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Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
Anti sit-lie Facebookers hold sidewalk picnics against the city’s
planned renewal of the law.
City Commissioners Randy Leonard, Nick Fish and Amanda Fritz called this afternoon for the publication of the city’s controversial “secret list,” going against the advice they have been given so far by the city attorney’s office to keep it secret. City council passed an “emergency ordinance” this afternoon to pay Multnomah County almost $1million of […]
City council has this morning voted to approve free all zones transit travel for 9th to 12th grade students in Portland Public Schools. The new “Youth Pass” program for students will be funded with $800,000 from Portland Public Schools, and using up to $2million in tax credits from the state’s department of energy, which has […]
TED’S DEAD!!! Senator Kennedy dies at 77. “The Kennedy name is synonymous with the Democratic Party, and at times Ted was the target of partisan campaign attacks. But in the United States Senate I can think of no one who engendered greater respect or affection,” President Obama says. TED KENNEDY: LAST OF FOUR BROTHERS, DIED […]
Did you know that the Portland Metro area is currently employing as many people as it did in 2001? That’s right. No new net jobs have been created since then. “We lost some jobs, we gained some jobs, but we’re back where we were in 2001,” says Christian Kaylor, Workforce Analyst at the Oregon Employment […]
…eat cookies, have picnic, draw attention to unconstitutional nature of city’s defunct sit/lie law. City council is yet to divulge any developments on the updated version of the law.
SIT ON IT!!! The Facebook group urging city council to stop trying to “fix” the unconstitutional sit/lie law is now 267 strong, and plans a series of “sidewalk picnics” downtown today at noon. “Come on down today and join the 30+ of us who will be enjoying our lunch in lovely downtown Portland,” writes organizer […]
Local writer Melissa Lion has a piece on the motherf**kin’ Daily Beast (which is edited by TINA BROWN, who knew PRINCESS DIANA) today about local stripper and Mercury contributor Viva Las Vegas. Lion Tweeted about it this morning, but I only just saw it. Lion already has two novels published, so this is hardly a […]
New city auditor LaVonne Griffin-Valade plans to start a waste, fraud and corruption hotline for the city of Portland so that city employees and the public alike can call in on an anonymous basis. “Frankly we don’t anticipate that there will be a lot of fraud, if any,” says Valade. “But it’s good to have […]
Police Commissioner Dan Saltzman plans to attend police roll call at Northeast Precinct this afternoon, to talk with police and gang outreach workers about this morning’s shooting at the KC Food Market on North Killingsworth: FOOD MART: SCENE OF THIS MORNING’S SHOOTING Cops arrived on the scene at 10:50 this morning to discover that a […]
I hung out at city hall yesterday for a while, in the hopes of talking with the city’s homeless commissioner, Nick Fish, about the controversial effort to come up with a replacement for the sit/lie law. Fish is up for reelection next year and I’ve been interested to follow his progress on this issue since […]
EYES ON 2012 Marriage equality door knockers push conversation, not conversion: KNOCK KNOCK: PHOTO BY JEFF YARBOROUGH… RECALL WRECKER! Reporter arrested and released after defacing recall petition. JUMPY ROAD After false starts, the Rose Quarter may finally get a makeover. SIT ON IT In which I objectively contemplate the possibility of another unconstitutional sit/lie law. […]
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