RANDY LEONARD WANTS TO BUY MADE IN OREGON SIGN!!! And change it to read “Portland.” At least, that’s what he says he wants it to say. This week. ILLUSTRATION BY BT LIVERMORE A ROOF FOR PGE PARK??? Oh, goody! Can it say “Portland” on it, too? APPLE PROFITS SURGE 47% And you bought stock. Right? […]
Matt Davis
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
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Tea Party Folks Protest Media: Stop Ignoring Us!
42 members of the Oregon Tea Party Coalition organized a protest Friday night, against being ignored by the mainstream media: CAN YOU HEAR US NOW? OUTSIDE THE OREGONIAN BUILDING, FRIDAY NIGHT The Mercury went along and documented all of it. Starting with the guy at the back, doing the rock hands, who has an INCREDIBLE […]
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Portland Cops May Reevaluate Taser Policy After Company’s Shocking Policy Change
The Portland Police Bureau is evaluating a shocking new advisement by Taser International, and will decide about changes in its Taser policy training, according to bureau spokeswoman Mary Wheat, this afternoon. Canadian Mounties were instructed last Friday to aim Taser probes away from the suspect’s chest area, after Taser International raised new concerns about its […]
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Street Roots On Sidewalk Plan: It’s “Fantastic…”
Street Roots has weighed in on the mayor’s new sidewalk plan, too, in an editorial in today’s issue: On the front end, the plan is fantastic and builds a base for ongoing support for services, such as public restrooms, that are essential not just for people experiencing poverty, but all Portlanders. It may be buried […]
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Leonard: May Kill MLS Over Paulson Remarks
City Commissioner Randy Leonard says he may kill Merritt Paulson’s Major League Soccer deal with the City of Portland unless Paulson “recants” on remarks made Tuesday night, to the effect that Paulson won’t bring Major League Soccer to Portland unless Beaverton residents give him a baseball stadium. “He won’t have a deal here,” says Leonard. […]
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Cops/BTA Work Together On Training Video
City Commissioner Dan Saltzman may not be too popular with mental health advocates at the moment, but he’s done the bicycling community a favor by fostering a collaboration between the Bicycle Transportation Alliance and the police bureau on a new training video this afternoon. “An apparently indifferent approach from the police bureau” greeted the death […]
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Reed Students Mock The Holocaust
Ah, liberal arts colleges. So the authors of a Reed “humor” publication called the Pamphlette recently published an article accusing Lewis and Clark staff of “rounding up and gassing all the Jews on their Portland, OR, campus,” reports Inside Higher Ed. Cue the most absurd round of hand-wringing about whether or not the Pamphlette should […]
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Read The Goddamn News
SCAPEGOATING SALTZMAN Is the Police Commissioner Losing Community Support? ILLUSTRATION BY WILDER SCHMALTZ: WE DID OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE INTERVIEWED AND PHOTOGRAPHED FOR THIS STORY, BUT THE COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE TURNED IT DOWN DON’T FEDEX YOUR POT Smoker says company invaded his privacy by searching his package. WHO’S THE BIGGEST WINDBAG ON CITY COUNCIL? Last […]
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Columbia Sportswear Boss Supporting Recall 2
Portland Tribune reporter Jim Redden quotes Columbia CEO Tim Boyle this morning. “The sportswear executive says he will contribute money to the campaign, although he would not say how much. “I will be giving money to it, and it will not be the largest contribution,” Boyle says. I still think this second campaign is bullshit. […]
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Paulson: No Beaverton Ball? No PDX Soccer
The Oregonian is reporting Merritt Paulson told a town hall meeting in Beaverton Tuesday night that he won’t follow through on a Major League Soccer deal here in Portland if he can’t secure a baseball deal over there. This is the same line Paulson gave at one point in Lents, before the SE Portland neighbors […]
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Scapegoating Saltzman
Is Police Commissioner Losing Community Support?
Is Portland’s police commissioner losing community support?