ODOT is still failing to come to grips with the reality that it doesn’t have the funds to proceed with bloated megaprojects. ODOT’s financial problems stem largely from a handful of megaprojects that have exploded
The Oregon Department of Transportation crashes into a financial brick wall Read Post »
It doesn’t add up:Â You can’t be accountable, unless you actually do “accounting.” HB 2025, the “transportation package” in the Oregon Legislature purports to address ODOT’s massive financial problems, but only makes them worse The
HB 2025: Fiscally irresponsible, feeding the megaproject machine Read Post »
Every time Oregonians are asked to pony up more money for roads, ODOT trots out a report saying that they’re definitely going to improve their management and stop blowing through budgets. And they’re doing it
The ODOT accountability charade Read Post »
Baseball stadium proponents are arguing a “jock tax” would be free money to pay for a stadium That’s based on an illusion about where the money to pay baseball players income comes from The economic
Joe Cortright’s testimony on Oregon stadium tax subsidies (SB 110A) Read Post »
The proposed design of the $2.1 billion I-5 Rose Quarter Project includes two deadly hairpin freeway off-ramps. Everyone focuses on the part of the Rose Quarter than involves covering over part of the I-5 freeway.Â
Rose Quarter’s Deadly Off Ramps Read Post »
Cities and city streets are the place where we exercise our most fundamental rights. “The right of the people peacefully to assemble” guaranteed by the First Amendment only has meaning if the people have a
Cities and the essential right to peaceable assembly Read Post »
