These communications are still available to the public because they are public records so there are no transparency losses.
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These communications are still available to the public because they are public records so there are no transparency losses.
This is important because it clarifies that electeds can share factual information with one another and through intermediaries.
Under our current system, effective governance is hamstrung by unworkable rules.
The public meetings law amendments passed the Senate this afternoon, and it's headed to the Governor's desk.
I think many of them are convinced it's a popular thing to do fwiw.
bread and circuses ass collapsing empire.
it's crazy that they are in such a bubble that they think the public will be stoked about throwing public money at a billionaire when we are in a growing recession and public services are being slashed all over the place.
BREAKING: Court orders DHS to immediately STOP deploying tear gas, smoke grenades, pepper balls, & other toxic chemicals flooding Portland homes, finding residents face *irreparable* harm.
This is a critical win for our clients, who've suffered from unconstitutional government violence for months.
lobby your local officials not to put city money into this fiasco
madness
Today I learned here in Portland teachers are being asked to either take 3 furlough days or cut 170 full time teaching positions. My son is in a blended class of 4/5th graders because they didn’t have enough money for another teacher. Fuck off
I also think if you're going to go that hard in an editorial, you should have basic command over the facts yourself rather than rely upon a selective application of spurious correlates that confirm your priors.
3-4 days
At the national / international level, we are seeing the ruling class unmasked. We are seeing more clearly who these people are and how they hold and exercise power.
Portland has its own ruling class.
They create institutions like the Portland Metro Chamber to do their will at the city & state.
Green's office demonstrated there's no meaningful tax flight occurring in Portland (further confirmed by this latest data), and the Chamber's own source showed that business tax rate increases in recent years are (i) modest, (ii) within U.S. averages; and (iii) due to changes in state not local laws
we failed to draw a red line on Israel's genocide of Gaza. now Israel is poised to bring Gaza-level destruction to the suburbs of Beirut.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
This is essentially a tax on everyone so our president and his friends can murder more children
You’re right that he shouldn’t be quoted as an expert
100% having them more in the public eye means they are losing their grip
He should be in the paper all day every day answering why he gets paid over 300 grand subsidized with public $ to run a reactionary political organization
andrew hoan is probably more personally responsible for the state of portland than anyone else in the city. can’t think of another person who’s done more work to drive businesses out of downtown and make it less livable
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.
Also, Mitch Green’s office refuted the “irrefutable data” lol
David Graeber bullshit jobs example #1
talk about a group of people who add nothing to our economy
We need a new tax on the wealthy in Portland that is called “the Andrew Hoan tax” to claw back some of the $ that subsidizes this reactionary’s salary.
“Van Hollen’s proposal would call for a new surcharge on millionaires that would generate about $1.5 trillion across the next 10 years [and eliminate] federal income taxes for workers making at or below a “living wage” of $46,000 for individuals or $92,000 for married couples filing jointly.”
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?
Whoever signed me up for the FRSO text bank list: 🤬
(but also that’s very funny)
Murderers and thugs, all of them.
