Lange, Pinot Gris 2015
Kiona, Lemberger 2014
Willamette Valley, Pinot Gris 2015
Aix, Rosé de Provence 2016
Marchigüe, Cabernet 2013
Inazío Irruzola, Getariako Txakolina Rosé 2015
Maso Canali, Pinot Grigio 2015
Campo Viejo, Rioja Reserva 2011
Kirkland, Côtes de Provence Rosé 2016
Cantele, Salice Salentino Reserva 2013
Whispering Angel, Côtes de Provence Rosé 2013
Avissi, Prosecco
Cleto Charli, Lambrusco di Sorbara Secco, Vecchia Modena
Pique Poul, Rosé 2016
Edmunds St. John, Bone-Jolly Rosé 2016
Stoller, Pinot Noir Rosé 2016
Chehalem, Inox Chardonnay 2015
The Four Graces, Pinot Gris 2015
Gascón, Colosal Red 2013
Cardwell Hill, Pinot Gris 2015
L'Ecole No. 41, Merlot 2013
Della Terra, Anonymus
Willamette Valley, Dijon Clone Chardonnay 2013
Wraith, Cabernet, Eidolon Estate 2012
Januik, Red 2015
Tomassi, Valpolicella, Rafaél, 2014
Sharecropper's Pinot Noir 2013
Helix, Pomatia Red Blend 2013
La Espera, Cabernet 2011
Campo Viejo, Rioja Reserva 2011
Villa Antinori, Toscana 2013
Locations, Spanish Red Wine
Locations, Argentinian Red Wine
La Antigua Clásico, Rioja 2011
Shatter, Grenache, Maury 2012
Argyle, Vintage Brut 2011
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #16
Abacela, Fiesta Tempranillo 2014
Benton Hill, Pinot Gris 2015
Primarius, Pinot Gris 2015
Januik, Merlot 2013
Napa Cellars, Cabernet 2013
J. Bookwalter, Protagonist 2012
LAN, Rioja Edicion Limitada 2011
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Rutherford 2009
Denada Cellars, Cabernet, Maipo Valley 2014
Marchigüe, Cabernet, Colchagua Valley 2013
Oberon, Cabernet 2014
Hedges, Red Mountain 2012
Balboa, Rose of Grenache 2015
Ontañón, Rioja Reserva 2015
Three Horse Ranch, Pinot Gris 2014
Archery Summit, Vireton Pinot Gris 2014
Nelms Road, Merlot 2013
Chateau Ste. Michelle, Pinot Gris 2014
Conn Creek, Cabernet, Napa 2012
Conn Creek, Cabernet, Napa 2013
Villa Maria, Sauvignon Blanc 2015
G3, Cabernet 2013
Chateau Smith, Cabernet, Washington State 2014
Abacela, Vintner's Blend #16
Willamette Valley, Rose of Pinot Noir, Whole Clusters 2015
Albero, Bobal Rose 2015
Ca' del Baio Barbaresco Valgrande 2012
Goodfellow, Reserve Pinot Gris, Clover 2014
Lugana, San Benedetto 2014
Wente, Cabernet, Charles Wetmore 2011
La Espera, Cabernet 2011
King Estate, Pinot Gris 2015
Adelsheim, Pinot Gris 2015
Trader Joe's, Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley 2015
La Vite Lucente, Toscana Red 2013
St. Francis, Cabernet, Sonoma 2013
Kendall-Jackson, Pinot Noir, California 2013
Beaulieu, Cabernet, Napa Valley 2013
Erath, Pinot Noir, Estate Selection 2012
Abbot's Table, Columbia Valley 2014
Intrinsic, Cabernet 2014
Oyster Bay, Pinot Noir 2010
Occhipinti, SP68 Bianco 2014
Layer Cake, Shiraz 2013
Desert Wind, Ruah 2011
WillaKenzie, Pinot Gris 2014
Abacela, Fiesta Tempranillo 2013
Des Amis, Rose 2014
Dunham, Trautina 2012
RoxyAnn, Claret 2012
Del Ri, Claret 2012
Stoppa, Emilia, Red 2004
Primarius, Pinot Noir 2013
Domaines Bunan, Bandol Rose 2015
Albero, Bobal Rose 2015
Deer Creek, Pinot Gris 2015
Beaulieu, Rutherford Cabernet 2013
Archery Summit, Vireton Pinot Gris 2014
King Estate, Pinot Gris, Backbone 2014
Oberon, Napa Cabernet 2013
Apaltagua, Envero Carmenere Gran Reserva 2013
Chateau des Arnauds, Cuvee des Capucins 2012
Nine Hats, Red 2013
Benziger, Cabernet, Sonoma 2012
Roxy Ann, Claret 2012
Januik, Merlot 2012
Conundrum, White 2013
St. Francis, Sonoma Cabernet 2012
Marc Maron - Waiting for the Punch
Phil Stanford - Rose City Vice
Kenneth R. Feinberg - What is Life Worth?
