At the beginning of the week the nonprofit group Art on Alberta posted an event invitation on Facebook that signaled, to many, the potential demise of Last Thursday as we know it. Illustration by Jonathan Sperry The event is billed simply as a “community meeting about Last Thursday on Alberta,” and will be hosted by […]
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Ambulance Company Settles in Chasse Lawsuit
The Oregonian broke the news late last night that the ambulance company that arrived on the scene of James Chasse’s arrest in 2006 has settled its part in a federal wrongful-death lawsuit. According to reporter Maxine Bernstein’s story, the company will pay around $600,000 to Chasse’s family. That leaves the City of Portland and the […]
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Ducking the Issue
Is the Dirty Duck Really Worth Preserving?
The Dirty Duck bar is at the center of a fight over historic preservation.
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On-the-Street Survey Shows Apathy to Election
The news folks here at the Mercury have been thinking a lot about Measures 66 and 67 over the past few weeks, writing a rousing endorsement and hollering out the window to canvassers. But are they really in touch with public sentiment? To find out, they sent an intrepid intern (me) on a forced march […]
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Portland’s own Haiti relief container, now loading
Sending a $10 text message is helpful, but Portlander Jeff Lorton takes “proactive” to a whole new level. He woke up last Wednesday morning feeling like he had to do something to help Haitians affected by the earthquake. So he made some calls to a freight consolidator, found an old container, and started rounding up […]
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Is “Yes on 66/67” Campaign Misleading Voters?
THAT IS SOME NICE PIE: Infographics with an ulterior motive. The debate over Measures 66 and 67 has seen its share of masquerading hijinks over the past few months (see Tillamook dairy farmers and fake ballots). But most of the fakery has been coming from the opposition campaign. So it’s interesting that a recent “Voter […]
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Good Morning, News!!
The Portland area lost 52,000 jobs last year. That’s five percent of the workforce. The City of Portland wants to move the Federal trial over the death of James Chasse Jr. outside of Oregon, where the populace is not so “tainted by… publicity.” Oregon medical marijuana advocates have collected 61,336 signatures toward placing an initiative […]