Public funds for sports teams = bad deal, every time.

pretty obvious they decided to put it in a neighborhood where people are less likely to go to the barrage of neighborhood meetings etc. there will be to get this through... so it will be railroaded down their throats... the neighborhood will continue to be "depressed" if not become moreso, while merit paulson probably has some safety net in the form of tax payer payout to him should the whole thing go south. exploitation of the under classes. what a shock.

What part of the neighborhood is "downtrodden", exactly? Is that a reference to the lack of organic coffee bars? The affordability of the housing? The presence of Mexicans?

I think this project is going way to fast. I disagree with the reallocation of urban renewal of funds in each neighborhood. Would this concentrate affordable housing in select areas, would this concentrate affordable housing in select areas of the city, further stigmatizing "living in projects?" What does the community want? It doesn't look like there are a lot of community members going up to bat for this stadium.

I have a dream, a dream that some day grown men will run around in uniforms chasing a small, curiously hard, tightly wound and stitched ball as it caroms around a diamond-shaped field of play, all in a part of town that some people claim to have seen. I have another dream, where a wealthy white guy exploits the well known tactic of "make public the costs, make private the profits" so that other grown men can kick a ball across a verdant field, so that said ball may be caught like a salmon in a vast net, only to be released again.

Dare to dream, Portlandia! You blazing star, you glittering bauble, you fever dream of spring!

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