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SANTA CONtroversy
The Portland Cacophony Society is all about disrupting people’s normal, boring lives, but recently, they’ve been inspiring more ire than excitement. All month I’ve been hearing the confused grumblings: What the hell is up with SantaCon? There’s been rumors of a decoy SantaCon and something about Hillsboro. I decided to dig into the story. Originally […]
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Sellwood’s Crazy Candy House Has Even Crazier Plans (hint: pirate ship)
It was around 3AM the first time I saw the candy-covered house on SE Milwaukie Ave. I was riding my bike and sleepy and drunkish and thought the next day that maybe I’d made it up. I started asking around – had anyone else ever seen that house covered in lollipops and candycanes down around […]
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100 Percent Unconfirmed Snow Rumor
For the last few days, everyone’s been murmuring that it’s going to snow this weekend. Current highly exciting Google weather page: More reliable than computers though, is Art, the very very friendly checker at the Northeast New Seasons who is from New Hampshire. As I was buying organic yogurt and hemp granola (ha! yes, really.) […]
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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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Portland Pinball Map: What Pinball Wizardry Is This?!
A few days ago, Ryan Gratzer of the “local pinball gang” the Crazy Flipper Fingers was kind enough to point me in the direction of the Portland Pinball Map—an interactive resource for finding out where every pinball machine is in Portland. An updated version of an old Google Maps page that local pinball players used […]
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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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Liveblogging the Soccer-Baseball Task Force Meeting
Rabid soccer fan Mark Evans and I are liveblogging all the action. Jump in!
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Downtown Cop Gets Another Ticket
An attorney who fined a cop $35 for parking illegally back in July has issued another citation to the same cop, for the same reason. Eric Bryant’s story went as far as CNN over the summer, when he used an obscure Oregon law that allows one citizen to give another citizen a parking ticket, to […]
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City Offers To Re-Train Cops On Videoing Arrests
Good news for police oversight activists: The city of Portland has offered to re-train its police officers on the video-recording of officer interactions with the public, following a controversial incident in April when a citizen journalist had his camera confiscated by an officer and was issued with a citation. Back in April, we ran a […]
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Portland Roosters in the Atlantic
Portland’s urban chicken owners get something of a shout-out in the Atlantic this month, in an article entitled “A Cock Crows in Portland,” about what happens when baby chickies grow up to be roosters. It’s very difficult to tell the sex of a baby chicken, and roosters aren’t allowed within city limits–so when a chick […]
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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, […]