"If you appreciate the Mercury's interesting and useful news & culture reporting, consider making a small monthly contribution to support our editorial team. Your donation is tax-deductible. You can also subscribe and have our papers delivered! Good Morning, Portland: Here comes the rain again, falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new emotion. We're looking at rain for the foreseeable future, folks. Let's hit the news!"
"Following a LOOONG 10-hour meeting yesterday, Portland City Council failed to pass a measure that would have moved $4.3 million from the city program that funds sweeping camps of unhoused people to pay for rent and food assistance, and support for immigrants and refugees. It was... a spicy meatball of an evening. I know we say that about tear gas, but this was spicy meatball testimony. Jeremiah Hayden has more."
"Public job postings for "detention officers"-along with a few other indicators-point to the stealthy creation of a new US Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility at the Newport Municipal Airport, the Oregonian reports. State and federal lawmakers are all 👀 (!!) about it, because nobody told THEM about the idea of adding a detention facility to a city of just 10,000 people."
A pledge requests small monthly contributions to support the Mercury's editorial team and notes donations are tax-deductible; subscription and delivery options are offered. Portland is forecast to see rain for the foreseeable future. Portland City Council failed to pass a measure after a ten-hour meeting that would have moved $4.3 million from a program funding sweeps of unhoused camps to pay for rent, food assistance, and support for immigrants and refugees. Public job postings for "detention officers" and other indicators point to the planned creation of an ICE facility at Newport Municipal Airport, alarming lawmakers who say they were not told. SE Grand venue Lollipop Shoppe will close on November 27 due to financial stress, ending a performance home for local bands.
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