Downtown affordable housing for Portland’s poorest is down 23 percent.
Matt Davis
Matt Davis was news editor of the Mercury from 2009 to May 2010.
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Think Twice
Signature Gatherers’ Criminal Histories Exposed
Oregon signature gatherers’ criminal histories exposed.
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The Duffy Lucas Interview
Once, he was a kid dancing to Sussudio. Today, if it’s possible, he’s even more incredible than that. I first saw the Duffy Lucas tapes last week, a grainy Youtube that originally aired in 1986. Yesterday, Lucas and I connected via Facebook, and this evening, he gave me the interview you’ve been waiting for. Since […]
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“Typical trashy Portland hipster/slacker house.”
A reader looking to put together a photo shoot is looking for one of these as a “location.” Since I live in a gentrified downtown condo with tasteful furnishings, I can’t help personally. And most of my yuppie friends have homes straight out of Portland Spaces, of course. But I wonder if you might, you […]
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The Portland Upside
Next issue: They call four hundred people asking them to “just say something nice” about the mayor. What I really love about the name is that it implies there’s a huge downside, too. The paper is published monthly in Damascus, Oregon, and is seeking “volunteer writers to tell the positive stories of the Portland metro […]
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Health Care Q&As from Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s First Telephone Town Hall
Nobody compared President Obama to Hitler, but tonight marked the first of Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer’s two telephone health care town halls. Blumenauer’s last health care town hall took place at Portland Community College in North Portland back in June. There’s a lot of misinformation about health care flying around, so I thought you might […]
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Why It’s “Safe” To Swim The Willamette
Portland Triathlon organizer Jeff Henderson has written a response to my blog last week about swimming a mile in the river with him. Basically he’s telling you it’s a good idea to do the triathlon, and even invites you to go along and try it. Drop him a line if you’re interested. Next swim is […]
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Obama: “I’ve Seen Some Of Those Signs…”
Remember when Portland’s mayor led that disastrous town hall about the destruction of Memorial Coliseum? It convinced me that if you’re a politician considering forcing through a bad idea, it’s usually an even worse idea to go out and ask the people to weigh in on it. By contrast the president has a GREAT idea […]
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In Which Duffy Lucas Communicates With Me
Last Monday, I introduced you to Duffy Lucas. Some readers familiar with the Google suggested I contact Lucas via Facebook. Having heard nothing back, I assumed Lucas was none too pleased to be reminded of his former glory—presumably he is now washed-up, a has-been, I thought. I was wrong. My effing Spam filter appears to […]
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Good Morning, News!!
OBAMA TO SPEAK AT HEALTH CARE TOWN HALLS!!! Will not screen audience members, first. Last night, demonstrators in McMinnville had portraits of the President as Hitler. Carla at Blue Oregon has the deets, this photo from Ridenbaugh Press: BARACK O’HITLER: THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN/IRISH HITLER… HEALTH CARE REFORM EXPLAINED!!! Nice job by the Daily Show panel: www.thedailyshow.com […]
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#omeletteporn
Mercury food editor Patrick Coleman has been cracking me up (hehuh…cracking…) this morning with his #omeletteporn tweets: Thought you might like to follow along, if you’re not already.
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“(503): I find it ironic that homeless people are so good in bed.”
From the website texts from last night, which has plenty of other Oregon texts, including “I am too pretty for them to be this angry at me.”