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Metro Chamber Wants Council to Reschedule Upcoming Meeting in Favor of $350 Ticketed Event

Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon will be a featured speaker at a Portland Metro Chamber annual meeting. City Council now faces pressure to reschedule a work session and go meet Dundon instead.
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While city leaders hold a work session later this month to talk about how to renovate the sports arena where the Trail Blazers play, the team’s owner is scheduled to speak at an annual meeting held by Portland’s chamber of commerce. But the chamber wants the Council to move its public meeting to avoid the […]

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Good Morning, News! PCC President Out, Muji PDX Unionizes, Cuba Out of Oil, and Trump Looks Weak in China Visit

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If you appreciate the Mercury‘s interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland! You’re probably still recovering from the party of the year last night at Turn! Turn! Turn! for the Mercury‘s music […]

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Good Morning, News: The Latest Moda Center Funding Fight, Trump’s Laughable Plan To Lower Gas Prices, and the Video Game You Didn’t Know You Needed

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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! Hopefully you got outside and frolicked in the sunshine […]

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Council Budget Talks Highlight Tension Over Proposed PCEF Moda Center Investment

Mayor Keith Wilson has suggested Portland’s Clean Energy Fund can spare $75 million for Moda Center upgrades, but the details are murky.
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If Mayor Keith Wilson wants to allocate clean energy fund dollars to renovate the Moda Center, he’ll have to go through Portland City Council first. And it’s not clear if they’re going to let him.  Earlier this year, amid a fervor to ensure Portland Trail Blazers’ new owner Tom Dundon keeps the basketball team in […]

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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Déjà Vu

The Blazers choke against Spurs at home… again.
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It’s déjà vu all over again. Another sold out Moda Center, another 15+ point second half lead for the Portland Trail Blazers, and another double digit loss—114-93—to the San Antonio Spurs. The Blazers now see themselves in a 3-1 hole in the best-of-7 series, setting up a do-or-die Game 5 against the Spurs in San […]

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Getting High on Her Own Supply

For FKA twigs, dancing is just as important as singing on her Body High Tour.
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FKA twigs’ Body High Tour was delayed last year by a host of production-related problems including visa issues, but if anything, the London-based singer only delayed gratification for her “Twiglets.” By the time of her rescheduled Portland appearance on Saturday, April 4, FKA twigs—AKA Tahliah Barnett—was not only promoting her acclaimed album Eusexua, but its […]

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Should Portlanders Pay Hundreds of Millions for a Refurbished Moda Center? City Councilors Say “Not So Fast”

With local budget cuts looming and Trail Blazers ownership committing to stay in Portland, some city leaders aren’t ready to pull out the checkbook.
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On the heels of an intense lobbying campaign by the Portland Trail Blazers, the Oregon Legislature last month passed a $365 million funding package to renovate the Moda Center contingent on the Blazers remaining in Portland under new majority owner Tom Dundon. State leaders trumpeted the passage of the funding package as an economic boon […]

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Deal Or No Deal?

If local money goes into the Moda Center renovation, labor advocates want a smooth employee unionization in return.
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The state of Oregon and the city of Portland may be gearing up to give hundreds of millions of dollars of public money to help finance renovations to the 31-year-old Moda Center—and organized labor wants something in return.  “About a year ago, we had outreach from workers at the Moda Center in a number of […]

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