Kent Haruf - Our Souls at Night
Peter Carey - True History of the Kelly Gang
Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Amy Stewart - Girl Waits With Gun
Philip Roth - The Plot Against America
Norm Macdonald - Based on a True Story
Christopher Buckley - Boomsday
Ryan Holiday - The Obstacle is the Way
Ruth Sepetys - Between Shades of Gray
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Claire Vaye Watkins - Gold Fame Citrus
Markus Zusak - I am the Messenger
Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See
James Joyce - Dubliners
Cheryl Strayed - Torch
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Saul Bellow - Mister Sammler's Planet
Phil Stanford - White House Call Girl
John Kaplan & Jon R. Waltz - The Trial of Jack Ruby
Kent Haruf - Eventide
David Halberstam - Summer of '49
Norman Mailer - The Naked and the Dead
Maria Dermoȗt - The Ten Thousand Things
William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying
Markus Zusak - The Book Thief
Christopher Buckley - Thank You for Smoking
William Shakespeare - Othello
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything
Cheryl Strayed - Tiny Beautiful Things
Sara Varon - Bake Sale
Stephen King - 11/22/63
Paul Goldstein - Errors and Omissions
Mark Twain - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Steve Martin - Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Beverly Cleary - A Girl from Yamhill, a Memoir
Kent Haruf - Plainsong
Hope Larson - A Wrinkle in Time, the Graphic Novel
Rudyard Kipling - Kim
Peter Ames Carlin - Bruce
Fran Cannon Slayton - When the Whistle Blows
Neil Young - Waging Heavy Peace
Mark Bego - Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul (2012 ed.)
Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened
J.D. Salinger - Franny and Zooey
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Timothy Egan - The Big Burn
Deborah Eisenberg - Transactions in a Foreign Currency
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse Five
Kathryn Lance - Pandora's Genes
Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
Jack London - The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii
Jack Walker - The Extraordinary Rendition of Vincent Dellamaria
Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin
Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince
Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird
Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - The Nanny Diaries
Brian Selznick - The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons
Keith Richards - Life
F. Sionil Jose - Dusk
Natalie Babbitt - Tuck Everlasting
Justin Halpern - S#*t My Dad Says
Mark Herrmann - The Curmudgeon's Guide to Practicing Law
Barry Glassner - The Gospel of Food
Phil Stanford - The Peyton-Allan Files
Jesse Katz - The Opposite Field
Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
David Sedaris - Holidays on Ice
Donald Miller - A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
Mitch Albom - Have a Little Faith
C.S. Lewis - The Magician's Nephew
F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
William Shakespeare - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Ivan Doig - Bucking the Sun
Penda Diakité - I Lost My Tooth in Africa
Grace Lin - The Year of the Rat
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives' Christmas
Madeline L'Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
Steven Hart - The Last Three Miles
David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day
Karen Armstrong - The Spiral Staircase
Charles Larson - The Portland Murders
Adrian Wojnarowski - The Miracle of St. Anthony
William H. Colby - Long Goodbye
Steven D. Stark - Meet the Beatles
Phil Stanford - Portland Confidential
Rick Moody - Garden State
Jonathan Schwartz - All in Good Time
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Anthony Holden - Big Deal
Robert J. Spitzer - The Spirit of Leadership
James McManus - Positively Fifth Street
Jeff Noon - Vurt
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Comments (24)
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought there was a state imposed limit of 25%?
