“We were hoping to do some advance media on this in December,” says Karl Rohde, public affairs director for the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, “but we kept getting buried in the news cycle, whether it was by snow storms, scandals, or budget cuts. Nobody in the media cares about us right now.” Or perhaps that’s what […]
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Beaudoin Leaving Just Out
Just Out staffer Stephen Marc Beaudoin has quit to work for an educational consulting firm. He’ll continue to write his Corner View column, and contribute to his personal blog, From Every Corner. Beaudoin, who resists the nickname “Lil’ George,” despite his striking likeness to the (recently imprisoned) Culture Club singer Boy George, has contributed some […]
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There is Nothing Offensive About This Cartoon
So says New York Post editor-in-chief Col Allan, who issued the following statement after Al Sharpton criticized the cartoon—which appears in today’s Post—to the Associated Press: “The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut,” said editor-in-chief Col Allan. “It broadly mocks Washington’s […]
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Breedlove Poses Nude
From the Unzipped blog: “Beau Breedlove was extremely professional at his first erotic photo shoot in Los Angeles this past weekend,” Unzipped’s online editor, Sean Carnage, told Advocate.com. “He came to L.A. to prove that the Portland scandal does not define his sexuality. The photos portray the real Beau—a confident and extremely handsome young man […]
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Good Morning, Wonkery!!
Conjugate the verb: To Wonk. I wonk. You wonk. He wonks. We wonk. You all wonk. We’re wonking… HIT AND RUN!!! Not terribly wonky, this, but police are still searching for the driver who hit and killed 35-year-old Aaron Jeffery Drews near Sassy’s on SE Morrison, early Friday morning. Can you help? VISION INTO ACTION!!! […]
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The Ruiz Questions, Part Five.
The mayor’s office has this afternoon supplied the Mercury with the applications filed by the other 2 finalists in the search for the mayor’s sustainability and planning policy adviser—a position given to former Mercury news editor, Amy Ruiz. I’ve scanned copies of the applications and posted them after the jump—they’re enormous jpg images. There was […]
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Obama’s Potty Mouth
Nice work, Boston Phoenix! They’ve isolated all the cuss words from the president’s audio books, and put them online for your delectation. Somebody come up with a remix, please?!! Email your MP3s to news@portlandmercury.com. Hat tip to theonetruebix on Twitter.
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Good Morning, Wonkery!
How about a round-up of wonktastic Portland policy analysis? Well, alright then…but I warn you… WATER FIGHT!!! City Commissioner Randy Leonard is “shocked” at accusations by open reservoir activists that he’s pursuing an alternative to a federal exemption from water purity laws set out by the Environmental Protection Agency. Open reservoir activists say Portland’s water […]
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The Ruiz Questions, Part Four…
On January 20, during an interview with the mayor’s chief of staff, Tom Miller, and his sustainability and planning policy adviser, former Mercury news editor, Amy Ruiz, Miller mentioned a list of applicants for Ruiz’s job, which had been prepared, in rough form, by a mayoral staffer. The list showed all the applicants for the […]
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Beau Breedlove’s “To Catch a Predator” Interview
As mentioned earlier, 365Gay News (on Logo) will be airing CBS News guy Ross Polombo’s interview with Beau Breedlove tonight at 7 pm—and from the look of this short clip, Ross may be getting a call from NBC’s Chris Hansen for coming dangerously close to stepping on his “To Catch a Predator” territory. Via QPDX.
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When a Boy Becomes a Man
Let me see if I follow you, FoxNews: When the openly gay mayor of Portland, Oregon, sleeps with an 18-year-old—a move I’m certain the mayor of Portland regrets—the gay mayor of Portland fucked an “18-year-old boy.” When a gay 18-year-old high school student poses as a girl on Facebook, tricks male classmates into sending him […]
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Kroger Pressed On Public Records Law
The Mercury has been through some fun times, trying to get hold of public records under state public records law, since I joined the paper in 2006. If your definition of “fun” means “never getting what you ask for, and/or being constantly delayed and legally outspent/maneuvered, especially by the city attorney’s office which is notorious […]