"I would rather see a progressive business alliance emerge in downtown Portland..."

It's a great idea, since I'm sure there are a lot of business owners in the Portland area who don't kowtow to the PBA. This is something worthwhile that you could pursue outside your journalistic duties.

That's outrageous! How dare they! We all know the REAL yellow journalist is Matt Davis.

PPBA (Portland Progressive Business Alliance)

the time has come

"Think advocacy for treatment instead of criminalization."

Well this is right on the money. The cost of criminalizing addiction (which is what the whole sit / lie kaboodle is really about) is about 100 times the cost of treatment.

My guess is a week at detox is about $1200, a week of inpatient at DePaul is $1000, a week of outpatient at NARA is $500, a week of inpatient at Adventist is $9000, a week of outpatient at Cascadia is $700.

The cost of a conviction for sit / lie? Count police time, jail time, lawyer time, court time, probation time, political time, and your cost per conviction is very high and there's no evidence of deterrence, no learning, no growth, no change.

I like it. Downtown business and condo owners could CHOOSE which group their forced special tax gets applied to. Each year they get to check off a box about who to give their portions of the millions to, either the PBA or what I suggest should be called U.P.Y.O.U.R.S.P.B.A

United
Portland
Yahoos
Organized to
Utililize
Revenue
'Sponsibly.
PBA
Back
Away
!

It was an ill-conceived arrangement to begin with. This was bound to happen if Street Roots was going to stay true to their word, which it looks like they did.

Good for Street Roots. Stay strong and don't give anything but the truth.

So they won't be influenced by a "third party" since it contradicts their admitted bias on the issue?
Do they even know what the phrase "yellow journalism" means?
Way to bite the hand that could have helped feed you, Street Roots.

"400 regular Portlanders have now joined a Facebook group"

I'll use the canard the pro-Sam folks use: Any way of knowing these people are actually from Portland?