Update on the Moda Center process: I was recently asked to join a small group of councilors to stay close to the talks as the admin enters negotiation. It was conveyed to me that a condition of being in this group would be a commitment to honor an NDA between the city and the team. I refused. 🧵
Loved this issue!
Nothing pisses me off more than these disingenuous hacks going on stage and trying to guilt people when we have champions like Mamdani out here showing how you do popular politics.
That’s why they try so hard to suppress the left. They’re irrelevant if we have a competent left wing.
Confirmed that Uniqlo is coming to Washington Square—and Downtown's Fox Tower, in the former Banana Republic space www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...
Always curious when stuff like this happens if the company responsible has to compensate for repairs or if the city just has to eat that cost
ofc Bluesky is down the day I get the route in one guess
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I’m leading this walk Saturday!
Ugh that is messed up, I’m so sorry that happened. How is that not a hit and run and/or assault
oh yeah, Ladds 500
Left messages for @repdexteror.bsky.social and @wyden.senate.gov. I spoke with a staffer at @merkley.senate.gov's DC office who said Sen Merkley is at work on this and trying to call colleagues back to office
Remember when Bernie Sanders came to Portland to save Tina Kotek’s ass in a tough election and she rewarded the progressives’ help by governing to the right for 3 years?
A rendering illustrating Seattle's Neighborhood Yield Street standard. The image shows a slender street lined by homes and small apartment buildings. The street is 24 feet wide from curb face to curb face, with two 7-foot wide "flex zones" for parking and other uses, and a single 11-foot wide travel lane. The street is a two-way street: on the rare occasions when 2 vehicles approach each other simultaneously, one needs to pause in a flex zone lane to let the other vehicle pass. Neighborhood Yield Streets have sidewalks buffered by planting strips that support a wide range of treatments including gardening, green stormwater infrastructure and large canopy street trees. Source: https://streetsillustrated.seattle.gov/street-type-standards/neighborhood-yield/
#Seattle has many slender streets, with ~11 feet of clear width between parked cars. Some are historic. Some are recent (built to the City's Neighborhood Yield Street standard, I believe).
Does Seattle have a formal policy of buying fire vehicles designed to work well on these slender streets? 🧵
Movie Madness, Portland’s last video store, will relocate in 2027 to a larger space, anchoring a new Film District with the Hollywood Theatre.
Sorry I’m gonna be insufferable guys, gotta campaignmaxx for the next few months 😞
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Anakin Padme meme blank
Anakin: “they’re calling us the sandwich generation “
Padme: bc we like sandwiches right? We’re rotating the sandwiches 🥪? Can you waffle it?
Anakin: …
Padme: bc of the sandwiches 🥪 right?
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"This is the oldest trick in the megaproject playbook — the Robert Moses strategy: get a shovel in the ground, then dare anyone to stop you." - Joe Cortright in a guest opinion
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It’s imperative that policymakers in both states continue to push back against an oversized, bloated project and demand that ODOT propose and deliver a right-sized bridge with a right-sized budget that doesn’t bankrupt our state. #orpol #orleg
Anyway, "Kill someone with your car and you'll never drive again" is a message that would have immense benefit to society.
If Oregon policymakers are serious about addressing cost-of-living concerns and ensuring Oregon is an affordable place for all to live, we simply must invest a transportation system that provides alternatives to car dependency. #orleg https://loom.ly/NEcn57E
Southland Tales is the only movie stupid enough to actually be prophetic about 2026
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
No money for transit, no money for safe routes to school but a $400M handout to a billionaire?
On Mar. 17 at 3pm, my "Right to Know Who's Policing You" ordinance comes to the Community & Public Safety Committee, and I'd love your support! Sign up to testify and let the Committee know you want them to vote YES on this ordinance.
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#NoSecretPoliceInPortland
The Oregon filing deadline came and went yesterday. No candidate stepped up to challenge unpopular senator Mark Meek in Oregon City in the D primary and not a single D is running in HD21 against Kevin Mannix in a swing district in Salem.
A failure in leadership from the Oregon Democratic Party.
Wow! 36 of you have already submitted written testimony in support of an Inner Eastside for All! Thank you! It is incredibly important for Council to hear why ordinary Portlanders support more homes for all our neighbors! www.portland.gov/council/docu...
I grew up in one of the WV top 10 and I wonder if it’s partly an inventory issue? There is not a lot of housing and it rarely turns over. Not much is being built. When something does come online it’s competitive.
Re: La grande—maybe telework in the last 5y has allowed folks to move further out.
I haven't talked to Mayor Wilson abt that idea. I think it stinks. It's a successful program and we see from open houses/survey in each district that folks are ready to pay more to fund streets/maintenance. It's like complying in advance. Gas tax also has "user pays" element that utility fee lacks.