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | October 21, 2011 10:05 AM
Unconscionable.
Posted by Snards | October 21, 2011 10:26 AM
The limit is 15% of all assessed value and 15% of total acreage.
Smaller cities get to use 25%. Many of which have or are in the process of maxing out on municipal improvements that generate no new taxes.
Leaving them incappable of "investing" in any UR job creation plans.
Posted by Ben | October 21, 2011 12:41 PM
25 cents to Police/Fire Pensions + 25 cents to UR debt payments leaves only 50 cents for services. A big piece of that is spent on administration and other debt service, leaving perhaps 35 cents or so really going to police, fire, parks - the stuff people really care about.
Posted by Frank | October 21, 2011 12:47 PM
Alright, we're spending more on urban renewal than we are on police pensions - That's good, right?
Posted by Steve | October 21, 2011 1:14 PM
I this before or after the, almost, $100 million collected taxes that is diverted to UR districts through TIF?
Thanks
JK
Posted by jim karlock | October 21, 2011 1:25 PM
I've done some of this math over the years on my own tax bill. Would love to see the final column -- share of the tax bill for each jurisdiction -- over time.
And Jim, the city calculates the TIF rate on a city-wide basis, even for property, such as Jack's, not in an urban renewal area. So that rate accounts for the $110 million they will collect this year.
Posted by Sarah Carlin Ames | October 21, 2011 1:45 PM
How do you expect Homer and Hoffmann to turn a profit in a tough economy without URA dollars?
Posted by Mister Tee | October 21, 2011 1:47 PM
"So that rate accounts for the $110 million they will collect this year."
And there is not a single public school district or board opposing this outrage.
Instead they tell the public UR doesn't hurt their schools much becasue "the state backfills the loss".
However techniccly accurate, it's another pants on fire lie by public school administrators.
As they know full well when they tell this whopper their loss to UR debt is severe but state law allows districts to lie by spreading the impact by inflicting loss upon every other public school in the state.
Sarah,
What good would it do to know more?
The 2010 PDC 5 year projected impact on PPS was completely ignored by district officials trying to mass their massive levy.
Even now everything they they do is conniving manipulation to posture and play politics. The last thing they will ever do is tell the truth, come clean and faciliate genuine reform.
That would be too troublesome for their political cronnies in city hall and elsewhere.
Posted by Ben | October 21, 2011 1:56 PM
So, if Portland has already exceeded the state maximum, what exactly are the consequences supposed to be? What's supposed to happen next? Or is this like when certain people with the right connections philander in bathrooms with teens?
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | October 21, 2011 2:13 PM
The 26% of taxes collected is not the same as 26% of all assessed value.
The limit is not a percentage of taxes collected.
So unless I have missed it and someone has checked recently they are probably still under the limit.
But still, it is a monster nearly every elected official in sight knowingly neglected for either conflicted, ignorant or fearful of being cast as a trouble causer.
Can't have anyone rock the boat.
Beside that would take some authentic leader with integrity.
Now that's funny.
Posted by Ben | October 21, 2011 2:30 PM
...As they know full well when they tell this whopper their loss to UR debt is severe but state law allows districts to lie by spreading the impact by inflicting loss upon every other public school in the state...
Ben,
I have ofter wondered about this, if pdx URA's hurts every other public school in the state, where is the outrage about this?
I would think all around the state, there would be big noise about this...am I missing something?
Unfortunately, it looks like officials here simply don't really care about the children, do they?
Posted by clinamen | October 21, 2011 2:36 PM
Can we get Urban Renewal to be renamed to something more meaningful?
Maybe something like:
Developers and Elites Backdoor Tax (DEBT)
Posted by Ralph Woods | October 21, 2011 2:41 PM
"I would think all around the state, there would be big noise about this...am I missing something?"
Yes and why is it such a mystery?
The vast majority of the UR misuse and abuse is by people who are conflicted by political alliances.
