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Suzette Smith

Suzette Smith is the arts & culture editor of the Portland Mercury. Go ahead and tell her about all your food, art, and culture gripes: suzette@portlandmercury.com. Follow her on Twitter, Bluesky, and Letterboxd.
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Good Morning, News: Trump Administration Seeks to Block SNAP Distribution, Flight-Mageddon Reaches PDX, and Musk Assures Tesla He Can Raise Stock 466 Percent

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If you appreciate theย Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, considerย making a small monthly contributionย to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can alsoย subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland: We’ve had dry falls in the past, long beautiful hills of time when the breeze grew blustery and we drew […]

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Portland Responds to SNAP Shutdown Delays and Funding Cuts: Resources to Use and Support

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dollars are delayed. These organizations, markets, restaurants, and cafes are trying to fill people’s plates.
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Oregonians that rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) dollars will likely find their accounts running low this November. Whatever’s in there won’t disappear, but new deposits will likely be delayed. There’s more than one reason why. The major issue looming in everyoneโ€™s minds has to do with the ongoing shutdown of the federal governmentโ€”in […]

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Good Morning, News: Portland City Council Scandals, Non-Scandals, and Nothing-to-See-Heres

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If you appreciate theย Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, considerย making a small monthly contributionย to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can alsoย subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland: Happy Halloween! So, of course, today will be cloudy with highs in the mid-50 degrees. Then it’s time to build […]

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Good Morning, News:ย  Trump Pardons Binance Cryptocurrency Founder, mRNA-Based COVID Vaccines Might Fight Cancer, andย Balch Gulch Bridge Goes Historic

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If you appreciate theย Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, considerย making a small monthly contributionย to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can alsoย subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland: And good morning RAINโ€”today. Rainโ€”tomorrow! Rainโ€”Sunday! That’s just Portland being Portland; let’s hit the news! IN LOCAL NEWS:โ€ข On Thursday […]

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On No Kings Weekend, Chants, Inflatable Costumes, and Tear Gas Shroud Portland ICE Facility

Following a massive anti-Trump march, hundreds gathered to protest hostile immigration enforcement and violent policing.
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Hundreds of people packed the sidewalks and streets outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland Saturday, to protest increasingly hostile US immigration policies. With momentum from a massive No Kings rally Saturday afternoon, a jubilant, sometimes raucous crowd chanted and held up signs and middle fingers at federal agents surveilling the […]

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Good Morning, News: Oregon State Rep. Hรฒa Nguyแป…n Has Died at 41, Portland Man Asks Restorative Justice: One Bottle of Baja Blast Mountain Dew

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If you appreciate theย Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, considerย making a small monthly contributionย to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can alsoย subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland: Get out your booties, ‘brellas, and clear ponchos, Portland. We’re looking at a rainy weekend. Temps are unlikely to crack […]

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