mental Health Worker Tandem: Just One Car
Police Chief Rosie Sizer and Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman joined with City Commissioner Amanda Fritz and NAMI Multnomah advocate Dan Moore this afternoon to launch a report called Recommended Action Items Regarding the Intersection of the Police and the Mental Health System in Portland. SIZER, FRITZ, SALTZMAN, AND MOORE: “THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN” The report […]