Randy Leonard asks Lents to gamble development dollars on a stadium.
Sarah Shay Mirk
Sarah Shay Mirk reported on transportation, sex and gender issues, and politics at the Mercury from 2008-2013. They have gone on to make many things, including countless comics and several books.
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Paper Trials
Ex-Just Out Staffers Fight for Unemployment Checks
Just Out ex-staffers say publisher blocked unemployment after
walkout.
Posted inNeighborhoods
Beavers’ Stadium: No Numbers to Gnaw On
“We’re here to get the facts,” said Lents Neighborhood Association chair Damien Chakwin to over 70 neighbors who packed into the Lents Elementary School cafeteria tonight to discuss the Beavers ballpark possible slated for their neighborhood. “We should get some information before we make a decision.” Sadly, there were few facts for the neighbors to […]
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What Would Lents Cut to Foot Stadium Cost?
Lents has called an emergency neighborhood association meeting tonight to discuss the issues swirling around Randy Leonard, Mayor Adams’ and Merritt Paulson’s pitch to use $42 million in Lent’s urban renewal funds to cover 80 percent of the construction costs for a new Triple-A Beavers stadium out in Lents park. The neighborhood association does not […]
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Is This Ad For Real?
Sometimes I can’t tell. It’s been popping up all over the internet recently and I clicked through once just to see if it would take me to SkyMall. Alas, the live saving facial jock strap is not available through SkyMall, but it was good to explore the renowned catalog of the world’s most absurd and […]
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Nutria Spooks Woman in Wal Mart
I don’t know what’s funnier: that a swamp rodent took up residence in a Louisiana WalMart or that the WalMart employees were allegedly keeping the thing as a pet and had named it Norman. Sadly, things got out of hand when the nutria scurried across an aisle, causing a woman to shriek and sue for […]
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Death to Phone Books Part II
Phone books. I have seven. I hate them. I probably have at least a tree’s worth of paper sitting on my front porch right now, piling up as a monument to the futility of personally trying to save the world by saving paper. I don’t want them. And yet they appear incessantly. Remember this photo? […]
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Police With Short Shorts Homo Watergate Ride!
This weekend I got sunburned. While drinking a beer and eating Cheez-Its. And (arguably) came in third place in a cupcake decorating contest. It is definitely almost summer. More important than solstice or school breaks, impending summer means we are now officially counting down the days to the best bike festival in the entire world: […]
Posted inCity Hall
Randy Leonard Twitters About His Sandwich
Randy Leonard: The best Twitterer on City Council. Sure, Mayor Adams has almost 200 more posts than Leonard but most of them are mini press release-style updates. Leonard, on the other hand, twitters off the cuff and so between posts about negotiating the Lents AAA stadium deal and referring to himself as “Bald Justice,” Leonard […]
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Good Morning News!
War is Over!: The War On Drugs officially is, at least. Obama About Face: The president restarts the same military tribunal process to try Gitmo detainees that he called “flawed” while campaigning. Salmonella – It’s Your Fault: Food companies leave safe prep step to the consumers. Car Cuts: Chrysler and GM dealers scramble for a […]
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Ex-Just Out Staffers Fight to Claim Unemployment
Two of the three staffers who walked out of Portland gay and lesbian newspaper Just Out last March are still unable to collect unemployment checks. While they allege that paychecks were spotty or nonexistent for six months, the state’s department of employment has so far ruled that only former news editor Jaymee Cuti quit with […]
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Abstinence Rocks!
While reporting this week on the abstinence-only sex ed in Oregon’s schools, I slipped into a YouTube spiral watching a handful of the hundreds of music videos about the virtues of abstinence. YouTube is bursting with ballads made on home video cameras and titled things like “True Love Waits” and “Addicted to Abstinence.” But the […]