Imagine: Portland constructing a AAA baseball stadium that doesn’t piss off hordes of architects by demolishing (sorry, “recycling”) Memorial Coliseum. At Tuesday’s packed public meeting about the Rose Quarter Mayor Adams said the city had studied alternate sites for a baseball stadium during the past two decades of redevelopment planning for the district. But a […]
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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Good Morning News!
Carbon Dioxide. Bad. It shouldn’t be big news that our government acknowledges this, but it is. Bush’s “Torture Memos”: Obama releases the nitty gritty on the Bush Admin’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” and says this a “time for reflection, not retribution.” So, uh, no teabagging for war criminals? Sharing = Stealing: A Swedish court says the […]
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Salem Ho!
Waving protest signs is a great way to catch a politician’s eye (who doesn’t love a child flaunting a little “OMG CRC WTF”?), but next week there are a couple events gearing up to get people talking face-to-face with politicians. First up, the entire Ways and Means Committee is meeting in Portland next week for […]
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Roller Derby Twitter Scavenger Hunt!
Oh my God, Portland’s three favorite things all in one headline. But no, really, I’ve just received some amazing breaking news: The Rose City Rollers are hosting a city-wide scavenger hunt via Twitter. This week’s clue goes up on @rocketmean TODAY at 3:50PM! That’s right now! The first person to solve today’s clue receives a […]
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Little Dubai
Can Portland Build its Way to Success?
Will Sam Adams’ development plans turn Portland into “Little Dubai”?
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Spandex Cameltoe
And Other Sights at This Year’s Filmed by Bike
Have fun waiting in line at this year’s Filmed by Bike.
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Anti-Tax Protest Packs Pioneer Square
Maybe “anti-tax” isn’t the best way to sum up the patchwork of passionate protesters at today’s Tax Day Teabagging Party in Pioneer Square. The protest issued a come-one-come-all invitation to people upset at the current state of the union, whether they’re mad about the bailout, mad that Obama is a raving socialist in cahoots with […]
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More Dirt on New Rose Quarter Developer
Remember the shiny shiny suburban images of entertainment districts built around the nation by proposed Rose Quarter redeveloper Cordish Company? In case you forgot: Bam! A Cordish “Live Block” is coming to Portland!Collage via Portland Spaces Well it’s not just their designs that have been bad in other cities – we blogged yesterday about complaints […]
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“I Never Chose To Do Anything I Didn’t Want To Do”
Wow. Today was the first morning I actually stopped what I was doing, sat down and listened with full attention to the discussion on Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud. This morning’s show featured two sex workers — a female prostitute and a male stripper — just talking frankly about their jobs. It was really […]
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Input of Hundreds “Appreciated” at Rose Quarter Open House
The mood was tense as Mayor Sam Adams waded out into the crowd of neighbors, urban planners and Winterhawks fans with a microphone, searching for questions. There were a lot. A crowd of about 250 packed Leftbank tonight wanting answers about the proposed Rose Quarter redevelopment plan, which involves tearing down Memorial Coliseum to make […]
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Rose Princess “Fiasco” At Cleveland High
The Portland Mercury: Your #1 source for all Rose Princess gossip! Students at Cleveland High School are miffed at the Rose Festival Association, which they say created “unnecessary fiascos” in selection of the Rose Festival princess for the home of the warriors. Today’s edition of the Cleveland student newspaper devotes three articles to the Rose […]
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Amazon Flags LGBT Books “Adult”
The Amazon.com rumors Alison mentioned this morning seem to be true – authors of books about LGBT issues or characters were shocked this weekend to find their books’ sales rankings disappeared from the site. A new policy at Amazon shifted many LGBT books into the “adult books” category, which the site bans from bestseller lists […]