This is remarkable. Does any of it correspond in any way with reality?
Then there's this feel-good story: Downtown added 550 jobs last year. But read on: Government downtown added 950 jobs. By our math, the private sector lost 400. And:
Factors that need improvement, according to the survey, include panhandlers, cited by 59 percent of respondents, followed by transients at 52 percent, the cost of parking at 37 percent, taxes at 24 percent and the availability of parking at 23 percent.
Go by streetcar!
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To continue the analogy, is it just me, or did Sam decide not to run again after he heard someone in the CoP restroom bringing up "fragging"?
uhm.....maybe there is another Portland, and outsiders just can't see it; kind of a Bizarro World PDX. A place where everyone is employed and happy, where there are plenty of jobs, no crime, no panhandlers, no Occupoopers, plenty of parking, and the bicyclists are always courteous. I'm want to visit that world someday.
Meh. Small area employment numbers are notoriously difficult to pin down. Both the total change and the public / private employment shifts in the employment numbers are so small as to be meaningless. I would bet that PBA's shift in data collection methodology also contributed to the sectoral shift numbers.
I just hope that institutions like PSU and developers like Edlen and Homer are just stringing Adams along to get what they can get. After he leaves and has no more power or influence they drop him. He really is radioactive and wouldn’t be and asset for anyone in this region. Everyone knows he is going to implode soon.
At the upper right on Sam's web site, there's a Google translator function. I selected English, my native tongue, but even after "translation" I couldn't understand what they were talking about . . .
I can't wait until the Sam and Randy twins do a photo shoot standing on a fire boat in the ever so clean Willamette with a huge sign behind them, "Mission Accomplished"
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Comments (14)
To continue the analogy, is it just me, or did Sam decide not to run again after he heard someone in the CoP restroom bringing up "fragging"?
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | November 16, 2012 11:55 AM
uhm.....maybe there is another Portland, and outsiders just can't see it; kind of a Bizarro World PDX. A place where everyone is employed and happy, where there are plenty of jobs, no crime, no panhandlers, no Occupoopers, plenty of parking, and the bicyclists are always courteous. I'm want to visit that world someday.
Posted by gibby | November 16, 2012 12:02 PM
SOMEONE recently said, "I'm not worried about the private sector. The private sector is doing fine."
Posted by ltjd | November 16, 2012 12:22 PM
Meh. Small area employment numbers are notoriously difficult to pin down. Both the total change and the public / private employment shifts in the employment numbers are so small as to be meaningless. I would bet that PBA's shift in data collection methodology also contributed to the sectoral shift numbers.
Posted by k2 | November 16, 2012 12:24 PM
"The Pioneer District?" Ya, that'll help.
Posted by dg | November 16, 2012 12:25 PM
He needs stuff to point to in his résumé.
Posted by Mr. Grumpy | November 16, 2012 1:17 PM
45 days
Posted by Snards | November 16, 2012 1:32 PM
I just hope that institutions like PSU and developers like Edlen and Homer are just stringing Adams along to get what they can get. After he leaves and has no more power or influence they drop him. He really is radioactive and wouldn’t be and asset for anyone in this region. Everyone knows he is going to implode soon.
Posted by John Benton | November 16, 2012 2:34 PM
I want some of the drugs those folks are taking.....sure would help my mental health and aches and pains!
Just happy happy all the time! Must be nice.
Posted by Portland Native | November 16, 2012 2:39 PM
When I was in the military they told me that Vietnam was a victory. Straight faced.
Posted by JO | November 16, 2012 5:02 PM
Pioneer District?
Posted by Anthony | November 16, 2012 9:32 PM
At the upper right on Sam's web site, there's a Google translator function. I selected English, my native tongue, but even after "translation" I couldn't understand what they were talking about . . .
Posted by Ritz | November 17, 2012 7:16 AM
I can't wait until the Sam and Randy twins do a photo shoot standing on a fire boat in the ever so clean Willamette with a huge sign behind them, "Mission Accomplished"
Posted by phil | November 17, 2012 7:19 AM
The downfall is coming, and the remaining suckers won't be able to escape from the roof of City Hall on the last Metrofiets.
Posted by Downtown Denizen | November 17, 2012 2:47 PM