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Good Morning, News: Portland Car-Free Street/Plaza Updates, Violent Bullfighting Banned in Mexico City, and Gazans Experience Nightmare After Israel Resumes Attacks

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support!  Good morning, Portland! I hope your Wednesday mornings (plural because I recognize your […]

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Empty Agnosticism

Do you ever think about your spiritual life? Not religion, per se, but how your values come from a way of seeing the universe, of moralizing it by choice? Of grappling with the sacred and unknowable mysteries of being? So many people are burned out on compulsory Christianity, but the Enlightenment incinerated so many traditions […]

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I Like It Better…

I like it better when there are fewer reasons to hate my country. Right now, there are strong reasons to dissatisfied. NUMBER ONE: What??!! Another intervention being planned of the most uncalled for kind in Panama!! What are these over-the-top deluded imperialists in D.C. thinking? Just because Teddy Roosevelt colonized the canal zone once before, […]

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Good Morning, News: Portland Leaders (Once Again) Weigh PCEF as Budget Crisis Fix, Trump Admin Declares War on Bike Lanes, and Everyone’s Mad at Chuck Schumer (Except Republicans)

If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism […]

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Good Morning, News: King Fool Flops Again, Protest Forces Schools to Protect Immigrant Kids, and Yippee! Our Spring Arts Guide Has Arrived!

If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism […]

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Good Morning, News: Oregon Takes on Greenwashing, Palestinian College Activist Arrested by ICE, and Canada Vows to “Drop Gloves” with Trump

If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event calendar, and the bevy of events we host throughout the year. The work we do helps our city shine, but we can’t do it without your support. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and […]

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