Yaaay, extortion works! Hey city council, if you don't pay me $1 million, I'm going to poop on your front stoop. Better rush to "negotiate" and "settle" with me.

Fucking morons. I wonder if any of them has won a hand of poker in his life. Maybe I'll buy them all a bunch of books on game theory... and not being pussies.

We just gave nearly one million dollars of public money to the homeless? Fuck me running. Why do I have a feeling that I'm going to hear even more rattling shopping carts in my neighborhood this summer?

Technically, a group of developers gave it to them to pay them to go somewhere else.

Now we get to go through it all again when the city chooses some other location where the neighbors will go apeshit. But presumably those neighbors won't have $850,000 to pay them off.

It made no sense for the city to fight a deal that it wasn't paying for. It would have had to pay to fight the fight. So it seems like a good deal for the city. And Dike Dame? No novelist could even come up with that name. Portlandia at its best.

The money that was given for land for R2DToo is not public money. If you are worried about public money being given away you need to look in other places.