That fact helps explain why their union continues to swim publicly against the current in its support of one of the lowest-polling institutions in the country, data centers.
In the run-up to the 2018 election, the PCEF campaign projected the initiative would raise at least $30 million a year for local climate projects. PCEF’s funding mechanism turned out to be much more lucrative—the program has raised about $200 million a year since tax collection began in 2019. The program’s Climate Investment Plan has allocated $1.6 billion in spending through 2029.
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Clean energy fund defenders say voters adopted PCEF for a specific purpose—to mitigate carbon emissions and help those most impacted by climate change. Yes, the program has raked in more money than expected, but program leaders say its budget is still just a drop in the bucket of what would truly be required to meet the city’s climate goals.
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The economic development agency says the studies are protected by attorney-client privilege.
Karmel is one of four people who were paid to post videos on social media under the hashtag “#warcpartner,” referring to We Are Rip City, a coalition of local businesses and organizations pushing for the city to commit public dollars to the estimated $600 million renovation.
Jumpstarting these projects will require public subsidies, “no question,” according to Portland City Councilor Mitch Green. Otherwise, he said, “you have a dead city.”
In the freshly built, ultra-sustainable PAE Living Building in Old Town, local brokerage Apex Real Estate Partners now offers a bonus of $15 per square foot to any broker who can land a long-term tenant. It’s a deal some in the industry call “unprecedented” and others call “insane.” (Tenant finder’s fees like this are far from standard and typically run $1 to $3 a square foot.)
And so far it hasn’t worked.
Sigh. The work will be going to the Carolinas, after 84 years of doing the work in Portland.
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OTOH, Daimler Truck said it will retain its North American headquarters on Swan Island, including a new $40 million engineering facility the company opened there this month.
It all depends on how you define "success", Citizens!
A whole new variant of the English language is used to write these grant applications.
The settlement was announced by the Anti-Defamation League and the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which jointly filed the complaint, under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
Focusing on the important things, as always...
The county will need “just above 8,000 seats” in population scenarios that assume low and baseline growth, Renfro said. That’s thousands fewer than its original assumptions that it would need to provide 11,200 seats by 2030 to give a seat to each 3- and 4-year-old who wanted one.
The DSA-types and their fellow travelers are clearly terrified of this initiative.
The last thing they want to have is having their cop-hating city council candidates share a ballot with a pro-police initiative.
Under that program, city residents would suggest ideas for how to spend 2% of the city budget, citizen delegates would shape those ideas into project proposals, and the concepts would receive a citywide vote. (The proposed amendment to the city charter does not specify how that vote would be conducted, except that it would not be subject to city or state election laws.)
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LOL. An election "[n]ot subject to city or state election laws"? Really.
Fortunately, we'll still have nonprofits to turbocharge Oregon's economy...
Expect the DSA-types to go completely berserk opposing this.
They were already planning to hire a bunch of their anti-cop friends to do police "oversight".
Joe Cortright: Oregon is in better shape than you think. Over the last 15 years, we’ve had the fifth-fastest growth in income per capita of any state. We’re one of the leading states for exporters. Our median family income is above the national average.
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It's weird that so few people are moving here, given how wonderfully the local economy is doing and all.
There's a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow in Oregon, Citizens, and all you need to get it is work for state or local government at a high level!
Bonus points if your job title is something like "equity director".