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by Alex Zielinski • Dec 21, 2020 at 3:05 pm City of Portland Archives [This years news cycle was a vicious one, and left little time for reflection. As 2020 nears its end, were taking the opportunity to look back on the most important Mercury stories written during the past year. This article was originally published on to help continue our work into next year and beyond.—eds.] For the past 11 years, City Commissioner Nick Fishs office on the se...

December 21 2020 Younger, diverse group of officers taking pay cuts to get out of the city. About 25 more looking. In an unprecedented situation for Portland, a racially diverse and experienced group of police officers is taking pay cuts to get away from the city, while citing poor working conditions here. And the citys police recruiter tasked with boosting bureau diversity isnt looking for replacements — because that person is gone, too. Chief Chuck Lovell recently announced that the P...

/ Crispin Rosenkranz, 50, in front of his Northeast Portland home, Dec. 14, 2020, said his landlord offered him $500 to voluntarily move out of his home in Northeast Portland in August. He rejected the offer and claims his landlord has since resorted to a harassment campaign to get him to leave the property since she can not issue an eviction during the moratorium. During the statewide eviction moratorium, landlords cannot evict a tenant for not paying rent. Some tenant advocates say this has r...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Detective Erik Kammerer Is Investigating a Police Shooting While Being Investigated for His Own Use of Force City officials won’t formally confirm Kammerer’s identity, and he continues to perform his other duties. TWO JOBS: Detective Erik Kammerer, shown here policing a Portland protest, also investigates homicides. (Doug Bro...

Fifty-one people have been killed in Portland traffic so far in 2020. With two weeks left in the year, 2020 has eclipsed the 50 traffic fatalities in 2019. Last years figure was the deadliest year on Portland streets since 1996, when there were 59 traffic deaths, according to the Portland Bureau of Transportation. The high number of 2019 deaths prompted hand-wringing at City Hall and a pledge to redouble multimillion-dollar efforts to reduce traffic deaths. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic cutt...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. The City of Portland Wants Visitors to Come Back Downtown—but It Hasn’t Given a Food Cart Pod Permission to Operate The two dozen food carts—which once anchored the city’s oldest and largest pod on what’s now the construction site of a Ritz-Carlton hotel—have been refugees. CLOSED FOR BUSINESS: Two dozen food cart own...

Some legacy players say it’s only the latest intensifier of decades of neglect. By Conner Reed 12/14/2020 at 5:00am Published in the December 2020 issue of Portland Monthly In the soft-edged dreamscape of January 2020, when “coronavirus” was a distant whisper and people did wild things like go to movies and plays, Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish lost a long battle with cancer. Outpourings of grief and support zeroed in on his character, his loyalty to Portland despite the be...

Willamette Week The need for strong, independent local journalism is more urgent than ever. Please support the city we love by joining Friends of Willamette Week. Even With Many Commuters Staying Home, PBOT Continues Progress on Rose Lane Project Bus speeds dropped significantly in the past two decades and so the bureau is systematically eliminating bottlenecks. TriMet service on the east bridgehead of Tilikum Crossing. (Brian Burk) Updated December 13, 2020 The Portland Bureau of Tra...

Dec 10, 2020 Photo: Getty Images Portland City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a resolution that directs the Portland Police Bureau to inventory its crowd control munitions, submit written reports to Council, and establish new authorization procedures for the PPB’s acquisition and procurement of military-style equipment. Historically, the cost and scope of the PPB’s munitions arsenal were not itemized in the bureau’s larger External Material and Services line item—this res...

Dec 10, 2020 Photo: Getty Images Portland City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt a resolution that directs the Portland Police Bureau to inventory its crowd control munitions, submit written reports to Council, and establish new authorization procedures for the PPB’s acquisition and procurement of military-style equipment. Historically, the cost and scope of the PPB’s munitions arsenal were not itemized in the bureau’s larger External Material and Services line item—this res...