Dialogue

“What the wealthy do with their money is generally not a concern of mine, but making sure the nonwealthy have affordable access to quality schools is.”

“Using a single axis to chart political alignment on a nonpartisan city council entirely made up of registered Democrats is stupid and I wish local media would stop doing it.”

A chill ran through Portland on Jan. 8 as word spread across the city that a Border Patrol agent had shot two people in a car on the campus of Adventist Health Portland.

“Are we in a doom loop? No, but if we can’t address the affordability crisis facing our city and get our fiscal house in order, we run the risk of entering one.”

“I’m sorry to break the news that Willamette Week has been conned by fake Santas.”

“This makes me insane. Obviously no one *said out loud* ‘yeah, I’m a big ol’ racist.’”

“Setting aside the housing and emergency shelter components, one thing that seems like a missed opportunity is identifying definable subgroups of homeless people.”

“Clearly, none of you have ever had an addiction to drugs problem."

“From my perspective, unless rents go up and vacancies go down, this building slump will steepen, and it’s going to be a long time before housing equilibrium is reached.”

“I’ve been cutting the clean parts away from the soiled parts. Eighty percent of the box is usually unsoiled.”

“We come armed with frogs, humor, and empathy. Let us not stop here.”

“Portland is struggling. We have major budget challenges that will not be remedied until we can bring businesses back downtown and increase our tax base.”