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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Scooped by Willamette Week!

Posted by on October 26 at 16:15 PM

From today’s Willamette Week, in Portland:

Phil Busse, managing editor at the Portland Mercury for five and a half years and a mayoral candidate in 2004, is moving on. Busse says he won’t run again for office but will freelance for the Merc and complete work on a documentary about baristas; he hopes to open a politically oriented summer camp for college-aged kids. Amy Jenniges, a reporter at Mercury sister paper The Stranger in Seattle (who has enjoyed a sham marriage to Stranger ed Dan Savage), will replace Busse, who departs Nov. 8.

It’s true. I’m moving to Portland. I’ll be sticking with the Stranger’s news team through Election Night (I wouldn’t want to miss Nickels’ sure defeat at the hands of Runte, would I? Or the monorail’s continued success!), then hitting the road.

(Something the WW missed: The new Merc News Team isn’t just me. I’ll be joined by Scott Moore, who’s been kicking ass as a freelancer for the Merc’s city section for the past year.)

It’s been swell.