Dude, that canary isn't starting to cough, it's being rushed to the emergency veterinarian on life support.

Having to move back into the old offices mere months after moving into a new custom job? That's gotta hurt.

Wow. I liked The Columbian and bought an issue whenever I found it. Such as it was. Now, having read the comments on the website, I learn that the editorial position endorsed Bushbutcher's regime. Stick a fork in it, they cooked their own goose.

Next time, guys, do democracy not fascism. You'll endure longer.

Anytime a business moves into fancy new digs, it is never about necessity, but about ego.

mp97303, add government to "business". Then compare it to Port of Portland moving to a new building out at the airport when their present digs aren't even ten years old. Or to CoP now considering how to tear down the Portland Building that's not even 25 years old. Or Metro wanting to add additional space to their Grand Ave. digs. Or Multnomah Co. building more offices out in Eastside. Or the new Multnomah Co. Courthouse at the west end of Hawthorne Bridge. Or the continuous planning to tear down the Memorial Coliseum; or the remodel of PGE Park by CoP that was finished just three years ago.Or Metro having added to the Convention Center when no improvement to financial picture occurs in the best economic times, then suggest a Hotel is the solution. Gosh, I can't stop writing.

Any ego involved in these cases?

This sounds like a corollary of Parkinson's Law. C. Northcote Parkinson postulated his Law of the Decline and Fall of Institutions : "a perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse." Is the tourist awestruck before St. Peter's in Rome? The Popes "lost half their authority while the work was still in progress." The reign of Louis XIV, the "Sun King," began to set shortly after he settled at Versailles.

I almost got a job at The Columbian after graduating from the UO a few decades ago. The bastards gave me a tryout and then didn't hire me, so it serves them right.

I almost got a job at The Columbian after graduating from the UO a few decades ago. The bastards gave me a tryout and then didn't hire me, so it serves them right.

Their business has been slowly failing since that fateful decision. If they had hired you, none of this would have ever happened. ;)

LW:Any ego involved in these cases?

Not so much. I believe it is more an attempt to convince the taxpayers that a particular agency is somehow "important." I mean, look at state capitol buildings.... why all the grandeur? Does that fancy building here in Salem really help them do their jobs any better......HELL NO!.