Cha-ching! More Portland water bill money wasted
How about $50 an hour to one of Fireman Randy's pals to write the history of the water bureau? Then they'll hire some kid to Tweet it, 144 characters at a time for the next three years.
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Comments (13)
Twicks or Tweets? Maybe twicks and tweets!
Posted by Lawrence | March 31, 2011 4:06 PM
http://twitter.com/#!/BronxZoosCobra
Better tweets, and without a staff to do them.
Posted by Max | March 31, 2011 4:30 PM
As a lifelong bueaurocrat Comrade Casey wrote the book all right, but has left out important pieces of the puzzle and interviews. No doubt sanitized to Leonard's and Shaff's specifications.
Posted by Jimmy McMillan | March 31, 2011 4:44 PM
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No further comment needed.
Besides, don't voters ever get tired of being ripped off by pols in this town?
Posted by Steve | March 31, 2011 4:51 PM
That project's going to take a loooooooong time.
Posted by Allan L. | March 31, 2011 5:30 PM
I'll do it for cheap: "Crap and water goes downhill".
Posted by lw | March 31, 2011 5:57 PM
Besides, don't voters ever get tired of being ripped off by pols in this town?
That is probably one of the few things around Portland that is sustainable.
Posted by Lc Scott | April 1, 2011 7:52 AM
Is there going to be a chapter on all of the water bureau staff that have joined private contractors and then subsequently gotten multi-million dollar contracts?
Or what about the chapter that describes how a region that has so much fresh water will soon have the most expensive water rates in the USA?
Posted by ralph woods | April 1, 2011 10:54 AM
Or how about a chapter on how hundreds of EPA scientists complained that they were politically interfered with but that Mr. Leonard insisted we had to comply to the "politics" of LT2 that was not based on science.
Article on EPA scientists complain about political pressure:
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/04/epa_scientists_complain_about.php
Will the book tell us that our area will now be drinking toxic water based on politics and corporation's decisions and lobbying for that LT2 rule?
Money trumps the health of a community?
Our bully laid down like a lamb on this for the corporations and of course all this will be smoothed over in that book.
Well, there are other writers in this community who know the truth here, there may be several other books coming out on this.
Think again, Randy if you think you can keep this quiet. No matter what you want said about you in "your book", you will go down in history books as the sellout of our good water.
Stop your excuses, you won't ask for the Waiver because you don't want it.
Posted by clinamen | April 1, 2011 12:26 PM
That residents of Portland should pay high water rates when we have a great source of clean, safe water from the Bull Run and are situated at the confluence of two major rivers is ridiculous, even given the price of "Big Pipe" project which is at least related to the bureau's mission statement.
Here is a chart comparing water use and bills and although it doesn't include Portland, it's still possible to draw comparisons by looking at your own bill and then at the figures here.
Its figures only go through 2009; wish it were a little more recent.
Posted by NW Portlander | April 1, 2011 3:51 PM
Money trumps the health of a community?
Saltzman should ask for that Waiver,
he has worked on children's issues for years.
Posted by watching for our children | April 1, 2011 11:12 PM
It is a cynical ploy by Leonard so that he looks good, at least in the PWB Official History Book.
Posted by Starbuck | April 2, 2011 2:07 PM
Doubt that Saltzman will ask for that Waiver, unless he surprises us.
Seems asking for a Waiver has been a taboo with this Council.
Who are they working for anyway?
Posted by clinamen | April 2, 2011 9:55 PM