Abe Asher
Journalist at Freelance
Writer. Bylines @thenation, @VICE, @portlandmercury, etc. @themacweekly alum. he/him. Portlander 🌹.
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3 weeks ago |
portlandmercury.com | Abe Asher
Portland is not known for big-ticket tourist attractions. We have a few, to be sure, but the real draw of the city is its approach to life—creative, independent, unhurried, and green. So if you have friends or family coming into town, ditch the typical tourist stops and consider treating them—or yourself!—to an unorthodox few days in Portland, with activities that speak to the things that make our city the treat it still is.
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4 weeks ago |
portlandmercury.com | Abe Asher
When an information technology (IT) technician was beginning their career in IT services at Designer Shoe Warehouse, they had a notion that one day they wanted to end up in Portland. “The dream was to come here and work at Nike or Adidas,” the IT worker (referred to in this story as "IT manager") who agreed to speak to the Mercury on the condition of anonymity, said.
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2 months ago |
portlandmercury.com | Abe Asher
On January 28, President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending federal funding for all American medical institutions that provide gender-affirming care to people under the age of 19. The order, titled ‚ÄúProtecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation,‚ÄĚ was quickly challenged on constitutional grounds by doctors and Democratic state attorneys general, and temporarily blocked nationwide by federal judges in both Baltimore and Seattle.
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2 months ago |
austinchronicle.com | Abe Asher
Scientists will discuss cutting-edge methods to re-create and study the human brain Depression remains the most common cause of ill health and disability worldwide, per the World Health Organization, and while doctors are getting better at treating its acute symptoms, there is still a group of people who have what Patricio Riva Posse, a neurologist and associate professor of psychiatry at Emory University, calls “treatment-resistant depression.” Providing those people long-term relief has...
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2 months ago |
portlandmercury.com | Abe Asher
The last time the Portland Timbers took the field for a competitive match, they suffered what was easily among the most humiliating defeats in club history: a 5-0 drubbing, at home, in a playoff game, against a Vancouver Whitecaps team that was about to fire its coach. On Sunday afternoon, February 23, the Timbers will return to Providence Park for the first time since that night—facing the same Whitecaps team and plenty of questions after the sale of star midfielder Evander to Cincinnati...
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