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transit cuts are virtually guaranteed in the coming months and years, high school music directors are not paid fairly so there will be no music at high school sports events, and for some reason it's 73 degrees at 71% humidity at 11:30PM in September. WE'RE DOING GREAT OVER HERE.
powells books is using AI art for merch and laying off workers, the mayor suggested our fascist pres should walz in and bulldoze homeless campments unless we volunteer and give money, the mayor fled a public Q&A because protesters showed up, our only Black-owned brewery closed it's final location
cringe meter enthusiasts are having a field day in portland, oregon
I can see why he and his security detail would want to get out of there for a variety of reasons, they seemed surprisingly unprepared for a protest. I figure this is only the beginning of how activists are going to approach his appearances, especially if he continues with a run and bunker strategy.
To add to Cassie's point, Hardesty was also very good at listening and talking to protesters. What Wilson did, escaping to leave everybody hanging and no one satisfied, does not instill a strong sense of leadership.
Compared to how a Councilor recently handled a similar situation it makes me wonder if Wilson has what it takes to lead the city through this moment.
Do not have a particular bone to pick on this one but it is rather telling how many various groups in the city are rather desperate for the Mayor's time, attention and accountability. Sure he's picking up trash on the way to work 7 days a week but not exactly making himself available to the public.
Saw that Powell’s has begun layoffs again. Here’s some other news from Portland’s biggest bookstore.
First time visiting outside of US in Vienna, Austria. All I can say is… I feel a distinct relief to be in a place where many basic needs are essentially socialized.
This learning experience is an opportunity to open the scope of our vision for urban planning in Portland. It can be better. I’m already in Vienna and it IS better. Socialized housing and healthcare = less homelessness and mental health crises.
Very relevant considering the “we just blew up these guys we assumed were drug dealers” story that’s also prominent.
what if we drank beer, listened to music and lightly discussed policy at the saint johns music fest this weekend 👉👈
The vibes among Portland brewers, with a few exceptions, are absolutely dismal. The city and state really needs to do more to boost this industry before it's too late.
Heard this was coming, sad to see Assembly Brewing on Alberta closing their doors. Support your favorite brewery today, it could very well be gone tomorrow.
Recipients who received the half-price fare discount ended up taking so many more transit trips that the overall amount they spent on transit fares actually *went up*. This suggests that a deep discount in transit fares for low-income residents could actually be a net revenue boost for agencies!
DC conducted a half-price & free transit fare experiment for low-income residents. Compared to those paying full fare: —Half-price recipients took 2x the transit trips —Free pass recipients took 4x the trips Subsidized participants reported higher well-being. thelabprojects.dc.gov/fare-subsidy...
There is/was a vision to do this along the length of SW Ankeny. We did get that one little stub of it. Now we're more focused on tearing out the street plazas for some reason. The bus mall used to be car free back in the day. This all to say: agreed.
It's a very cool building. I'm sure the projects are different in various ways. I would not call it anything resembling a community center, more of a luxury spa/hotel/restaurant with a coffee shop but it's brought some chutzpah to Alberta street and I appreciate the architecture inside and out.
Excellent tactic. Bring this to every city in the US.
Appreciate your leadership, Senator.
Go look at the moon portland
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Hopeful for some spicy primaries.
How about we sunset reckless and wasteful freeway expansion funding instead @tinakotek.bsky.social
what the hell are we even doing man
Please help raise funds for North Portland institution Maria Julia Zevalsa Castillo and her Boom Boom Balloons business, which was completely destroyed in a recent fire.
> In the fire, Maria lost everything. The materials she'd spent years collecting. The helium tanks. The items on the retail floor and back in storage. The machines used for cash transfers. The dozens of piñatas she'd already made for loyal customers. Everything.
NYC residents famously love getting their cars towed.
This is the way I do it!
Trimet bus voice agrees with you
Brazee Street pronunciation: Braw-zeee or Brah-zeee or _________? #pdx
“The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for ‘freedom’ after one received news a relative had died… A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.”
Melvin Mark recently acquired the LA Fitness Building. Their COO Peter Andrews sits on the Multnomah County Homelessness Response Steering and Oversight Committee as a representative of the Portland Metro Chamber.
