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The Mercury provides news and fun every single day—but your help is essential. If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us. Thanks for your support! Good afternoon, Portland! Here's the latest on local news, national news, and a little bit of fun. In local news: • Portland Thorns and Timbers supporters are calling for a boycott of...

South Carolina reverts to type; brings back firing squads. ilbusca / Getty Images GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! This could be the end of everything. So why don't we go? So why don't we go somewhere only we know? LET'S GO TO PRESS. IN LOCAL NEWS: • Portland Commissioners Dan Ryan and Mingus Mapps are joining Mayor Wheeler (and against Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty's wishes) for a slow rollout of the Portland Police Response program—which provides a non-police response to those in mental crisis or emergency calls about the homeless—instead of immediately instituting it citywide. Local advocates...

by Wm. Steven Humphrey • Apr 7, 2021 at 8:50 am We need your help. The economic fallout of the coronavirus crisis is threatening our ability to keep producing the quality reporting you've come to love. If you’re able, please consider making a monthly contribution to the Mercury. Hospitals in Brazil are reaching their breaking point after the country suffers 4,000 COVID deaths in a single day. Andressa Anholete / Getty News GOOD MORNING, PORTLAND! It's good to hear your voice, you know it's been so long. If I don't get your calls, then everything g...

Flower, pre-rolls, edibles, carts and more. These 4 Days of 420 are for you. • Rep. Diego Hernandez, a Portland Democrat who has faced numerous accusations of workplace harassment and emotional abuse from female colleagues over the past year, officially resigned over the weekend—but plans to stay in office for well over a month, until March 31. How come? Apparently the Dems need his vote for upcoming bills they're hoping to push on to the Senate. [Insert side-eye emoji here.] A monument to York, the enslaved Black man who traveled with Lewis and Clark, suddenly showed up in a Portland pa...