"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: Someone's dog horked in front of my apartment building yesterday. And yeah, I hosed it away eventually, but not before I saw, like, 10 tiny passion plays of people talking their dogs down from rolling in it. Anyway, apropos of nothing-here's the news!"
"Following hours of deliberation-including last week's marathon meeting-the hard-locked governing body elected neither of the candidates it had been recently split over, and instead voted in guy-I-see-everywhere Councilor Jamie Dunphy via a 9-3 tally. Dunphy had previously supported Councilor Sameer Kanal for the role, and he noted that he would serve to bring an end to the deliberation, but would not seek it again."
"Also at Wednesday's council meeting, the Mercury got a shoutout from Councillor Dan Ryan who claimed reporter Jeremiah Hayden didn't give him time to comment or clear enough context regarding Hayden's Boomer text size scandal at City Hall "Racist, Dehumanizing": Chat Images story from Tuesday. Ryan said this as if Hayden hadn't just revealed himself as a pretty hardcore receipt king."
Readers are invited to support local news through tax-deductible donations or subscriptions. A resident described a dog vomiting outside an apartment and multiple people trying to stop dogs from rolling in it. Portland City Council reached consensus by electing Councilor Jamie Dunphy as council president for 2026 in a 9-3 vote; Dunphy previously supported Sameer Kanal and said he would not seek the role again. Councillor Dan Ryan accused a reporter of insufficient time and context regarding a Boomer text-size scandal while the reporter produced receipts. Councilor Sameer Kanal championed a proposed policy to ban officers from obscuring faces and require visible identification or badges in response to public-safety concerns.
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