The Rolling Stones are playing You Can’t Always Get What You Want on the radio, and these have stayed, un-smoked, in the desk drawer. “I knew she was gonna make her connection. At her feet was a hundred and fifty thousand public campaign financing dollars…” Sing it with me!
Matt Davis
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
Posted inElection 2010
“Rudy Soto Got More Votes Than Me…”
Jesse Cornett snuck next door to the Lucky Lab to check the early returns. This is how he looked before he saw ’em: Then Markgraf, his campaign manager, came in with a sheet of paper showing the early returns, and everything changed: Saltzman: 35,469 or 55%Rudy Soto: 4,657 or 7.3%Mary Volm: 8,108 or 12.7%Jesse Cornett: […]
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Jesse Cornett: Someone Bought Cigars
I just saw someone whip out a bunch of cigars at Jesse Cornett’s “victory party” at Graphic Station, in a converted garage next to Roots Brewing on SE 7th and Hawthorne. There were, like, seven in a “humipouch,” all different kinds, long ones. This guy brought them over to Cornett’s campaign manager, Peter Markgraf, who […]
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Dan Rather On Portland: Center Of Child Sex Trafficking, Also…It’s The Mercury’s Fault
Score one for those fed up with the national media fawning over Stumptown. Dan Rather’s report on Portland as a hub for child prostitution repeatedly contrasts Portland’s status as a “model city” with its…er…other reputation. Hey, you remember Rachael Marcus’s story “Confessions of A Teenage Prostitute?” Well…Dan Rather just picked it up for the Huffington […]
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Training Homeless People To Speak For Themselves
Soapbox Under the Bridge organizer Patrick Nolen has decided to change the paradigm of people speaking on behalf of the homeless, by training homeless people to advocate for themselves. Nolen, who served as a community organizer at Sisters of The Road for three years until last year, is now one of the co-directors of Soapbox, […]
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Predicting The Election
We’ll have Blogtown lighting up like an immolating monk tomorrow evening, with coverage of all the results and election night parties from our news team: Matt Davis, Steve Humphrey, Stefan Kamph, Sarah Mirk, and Angela Webber. Sass-minded Arts & Web Editor Alison Hallett and triply sass-minded Copy Chief Courtney Ferguson will also be reporting for […]
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Did Ya Vote Yet? You’ve Got Until Tomorrow…
Check the Mercury‘s Cheater’s Ballot if you’re not sure how to vote. And then, there’s this guy…
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Things I Will Always Remember About The Mercury #2: Sidewalk Tape
Ah, happy days…I’ll just link to coverage from that week.
Posted inEvents
Oh, You Should Totally Come To My Leaving Do
I MEAN, WHERE ELSE WOULD I HAVE IT? Next Thursday night, May 20. From 5pm until they shoot the horses. Club 21, at NE 21st and Sandy, opposite the Mercury‘s offices. You should totally come. If you’ve never been to Club 21, I should tell you that when I went in there at 1:30 this […]
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Best Illustration We Never Got To Run
We’d slated a story for Tuesday night about Mayor Sam Adams cutting the Police Bureau’s mounted patrol unit as part of his upcoming budget. Obviously a lot has happened since then, and we ended up going with a story about the settlement of the James Chasse Jr suit. Which itself seems like weeks ago now, […]
Posted inBooks
Keith Lee Morris At Disjecta Tonight
I’ve reviewed Keith Morris’s latest book in this week’s Mercury, and I’m excited to go to his reading tonight at Disjecta, with Lee Montgomery, editorial director of Tin House Books. The reading starts at 7:30 at the Templeton Building, 230 E Burnside. In the mean time if you’re interested, here’s a link to the full […]
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Cogen To Cut $5.4million From County Budget—But Will Spend $120k On “Efficiency Consultant”
Multnomah County Chair Jeff Cogen has proposed to cut $5.4million from the county’s total $340million budget this morning, and also, to pay $120,000 to bring in an outside “efficiency consultant” to save more money. Cogen sat down with the Mercury yesterday to talk about his budget priorities, which include funding alcohol and drug treatment, and […]