No one is really sure where a model homeless program is headed.
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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In Defense of Ballet
It has recently come to my attention that some people think ballet is not cool. When you mention that this week is “Oregon Ballet Theater Exposed,” a free event where the ballet company rehearses every day under a white tent in South Park Blocks, some people will scoff, “That’s boring. Wait, ‘exposed’ as in, ‘the […]
Posted inBuild Out
Irvington Condos Project = Giant Can of Worms
The Irvington Squire condo project proposed for the corner of NE 15th and Hancock has been contentious since it first came before design review a year ago. But things heated up this summer as the Irvington Community Association rallied against the planned 5-story infill project in the middle of their historic neighborhood. I wrote about […]
Posted inPortland
Project Homeless Connect: Successful, Necessary… and No Longer Funded?
For eight hours today, healthcare is free in Portland. Well, if you could wake up in time to snag an appointment at Project Homeless Connect down at the Waterfront, a twice-annual event which hooks upneedy people up with every kind of care — dental work, eye glasses, bike repair, food stamps, free socks. While signing […]
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Good Morning News!
Pull-Out Fake Out?: Bush, etc., set the “aspirational goal” of withdrawing troops from Iraq by June 2011. So is a Bush-approved withdrawl for real? Uh, it’s not clear. Pull-Out Fake Out #2: Russia starts driving its tanks home but Georgians are skeptical. Super Children: The Olympic Committee investigates the ages of Chinese gymnasts, thinking some […]
Posted inGreen
Green SUVs Are Still a Bad Idea.
All week the Ford auto company PR people have been bugging us to attend their forum on sustainability at the Governor’s Hotel today. In a plan that sounded both dubious and hilarious, the company offered a free catered meal and an in-depth discussion of their “groundbreaking” Eco-Boost Engine. I decided to bring along Ivan Maluski, […]
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Soccer Town
Lents Gnaws on Beavers Stadium Idea
A Beavers stadium in Lents could mean big money—and big changes.
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Finally! The Day Labor Site’s Good Neighbor Agreement
It’s been a long and hard road drafting the required Good Neighbor Agreement that sets up the community rules for the role Portland’s new Day Labor Center should play in its area. Hashing out an agreement that involved a dozen stakeholders, a $200,000 investment and hot personal and politically issues was obviously going to be […]
Posted inBikes
Sexy Bike!
This week’s installment of Sexy Bike began with this handcuff lock-loving I Saw U a couple weeks ago. When I spotted a sleek gray bike cuffed to the rack outside hot bike hot spot Half & Half, I had to ask if it was the one from the ad. It wasn’t, but it did turn […]
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Good Morning News!
Run Away! Jamaican runner Bolt breaks a world record while elderly Chinese protesters are sentenced to a year of breaking rocks. Cancer Cure?: Two years ago, cervical cancer inhibitor Gardasil was hailed as the must-have vaccine of the season. Now critics say the hype was unhealthy. Hello, Goodbye: What do Guantanamo detainees say during their […]
Posted inEvents
Pick of the Pix from the Mercury Costume Booth
Man, I miss the weekend. Saturday was pure fun in the oven. A sweltering 100 degrees was the perfect temperature for dressing up in leather pants and spandex and going for a bike ride and thus some Mercury staff spent all day at Tour de Fat, New Belgium beer’s annual costumed bike ride at the […]
Posted inSports
Lents Neighbors Gnaw on Beaver’s Stadium Issues
The Mercury editorial team headed out to a Beavers game at PGE Park last night, working its way through a combined 23 beers and, at one point, watching a “musical beach towel” contest that made everyone feel a little sadder. Within the next year, Portland may take be viewing its Beavers and musical beach towel […]