I'm still angry at Mark Meek but what in tarnation is THIS
devastating that oregon dems appear to be woefully unfit for this moment in time
fucking hell
Completely feel for all involved in working and learning in sweat box classrooms, but next week is looking hotter so.. what's the plan for that I wonder.
Looking for 1 GA ticket for tonight's Thorns game. #baonpdx #rctid
the music festival thing is a social media trend to get around suppression of ICE protest videos on various platforms
No Troops in Our Streets - Free DC and LA Seen in NE Portland over Hwy 84
I'd stick to that lower route. Stop at craters of the moon, check out steens mountain area near Burns, maybe a dip at crystal crane hot springs depending on weather, check out bend, then timerberline lodge / mt hood. Boise or Baker City for the overnight.
Immigration officials conducted an operation at the site of the largest wildfire in Washington State. The incident appeared to be a rare case of federal officials enforcing immigration laws at the site of an emergency.
> A houseless man was stabbed on NW Irving this morning and you were among the first to respond. I saw you jump into action, stay calm, apply way more than your standard first aid/fashion a tourniquet, worked with the nearby people to communicate and control the scene until police and EMS got there.
Learned today that PBOT is planning to roll out a new "Five After Five" parking policy in the CES and downtown around September. It will make all 2-hour limit spots 5-hour, after 5pm. Cars won't need to leave the blockface. Seems reasonable to me.
oh dear :/
this is america
To give the reporter the benefit of the doubt, maybe they were trying to say we're considered a smaller market compared to SF, NY, etc. which is a common criticism in NBA, perhaps less relevant in a WNBA of 13-18 teams, but invoking the "slow to recover" narrative here got me feeling some way.
Love you, OPB, but what the heck is going on with that question.
...raising their hands. The challenge will be filtering out and selecting the right people for our organization." Welcome to Portland, Vanja Černivec!
OPB reporter: "When you look to building your coaching staff.. we know that Portland is a little slow to rebound economically and it can be challenging to attract talent here.." Portland Fire GM: "I don't see challenges. If you could see my phone and how it's blowing up with people..
Appreciate the heads up. Tuned in briefly to hear them making fun of a fellow proud boy who uses a wheel chair "slowing them down" and how "men need to be able to talk like men." Vile content, shit production quality. 0/10. @rosecityantifa.bsky.social
I was pretty appalled at the condition of OHV campsites in the Tillamook forest after visiting recently. Whole campsites absolutely trashed, garbage randomly piled up on the roadsides off of 6.
We can’t keep saying “I understand why they’re folding” when they’re “folding” by exposing much more vulnerable people to harm; that’s not going to work, we’re not going to do that.
It seems that's the direction things are heading one way or another, whether they drop out or lose a seat. I'm sure there are riders in Camas who will suffer for it, but if they're holding back the region from better transit then it's time to move on.
> WSDOT sent a letter to C-Tran officials in June stating that C-Tran’s board is not in compliance with state law because the city of Vancouver and Clark County are underrepresented on the board while the region’s smaller cities are overrepresented.
2009 plan is an interesting read and time capsule. www.portland.gov/sites/defaul...
Access is a big one. Friend has a floating home there, directly across from a shipyard. It seems past efforts to plan for residential housing there bank upon the bridge/freeway project that hasn't happened yet. Plunk a MAX stop and better mainland connection there and it would take off.
That's a good point, something as a local I did not notice. Union Station is definitely due for some modernization updates, pending new ownership.
The new Deftones is good good
How is there no impact on future tolling by removing the law allowing it? > LC2 repeals the current law that allows OR to toll specific interstates passed in the previous transportation bill in 2017. According to the Gov, this repeal does not impact the state’s ability to toll roads in the future.
Is this a recent photo?
Props to everyone involved in making this happen. Let's continue to make it easier for folks to put on events like this, more often @mayorkwilson.bsky.social
bike races are rad, doubly so on our downtown streets
For real. Everyone should work as a canvasser / door to door person at some point in their lives to understand how difficult those jobs are. "Appreciate you but I'm all set, have a nice day!" and closing the door works just fine.
