That ain't hay
My cost-conscious take on the Mount Tabor reservoir controversy, posted here the other day, turned out to be timely. The city has just announced that water bills in Portland are about to go up by between 8 and 12 percent. And this doesn't reflect the projected costs of fixing the reservoir security problems; it's merely to fix the mess that was made in the Water Bureau's hideously ill-fated computer system fiasco.