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by Alex Zielinski • Dec 21, 2020 at 3:05 pm City of Portland Archives [This year's news cycle was a vicious one, and left little time for reflection. As 2020 nears its end, we're 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 Fish's office on the second floor of Portland City Hall has been a reliable junction for lively policy discussions, thou...

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 city's police recruiter tasked with boosting bureau diversity isn't looking for replacements — because that person is gone, too. Chief Chuck Lovell recently announced that the Portland Police Bureau would be moving the vast majority of traffic cops and all its K-9 officers t...

/ 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 resulted in increased reports of tenant harassment. It has become increasingly clear to Crispin Rosen...

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 Brown) Updated December 17, 2020 A Portland police officer under investigation for allegedly using ...

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 year's 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 cutting car travel by 20% to 30% for much of the spring and summer, 2020 was worse. The most recent tr...