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 morning, Portland! I'm Elinor Jones, and you know a lot of people are sick or on vacation when they've got me writing Good Morning, News. Usually they keep me locked over on the gossip beat. But any news can be gossip if you're kinda bitchy when you're writing it, and in the words of the Incredible Hulk: that's my secret; I'm always kinda bitchy. So let's do this!

• I can't believe it's already June! Happy birthday to all the gays and gadjacents (gay-adjacents) out there. Wouldn't it be helpful if some cute local

See Full Page