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This past week at City Council
Reporters have given us lots of information over the past two days, about what was said and done on important issues by the Portland City Council this week. Scott Moore’s Mercury Blogtown post…
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“Support Voter Owned Elections!” – ?
If you do, hold on to your $5 for now. The only candidate who’s filed so far seeking Public Campaign Financing for a run a Commissioner’s seat on Portland City Council appears to…
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Mascot fight
The Oregon Duck took the Houston Cougar to task last Saturday for having the audacity to do push-ups on the field after a touchdown. Only Duckie gets to do that. All in good…
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Who’s paying for Parks in South Waterfront?
More than a month after I started researching this post, I’m finally able to publish it, thanks to Matt Grumm in Commissioner Saltzman’s office helping to connect me with the right staff. Tracking…
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A “magnet for scoundrels”, huh?
I just fired off the following Letter to the Editor in response to this morning’s editorial in the Oregonian: Your editorial, “Portland’s poorly conceived magnet for scoundrels”, is insulting to me and others…
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Neighborhoods subsidizing downtown
This afternoon’s Portland City Council Agenda features an item regarding transportation Systems Development Charges (SDCs), and there was recently a hearing on ending the so-called “transit-oriented development” subsidy of tax breaks given to…
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Paying for participatory events in Portland
Helen Jung in Sunday’s Oregonian reports on the cost to city taxpayers of events in public spaces requiring crowd/traffic control, like the Portland Marathon and Bridge Pedal. She notes that these popular events…
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Next Up at City Council, September 5 – 6, 2007
Yikes, that’s tomorrow! If I had to function as a single parent all the time, instead of just occasionally when Steve’s away, I would not have time to write this blog. The most…