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Things To Do Tonight 10/2
by Mercury Staff Portland Thorns vs. Western New York Flash After a season for the ages, the Portland Thorns have earned the honor of hosting their first-ever home playoff game: an NWSL semifinal...
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Timbers Fall in Colorado As Playoff Hopes Fade
by Abe Asher AP Photo/Jack DempseyThere was nothing all that remarkable about the Portland Timbers' sixth straight road loss on Saturday night in Commerce City, Colorado. Even Caleb Porter's post-game...
View ArticleSunday Parkways Courtesy
by Anonymous My wife serves her Kiwanis club and her community by volunteering for Sunday Parkways by moving barriers and sheparding bicyclists along. You, good sir, came driving up, no doubt on your...
View ArticleCraigslist Creeps
by Anonymous Portland Craigslist is surely the most flaccid marketplace in the history of economics. It's the polar opposite (which is redundant, by the way) of the “flea market”.That term actually...
View ArticleA Wargame without Ally or Matthew
by Anonymous Don or Hillary-In a few months one of you will be President. How'd you like to face this scenario: North Korea now has nukes they can launch from submarines. Since their subs are old and...
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Things To Do This Week!
Things to do for Oct 3-6 by Mercury Staff Welcome to October, Portland! Sure, December's got Christmas, and November's got Thanksgiving, but October might just be the most fun month at the end of the...
View ArticleThe Homeless Wild West
by Anonymous Can we just parcel out a huge acreage of unused land, and allow the homeless to set up their own civilization. They will have a barter system and build towns. At first they will be shanty...
View ArticleGood Morning, News: Rough Soccer Weekend, Trump's Leaked Tax Returns, and Kim...
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! I do it to him right, it's 'mmm mmm good.' Handle my business, like a big girl should. LET'S GO TO PRESS.Not such a great soccer weekend for Portland as...
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Soccer (Hot Mess) Recap: Thorns FC vs W. New York Flash
by Erin O'Regan A group of talented, classy ladies. Photo Courtesy of Portland Thorns FC THE THORNS HAVE LOST AND I CANNOT BE CONSOLED With a gut wrenching, cry-in-your-car-on-the-way-home kind of...
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Wing Week 2016: Here Are the Restaurants Where Wings Await
by Mercury Staff BEHOLD, WING LOVERS! (Which includes mostly everybody.) The Portland Mercury’s first-ever Wing Week is quickly approaching—where nearly 20 of Portland’s favorite restaurants will...
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Bud Pierce's Wrongheaded Domestic Violence Comments Aren't Going Away That...
by Dirk VanderHart Bud PierceWikimedia CommonsYou could feel it immediately when the words left Bud Pierce's lips last Friday: A line had been crossed. Pierce, a Salem oncologist and the Republican...
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DNA Matches Found in Oregon's Rape Kit Backlog
by Megan Burbank Last spring, the state legislature passed a law mandating that Oregon's backlog of unprocessed rape kits finally be tested. Now they're coming back, and so far, DNA from 33 kits has...
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The Trump Foundation Just Got into a Whole Bunch More Trouble
by Christopher Frizzelle Another day, another new way the Trump Foundation may have broken the law.Evan El-Amin / Shutterstock.comTrump likes to talk about the Clinton Foundation as if it exists to...
View ArticleSorry I Called You a Jacka$$
by Anonymous I'm sorry I called you a jacka$$, but it was the nicest adjective I could think of given your public display of pugnacious, entitled behavior. We thought we were on a relaxing Sunday...
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Up Late? Need a Condom or Toaster Oven Stat? Give goPuff a Try!
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey Courtesy goPuffSo you're up late, and you're thinking, "Man, I need a condom and/or a hookah. But all the local condom and/or hookah stores are closed! MY LIFE IS OVER." Well,...
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Westworld: Not The Happiest Place On (Maybe) Earth
by Spike Friedman HBOA quick Q&A in response to the first episode of Westworld:Where is Westworld?It is Westworld. It’s a sexy amusement park of pure imagination (so long as your imagination is...
View ArticlePARENTS Stop Being Fuckheads
by Anonymous I'm sure your little angel is incredible, above average, and a future Nobel Prize recipient. My parents thought so too, but after a steady of diet of honour roll and APs I still have to...
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Good Morning, News: Bear Mayhem, Trump Gets Even Creepier, and (Wow!) Testing...
by Dirk VanderHart Surprise! It turns out when you actually test the thousands of rape kits you let sit around for years and years, you maybe get closer to solving rapes. Kits that Multnomah and other...
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The City Auditor Is Knocking a New Police Contract, But Mayor Charlie Hales...
by Dirk VanderHart A banner outside Portland City Hall last week, as City Council took up a new police contractDirk VanderHartActivists and local civil rights organizations aren't the only ones asking...
View ArticleGive Up Academics Already
by Anonymous Not really sure where to start on this one. Simply put, I'm a bitter person because I have no faith in higher education or the Portland economy to support such an educated employment...
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