The Miracles Club for addicts is a community asset, but new neighbors want it fenced off.
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Good Fences, Good Neighbors?
Social Club for Addicts May Get Fenced in to Appease Neighbors
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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Council Leans in Favor of Keeping Colwood Green
Whoa, for months the leaders of the Cully and Concordia Neighborhood Associations have been rallying volunteers to fight the planned rezone of the Colwood golf course (follow the controversy and see some sweet maps here) and tonight the City Council gave them a pretty huge straw-vote victory. After two hours of testimony from both rezone-supporters–who […]
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Alligator Versus Cops!
Bikers on the Springwater Corridor and 190th came across a surprise on Friday afternoon: a three-foot long alligator! Dumped pet? Zoo escapee? Creature spawned from river sewage? Whatever it was, it lay quite politely in the road. The bikers did the first two things that would come to anyone’s mind. First: take camera phone pictures […]
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Prostitution Blog Battle
The neighborhoods along 82nd Ave are all in uproar this month over that perennial hot button issue: prostitution. What’s really interesting to watch is how the conversation has played out on the internet, where a degree of anonymity and the ability to link together like-minded people across the neighborhoods have led to a flurry of […]
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Lents Whips Whippits!
Lents Neighborhood Association member and genuinely nice guy Jeffery Rose spotted something unusual at the corner market last night that sparked an All-Alert Email to the neighborhood: “I was in the Wing-Ming on Foster for a late night purchase and I noticed sitting on the counter a box of “cream chargers” which supposedly are used […]
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The Lightbulb Lady
So maybe I’m the only person in Portland who didn’t know about the Lightbulb Lady. But, man, I meet a lot of people and she is one of the most interesting I’ve ever met so I need to post about her. The Lightbulb Lady is Kay Newell and she sits all day behind the low […]
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Good Morning News!
“Tense and Probing”: In her first big interview with the press, moose-shooter Sarah Palin says, “I’m ready!” but then doesn’t know what Bush’s foreign policy doctrine is… “There are no ground or air incursions by Nato forces into Pakistani territory”: Except that a secret order by Bush allows troops to enter Pakistan to pursue terrorists. […]
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Neighbors Slam Potter’s Prostitution Plan
I just witnessed two outspoken Montavilla neighbors stage an impromptu takeover of the mayor’s morning press conference. “They invited us to come and stand behind them,” said Montavilla in Action member Liz Sullivan, after the conference dispersed, “and we don’t stand behind this plan.” What Potter unveiled this morning was the basics of his plan […]
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There Goes the Neighborhood
City Permit for Last Thursday Opens Gentrification Wounds
Last Thursday is a symbol of Portland now: creative, independent, and gentrifying.
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Making Slumlords Pay
City Rewrites Rental Rules
It’s a slumlord crackdown when the city rewrites rental rules.
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The Mercury‘s Back to School Issue: Teen Sex Edition!
Pullout: Back to School 2008
Welcome to the Mercury‘s Back to School Issue: Teen Sex Edition!