The current US rep in the 3rd District, Earl Blumenauer, is Portland's staple politician, having served in the role since 1996. And he's going to be a tough act to follow—I mean, we named a bike and ...

I recently discovered that my on-again/off-again boyfriend of ten years has been using online classifieds to schedule ...

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It was at a Drug Policy Alliance conference in Phoenix last October that Tera Hurst, executive director at Health Justice ...

It was at a Drug Policy Alliance conference in Phoenix last October that Tera Hurst, executive director at Health Justice ...

Hello, and welcome back to The Trash Report! I'm Elinor Jones, feeling much better now than I felt last week. I think the ...

To the PSU protestors who were peaceful – thank you! Any reasonable person would agree that both Hamas’s Oct 7 massacre of innocents was beyond shocking and cruel, and would ALSO acknowledge that the ...

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It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If ...

Have you guessed what the problem is? You didn’t have to! It was right in the headline! And that’s the problem: everything gets spoiled nowadays. Today, a friend of mine asked me if I had seen the ...

Is America the Home of the Brave? Despite the words of the national anthem, you would have to be insane, stupid, or both to believe that. I have never seen such chickenshit people as Americans. They ...

There’s been some anxious energy surrounding Portland’s 10-cent gas tax, which is on the ballot for renewal in the upcoming ...