6 December 2024

Tiresome. Looks like Providence has to deal with more strikes again.  The healthcare situation in Oregon is awful, but this issue is not one of Tina Kotek's priorities, apparently. 

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Microchip Technology is also closing their doors, this time, hurting Gresham. Bad news just keeps coming.

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Sad. In Morrow County, Oregon will convert farmland into the largest solar farm. Apparently Oregon is number one again, and again, not in a good way.  Gotta get that ESG money while it lasts.

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“From a cost perspective, from the start, nearly everything we touched in the building was worse than we expected.”

“It sounded like you had a plan,” Meieran said. “Now you’re coming back saying the amount is literally double what it was when you came to us however many months ago. There’s no way as a board we should be saying it’s okay to give $1.8 million dollars more now to this project.”
And it will probably serve only about three criddlers.  Oh well, better raise some more taxes.  <facepalm.jpg> 

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Hoo boy!  Did you see this diagram of Portland's Ranked Choice Experiment. Holy crap, can we make this even more complicated than it needs to be?
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