Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for June 21st:
- Blame bush-league leadership, not Paulson, if Beavers leave – OregonLive.com
Anna Griffin calls it as she sees it (plenty of swings and misses and/or watching the ball fly on by.) "In my scorebook, blame for this flaming car wreck rests squarely at City Hall.
Plenty of city employees are working hard every day to fight homelessness, clean up the Willamette River, keep us safe and generally make this the most livable spot in the country. But all that good news has been drowned out by the giant sucking sound generated by the leadership vacuum on this issue."
- Nancy Rommelmann: The Mom Next to You
This, the fourth installment of Nancy's coverage of Amanda Stott-Smith's background, is compelling reading. An excerpt:"Perhaps those pressures are what the mother on the Oregonian blog referred; maybe she saw the cracks. