Keith Wilson a smiling silver haired thin white man in a black suit stands on the checkered marble floor of Portland city hall and points at a sign reading "A safe bed for every Portlander, every night" with a red thermometer graphic showing 1500 new shelter bed capacity reached. He is very pleased with himself!
Hmm
This should be hideously embarrassing for Mayor Wilson and the "shelter bed cardboard novelty thermometer" community but I'm starting to think they do not experience shame.
Portland mayor Keith Wilson’s top priority in his homelessness response: increasing the number of congregate overnight-only shelters. Now, a Multnomah County report shows the local focus on new shelters may be eroding existing shelters’ ability to transition homeless Portlanders into housing.
The figure of Stephen Miller has degraded my soul as a human being. Stephen Miller should dream of Mussolini every night
The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
DID YOU KNOW that the City of Portland extracts $10 million a year from downtown property owners in order to partially subsidize the city’s most active lobbying org?
Yes but there are public institutions in that section that pay into it!
I've launched a publication with @palfest.bsky.social called "The Key." I am so excited to share this first issue with you: www.thekeymagazine.com
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Child care workers earn less than 96% of jobs in New York State and it's Kathy Hochul's fault. There will never be enough child care for every family that needs it as long as this is the reality, but every year she does whatever she can during the state budget to keep them in poverty.
yeah no shit, we have essentially validated the iranian government’s whole worldview for the past 40 years in 3 days
For sure, I just notice his confidence as an arbiter of violent injustice all of a sudden
i frankly think we should stop putting andrew hoan in the paper altogether at this point. we've evolved beyond needing to know his thoughts
Like I think Twitter sucks too but there’s a lot happening that is not crossing over to this website
I know this is the Twitter sucks app- but the small amount of foreign press on here particularly now is stark comparatively and like things aren’t really moving over.
Israel is bombing Beirut.
!["Portland Metro Chamber President and CEO Andrew Hoan is another vocal skeptic of the PFA tax. Last year, he told Willamette Week that there were "years of clear and irrefutable data [indicating the tax] is having an impact on our highly mobile middle class and higher-income earners who are choosing to leave."
Hoan maintains his concerns, despite the new county data. In a March 5 comment, Hoan told the Mercury that "it is no accident that Multnomah County is deep in economic recession while surrounding counties like Clark County are seeing economic success it is our policy choices." He pointed to Preschool for All, as well as Metro's Supportive Housing Services marginal income tax, as examples of the policy choices he believes have caused wealthy people to leave the Portland metro area. The Metro Chamber uses IRS data, which isn't as up-to-date as county tax return statistics, to support their conclusions."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gsejldqrfqdgjfyce5fc46gv/bafkreibq4m2milhmkdiyzs2zhsvy2tbxrt6ixn3jnb5haqblyx4dvhqqoy@jpeg)
"Portland Metro Chamber President and CEO Andrew Hoan is another vocal skeptic of the PFA tax. Last year, he told Willamette Week that there were "years of clear and irrefutable data [indicating the tax] is having an impact on our highly mobile middle class and higher-income earners who are choosing to leave." Hoan maintains his concerns, despite the new county data. In a March 5 comment, Hoan told the Mercury that "it is no accident that Multnomah County is deep in economic recession while surrounding counties like Clark County are seeing economic success it is our policy choices." He pointed to Preschool for All, as well as Metro's Supportive Housing Services marginal income tax, as examples of the policy choices he believes have caused wealthy people to leave the Portland metro area. The Metro Chamber uses IRS data, which isn't as up-to-date as county tax return statistics, to support their conclusions."
I personally am more concerned about my public dollars helping pay 45% of Andrew Hoan's $333,000 salary through Clean & Safe. PERSONALLY.
(from: www.portlandmercury.com/news/2026/03...)
As PFA expands, so will economic benefits to our region.
PFA can boost parent earnings by over 20%, saving participating families $18,600 per child. This helps skilled professionals lay down roots – attracting and retaining workers while building a more prosperous community for every taxpayer.
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This only happened because people mercilessly grilled Ron Wyden. Keep being mean to Ron Wyden www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...
Hahaha
I know too many people who sat weeping in front of that man futilely asking him to give a fuck about the fact that America was sending billions of dollars of hellfire to Israel to murder Palestinians
I can't deal with people glazing Ron Wyden
They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.
“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
Senator John Fetterman’s response to @premthakker.bsky.social when asked about the illegal US strike on an Iranian Naval ship in international waters:
“I want to offer condolences to your boss [Mehdi]. I know he’s all broke up about the Ayatollah.”
PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.
