Well, this is a turn up for the books: The night before a boy goes on vacation, his boss resigns to take a job with the mayor. Now I’m back in Portland, and Amy Ruiz isn’t here to watchdog city hall any more, I thought I’d take a trip down there myself this morning to […]
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Saltzman Wants Longer Secret List, Doesn’t Care About Racial Profiling
And he’s writing editorials for the Portland Tribune. The new police commissioner is a regular Che Guevara. Specifically, I will build on the success of the service coordination team pilot program at work now in downtown’s Old Town neighborhood. This program has focused on arresting chronic drug and drug-related property crime offenders, then holding them […]
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When The Cameras Stop Rolling
There’s been a good deal of media interest in the West Burnside Portland Rescue Mission over recent weeks, with Christmas approaching, and the cold weather setting in—cameras from KGW and Fox 12 have been spotted outside by this reporter on rides past the shelter over the last seven days. But one homeless woman says she’s […]
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Reading The Cops’ Blog
As far as I’m aware, the Portland Police Bureau is yet to institute a cops’ blog. I would like to see some kind of online extension of the union’s Rap Sheet paper develop, because I think there’s only so long that a group of people can maintain the level of vitriol and acid one often […]
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Make it Stop, Please
KATU’s Brian Wood has a plea: “We love seeing your pictures. We can only get so many reporters out into so many different locations in our region,” he says, begging people to upload photos to katu.com. “Then we can get, literally, a picture of what the conditions are like throughout the area.” Because that is […]
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A Survey of This Morning’s OMGSNOW TV News
Because the news reports are far more entertaining than the white stuff falling from the sky… KGW is running with a graphic screaming “ARCTIC BLAST,” as anchor Brenda Braxton talks about being a “city girl” who needs four wheel drive AND chains on all four tires just to survive. They keep checking in with a […]
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Portland Tribune Lays Off Phil Stanford
Via Oregon Media Insiders, comes bad news at the Portland Tribune: Columnist Phil Stanford’s been laid off. (So has “Denise Szott, the paper’s top designer and copy editor,” the Business Journal reports.) Stanford—previously a columnist at the Oregonian—was known for his curmudgeonly columns and his “Portland Confidential” pieces that dug into old-school “Sex, Crime, and […]
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Oregonian Stops Delivery In Eugene
News comes via Romenesko this morning that the Oregonian plans to stop delivery to the state’s second-largest Metro area. Here’s a letter sent to the paper’s Eugene readers: December 9, 2008 Dear Oregonian Reader, Due to rising newsprint and distribution costs, The Oregonian will be making changes that will affect your delivery effective January 1, […]
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ARCTIC BLAST! WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!
If you were to just look out the window right now, you might think, “Hmm, there are two or three inches of snow on the ground.” Well, you, as usual, would be 100 PERCENT WRONG. If you’re watching the local news, on the other hand—as everyone should be doing, because it is hilarious—you would realize […]
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DA Orders Blogger to Give up Commenter’s Info
I have another article in this week’s issue that I thought you might like to read. I’d like to also give you some background on the piece, and fill you in on a couple of developments since we went to press… You may recall, back in October, the Mercury‘s attorney won a ruling in Clackamas […]
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NPR Lays Off Reporters
Sad news via Media Bistro about NPR: “The final number of cuts will be 65.” More here: “Confronted by an uncertain economy and a sharp decline in current and projected revenues from corporate underwriting, NPR today announced that it will reduce its workforce by 7 percent and cut expenses. The difficult moves come despite NPR […]