The Portland Mercury

Ah, September—is there a more exciting time to be alive than late summer, when we don’t know whether our homes will burn down in the latest brush fire or if torrential rains will put out the flames, only to wash said houses away? The lingering liminality of Indian Summer—or Native American Summer, as it was once more ethically (or ethnically?) known, at least until President...

He didn’t know it then—but the moment Chris Smalls walked out of his job, he was on the path to sparking a revolution.

Smalls had spent six years working at JFK8, a massive Amazon fulfillment center in New York City. But at the outset of the pandemic, after witnessing scores of warehouse colleagues working without protective gear, and what he felt was a lack of ur...

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Hey, guy driving a blue Subaru westbound in the south park blocks who nearly hit me while walking across the crosswalks and then yelled...

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Regarding Courtney Vaughn and Jeremiah Hayden’s excellent reporting

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When you drive, the place to stop is several feet before the stop sign. I cannot reconcile this with the rolling “California Stop” we a...