by Alex Zielinski • Dec 21, 2020 at 3:05 pm City of Portland Archives
[This year s news cycle was a vicious one, and left little time for reflection. As 2020 nears its end, we re taking the opportunity to look back on the most important Mercury stories written during the past year. This article was originally published on to help continue our work into next year and beyond. eds.]
For the past 11 years, City Commissioner Nick Fish s office on the second floor of Portland City Hall has been a reliable junction for lively policy discussions, thoughtful conversations between strangers, and nerdy government jokes. But on Friday, as the community reeled from Thursday s announcement of Fish s death, the lights in his office were off and the doors shuttered.