Oregonian Retracts Erroneous Column About Mary Nolan

Rep. Mary Nolan

Newspapers make mistakes all the time and regularly correct those mistakes. But the corrective step The Oregonian took today is fairly unusual: The daily deleted free-lance columnist Dave Lister's April 12 column slamming State Rep. Mary Nolan (D-Portland).

Nolan is in a contentious race for Portland City Council against incumbent Commissioner Amanda Fritz. It's worth noting that Lister's column ran one week after The O endorsed Fritz. 

Here's what the daily published this morning:

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