If you had told me back in Will Ferrell’s SNL or Anchorman days that in a few short years I’d be dreading every new project starring Ferrell, I’d have kicked you in the mouth for being a liar. BUT YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN RIGHT. Now I see stuff like this poster and my only hope […]
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Breaking News: Class Action Lawsuit To Be Filed Against City’s Anti-Camping Ordinance
Attorneys working on behalf of Portland’s homeless plan to file a federal class action lawsuit against the city of Portland’s controversial anti-camping ordinance tomorrow. The suit, prepared by the Oregon Law Center in Portland, challenges the constitutionality of the anti-camping ordinance—alleging that in enforcing the ordinance against people who have nowhere else to sleep than […]
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Crack Pipes: Far Too Convenient.
In Lents, those pesky crack pipes just won’t go away! Two years ago, the notably affable neighborhood association member Jeffrey Rose took up a campaign to get local convenience stores to stop selling the tiny rose vases that neighborhood ne’er-do-wells typically used as crack and meth pipes. Under neighborhood pressure, the stores stopped selling the […]
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Jury Fails To Convict In Alleged Rent-A-Cop Assault
Update, 3:03pm: Parks Security Manager Mark Warrington says he meets with PPI boss John Hren on a bi-weekly basis, and that Hren informed him of the incident when it took place, as they did at the end of September this year, when a PPI officer was punched repeatedly by a transient. KGW ran this story, […]
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Sweet Potato Pie and I Shut My Mouth…
An Indiantown man was arrested and charged with assault after he allegedly threw a steaming-hot sweet potato pie at his girlfriend’s face on Thanksgiving. I’ve been saying this for years, but there’s nothing “sweet” about a potato pie. On Thanksgiving, Christopher Ford, 46, went to his home on the 8400 block of Southeast Fern Street. […]
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Christmas Is Going to Be Here Sooner Than You Might Realize, Is All I’m Saying, and I Could Probably Make Pretty Good Use of This, Is All.
NATCHEZ, MISSISSIPPI: A complete and authentic vampire killing kit–made around 1800 and complete with stakes, mirrors, a gun with silver bullets, crosses, a Bible, holy water, candles and even garlic, all housed in a American walnut case with a carved cross on top–attained $14,850 in the Jimmy Pippen estate sale by Stevens October 3-4 in […]
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The ‘Secret List’ Procedure Emerges! City Making It Up As It Goes Along!
You may remember in the summer there was some furor about a certain city commissioner and his alleged role in the formation of a policy targeting certain criminals for special treatment under the law. At the time, there was a suggestion that city hall was creating a “secret list” of the worst offenders as part […]
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Metal Scrappers
I know you’ve gotta make $20 for your next bag of speed – but really? Is nothing sacred?
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Free Milk T-Shirts. Also, Shark in Venice!
So that Milk contest? Over. If you haven’t received an email from me by now, then you didn’t win. That means you have two options: (A) Wait until November 26 to see the film when it officially opens, or (B) Buy tickets to the premiere. Or there’s (C): Swing by the Mercury offices (605 NE […]
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Prostitution Pushed to Interstate?
One night in mid-October, I met up with the Montavilla in Action neighborhood patrol squad in a parking lot just off 82nd Ave. The group gets together a couple nights a week and wanders the streets in shiny orange vests, shining their flashlights into darkened parking lots and among shrubbery looking for prostitutes. I expected […]
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How Much Does Portland Heroin Cost?
Ask the Mercury readers! The article I wrote in last week’s paper about Portland having the purest heroin in the nation (we’re number one!) is attracting some interesting comments: I am a junkie, 14 months clean. I have done a lot of Portland heroin, and I can safely say that 90 percent of it pretty […]