Down by the river
My spies tell me that the SoWhat developers have a big press conference called for the morning, down on their "campus," to announce something momentous. One informant speculates that they may be cancelling the OHSU aerial tram [rim shot].
I highly doubt that. More likely, they're suing the city over the tram. Or some such. I was looking to see whether the event was on Commissioner Sam "the Tram" Adams's calendar -- if he's going to be there, it will be to announce joyously that the tram has been saved, and a real bargain now, thanks to him. But as usual, his web site's only showing his calendar from two weeks ago.
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Comments (11)
The week of Jan. 28 is up, but the Feb. 4 link is dead.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 15, 2006 10:50 PM
Oh, and don't miss the latest tram scapegoat: Hurricane Katrina! [ba-da-boom]
Now that's a good one. Next week: Al Qaeda.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 16, 2006 12:00 AM
One clue: The City Council "work session" on the tram, scheduled for Friday, has been cancelled.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 16, 2006 2:08 AM
Jack: One clue: The City Council "work session" on the tram, scheduled for Friday, has been cancelled.
JK: OK, now you got my attention. Do you know when and where this press conference is to be?
Thanks
JK
Posted by jim karlock | February 16, 2006 3:43 AM
All I heard was 10 a.m. today, somewhere down in SoWhat, and mucho media are going to be there.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 16, 2006 3:44 AM
This appears to have been misinformation. Not nefarious, just wrong. I actually went down there and couldn't find anything. I also called several radio stations and no one had heard a thing, though they were very curious as to whether it was legit...
Perhaps the spies aren't as well placed as you'd hoped? Or did I miss the meeting? I'm DYING to know....
Posted by Don Smith | February 16, 2006 12:00 PM
I think my informant must have had it wrong. So far I've heard nothing. He also said the Humane Society was going to announce an expansion project this morning. Plus there's the whole school money summit thing now that Grampy's back from Taiwan. Maybe the media's just too busy.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 16, 2006 12:14 PM
I was just going to say that I doubt there's much going on on the tram front given the school funding summit this am (had hoped to be there myself; work intervened...)
Posted by Betsy | February 16, 2006 12:30 PM
I heard that the city would purchase PGE, and instead of decrease rates, would increase them. The extra money would be used for schools and to close that "Farkle" gap in Erik Sten's smile.
Posted by Jenny | February 16, 2006 3:00 PM
He also said the Humane Society was going to announce an expansion project this morning.
He was right about that.
Posted by Jack Bog | February 16, 2006 5:08 PM
OPB ran a story on the press thingie in SoWhat. It was a media tour of the entire development. They played some audio from Homer himself. Among other things, he declared there will be 250 families (his word...families) in SoWhat by the end of the year. He also declared that "God willing" (again his words) there will be a tram by the end of the year as well. To that end, there will be a planning session next Friday to figure out how to go forward with it, followed by public comment. Sounds like Sam and Homer are still planning on getting the thing built.
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Posted by Chris Snethen | February 16, 2006 5:20 PM