Shawn DiCriscio Did you hear? Portland’s roads are congested. That’s terrible news for your car commute, but decent news for the city, which now has millions more than expected to fix roads and make safety fixes on city streets. In its first full year, Portland’s 10-cent gas tax hauled in nearly $20 million, well over […]
Election 2016
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Remember: Trump’s Tax Plan Would Kill Affordable Housing
Leo Zarosinski When the Mercury wrote in February about how Donald Trump’s pledge to slash corporate taxes could decimate funding for affordable housing, most people we spoke with were still a touch optimistic. Sure, Trump had campaigned on a pledge to chop the tax rate significantly, but analysts figured that might have been bold talk. […]
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Cops and Protesters are Clashing at Portland’s #NotMyPresidentsDay Protest
Anti-Trump demonstrators protest downtown on Monday. Doug Brown A relatively small group of people protesting Donald Trump on this President’s Day has been met with a forceful response from the Portland Police Bureau. The Mercury‘s Doug Brown reports police have cracked down on a Don’t Shoot Portland-organized #NotMyPresidentsDay protest in front of the federal building […]
Posted inElection 2016
Oregonians Are Apparently Fascinated with “Punching Nazis”
YouTube Ugh. Really quick before I get into this, let me say that to be an employee at a journalistic enterprise these days is to be inundated with infographics. At some point in the last five years or so, random companies began finding apparently insane value in researching obscure topics, then relentlessly pushing them onto […]
Posted inCops
State: County Deputy Violated Law By Chanting “Trump” At Voters
When an on-duty Multnomah County deputy shouted “Trump, Trump” at voters from his vehicle on election day, he violated Oregon elections law, a state investigation has concluded. Deputy Jason Vetter of Fairview now faces a potential $75 fine for campaigning while acting as a public employee. He could face further discipline if an internal investigation […]
Posted inSex
The Women’s March on Portland is Massive, Jubilant, and Lit
It’s hard to think some record isn’t being broken today, as tens of thousands of people have converged in a crush of wet, jubilant, Trump-hating humanity in McCall Waterfront Park for the Women’s March on Portland. As we write this, the massive demonstration is still singing, chanting, and cursing its way through the streets of […]
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Marching Tomorrow? Bring Gear for the Homeless
Right 2 Dream Too is one of three organizations that will benefit from a clothing drive at tomorrow’s anti-Trump rally. The Turncoat Denis C. Theriault If Facebook is to be believed, something like 10,000 people are planning to show up to Pioneer Courthouse Square tomorrow afternoon, to march in protest of Donald Trump’s inauguration. If […]
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You’ve Been Warned, Protestors: The Mayor and Police Chief Just Laid Out Activity They’ll Crack Down On This Week
Ahead of a series of protests that should see thousands of people spilling into Portland streets, Mayor Ted Wheeler is drawing a few lines in the sand. As organizers prepare to protest the January 20 inauguration of Donald Trump on Friday, and then again on Saturday, Wheeler today laid out three scenarios in which police […]
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State Officials Are Investigating a Multnomah County Deputy Who Shouted “Trump!” at Voters on Election Day
While Mike Reese was waiting to be formally christened Multnomah County sheriff on November 8, one of his subordinates was pushing a very different candidate. As we reported at the time, numerous witnesses reported that a Multnomah County deputy rolled past people waiting in line at a ballot drop-off location near county headquarters and said […]
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As Electors Make Trump’s Win Official, “Not My President” Protests Are Back
Sure, the Hamilton Electors were an interesting idea. End of the day, though, their greatest accomplishment was probably teaching us all a hell of a lot more about the Electoral College than we’d bothered to figure out in years past. As I write this, Donald Trump has just been affirmed as the nation’s next president. […]
Posted inMusic
Kanye West Meets with Trump; Twitter Says “…what….”
So anyway, Kanye West met with Donald Trump this morning… NBD! According to the master of lies, Donald Trump, they were just chatting “friend to friend”—though maybe Yeezy’s recent endorsement of Trump right before his nervous breakdown had something to do with it. ANYWAY… WOW 2016. Here’s what Twitter folk had to say about it. […]
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