Candy wants to be the only player to racially politicize.

Plumbing new depths of irrelevance. Olivia's speciality, when she's not thinking up new taxes and fees.

And all by itself, this tiny town will end climate change once and for all--by raising taxes.

Imagine it: a tiny little office of overpaid bureaucrats in a small, declining, obscure west coast town trapped between WA and CA doing battle with those "oligarchs." Wanna take any early bets?

Better to fight this battle than do anything substantive to cut the doom loop.

As always, the Zim has his mind centered on the really big issues facing a city in terminal decline.

It's against federal law...but what the hell...

The Big Girls rumble!

A really strange statement from. the city's most successful looter of the public fisc for a vanishingly small minority.

The Big Girls finally got their bitter rivalry out in the open. If they're fighting each other, that's good news for the people paying for this farce.

For Angelita to argue against pork barrel (an insult to pigs!) financing is truly surreal.

I think we've beat her to the alternative.

Let's get the feral back on the street and earning for Homelessness Inc.™

Gotta hand it to Candy--hard to talk out of both sides of your mouth at the same time.

Might note that it takes a full year to train a cop in Oregon. Bigger question is how to retain the police we've already got.

Yet another "climate change" boondoggle...and how much has Portland actually contributed to saving the plaanet?

Gotta wonder who has what on Maus to cause him to take a hiatus from lobbying for taxpayer dollars.

Only socialists would call them "excess" dollars--instead of cutting the program that created the "excess" in the first place.

Big giveaways to landlords and developers. Some things never change in Portland politics.

Wonderful what taxpayers' money can. buy. How come you don't tell us what this cost us?

Prove what you say. Got some numbers?

Another waste of taxpayyer's money--and how about that "Chief Sustainability Officer." How much is she paid and what does she actually do?

Short version: the socialists run the show. Get in line and have your political contributions ready.

Mitch knows that the mayor can propose until the cows come home--but he and the socialists will dispose, since the geniuses on the charter commission didn't give the mayor the power of the veto.

Now Sameer cuts to the chase..."fees" for just about anything that moves.

No one has the guts to say the initials, PERS.

Nothing better than a self-selected survey that will be riddled with self-interest.

More power to the lawbreakers.

This story doesn't. meet the smell test.

It's known as "stacking the deck."