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Just arrived in Portland from the south earlier this year and it's certainly been eventful. A very small thing but I work for the city and during the recent inclement weather all city employees received an email about volunteering for shifts at the Portland Building since it was being opened up as a temporary homeless shelter. I thought this was really cool up until I saw how incredibly few shelters actually exist in this town. No loving duh there is a homeless problem, they have no where to go but the street.
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I'm sympathetic to the idea that a measure of order and decorum is required for the business of government to be done, but the flatly weird way that Wheeler has gone about trying to address the issue makes him look real bad.
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Mar 29, 2017 11:39
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As a new Portland resident I actually haven't heard the full story on the erosion of Columbia river bridge talks. All I know is that everyone from Washington blames Portland, and the city's desire to bring the devil MAX to the fair people of Vancouver.
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Apr 5, 2017 12:01
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Wheeler has his faults but that was a pretty reasonable and understanding response to a member of the public running up to his high profile elected official rear end.
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Apr 6, 2017 05:54
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anthonypants posted:Chloe Eudaly isn't looking too great these days. She championed, and got passed, the measure to make landlords pony up relocation costs for no cause evictions .http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/02/portland_landlords_must_pay_re.html That was both cool and good according to this cool and good poster.
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Apr 13, 2017 11:56
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I'm ignorant of Eudaly's background (other than she ran a book store) and any lies she told about said background. Anyone care to clue me in?
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Apr 19, 2017 12:24
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It seems like public employee pensions and healthcare are the main targets for cuts to get Oregon's budget in the black. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/04/oregon_budget_writers_unveil_p.html Not surprising since measure 97 was essentially the showdown between public employees and wealthy corporations to see who would foot the bill, and the corporations threw enough money at the vote to have things go their way. It's still really disappointing to see that betraying agreements made to public employee unions is the acceptable sacrifice to make for a Dem run government.
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Apr 26, 2017 09:15
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Alright, I'm done. It's time to turn anitfa mainstream. Maybe set up some middle school assemblies on the best ways to identify and beat the poo poo out of nazis.
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May 28, 2017 08:24
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anthonypants posted:A good vacancy tax should include residential properties held as AirBNB rentals, imho. This can't be overstated. Since laws we currently have for landlords and hoteliers aren't being applied as should be we need to make doubly sure that future housing laws takes these properties into consideration. In a perfect world that poo poo would just be illegal.
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Jul 21, 2017 12:40
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BrandorKP posted:Seattle : NYC That's just flat mean.
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Aug 12, 2017 19:43
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That's a description of the biggest rear end in a top hat I can imagine.
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Sep 22, 2017 01:51
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therobit posted:So some Portland sewer workers have turned to the Freedom Foundation in a dispute with their union because apparently their local isn't representing them well enough. The guy behind it speaks up in the comments. Local 483 is actually my union. Those Freedom Foundation fucks had the audacity to come down to the treatment plant to push their agenda. Duffey is a good guy with decades of laudable service unionizing shops and negotiating for his co workers, putting in the hours that most are too lazy or entitled for to help build a better union. Also, he's right about the 483 failing to support the membership. They simply wanted the deal done because parks and PBoT were already making well above the average of their professions and they had other business with the city so a brief negotiation was to leadership's benefit. None of that changes the fact Duffey was wrong to bring those poisonous fuckers into the equation. I'm sure it will surprise no one that most of his actions were motivated by petty bullshit between him and the business manager. who is admittedly a useless child. Also a note for clarity. The wastewater group got 5%, not 9%. It's only 9% when you count the 2% COLA, which you shouldn't, and the 2% longevity pay available only to employees with 10 years service, less than 30% of our work force. That 5% was the city's original offer before negotiations and we're 19.2% behind in the region for our profession.
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Sep 29, 2017 12:37
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George posted:Gonna be a lot further behind once this lovely tactic plays out. Hopefully not. FF has about 40 days left to collect the signatures they need for a deauthorization vote and they're way behind schedule. Frankly I've been impressed by how many politically conservative coworkers, who are furious with our union, totally reject the idea of working with the Freedom Foundation.
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Sep 29, 2017 23:00
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It's for the best. Polos were a poo poo look even before Nazis co-opted it.
