dowell /Getty Images Gov. Kate Brown has given Clackamas County the green light to begin reopening its restaurants, bars, salons, gyms, and all retail businesses as early as Saturday, May 23. This means that Clackamas has met all the Phase 1 requirements laid out in Brown’s framework for lifting the March restrictions placed on Oregon […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News: Struggling Oregon Counties, Trump’s Deadly Corona Cure, and Remember to Stay Home on Memorial Day
To the surprise of no one (particularly medical experts), Trump’s Covid drug of choice is potentially deadly. Marta Ortiz / iStock / Getty Images Plus Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • According to the […]
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Take the Mercury Quarantine Survey—Win Fab Prizes!
Fill out the Mercury Quarantine Survey! Eva Blanco / iStock / Getty Images Plus The Mercury wants to know: HOW HAVE YOU BEEN DOING DURING THIS QUARANTINE? That’s why we’re offering the Portland Mercury Quarantine Survey—so we can find out how our readers have been faring during the state’s stay at home orders, what topics […]
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The Mercury Cheer Up Club: Here Are Those Laughs You Ordered!
The best song about Bubble Tea you will ever hear. Twitter Screen Shot Okay, Thursday! I will admit you were successful in pushing me into an emotional tub of donkey plop and rusty razor blades. However, that’s all gonna change now… thanks to the Mercury Cheer Up Club who’s here with a lot of laughs […]
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The Best Things to Do While Staying Home and Staying Safe This Memorial Day Weekend: May 22-25 2020
Yes, it’s weird to think of this as an “extended” weekend considering, well… (gestures resignedly at everything.) But it is Memorial Day weekend, normally considered the first four days of the summer season, so far as the entertainment industry is concerned. And in keeping with that tradition, there’s a lot of stuff to look at, […]
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The First Inmate in an Oregon Prison Has Died After Contracting COVID-19
TXKING/GETTY IMAGES A middle-aged man is the first Oregon prisoner to die after testing positive for COVID-19. According to a brief news release from the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC), the unidentified man was incarcerated in Salem’s Oregon State Penitentiary. He died Wednesday after being transferred to a hospital. He was between 50 and 60 […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News: McConnell Wants Your Cheese, How to Be a “Karen,” and 36,000 Lives Could’ve Been Saved by Trump
The United States could have saved 36,000 lives if it had began social distancing just one week earlier. LifestylesbyGloria / iStock / Getty Images Plus Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • According to the […]
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Good Morning, News: Portland Elections Result in Runoffs, Oregon Revenue Forecast Sucks, and What’s the Deal With Meat?
We need your help. The economic fallout of the coronavirus has threatened our ability to keep producing the Mercury. If you’re able, please consider donating to the Mercury. Portland City Hall Mercury staff Good morning, Portland! Time for some honesty: I’m a little exhausted after writing this think piece yesterday (some are calling it “the […]
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The Mercury Cheer Up Club: Big Laughs for a Dud Day
Guys… singer Jason Derulo invented a corn-eating machine! Twitter Screen Shot It’s WEDNESDAY: The day when you say, “Wait… it’s Wednesday? Yeaaaaah, I don’t think it’s Wednesday.” It’s also the day when you need some serious cheering up from the Mercury Cheer Up Club—which is chock-a-block full of funny things that will make you forget […]
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Today’s Coronavirus News Roundup: Oregon Testing Ramps Up, CDC Tricks Trump, and When Will Multnomah County Reopen?
Oregon ramps up coronavirus testing. jarun011 / iStock / Getty Images Plus Here’s your daily roundup of all the local and national news about COVID-19. (Like our coverage? Please consider donating to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • According to the Oregon Health Authority, the state currently has 3,801 positive COVID-19 cases (that’s 65 […]
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Watch Live: Press Briefing on Multnomah County’s Reopening Status
Dr. Jennifer Vines Motoya Nakamura / Multnomah County If you’ve been keeping up with the news (and since Good Morning, News and our daily COVID news updates exist, you simply have no excuse), you’ll know that the majority of the counties in Oregon have either applied for or have been given the go-ahead to start […]
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BUS WEARS MASK
BUS WEARS MASK trimet Bus drivers wear masks. Bus riders wear masks. President tweets about giving money to bus. Now, bus wears mask. Mood pic.twitter.com/MpnfYB4Agm— TriMet (@trimet) May 20, 2020 You should also wear mask.