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Coming September 13—a Brand New Biweekly Mercury

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Friendly Reminder: Humans Are a Plague on the Planet!

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Scooters, Treason, and Coupons for Hometown Buffet!

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Cuddling! And Antifa! (Not at the Same Time.)

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Immigration Woes, Dive Bars, and Movies Are Great!

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Housing Fixes, Nazis, and Nudnicks Who Don’t Want to Pay Their Taxes

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Sure, Portland’s Police Think Our City Is a “Cesspool.” But at Least We Have Cheap Lunches!

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Letters About Climate Change and Bigfoot, As Usual

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We Wrote About Gun Control. You’ll Never Guess What Happened!

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Naked Bike Rides, Taco Tuesday, and Someone Called “the Baby Namer”

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Housing Bonds, Burgerville, and Portland Pride

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This Week: The Mystery of the (Maybe) Corpse Flower!

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This week: Friendly Bicycle Advice and Deadly URMs!

Editor's Note

A Very Special Letter from Mercury Editor-in-Chief Wm. Steven Humphrey

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Portland Gets a Visit from Stormy Daniels! WHAT A COUNTRY!

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Public Internet! Planter Conspiracies! And (SIGH) Classic Rock.

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Your weekly dose of old lady rants and invective name-calling!

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Calling All Single Christian Megababes!

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KATU, Ann Romano, and the Problem with Portland’s Grand Juries

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Dispatches from Beaverton, North Korea, and Some Guy’s Mom

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The Old Men Strike Back

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This Week: Ann Romano vs. the Elderly, a Defense of French Bulldogs, and a Giant Mercury Screw-Up

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This Week: Goats, Booze, and... pornography? On the INTERNET??

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This Week: Dumb Jokes, Oblivious Critics, and Getting Beat Up at Chopsticks

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This Week: Tolling Portland’s Roads, Weight-Lifting Etiquette, and Ann Romano’s Campaign for Mayor

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This Week: Bigoted Evangelists, Hack Musicians, and a SIX-FOOT-TALL ANIMATRONIC WIZARD!

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This Week: Ann, Amazon, and Asshole Telemarketers

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This Week: Screaming Children, Taxed Gas, and TACO WARS

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This Week: Gossip, Movies, And, of Course, Chihuahuas

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This Week: Taxing the Rich, Pot Confidentiality, and a Sweet Farewell from a Loyal Reader

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This Week: Trump Voters, Homeless Shelters, and Scully and Mulder are NOT TOGETHER ANYMORE!

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This Week: Taxidermy Debates and the Vengeance of NIMBYs

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This Week: Parking Woes, Election Trickery, and Some Guy Who Really Doesn’t Like Star Wars.

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Weed, Tonya Harding, and the Mercury’s Unquestioned Market Dominance

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This Week: Ann Romano, the Eclipse, and Crap That’s Not Invited Back for 2018

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The Mercury’s “Best” Letters and Comments of 2017

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The Truth About Bigfoot—Revealed at Last! (Sort of.) (Not Really.)

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This Week: Racist Potheads, a Portland Housing Shake-Up, and an Obnoxious Fight About Billy Joel

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This Week: Bootie Rings (and Other Things Crawling Up Our Readers’ Asses)

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This Week: Airbnb, Roy Moore, and—Watch Out! It’s the Pun Police!

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“Fuck the Sharing Economy. Kick Out Uber and Airbnb.”

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“TURN YOUR HEADLIGHTS ON! IT IS A COMMON COURTESY!”

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“This Might Be the Best Article On Any Subject You’ve Ever Covered.”

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This Week: NIMBYs, the Death of Satire, and Bigfoot

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“You Don’t Know Diddly Squat About Anything You Think You Know.”

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“Maybe We Should Murder You for the Good of Society.”

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“I Love Your Searing of the Thief in Chief.”

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“Don’t Get Fooled, Work Tirelessly, and Maybe You’ll Pull Off What My Generation Couldn’t.”

