OBAMA TO ANNOUNCE NEW SAFETY MEASURES!!! Too late for me, having lined up behind three rather tense Arab gentlemen before our trans-Atlantic flight in Amsterdam on Saturday. The experience revealed new depths of unexamined prejudice. NEW AIRPORT SCANNERS BREAK CHILD PORN LAWS!!! The Guardian delights in the irony. WARREN BEATTY HAS BEDDED 12,775 LADIES!!! Claims […]
Matt Davis
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
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Best Of The PDX Blogosphere
Having just returned from two weeks in Blighty I had the pleasure of checking my Bloglines server this morning—talk about logjam. Since it took me an hour or so (two hours…maybe three) to get through them all I figured you might be interested in a few of these random posts you missed over the last […]
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Oregonian Editorial Board: Hypocrisy On Tax Measure Endorsement Knows No Bounds
Woah. File under “I did NOT see THIS coming.” The Oregonian editorial board penned a lengthy endorsement yesterday advising its readers to vote against the legislature’s modest tax hikes on corporations and those earning more than $250,000 a year. The strongly-worded piece, which reads more like a press release put out by the Portland Business […]
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The Year We Wish it Were: Historical Revisions to 2009
The Mercury‘s Historical Revisions to Portland, 2009.
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Quotes of the Year
As Actually Reported in 2009
Quotes of the year, as reported by the Mercury’s news team.
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Hall Monitor
Getting Carter
City council honors former State Senator Margaret Carter by naming a day after her.
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Jesse Cornett Files For Saltzman’s Seat
Jesse Cornett has filed his candidacy for Dan Saltzman’s council seat. Currently the assistant to the president at Portland State University, Cornett is leaving to focus full time on his election campaign. CORNETT: RUNNING Before working at PSU, Cornett spent three years as a senior policy advisor to Oregon’s former Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, […]
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Humphreys: Sizer Calls Union “Overtly Political”
The Portland Observer recently revamped its website, and news editor Jake Thomas has been doing a great job of attending meetings throughout the community. I check in over there at least once a day and would recommend you add the site to your list of blog feeds. Thomas’s reporting diligence was rewarded Wednesday night at […]
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Definitely Not Sorry
The tone of this month’s Rap Sheet is clearly repentant and cowed. Willing to work with, not against. Keen to examine and be introspective. Oh, no. Wait. It’s the opposite of that. Some gems:
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Read The Goddamn News
COLOSSAL IDEAS Expert judges debate five ideas for the future of Memorial Coliseum. ZACK SOTO TOO QUICK WITH HIS HANDS Jury rebukes sheriff’s deputy for head punch. WHERE’S MY PHO-KING MONEY? Workers file suit against Toast & Pho. Plus HALL MONITOR on Randy Leonard’s HIT Squad, and some hot breakers. Fo’shizzle. Read the goddamn news.
Posted inElection 2010
Greek Hour With Ed Garren!
Hey, Portlander. There’s an election happening sometime next year that you might be half-assed interested in. It’s for police commissioner Dan Saltzman’s seat on city council. So far we’ve interviewed Ed Garren, Spencer Burton, and Jason Renaud, who are all running for the seat. Mary Volm, a late entrant into the race, has declined repeated […]
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Brad Avakian Endorses John Kitzhaber
Labor commissioner Brad Avakian has added his name to the long list of Oregon politicos endorsing John Kitzhaber for Governor in 2010. Kitzhaber’s Democratic rival, Bill Bradbury, secured the endorsement of Al Gore last month. Here’s an extract from the press release put out by Kitzhaber’s campaign: “Governor Kitzhaber has an unparalleled record of standing […]