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Oct 5, 2017 08:54
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Has anyone formed an opinion on Danielle Outlaw? Outside of the Judge Dredd name all I know is that she came to prominence in Oakland implementing reforms around cop/citizen interaction that were forced on the city via a lawsuit. Apparently they implemented changes to procedure based on observations made from cops body cam footage about what works and what doesn't when engaging with the public. I could be about that if it helps PPD be less racist and lovely.
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Oct 19, 2017 11:48
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I mean...duh. You don't build a huge corporate HQ in already thriving areas where the real estate is extra expensive. E: Also on the cop thing, ACAB is a sound view of the world but the degrees of awfulness matters. Pretty much everyone you'll ever meet is deeply flawed and awful in a bunch of ways. We should always encourage people and organizations being less lovely, despite the remaining shitiness they have yet to fix. The Puppy Bowl fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Oct 20, 2017 |
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Oct 20, 2017 08:48
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I assume Mr.Pants meant "they're too cheap". Lots of people are pushed out of Portland due to obscene housing costs but Vancoverites tend to be a breed more in the tax cheats vein.
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Nov 30, 2017 11:06
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The problem with housing, as with 401ks, is that they're the only way to build up enough wealth to be mildly secure so everyone pursues those paths though the vast majority us are hosed over into poverty in the process. I'm not sure how we decouple housing from investment in a way that wouldn't totally devastate the economy. Outside of New Deal like direct action by the federal government.
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Dec 7, 2017 13:04
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It seems the new building is something our new PPS Superintendent is pushing hard for right out of the gate. He doesn't even do us the courtesy of making his argument before the community first. This stuff is especially stupid because gifted kids by their nature are a lot more easily separated into classrooms within already existing Portland schools than special needs kids who require a lot more infrastructure and human capital. In other Portland news, Kurt Kreger got pushed out as head of the housing bureau. Considering how near and dear the issue of housing is to me, not least because of the rent I pay on my poo poo hole, I know very little about the guy. He runs a real estate company in Vancouver which struck me as sort of a conflict of interest but otherwise I got nothing. Anyone have an idea why Wheeler wanted him gone?
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Dec 8, 2017 12:32
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I'll be your friend. We can drink beer, go to DSA events, and then drink more beer. Actually, I'm not sure if I can go to DSA events. The general meetings/orientations are all held on Sunday afternoons and I work Sunday afternoons. Would it be rude to show up to an evening event having never been to one of these socialists 101 meetings?
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Feb 11, 2018 14:13
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Cannon Beach is pretty great. Take the trail in Ecola State park down to the ocean sometime if you enjoy nature and/or fun.
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Mar 13, 2018 08:03
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My lovely little duplex went up about 65 bucks a month this past year so yeah, rent is pretty hosed in Portland. What's your average 1 bedroom in the city right now, 1350?
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Mar 17, 2018 21:42
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Are any of you aware of tenant groups doing good work in the Portland area? For some reason it took a DSA member mentioning it for the idea of getting involved with CAT or someone like that to even occur to me.
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Apr 1, 2018 18:55
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It's just endlessly funny to see the various peaceful nature enthusiasts screaming for this kid's blood. By funny I mean evidence our species is doomed.
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May 23, 2018 06:36
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I don't know. The Trump era is many things but I wouldn't call it boring.
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Jun 13, 2018 04:42
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If anybody in the thread actually wants to help improve the city of Portland there are some lovely people on the front lines protesting ICE at 4310 SW Macadam AVE who could use some meals, water, Gatorade, and a whole bunch of other supplies to keep up the fight during this nasty heat.
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Jul 16, 2018 00:14
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In the era of absolute Republican atrocity it's nice to know that a Democratic supermajority can still compete with some repugnant class warfare legislation. https://www.opb.org/news/article/oregon-pers-plan-kate-brown-retirement-schools-kicker/
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Apr 13, 2019 06:01
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While the kicker is awful and I want it to die it's still a tax rebate that actually gets to real people. A much more egalitarian idea would be to simply tax business and corporate profit in the state at even baseline sane levels. Nike and Intel have legislatively established crazy tax policy for themselves. https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2018/11/power_play_nike_takes_a_big_ro.html?outputType=amp Far more importantly, there is no underfunding crisis with PERS! Our current 71% funding figure is for all the pensions that have been earned today. As in, if every single public employee retired today. Which of course is not even possible. Nobody would miss a single pension check until around 20-30% funding. It's also an issue that is solving itself. The tier 1 employees are old and we arent making any more of them. Haven't been for nearly 20 years.That means that those with the most generous benefit are dying off. If we simply targeted 100% funding for a 40 yr timeframe instead of a 20 year timeframe we would have more than enough money to address an actual crisis of underfunding in our school system. This mess is just more conservative philosophy masquerading as economics. Oh, we can't take money from the job creators so we have to gut unions, education, and public services. No worries, we can just privatize everything and the market will fix it all.
