Fast on the heels of the news that the West Burnside streetcar is dead, Portland City Hall announces that the River Plan, championed by the mayor, is also on hold for a couple of years. It seems as if His Honor doesn't want to run for re-election on his record, and so he's putting some of his worst ideas on the shelf until after that. If we are lucky, it will be somebody else's shelf by the end of next year, if not before.

Meanwhile, the PDC has a $13 million dud on its hands. The new car-hater CEO over there is off to a great start.