The kids at the Merc are like troubled grandchildren to me, and the guy who runs that place is like their weird old friend from the schoolyard. But doggone it, every once in a while they crank out some decent journalism over there. Case in point: Last week (unfortunately just in time to get lost in the holiday), their reporter Courtney Vaughn produced a darn good “explainer” of the situation with the Moda Center arena. (It includes a fine graphic by Anthony Keo and the proverbial “additional reporting” by Jeremiah Hayden.)
Who knows how the drama surrounding that facility will conclude? But for a baseline of where things stand today, the article is level-headed and informative. Nobody else in town has rounded up the facts this well. Really! Good for the Merc. It’s here.