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Apr 13, 2019 19:47
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Hello basically dead thread. I need any Portland goons who have a weirdly free schedule on Wednesday the 22nd at 2pm to show up at city council for the budget approval vote. The current proposal from Wheeler would cut around 6 million from the parks department. This would end up firing a bunch of working class people from a department that provides great service to our community while being a revenue earner for the city. So if you can, show up at City Hall, 1221 SE 4th ave, at 2pm Wednesday and tell them to knock that poo poo off. We can fund our services with the money we got so let's do that.
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May 17, 2019 21:48
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Same. Strange.
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Jun 9, 2019 22:00
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Does anyone have a good write up on the quorum rules? If it can be amended to a simple majority through legislation it should absolutely be the first thing voted on when session reopens.
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Jun 26, 2019 08:31
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Will Van Spronsen, that sounds an awful lot like John Brown to my ear.
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Jul 14, 2019 06:47
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Supposedly there's two recall petitions. One made by some random libertarian dipshit, and a second made by the state republican party once the first gained traction. The guy is pisssed the state party didn't just sign on with him so is keeping his personal petition open out of spite. The two petitions can't share signatures so the existence of both hurts the actual cause. gently caress Kate Brown but that brand of conservative incompetence is my kind of funny.
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Sep 24, 2019 03:59
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St. John's main drag on Lombard is having a pretty substantial amount of buisnesses closing and each one has sited landlord issues. Mostly rent increases but I think Annna Banana's has something to do with a property repair shutdown.
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Oct 30, 2019 17:11
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Everything good Kate Brown has done was following in Inslee's footsteps or caving to political pressure from Oregon Mayors and County officials. I fully expect her unclear and inconsistent opening strategy to be a catastrophe. Here's hoping geographic factors can overcome the incompetence.
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May 19, 2020 18:04
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Oregon elections aren't looking great. The most progressive candidate for Portland City Commissioner is in 4th place, Wheeler might win outright tonight, and the dem Secretary of State Primary is ever so slightly going against the union backed candidate. Could be a lot worse but an incumbency/establishment advantage amidst the Covid crisis seems clear.
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May 20, 2020 07:17
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Well the last secretary of state ended up Governor so I was hoping Shemia Fagan could take a similar path. Besides, conducting fair elections has become a political policy issue, one which we can't even trust everyone with a D next to their name to handle the right way. I wouldn't call Mingus Maps conservative. He was part of Eudaly's staff until she proved her self incompetent. Through union work it has been stressed to me time and again that previous Eudaly supporters have been deeply disappointed at her inability to handle the day to day tasks of governance. By comparison, everything good you've ever heard about Jo Ann Hardesty is an understatement. She and her team are rock stars. Hope! https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/05/...ace-tightening/
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May 20, 2020 23:13
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Hardesty is welcome to take a stab at state office after she ushers in 1000 years of leftist darkness as Portland Mayor. I voted for Eudaly this go round because I was scared of Adams beating her outright in this election. Maps vs. Eudaly would be interesting. Honestly I barely even looked at Maps' policies so but I'm excited by the idea of a competent progressive going against Eudaly head to head. Get hosed Sam, you failed social climbing creep.
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May 21, 2020 00:26
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Fagan hasn't lost yet. http://www.wweek.com/news/2020/05/20/nearly-100000-ballots-remain-to-be-counted-in-oregons-five-largest-counties/ Cling to these rare moments when better things are still technically possible.
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Is there any kind of automatic recount threshold for primaries? .5 percent is a hell of a margin to shrug your shoulders at for a statewide race.FacebookEmpathyMom posted:https://results.oregonvotes.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=SWPAR&map=CTY and look at the county results. I mean, hard to know for sure, but Hass cleaned up in Clack, Washington, Marion, and it was pretty even in Multnomah. So those 10k outstanding in Lane County might need to do some heavy lifting unless the places left outstanding elsewhere are bucking the general trend. That link currently has Fagan up 2,500 votes. The Puppy Bowl fucked around with this message at 02:09 on May 21, 2020 |
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