What part of "no" don't they understand?
Aaron Hockley on the Cesar Chavez Boulevard fiasco: "Let’s end this 'we’re trying to get community input' crap." Read the whole beautiful (and dead-on-accurate) rant here.
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Comments (8)
Tommy counted the votes from the effected neighborhoods and realized he didn't have to heed their input.
Posted by David E Gilmore | October 9, 2007 12:50 PM
Looks like you have them bracketed Jack; Fire for effect...
Posted by HMLA267 | October 9, 2007 1:41 PM
Cesar Chavez Blvd.
Hell No!
If Interstate Ave. has to change its name, then let it be Intercourse Ave. in honor of the thousands of fine Portland working girls that plied their trade over the years and kept those motels full.
Vote yes on INTERCOURSE!
Posted by Ron | October 9, 2007 2:51 PM
I live over in Piedmont neighborhood http://www.portlandneighborhood.com/piedmont.html and am directly in the line of fire re: the recent street change and the proposed Interstate renaming. My neighbors are up in arms and personally, I don’t really care all that much. I do wonder, however, about the impact to the business owners. Who covers their expenses?
Posted by JJ | October 9, 2007 3:38 PM
I think it would be kinda cool to have a Cesar Chavez Boulevard. I think that Fairmount Boulevard would be a much better choice.
Then, when are we going to get a Eugene Debs Boulevard? It would seem to me that it's long overdue.
Emma Goldman Street is missing, too. Hey...Broadway isn't named after anyone else. It's available.
And...Where the hell is Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko Street? That's even more overdue.
Posted by godfry | October 9, 2007 4:27 PM
The King, Parks and Chavez families can't afford to live in that part of Portland any more therefore its only right to give them street names so they can remember the old hoods.
Appeasement always helps heal the pain, doesn't it?
What, no call for SW Morrison-Chavez St?
Posted by Abe | October 9, 2007 7:38 PM
Sorry, Abe...Morrison is already named for a person. I personally don't know why Jim Morrison qualified, he was just a trite poet with a rock'n'roll band.
Posted by godfry | October 9, 2007 9:22 PM
I'm all in favor of naming streets after people to remember them. How else are our children going to know about the characters from "The Simpsons"?
Posted by Ned Flanders | October 9, 2007 10:21 PM