The tracts of land fanning out from the eastside of the Burnside Bridge are shaping up as Portland’s latest battleground. This month, Portland Development Commission (PDC) is opening the bidding process to redevelop the area known as Burnside Bridgehead. But local merchants are already skeptical that the Request For Proposals (RFP) is little more than […]
Scott Moore
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Radioactive Convoy
Council Fights To Keep Waste Off I-5
The Department of Energy is hoping to ship 3 million cubic feet of radioactive, nuclear waste along I-5 to the Hanford toxic waste facility, which is nestled snugly along the Columbia River in southern Washington. The chosen route would loop directly through Portland’s downtown. But last week, city council passed a resolution asking the DOE […]
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You Down with GOP?
Oregonians Who Give Money to Republicans
Like traveling salesmen ogling a farmer’s second-least hideous daughter, the two major presidential campaigns are making bedroom eyes in Oregon’s direction, hoping for at least a little electoral nookie if something more attractive (like, say, Ohio and its 20 electoral votes) doesn’t pan out. Luckily for both presidential hopefuls, Multnomah County has plenty of financial […]