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Re: “Fish And Adams Put The Nail In Sit/Lie's Coffin, Effectively Telling Business Alliance: Suck It Up”
Nice reporting, Davis. You've dogged this story since before it was a story and your good work is paying off.
Have to say, I said it here before that I knew Fish would come out and give PBA the finger regarding Sit n' Lie. Fish suffers no fools and he isn't afraid of weenie, but entirely too bloated, business associations. Adams, grew a spine? Amazing!
Re: “Brewhaha on Oregon Jobs: Well, that was Depressing.”
Wow, I couldn't go but it sounds like I missed...what did I miss exactly? NOTHING.
SAME OLD SAME OLD
Re: “The Most "Pearl District" Event Ever.”
If you like Corgis you need to read The Corgiville Fair!
http://www.amazon.com/Corgiville-Fair-Tash…
Re: “BDS Staff Ask City To Save Their Jobs”
"A lot of this could have been avoided if they had been more proactive last year," said the staffer.
Yep, that pretty much sums up leadership in the City as a whole.
So, dear BDS staffers, I hate to break it to you but neither Leonard nor the Mayor gives a rip about you. You've outlived your usefulness to them. You are no longer cash cows in the City's shrinking permitting and development process, and you aren't sexy or "creative class" or "world class" or "sustainable/green/organic/Euro" enough. Portland has, above all an image to maintain and your bureau is too "older workers", too working class, too nuts and bolts, too practical to fit into the Shiny Vision of shared bikes and Sunday Parkways and other fluff. And since PDC no longer really seems to do any actual DEVELOPMENT and instead works on....err...what exactly (hazy economic development strategies? and convoluted Super Urban Renewal Areas?), don't go looking for any city driven developments to permit anytime soon.
Just be thankful many of you are Tier 1 PERS and have guaranteed pensions. I would also suggest some job retraining. I hear that if you get a two-bit liberal arts degree and work for an alternative newspaper for a couple of years you have a pretty good shot at becoming a Planning and Sustainability Policy Adviser in the Mayors office. Or, there's always private security shooing away the homeless from downtown courtesy of the coffers at the Portland Business Alliance.
Re: “"Typical trashy Portland hipster/slacker house."”
NE 14th Place cul-de-sac at the intersection of NE Killingsworth. A billion custom junker bikes in the yard. Porch parties galore, complete with molding sofa on porch and a dirt patch yard. They also like to drink lots of PBR and leave the cans around the street when they are finished playing bike-polo. The inhabitants of the house have even installed a big field light to, you know, annoy the fuck out of the rest of the neighborhood when they have their night bike polo games. They were also the household that showed up to a neighborhood land use committee to suggest the City turn the end of the cul-de-sac into a "City Repair Project Tea Garden". My old timer African American neighbors, who suffer no fools, simply laughed their asses off at that one.
Re: “Friday Afternoon Controversial Idea: Put CRC Tolls Into Healthcare Fund”
I have a better idea. Why don't we just have a better fucking tax structure to begin with so people don't need to come up with these chewing gum and tape hodge-podge solutions to pay for government services like infastructure and healthcare? This is the most asinine proposal I've read about the CRC yet.
Re: “Oregonian Parent Company Rescinds "No Layoffs"”
Get rid of management. They are expensive and generally just get in the way of putting out quality content in an efficient manner.
Also, I'm sorry but please, please, please offer expensive, "been there too long" stale culture editors (yeah, you know I'm talking A&E) a very nice early retirement. Portland has changed drastically in arts and entertainment (and food, especially) culture. The A&E is like a dead weight bookend and out of touch. Look at how great food day and Mix have become, and how Mix has blossomed into a 10 month a year advertising generating source since you hired a new editor. Imagine what A&E could become in better hands...
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