My dream concept as well, however I don't think we have a remote chance of executing on this aside from after The Big One. That said I wish ODOT would truly, meaningfully study moving and deleting certain on/off ramps. We asked for it in their charettes in like 2011 and they literally laughed at us
Good points, I also question the market demand for building on top of the freeway when most of the RQ area land is ripe for redevelopment and doesn't require all of the complications of building over the freeway. I do appreciate the forward thinking of making them buildable for the long term future.
Informative interview on this subject: bikeportland.org/2021/07/30/a...
Gotcha, in NY instance I don't think these are caps they are straddling / built over. Buildable caps / decks are a different thing, and for RQ we tasked ODOT to do it as part of the project. In fairness, it is a tricky thing for ODOT to do, and without a real plan for what building if any is to come
They still build stuff over the freeways there because of that land crunch. www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/n...
NYC is a special place, limited develop-able land and selling of air rights leads to stuff like huge apartment buildings straddling the freeway.
board member is the father of the child rapist, btw wtf, florence!?
> In a recording of a board meeting involving the family of the abused teen and leaders at the Military Museum, a board member said the teenager is not innocent and is "not a little girl." "I think your daughter could be a promiscuous little slut and you don't know it," [Gary Cannon] said.
That's certainly a benefit to having random people come up to you to make comments about how you live your life. Says a lot about them.
Brim-Edwards aligned with the aporophobic, racist, "tough on crime" Future Portland PAC? You don't say.
I am grateful for your leadership.
Appreciate this story. Man, how smug can a person be to self-identify as an "Environmentalist" and then invoke skepticism that someone riding a bike has any impact. Holy projection.
commercial rents soared pre covid and still haven't really come down, workforce housing costs are astronomical, limited industrial reserves for massive projects, less bending over backward for commercial tax breaks in Oregon for short term gains.
Economy is running on vibes, amazon et al has nearly annihilated local retail, people are going out less with tighter budgets, inflation and tariffs, downtown lost half it's population with WFH, businesses move around and close everywhere all the time, media overhypes closings and undersells opening
Those people have created full on conspiracy theories about her in particular, it's abhorrent.
👀 @bikeportland.org @portlandmercury.com @taylorgriggs.bsky.social
Couldn't find it off of twitter so here is the vid.
Crystal shop owner/failed Seattle city council candidate Rachel Savage afraid of a Black man sitting on a Sound Transit bench energy.
They got Dicks in southern washington?
It's illegal for cops to run a red light when there's not an emergency, but they sure seem to do it a lot... Read more: interc.pt/3JogwJG 📹 @jordanuhl.com
Not surprising that most coffee drinkers are fine paying more when it's due to tariffs or to support the local shop. Wish coffee prices were instead rising because we all agreed that paying growers their fair share is important.
Maddening that so many Portlanders continue to perpetuate myths that homelessness is a choice, that it's easy, that people flock here because we have abundant services, that there is always somewhere to go, that people don't want help, etc. etc. More reporting like this is necessary to push back.
Observe the gauntlet houseless Portlanders must navigate to access services. Bring your trailer to the sanctioned RV site, but have it confiscated from you when the site closes because you can't afford insurance. Lose your tiny home slot because you were late to a meeting. "We feel abandoned."
So true. Given the extreme political handwringing over ANY new revenue streams at every level of government, it's hard to imagine how we get to this kind of big picture policy makeover. Somehow, we've got to get there.
trump just gave wealthy americans an absurdly massive tax break that decimates funding for the most basic social services that keep this country's government even sorta functional, and somehow oregon's business leaders think we need to double down and do the same locally www.opb.org/article/2025...
They're not exactly the sharpest crayons in the box.
Using consumer rental cars to block traffic and abduct people is so pathetic.
Hard to wrap my head around this. Police are implying they fell on their own and were not hit by the truck? I hope we get more answers. What a fucking tragedy.
> Gerardo Ortiz Henriquez, 24, of Portland died while riding on the back of a Lime e-scooter on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. On Monday, police said the [driver who did not stop] had fully cooperated with the investigation and that “his actions are not believed to be the cause of the crash.”
A 500 year old Doug Fir 🤯
💯. Opening up vending opportunities in general in our parks would be huge. Considering McCall Park often has legal beer vending during various events throughout the summer, it shouldn't be that huge of a stretch to get there. I think our new gov't is well suited to take this on.
