Puh-leeze, SoloPower was a fiction from the get-go. They lease an empty space, take the grant money and then once the noise blows over will leave town with a lot of bonuses for upper management.

It'd be worth it to see what ReVolt has done with that $5M grant Wyden, Merkley and Wu gave them a year ago. Betcha they have an empty lease space also.

Maybe if our overlords would realize most business types are smarter than them and just stick to building a good school system, we'd move a lot further.

So how many people will they employ in getting ready for and holding an auction?

The worst part is that there's a market, definitely down in the Southwest, for final product. All summer long, I would have done anything for affordable solar panels for most of my roof. The test, though, is the word "affordable", and SoloPower's panels probably wouldn't have been affordable even if they'd gotten their acts together. In this case, I suspect the correct term to describe its current situation is "running down the clock." The employees will be laid off, the execs will hand each other big retention bonuses for sticking around, and Portland will take the financial hit.

When will the elected twits realize that the best way to attract business is to get rid of red tape and restrict government actions to those actually needed: police, fire, courts, roads (not bikes!) and lower taxes with the savings.

We hire these electeds to run the services, not to tell us how, or where to live or to rebuild the city in the shape of the latest popular delusion (young creatives, smart growth, peak oil, climate disruption, ad infinum).

Provide a safe, low cost environment and they will come!

Thanks
JK

All summer long, I would have done anything for affordable solar panels for most of my roof

Heck, just build a little scaffold and install sheets of plywood. That'll deflect the sun, saving you energy costs - and for far less than solar panels.

JK: When will the elected twits realize that the best way to attract business is to get rid of red tape and restrict government actions to those actually needed: police, fire, courts, roads (not bikes!) and lower taxes with the savings.

TOJ: Never. Because to do so would force them to admit their incompetence and perversion of democratic intstitutions for partisan political purposes; expose their deceit and corruption; and shut off the gushing faucet of public money pouring into the pockets of themselves and their supporters.

Perhaps an oversimplification, but that's the basics, as I see it. Where am I going wrong here?

Other Jimbo: Where am I going wrong here?
JK: Can't think of anything.
Well, maybe you're too easy on them.

Thanks
JK