An Illinois judge has ordered a newspaper to identify two “online blog commenters” on a story about a murder investigation, saying their identities aren’t protected by media shield law. Oregon has been experiencing this debate, too, with the District Attorney’s office slapping odd court orders on bloggers, and Oregon judges ruling that blog commenters are, […]
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Ex-Just Out Staffers Fight to Claim Unemployment
Two of the three staffers who walked out of Portland gay and lesbian newspaper Just Out last March are still unable to collect unemployment checks. While they allege that paychecks were spotty or nonexistent for six months, the state’s department of employment has so far ruled that only former news editor Jaymee Cuti quit with […]
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Forbes Says Portland 12th Most Overpriced City
The New York Times may celebrate Portland for its frugality, but it turns out the city is only cheap for out-of-town visitors like your mother and that flashy jet pilot she’s taken up with since pop succumbed at last to black lung. Portland is America’s 12th most overpriced city, says Forbes Magazine, beating San Francisco. […]
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Portland Gets Another NYT Nod…
And you can thank me for the inclusion of this paragraph: When I heard that Beau Breedlove, the former intern who at the age of 17 began an affair with Portland’s mayor, Sam Adams, was signing copies of Unzipped magazine, in which he appears 98 percent naked, I hurried to Fantasy, an adult store, dutifully […]
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You Keep It Classy, Oregonian.
As a friend who wishes to remain anonymous says, “Why didn’t they just call it ‘2 Fast 2 Furious, 1 Dead 3 Injured’?” The full story, at the Oregonian, can be read here.
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Breedlove Scandal Continues
Mayor Sam Adams is due to release his budget at 11am this morning, but the press conference may very well be overshadowed by this morning’s Oregonian story resulting from Adams’ cell phone records: “Portland Mayor Sam Adams called Beau Breedlove 33 times when the younger man was 17 — far more contact than Adams has […]
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It’s a Small (Alt Weekly) World, After All!
Huh. That’s weird. This week’s WW cover… Our sister paper The Stranger‘s cover from November 2008. BUT THINGS GET EVEN WEIRDER! This week’s Stranger cover… The Mercury‘s cover from March 2008!* Now all we have to do is design a WW style cover in which an old man is eating diarrhea, and the circle of […]
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Portland Monthly Has New Editor
Rumors have been circling on the blogosphere all morning, but Portland Spaces editor Randy Gragg has just confirmed to the Mercury that he is replacing Paige Williams as editor in chief of Portland Monthly. I asked the burning question: Will this mean no more lists of the top 100 dentists? “I wouldn’t want to speculate […]
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The Echo Chamber
Virginia Heffernan has a great column in the New York Times this week about Blogtown’s favorite subject: blog commenters. Heffernan tracks the comments on columns by award-laden writer Anne Applebaum and comes to the conclusion that not only do comments tend toward anti-semitism and sexism, they’re not constructive. Not exactly a novel realization, but one […]
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When A Press Release Gets Pulled
Why do press releases get pulled? We ran a story called Dropping The Ball in late March, after discovering that a delay in the implementation of a new SAP payroll accounting system could cost the city an extra $3m, in the midst of an $8m general fund budget crisis. The problem developed in the Office […]
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“They were both essentially suburban cities…”
Oregonian arts blogger Barry Johnson has been digging further into developments by proposed Rose Quarter developer Cordish in Kansas City and Louisville.
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“Morally offensive, not to mention fiscally moronic…”
Writes Soccer 365 on the MLS deal.