“This is not how I expected to wake up this morning…” “…and then Sasha added, plus we have a three day weekend coming up.” Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, October 9 2009. “I’m mindful that only yesterday in Birmingham Alabama, our children crying out for brotherhood were met with fire hoses, snarling dogs […]
Matt Davis
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
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“Dis is how I start my day.”
From the Governor of California’s Twitpic account this morning. John Kitzhaber, you better get your Twitter skills up to snuff if you plan to take the Oregon Governor’s job in 2010. Because Arnold has it down.
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Today In PDX
Bike racks set up outside city hall for participants in the Bicycle Transportation Alliance’s bike commute challenge. There’ll be free Hotlips Pizza at tonight’s event, and Widmer Brothers have donated a keg. It’s a good job they are donations—BikePortland.org reports today that the BTA lost $92,509 last year, due to sloppy accounting. THERE’LL BE BIKES, […]
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Read The Goddamn News
KNOCK, KNOCK, TAX THE RICH Sarah Mirk went door-knocking in Creston Kenilworth last weekend with Steve Novick, talking to neighbors about January’s upcoming tax vote. Turns out, Portlanders are overwhelmingly supportive of taxing rich corporations and people a little more to pay for basic services. KNOCK, KNOCK, TAX THE RICH: AND BIG CORPORATE PROFITS, TOO […]
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Internal Oregonian Memo Lays Out Plans
An internal memo at the Oregonian laying out plans for the paper’s future has found its way to Oregon Media Central this morning. Following the paper’s second buyout offer last month: “We will not abandon our foundation of beat reporting,” the memo says, “but beats will be redefined along areas of expertise of most interest […]
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County: Tax Your Car $19 A Year To Fund Bridge
Multnomah County looks ready to enact an annual vehicle registration fee of $19 starting next fall, to pay for its portion of replacing the ailing Sellwood Bridge. The bridge opened in 1925. In 1960, three feet was cut out to accommodate a landslide. Loads have been restricted twice since 1985, there’s a sag in the […]
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Twitter’s Up The Shitter
In the mean time, feel free to leave your Tweets in the comments. @kiala, I did this for your mental health.
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Mental Health, Church Groups Ask Chasse Cops: Quit
“The late civil rights leader Dr.Martin Luther King said we are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation,” said the Reverend Doctor Leroy Haynes, vice president of the Albina Ministerial Alliance this morning. “James P Chasse junior, who died in police custody of blunt force trauma, cries […]
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God Bless The Oregonlive Commenters
In this case I would say they’re right on point. Four mental health groups will call on three officers involved in the death in custody of James Chasse to resign at 9am.
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Cops Gone Wild!
Police Bureau Draws Heat for TV Crew Antics
Cops apologize after dragging a Cops TV crew into a homeless
feed.
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Kroger vs. the Willamette
Attorney General Talks River Cleanup
Attorney General John Kroger starts his clean-up campaign for Oregon’s
rivers by paddling the filthy Willamette.