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The Portland Sheep Stampede
Is this city of followers headed for a cliff?
 • Pamela Fitzsimmons
City Council Carnage
For seven hours, the City Council bloviated, snarled, whined, and self-pitied their way to an embarrassing deadlock.
 • Richard Cheverton and Pamela Fitzsimmons
Understanding Urban Economic Collapse
Urban economists use the term “doom loop” to describe a specific municipal failure mode.
Published on Brian Owendoff • 
Black Swagger and a Little Boy
What really killed 11-year-old Ryan Ambrose?
 • Pamela Fitzsimmons
The Vienna Trip to Nowhere
Portland's Peacocks try to push social housing on Mayor Wilson. All they got was their guru fired.
Published on PDX Real  • 
The Strange Saga of the Guy From Greeley
How did a man from a small Colorado town rocket into consideration for the top job in the city bureaucracy? And why?
 • Richard Cheverton
The Epstein Fantasies
How many low-rent Jeffrey Epstein's live among us?
 • Pamela Fitzsimmons
On the Treadmill to Enlightenment
Give it fifty years and we'll all be dead
 • Richard Cheverton
SEIU Director: union signature snooping "deplorable"
Board member for public employee union says "SEIU is money in Tina Kotek's pocket" as union asks members to report on gas tax repeal signature gathering…
Published on Oregon Roundup • 
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