The O found some money in the sofa cushions recently for some polls of Portlanders, or at least one poll on numerous subjects. Today we learn that public sentiment is clearly against using the city’s goofy “green” sales tax money to improve the perfectly good Trail Blazer palace. Yesterday I think it was, we learned
Here’s one on which I’m torn. The Oregon Historical Society gets a little chunk of the property tax in Multnomah County, and they want the voters to renew it. I’m pretty much a no vote on all these pitches for tax dollars, especially when they use kids as the come-on:
It’s for the children, don’tcha
All of a sudden the local politicians are suggesting that it won’t be until year-end that we know whether (and how much) the city and county are going to pay to renovate the Moda Center arena for the billionaire-owned Trail Blazers. The state is putting up $365 million, but only if the city and county
The lawyers of Portland got a familiar e-mail message last week. A circuit court judge in Multnomah County, Leslie Bottomly, is retiring (at least, from being a judge). That news made me pause for a moment of reflection. Judge Bottomly is a former student of mine. When your students are retiring, maybe you should think
Here’s a story I haven’t seen anywhere except for this post on the Zucky. It loks pretty juicy. Anybody got the deets?
There are days when you look at the news in Portland and can’t help but weep. Here is the city that just enacted a new tax for something so basic as fixing potholes. The city that had to pass a special property tax for something so basic as park maintenance.But we have nine figures lying
Good grief, the Port of Portland is a piece of work. Nothing shows off your multi-billion-dollar airport terminal like a carjacking at the active passenger pickup zone. I thought that airports were supposed to have crackerjack security. Yet here we have dangerous, strung-out creeps lurking at the very front door of the facility. Where
All the news about Portland City Hall managers getting “severed” from their jobs, some due to expense account abuses and all signing gag orders, reminded me that I have been remiss in my review of the credit card stylings of Portland’s $370,000-a-year city administrator, Raymond C. Lee III, in his previous gig as city
Cozzie.Fireworks at Portland City Hall. The deputy city manager in charge of police and firefighters quit or was fired after only eight months in that position. Bob Cozzie, who previously ran the 911 operation, is leaving abruptly and under so-far-mysterious circumstances.At a City Council meeting today, the council president, Jamie Dunphy, made a little speech
Greetings from your humble correspondent, out and about when not tending to the roses. Everything’s blooming early this year… Almost as if the climate were changing or something…
Two of Portland’s legendary small businesses are up for sale as their founders retire… Music Millennium on East Burnside where Kerns meets Laurelhurst, and Higgins Restaurant downtown…