The suits on Pill Hill really, really don’t want to talk about the circumstances surrounding the firing of the CEO of their health care system. Oregon Health & Science University canned Tarek Salaway after just four months on the job. He claimed it was because he raised concerns about patient safety. Oregon Public Broadcasting asked to
When they write the history of the United States in these times, you wonder which outrages they’re going to highlight, and which they’ll have to leave out for lack of space. There’s a new one every day, sometimes more than one a day. Our demented strongman and his evil henchpeople are big on the daily
I have finally gotten through reviewing three years’ worth of Raymond Lee’s expense reports from his old gig as city manager in Greeley, Colorado – employment that ended before he was named a finalist for his current job as city administrator in Portland. The goal of this tedious exercise was to corroborate or disprove
A new report from the federal Treasury Department’s inspector general shows that the first year of Trump 2.0 resulted in a gutting of the personnel resources of the IRS.
Among those leaving were many senior people with many years of experience at the agency.
I’m sure the MAGA crowd is applauding, but this is really
If you want to see how crazy Portland City Hall has become, a trip to the corner of Northeast 33rd and Broadway would be worthwhile. There the city government has spent Lord-knows-how-many thousands of dollars painting the decrepit, old Gordon’s Fireplace Shop building several lovely shades of beige.This covers over many years of graffiti that
Here’s an interesting Facebook post, a video, about what’s happened over in Greeley, Colorado as they clean up after their ex-city manager, Raymond Lee, who is now Portland’s top-paid city official. According to critics, Lee blew through a lot of scarce taxpayer money in Greeley assembling and maintaining a personal entourage, feasting on
The shot heard ’round the world.This blog has been neglected over the last few days. I’ve been attending to some business in real life, but I must confess, I’ve also been wasting time watching athletics on television.It’s always a bit of a stretch to be witnessing winter sports in mid-June, but the pro basketball and
The slowness of this news week was interrupted this hour with the news that Sharon Meieran is running for Multnomah County chair. Maybe this time around, the judgment-challenged voters of the county will put her in charge, rather than a clown like Jessica Chevy Vega, who narrowly defeated Meieran four years ago.The county has contributed
It’s been a while since we computed the Time/Doritos Index, our gauge of Portland workers’ consumption power. As readers may recall, the index estimates how long it takes an employee making minimum wage to earn enough take-home pay to buy a “party size” bag of Doritos (about 180 chips).Here’s the tale of the chip for
Bob Packwood has died. He made it to 93 years old. You’re not allowed to say anything nice about him. Nor am I inclined to, anyway. He was a powerful man, but not a good man. And like the fine box wine with which he used to ply the ladies, the memory of his career has