Portland on Sirius Stuff

Seattleite patronizing Portland again

Sun, 28 Jan 2007 01:01:01 -0700

I enjoy reading 360digest when I get a chance. Not only is my brother-in-law Dave a newly-minted real estate agent but the house next door was up for sale for a while recently. Real estate is one of those things that we all have to deal with, because we all need a place to live.

Anyway, I was amused to read that on the blog this quote:

In Portland, Ore., $300,000 means a clean and simple floating home on the Pacific ocean

Rose Festival Time ... and people are being jerks.

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 06:06:06 -0700

As a native Portlander, there’s a little bit of a thrill every time the Rose Festival starts. Every June, it’s a celebration of living in Portland.

There are 3 parades but the Grand Floral Parade is the big one. It’s a Portland tradition that people tape out space on the sidewalk to sit or stand and watch the parade go by. And people basically respect those pieces of tape.

What seems a little ridiculous, though, is companies like Azumano Travel taping out the sidewalk in front of their offices, the restaurants next door and then taking half a block across the street. You might think that people would think that was excessive and ignore it … which is why Azumano has a security guard patrolling “their turf”.

How City of Portland could have bought PGE

Sat, 15 Apr 2006 04:04:04 -0700

The City Council of Portland was very interested in buying Portland General Electric from what was left of Enron. Rate cuts of 10% or more were talked about.

With amazing 20-20 hindsight, it’s now obvious what the City should have done: Keep PGE’s rates the same!

Keeping them the same would have let them

. Give rebates to other cities. Here, Gresham & Beaverton, here’s 10% of the electric bills of everyone in your city boundaries. Now be quiet. . Give money to Portland Public Schools. . Fund the tram . Stop people wondering what would happen when well-paid, unionized private sector workers became well-paid, unionized public sector workers. Did anybody expect there to be fewer people? Less pay?