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“Fuck Off, Jeff Sessions. You’re Going to Die Soon.”

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This Week: Portlanders’ Advice on How to Get High. And How to Get Drunk.

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A Fight Over I-5 Congestion Pricing! Plus: How to Get Rid of Your Stupid Fireworks!

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This Week: Comedy Bribes... and Trouble in Tacotown!

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“I Think the Pig, Johnny, Is Cheating!”

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“There Is No Proof That the World Is Round, Just NASA CGI Cartoons and Fakery.”

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Is the Mercury’s Portland’s Cutest Pet Contest RIGGED?

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“I’m Confused About How You Square Your Concern About Climate Change with Your Advocacy for Burger Week.”

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“Neil Diamond Has More Cool in His Yellowing Old Man Toenails Than You Have in Your Whole Body”

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“This Place Is Our Home. We Came Here to Get Away from You.”

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“Does Ann Romano Ever Make Any Public Appearances?”

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Another Week, Another Insight from Someone Calling Themselves “bongrip69.”

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“I Am Also an Actor with Over 30 Years in the Theater.”

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“At Age 57, I’ve Dug into Dragon-Boating.”

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“Thank You For Bringing Such a Powerful Image Front and Center.”

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“We Cannot Let This Fear Prevent Us From Stepping In and Speaking Up Where We See Hate.”

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“Dying Is a Lot More Than Getting Rid of a Body.”

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“MOVE IT BACK! MOVE IT BACK! MOVE IT BACK!!”

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“What the Hell Kind of Paper Do You Use to Print the Merc?”

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“Where’s Kendall Jenner When We Need Her?”

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A Requiem for the Portland Goats

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“I Should Say Upfront That I Enjoy Ecstatic Dancing and Treat It As a Spiritual Practice.”

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“Just Because Music Is Depressing, Whiny, and a Little Weird Doesn’t Make It Next-Level ‘Art.’”

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“How Can They Expect Me to Pump My Own Kombucha If I Can’t Even Pump My Own Gas?”

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“VAGINA! It’s Okay to Say.”

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“It’d Be Nice If Your Paper Ventured Outside the ‘Typical Portland’ Areas”

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“As an ‘Alternative Weekly,’ Your Paper Has Been a Sincere Disappointment"

A Note to Our Readers On A Day Without a Woman

Or, Why There Are No Men in This Issue

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“Thank You, Trump, for Giving Us the Face of Pure Evil. Now Prepare to Burn in Hell.”

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“Many Voters Thought Ted Wheeler Was a Progressive. They Were Suckered.”

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“Self-Righteousness Stemming From a Position of Privilege Is Not Constructive.”

You’ll Never Think About Sexy Mermaids the Same Way Again

The Lure: There's Some Tail Sex Stuff.

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“Enough Is Enough, Merc.”

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“‘FUCK YOU!’ Is My First Response.”

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“If You Supported Trump, You Voted Against the United States, You Stupid Fuck.”

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“This Guy Is Obviously Petty, Unhinged, and Off His Rocker.”

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RIP, Club 21.

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“This Is Why I Avoid So Many Restaurants in This Town.”

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The “Best” of Readers’ Letters and Comments from 2016.

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“If It Isn’t Twee, It Isn’t Worth Funding.”

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“Make Better Choices, Because Your Choices Matter.”

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The Breeders Strike Back

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“The Housing Crisis Is Over!”

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“Until People Realize They Have More Than Two Choices, This Idiocy Will Continue”

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“I Am Fired Up and Ready to Fuck Some Shit Up for the Midterms and 2020.”

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“Whites Pushing out Other Whites—What Has the World Come To?”

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"In the Future, After the Corporate Weed Wars, There Very May Well Only Be Like Three Legal Strains in Oregon."

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“If All Pub and Restaurant Patios Were Smoke-Free, They’d Get a Lot More Patrons.”

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“Do As Ya Please; Obviously I Can’t Stop You.”