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by Dan Savage Joe Newton I’m a 38-year-old bi woman who has been sleeping with a married male coworker for the last eight months. We’re a walking cliché: I’m a nurse, he’s a doctor, and one night he ended up spilling a lot of personal information about his marriage to me (sexless, non-romantic, she might…

by Alex Zielinski SOLODKAYA MARI / GETTY IMAGES After years of debate, Portland City Council has passed a policy overhauling the city’s residential zoning rules to allow more housing within city limits. The Residential Infill Project (RIP) will lift Portland’s decades-old ban on building “middle housing”—duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes—in the vast majority of the city’s…

by Alex Zielinski Dan Ryan and Loretta Smith on the August 11 special election ballot. Multnomah County Elections Early election results show former nonprofit director Dan Ryan with a slight lead over Loretta Smith for Portland City Council position 2. As of 11:30 pm, political newcomer Ryan held a 2 percent lead over Smith, a…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey Meet your newest potential Vice President! (Sure beats Pence, don’t it?) Scott Olson / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • First things first, the BIG NEWS…

by Blair Stenvick Biden/Harris campaign When the COVID-19 pandemic first hit and changed everything, I began thinking a lot about the Kubler-Ross model of grief, which breaks the process of grieving down into five states: Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The idea is that people work through these five emotions while grieving, and can…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey AG Bill Barr has a lot of names for Black Lives Matter members, including “fascist” and “Bolsheviks.” Chip Somodevilla / Staff / Getty Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!)…

by Alex Zielinski Sandy Hudson, speaking at a Monday press conference. Alex Zielinski For national leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, Portland has become “ground zero” for the uprising against racist policing. “This is a revolution moment,” said Sandy Hudson, a Black Lives Matter organizer based in Los Angeles, speaking at an afternoon press…

by Alex Zielinski Mayor Wheeler speaking to protesters on July 22. Nathan Howard / Getty Images Hall Monitor is a regular column on issues related to Portland City Hall and its influence on the community it serves. ___ Now that the federal police have retreated from the front lines of Portland’s nightly demonstrations, Mayor Ted…

by Mercury EverOut Staff Get into a good flow for the weekend with this fun (and fuzzy) yoga routine for you and your favorite floofs. Oregon Humane Society Summer 2020 keeps right on moving forward, and even if it starts raining again (it shouldn’t, but this is Portland, so who the hell really knows) the…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey What you’re about to hear may be shocking, but… RUSSIA IS TRYING TO INTERFERE WITH OUR ELECTION!! Chris McGrath / Getty News Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) •…

by Suzette Smith KEX hotel’s Icelandic restaurant Dóttir reopens today! Photo by Aaron Lee Portland can expect a brief respite from the heat this weekend, so there’s no better time to get outside and practice socially distanced dining—be it at a food cart pod, streetside dining, takeout in the park, or a ROOFTOP PATIO. Yes,…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey Mayor Wheeler desperately and unconvincingly trying to convince you that Portland protesters are helping Trump. City of Portland screen shot Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • The Portland…

by Mercury Promotions Our opening COVID-19 “sexcess” story is extra special this week. You will never think of Tollhouse cookies the same way again. Don’t you hate it when your brother-in-law steals your underpants, and uses them to jack off? This little sordid story only gets worse. On the Magnum, meet the dominatrix who forces…

by Christopher Frizzelle Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the NRA, on the right, will have to pay back millions if New York’s attorney general gets her way. Oh yeah, and his organization will be dissolved. Scott Olson/Getty Images From the Washington Post: The chief executive of the National Rifle Association and several top lieutenants engaged in…

by Wm. Steven Humphrey Federal officers detaining a protester on July 25 in downtown Portland. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland Here’s your daily roundup of all the latest local and national news. (Like our coverage? Please consider making a recurring contribution to the Mercury to keep it comin’!) • First of all, DO NOT MISS this terrific deep…