The Mercury Election Strike Force

Measure 104 shares many similarities with Measure 103, the proposed ban on state grocery taxes. Like the grocery tax ban, Measure 104 is a preemptive move by conservative groups defending their business earnings in Oregon. Measure 104’s text is intentionally confusing to anyone who doesn’t closely follow the Oregon Legislature, but it’s not that complicated. […]

VINNIE NEUBERG / Getty Images Check out all of the Mercury‘s 2018 election endorsements! From the race for Oregon governor to the fight for affordable housing, we’ve got you covered. Given the chance, the smart, likable nerds campaigning for Measure 26-200 will happily bury you in spreadsheets, lists, graphs, and statistics. (That’s what they spent […]

Granger Wootz / Getty Images Check out all of the Mercury‘s 2018 election endorsements! From the race for Oregon governor to the fight for affordable housing, we’ve got you covered. Measure 103 aims to protect corporations from regulations that don’t exist. The measure, bankrolled by Oregon’s top grocery and beverage companies, introduces a constitutional amendment […]

Brett Maurer /Getty Images Check out all of the Mercury‘s 2018 election endorsements! From the race for Oregon governor to the fight for affordable housing, we’ve got you covered. Earlier this month, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounded a red alert for our overpopulated planet. Without massive, worldwide changes, the IPCC […]

Michele Constantini / Getty Images Check out all of the Mercury‘s 2018 election endorsements! From the race for Oregon governor to the fight for affordable housing, we’ve got you covered. The anti-abortion folks backing Measure 106 want voters to believe this is a measure that will simply let Oregonians decide where their tax dollars are […]

John Moore / Getty Images Check out all of the Mercury‘s 2018 election endorsements! From the race for Oregon governor to the fight for affordable housing, we’ve got you covered. If you consider yourself a relatively decent person with a moral compass, voting no on Measure 105—which would invalidate Oregon’s sanctuary law—is a very easy […]

LEO ZAROSINSKI Check out all of the Mercury‘s 2018 election endorsements! From the race for Oregon governor to the fight for affordable housing, we’ve got you covered. It’s no secret that Portland’s in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. Since former Mayor Charlie Hales declared a “housing state of emergency” in 2015, Portland and […]

Rides a horse and protects reproductive healthcare. Get you a governor who can do both. State of Oregon Check out all of the Mercury‘s 2018 election endorsements! From the race for Oregon governor to the fight for affordable housing, we’ve got you covered. The United States is currently going through a phase not unlike puberty—full […]

Jo Ann Hardesty, speaking truth to power. NATALIE BEHRING Check out all of the Mercury‘s 2018 election endorsements! From the race for Oregon governor to the fight for affordable housing, we’ve got you covered. This November, voters will make Portland history. Twice. Not only will Portlanders elect the city’s first Black woman to city council, […]