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The 2018
Mercury
Reader Valentines!
Did YOU Get a Valentine This Year? Read On and Find Out!
The Scorpion
How the Feds Found One of the Web’s Most Prominent Illicit Diet Pill Dealers in Oregon
by Doug Brown
A Peek at Portland’s Alternative Universe
What If Portland Were Completely Different? (You’d Still Complain About It, Right?)
by Joe Streckert
Overkill
Portland’s Got a Problem with Taxidermy
by Jenni Moore
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and Hello to
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in 2018
by Emilly Prado
Getting Your Financial Shit Together
You May Be a Money Mess Now, But Not for Long
by Lillian Karabaic
How to Smell Better
(And Have Grade-A Personal Hygiene)
by Jenni Moore
How to Dispute a Parking Ticket
Yes, You Have to Go to Court. It’ll Be Fine.
by Megan Burbank
How To Quit Facebook and Twitter
Come Join My Luddite Cult!
by Erik Henriksen
Technology—Helping You to Help Yourself
Podcasts and More: The New Media of Personal Growth
by Megan Burbank
Make a Difference in 2018 by Volunteering
Narrowing Down Opportunities Is Tough! But We’ve Made It Easy.
by Emilly Prado
Become a Time Wizard!
Okay, Daniel H. Pink’s
When
Won’t Exactly Turn You into One—But It’s a Start
by Ned Lannamann
Don’t Do Any of These Things in 2018
What You
Don’t
Do is as Important as What You
Do
Do
by Wm.™ Steven Humphrey
Going HAM on Health Trends
Our Food Critic Did BurnCycle, a Juice Fast
and
a Sensory Deprivation Float In Three Days (So You Don’t Have To)
by Andrea Damewood
A City Scandalized
How the Vice Clique Scandal of 1912 Exposed Portland’s Gay Underground
by Heather Arndt Anderson
The Best Tweets to @TedWheeler
This Mayor Doesn’t Transcribe Voicemails. You Found a Way to Be Heard Anyway
by Dirk VanderHart and Doug Brown
Not Invited Back for 2018
Alex Falcone’s Annual List of Portland’s Most Annoying Annoyances
by Alex Falcone
The
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Guide to Best New Year’s Eves in Town
This Year Wasn’t Great. But Your New Year’s Eve Still Can Be!
by Mercury Staff
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