Climate change? Not our job. We’re just following orders. The Oregon Transportation Commission is on the firing line for its plans to build a $800 million I-5 Rose Quarter freeway widening project in Northeast Portland.
Memo to the Oregon Transportation Commission: Don’t Dodge Read Post »
Oregon’s new mandatory bag fee harnesses market forces to promote environmental objectives Now do it for greenhouse gases On January 1, a new law went into effect in Oregon, which mostly bans single use plastic
Bags, bottles and cans: Pricing works Read Post »
What City Observatory this week 1. A massive regional transportation spending plan that does nothing for climate change. Portland’s leaders are in the process of crafting a $3 billion plus regional transportation package. One of
The Week Observed, January 31, 2020 Read Post »
Every year, the same story: We profess to care about climate change, but we’re driving more and greenhouse gas emissions are rising rapidly. Oregon is stuck in an endless loop of lofty rhetoric, distant goals,
With climate change, it’s always Groundhog’s Day Read Post »
What City Observatory did this week Remembering Dr. King. We were reminded of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech about the pronounced tendency in public policy to prescribe socialism for the rich and rugged, free market
The Week Observed, January 24, 2020 Read Post »
Gentrification: Here’s your all-purpose list, from artists to zoning, of who and what’s to blame We first published this list in 2019, but the search for scapegoats has expanded, and now includes little libraries and
Our updated list from A to Z of everything that causes gentrification Read Post »
