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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!

The Mercury Infiltrates “Marriage and Morality Sunday” to Check on the Anti-Gay Referendum Campaign. Are Oregon’s New Gay Rights Laws Doomed, or Has the Anti-Gay Christian Right Lost Momentum?
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David Crowe, executive director of Restore America—one of a handful of groups united as Concerned Oregonians, an organization seeking to overturn two recently passed gay rights laws—went on local Christian talk radio on Thursday evening, August 16, to rally the troops. He urged people to email Concerned Oregonians immediately to request petitions, and implored them […]

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Amateurs Do It Better

The 2007 Adult Soapbox Derby: Where the Only Professionals You’ll
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During their first soapbox derby race, Aaron Abrams and Pete West’s car ended up in a bramble of blackberry bushes. “The Muddy River Nightmare Band racer knocked us off the road the first year,” Abrams claims. “The nails on their car tore my jumpsuit—they mangled our ride.” Welcome to the annual Portland Adult Soapbox Derby. […]

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Running On Empties

The five-cent deposit on empty bottles and cans doesn’t sound like
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Daylight means opportunity. And opportunity at the Safeway bottle return room on SW 11th smells like fermentation… a sour beer. The room is closet-sized with no air conditioning. It has a grimy floor that sticks like flypaper. Large beige “reverse vending” machines, which scan, compact, and sort empty beverage containers (also known as empties), churn […]

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No Mo’ Loco in NoPo

Landlord Shutters El Burrito Loco
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A crumbling, water-damaged ceiling, a warped perforated with holes, a basement smelling of mold and sewage: These are things owner Alberta Canales and her employees say they’ve tolerated at the original El Burrito Loco in North Portland for the past few years. The building that houses their business, a bar, and several apartments is 85 […]

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After-School Special

Nonprofit Tutoring Organization Accuses Community Development Firm of Racism
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Hacienda Community Development Corporation—a nonprofit that offers affordable housing and other services to low-income families—lays out its goals on its website, including a mission to “transform the livelihood of Oregon’s lower-income Latinos and other people of color.” Ironically, that same organization is being accused of racial discrimination in a lawsuit. According to a lawsuit filed […]

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Barred from Wellsville

New Fed Rules Cost Patients and County
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A bill pushed by President George W. Bush—intended to block human service providers from giving benefits to undocumented immigrants—has come home to roost in Multnomah County. It’s causing the county’s health spending to skyrocket—and blocking US citizens from getting benefits. Jennifer York, 24, moved to Oregon from California about a month ago. She has three […]

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Tow Job

Northeast Portland Towing Skirmish Goes Statewide
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There’s a permit parking lot next to Sean Cruz’s driveway, a lot that belongs to two triplexes across from his house off of NE Fremont in Parkrose. In March 2005, a Dodge Caravan and Cadillac were towed from Cruz’s own property. The tow company, Retriever Towing, assumed his cars were parked illegally, and towed them […]

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