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at the sports bar watching MGP ads and cheering when it says she voted for transgender surgeries for federal prisoners

if jamie dunphy accomplishes nothing else I think “beautiful pdf” is a really important contribution to the portland political canon

we should join the rest of the west coast in just doing performance based parking pricing in most places in the central city

...and as a result, *real* e-bikes — which are basically traditional bikes that are a little easier to pedal up hills, and rarely go above normal-bike speeds — are smeared in the press, targeted for restrictive state laws, and have their potential to get people out of cars badly suppressed.

Sound Transit, you should absolutely release your forthcoming train simulator to the general public. The people want to drive the wave!

based on ballot return data it seems like democrats have taken this to heart and republicans have not, which opens up the possibility of something very funny happening

I'm at the bioswale Im at the traffic diverter I'm at the combination bioswale and traffic diverter (NE Holman St and 13th, Portland, OR)

I need to post more about my municipal imax idea. which is that we should build a publicly owned imax theater at the base of one of the broadway corridor developments

It's so weird how most US cities are run by like,, a version of the Urban Growth Machine that's somehow also nimby now? Like they'll support extremely dubious public private partnerships for sports stadiums, and want to legalize gambling for the tax revenue, but housing is too far

insane discovery today that my gf didn't know who the unipiper was. I showed her a picture and she was like idk I've probably seen him online before but the name doesn't ring a bell

Oregon ballot return update and why it probably doesn't say much about final turnout. Those who have voted are just regular voters. Democrats -Voted in 8 of last 8 elections: 49% -6+ of 8: 75% -Age 65+: 64%

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Lifelong activist Kay O’Neill was recently diagnosed with ALS, a fatal disease with no cure. She asked to record this video for Mitch while she can still speak.

imo there are slightly too many things called sightline now and we maybe need to cut down on that a bit www.axios.com/2026/10/23/c...

My favorite graphics in "Transportation and the Shape of Cities" #11: Because trains are tall and bad at going uphill it takes a lot of space to ramp up or down for a road/railroad grade separation.

they mostly fixed css

this movie has a hapless mayor/evil advisor combo that some of you may be find to be fairly true to life

I find a lot of arguments against popularism unpersuasive but this is one area that they completely whiffed. absolutely no explanation for why this happened: