Blog reader Lisa Mercer writes: Hey Mercury guys, Several friends told me about a website called thepotshot.com that makes fun of Portland people that get arrested. They love it, but I think it’s awful. Not even criminals deserve to be treated the way they treat them. I tried contacting the address that was given on […]
Matt Davis
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
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A “Skewed Picture” Of Haiti: Reed Grad Speaks
Last fall I profiled a Reed Graduate, Sasha Kramer, for the college’s magazine. Kramer has been working in Haiti for the last few years on a nonprofit called SOIL, that works on composting human waste to turn into fertilizer for crops. I just called Kramer on Skype to talk about the earthquake. KRAMER (LEFT) IN […]
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Read The Goddamn News
Did you miss me on KPOJ 620AM this morning at 8, talking about the news section as I do each and every week? Well, to quote Marlene Dietrich in Witness for the Prosecution, “damn you. Daaaaamn youuuu.” Actually, never mind. You can listen to a podcast of the show by clicking here. On the other […]
Posted inPolitics
The Criminalization of Mental Illness
Why Are Oregon’s Jails and Prisons its Biggest Providers of Mental Health Services?
Prison: Biggest providers of mental health services?
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Hall Monitor
Seven-Way Split
The race for Dan Saltzman’s seat gets diluted even further.
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Stop the Chicken
Vote Yes on Measures 66 and 67
The Mercury‘s vote “yes” endorsement of Measures 66 and 67.
Posted inCity Hall
City To Waive $250,000/Year In Rose Fest Fees
You know that saying about a free lunch? Well, there’s no such thing as a free buncha roses, either. MAYOR SAM ADAMS AND COMMISSIONERS RANDY LEONARD AND AMANDA FRITZ ACCEPT ROSES FROM ROSE FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS TODAY This morning, four of the five commissioners (Saltzman was “out sick,” said a staffer) proposed a resolution to “make […]
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John Kitzhaber Launches Jobs Strategy: I Used To Do This All Wrong
Occasional Blue Oregon blogger and freelance politics writer T.A.Barnhart managed to get along to gubernatorial candidate John Kitzhaber‘s “jobs strategy roll out” yesterday, and since we were busy putting together the paper here, I was interested in what he had to write about the experience and thought you might be, too: By T.A.Barnhart Once and […]
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Good Morning, News!!
THOUSANDS FEARED DEAD IN HAITI!!! You can donate money to MercyCorps to help with the recovery effort here. GOOGLE THREATENS TO LEAVE CHINA!!! This is a really odd story. The parties involved are “Google” and “China.” It’s an almost incomprehensibly big deal. GOOGLE CHINA: TURNS OUT, IT WAS JUST A WAY FOR THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT […]
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City Wants Chasse Case Moved To Idaho
God bless the City of Portland. Attorneys are blaming the continuing media coverage of the death of James Chasse for so biasing its field of potential jurors that the case needs to be moved out of state. The move would be amusing were it not part of the city’s continued refusal to acknowledge responsibility for […]
Posted inElection 2010
FREE PIZZA! (And Jeff Cogen’s Campaign Kickoff)
County Commissioner Jeff Cogen is running for re-election. His campaign will be boring because he will win. Although he does looks a lot like Tommy Carcetti from The Wire: COGEN AND COGEN, I MEAN, CARCETTI…NO…CARCETTI AND COGEN… Still, just because the man is sure to be reelected, doesn’t mean he shouldn’t have a campaign kick-off […]