The Oregonian reflects on why Portland hasn't been able to recover. Why it lags behind other cities.
The whole article has the attitude of
"Gee, we did everything right. What could it be that keeps Portland from recovering?"
This is what they focus on:
A big win would help a lot, he said. Blosser suggested projects like a Major League Baseball stadium, or the Albina Vision Trust’s plan to add housing, cap Interstate 5 near the Rose Quarter and restore a historically Black neighborhood, could demonstrate Portland has shifted out of reverse and into gear.
They focus on concerts, baseball games – all one-time draws into the city. And spending money to revitalize the Albina area is something you after you fix the problem of businesses exiting downtown Portland.
Then you have articles like this:
Portland cafe touts their police bashing ideals and Portland postal workers to rally, march downtown.
Portland cafe touts their police bashing ideals and Portland postal workers to rally, march downtown.
That's why businesses stay away. Bash the police! Protest! Smash things! Disrupt other people's lives.
Things sure have changed since I grew up, that's for sure.“We’ve spent decades building trust with people, especially with the LGBTQ+ community and immigrants. They’re not comfortable going to someone they don’t trust.”
This is why vaxxed people get COVID-19 over and over again. The vax causes them to respond to infection with IgG4 subclass antibodies which are not protective, and has limited ability to fight the virus. And if you keep getting COVID over and over again, it increases your cancer risk.
Now the NIH seems to no longer be interested in research grants dealing with mRNA vaccine technology. And why isn't Marty Makary approved yet? This taking way too long.
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Tina Kotek decries Trump's Medicaid cuts as threatening one-third of Oregonian's who rely on it, as well as impacting housing initiatives. Medicaid money wasn't intended to provide housing. I think Tina has enough money – she just doesn't want to stop spending it on non-citizens.
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