Driving stakes, selling bonds: ODOT’s freeway boondoggle plan The Oregon Department of Transportation is launching a series of boondoggle freeways, with no idea of their ultimate cost, and issuing bonds that will obligate the public to pay for expensive and un-needed highways. Fut... → By Joe Cortright 26.1.2023
Wholly Moses: Pave now, pay later Oregon legislation goes whole hog on highways HB 3065 would launch a whole new round of freeway boondoggles, and plunge the state into debt to pay for them The classic Robert Moses scam: Drive stakes, sell bonds ... → By Joe Cortright 6.4.2021
Gentrification isn’t ending. We must rise to meet that challenge. We're pleased to publish another contribution from City Observatory friend and colleague Alex Baca. Alex has written about cities while living in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Cleveland, OH, and earlier this year au... → By Alex Baca 29.3.2018
The Week Observed: February 26, 2016 What City Observatory did this week 1. Another round on the Washington Post's housing roundtable. On Friday, we took part in a roundtable at the Washington Post's Wonkblog on what it would take to solve the housing afford... → By Daniel Hertz 26.2.2016
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Driving stakes, selling bonds: ODOT’s freeway boondoggle plan
The Oregon Department of Transportation is launching a series of boondoggle freeways, with no idea of their ultimate cost, and issuing bonds that will obligate the public to pay for expensive and un-needed highways. Fut... →
Wholly Moses: Pave now, pay later
Oregon legislation goes whole hog on highways HB 3065 would launch a whole new round of freeway boondoggles, and plunge the state into debt to pay for them The classic Robert Moses scam: Drive stakes, sell bonds ... →
Gentrification isn’t ending. We must rise to meet that challenge.
We're pleased to publish another contribution from City Observatory friend and colleague Alex Baca. Alex has written about cities while living in Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and Cleveland, OH, and earlier this year au... →
The Week Observed: February 26, 2016
What City Observatory did this week 1. Another round on the Washington Post's housing roundtable. On Friday, we took part in a roundtable at the Washington Post's Wonkblog on what it would take to solve the housing afford... →