This Week in the Mercury
Thursday, February 18, 2010
News Read The Goddamn News
Posted by Matt Davis on Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 9:52 AM
I was on KPOJ this morning, as I am every Thursday at 8am, talking about this week's top story. Listen again here on your lunch break, if you want to hear my dulcet tones.
HIGH NOON Reverend Jesse Jackson pressures city over cop shooting.
GREASING THE CHAIN Could the mayor's plan to "kickstart" his bike plan fall flat?
PORTLAND STATE OF MIND County Chair Ted Wheeler gives a speech that in many ways Mayor Sam Adams should have given a week earlier.
BOOZE BAN City wants to ban malt liquor downtown.
- ILLUSTRATION BY WILDER SCHMALTZ
LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX Planned Parenthood's President talks about new center.
A DEAD TREE FALLS Sarah Mirk catches up with the publisher of the Portland Sentinel before the paper ceases publication next month. He gives some incredible quotes about being a "magic man."
And of course, there's In Other News—News as little (yet informative) as Sally Draper is little (yet annoying).
Read the goddamn news.
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