State's budget hole gets even deeper
We're up to a billion now. That $250 million in lottery money for the Milwaukie MAX line sure looks tempting, doesn't it?
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Comments (9)
C'mon, if we close a few more schools and shorten the school-year and throw some more grannies in the snow then we can afford the Milwaukie MAX!!!
It's all about priorities.
Posted by Steve | August 17, 2010 6:18 PM
The natives are supposedly going to demonstrate this Wednesday at cityhall against TriMet for its proposed five cent fare increase for buses and also cuts in bus service. The natives don't seem to see the connection between the maintenance budget drain of these lightrail boondoggles and the cuts in bus service. They also don't seem to understand the huge on going cost of TriMet employee healthcare and retirement plans.
Oregonians can't even get their civil disobedience right.
Posted by Bob Clark | August 17, 2010 6:27 PM
Gosh, Bob!
Why can't I find anything in the "O" about this demonstration that actually involves Portland citizens expressing their views beyond being able to wave "happy hands" at City Hall sessions?
To their credit, though, there is this:
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/08/the_city_of_portland_and_sam_a.html
Too bad the weather's cooling down. Another week of high 90's and maybe more blood would boil.
Posted by PDXLifer | August 17, 2010 6:48 PM
Oh, and by the way...
Here's what video coordinators in the private sector expect to earn:
http://www.simplyhired.com/a/salary/search/q-video+coordinator
Complete waste.
Posted by PDXLifer | August 17, 2010 6:52 PM
Here it comes...
"We'll have to open the prisons and close the freeways if you don't surrender and give us that sales tax..."
Posted by JC | August 17, 2010 7:07 PM
Isn't this why we just voted additional taxes onto ourselves? Wasn't that supposed to make everything good, and make rainbows appear, and puppies fall gently from the sky?
Oh wait, raising taxes in a down economy is the dumbest possible thing you can do? If only someone could have predicted this...
Posted by MachineShedFred | August 18, 2010 5:17 AM
MSF..and schools would ALL be fully funded forever. But wait..Grant High and other music teachers laid off this week. Stupid, stupid, people running the show.
Posted by Old Shep | August 18, 2010 9:07 AM
But Jack, how can Milwaukie become a world class city if we don't squander that $250 million on a budget-busting light rail line?
Posted by Steve Buckstein | August 18, 2010 9:11 AM
With apologies to the Beatles....
I read the news today oh boy
Two hundred fifty thousand holes
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Capitol.
Posted by LucsAdvo | August 18, 2010 2:18 PM