PPS and their supporters are not going to do anything to tarnish Adams et al and Metro, TriMet etc. or their agenda they also endorse.
The whole school board is a gullible green mindlessly supporting all things sustainable. Even if it means perpetual fiscal crisis and cronic mediocrity.
It's all a despicable political cesspool.
Posted by Ben | October 21, 2011 3:49 PM
I might be wrong, but I think the urban renewal tax is related to the older URAs (South Park Blocks, Downtown Waterfront, Central Eastside, and Convention Center). It seems like this should be going down instead of up since South Park Blocks and Downtown Waterfront expired in 2008. Or, maybe it continues until the bonds are 100% paid. I'm curious when that is expected.
I don't think the tax has anything to do with the more recent ones (i.e. River District, South Waterfront, Lents, Interstate, etc.).
Posted by PDXPessimist | October 21, 2011 3:58 PM
Sounds like several good reasons to move out of Portland ASAP before it even gets worse. By the way, here in Nevada the property taxes have been going DOWN for the past three years. Plus if you're a veteran, you get an extra discount on either your property taxes or your vehicle registration fees. (But not both!)
Reno and Washoe County are basically working on a 2002 budget, have cut at least 200 public employees and told both the police and fire unions to either accept lower pay or they start cutting positions. Both unions caved in, by the way. And the Fireboys are now riding three man trucks instead of four man trucks.
Posted by Dave A. | October 21, 2011 4:27 PM
How much for the new boats?
Posted by Cows | October 21, 2011 4:44 PM
Jack can you point us to some resources in Portland where a person could learn how to contest our taxes and get walked through the cities process? I know it is a loosing battle but worth the effort.
Posted by Mel | October 21, 2011 6:50 PM
Here's a resource to appeal property taxes, if you want to hire someone: First Class Property Tax Appeals-www.1st-Properties.com or 503 345 7441.
Very knowledgeable and experienced. Has resources for all of OR and most of WA.
Posted by Jerry | October 21, 2011 7:21 PM
The sheeple pay and pay and pay because they do not understand TIF.
Of course the status quo must be maintained so the media never discuss this issue and this is one of the few public forums where TIF and the Urban Renewal rip off and robbery is discussed.
Unfortunately this is like preaching to the choir.
It is too bad that a real tax revolt could not be organized.
Posted by Portland Native | October 21, 2011 9:13 PM
One of the little discussed features of urban renewal is that the TIF credit line increases with each new tax increased that is passed.
Even worse, the properties inside a UR district with fr ozen values aren't taxed for new bond levies even though voters in the district got to vote on those new levies.
Posted by Panchopdx | October 21, 2011 11:13 PM
clinamen: Last I checked, the state school fund forgoes $120 million every two year budget due to the impact of TIF statewide.
PDXpessimist: The TIF impact of URAs, old and new, is calculated as a citywide rate, which is then used for the compression calculations. You are right that the when URAs expire, they can no longer issue debt, but must continue to collect TIF for a while (often 20 years) to pay off that debt.
Panchopdx: Properties inside urban renewal areas pay the same tax rates as the rest of us. And when the tax rate goes up, that does yield additional TIF revenue for UR.
Posted by Sarah Carlin Ames | October 22, 2011 9:24 AM
Sarah,
Properties within a UR district with a frozen value do not contribute to new tax levies on an equal basis with non-UR properties. In some of the older ur districts, there are properties that pay less than 40 cents on the dollar toward tax levies that are fully paid by everyone outside the district.
My point is that these same property owners get to pass new taxes that they don't fully pay. In a fair world they would have a weighted vote that didnt exceed their frozen value ratio. If you only pay half the tax rate for your district, maybe you should only have half a vote.
Posted by Panchopdx | October 22, 2011 6:01 PM
Panchopdx, property values are not frozen in URAs. The frozen base has to do with the distribution of the taxes collected, not the amount that is collected from individual property owners. Sarah is right, properties in URAs pay at the same rate as people outside the URAs.
Posted by PDXPessimist | October 25, 2011 11:08 AM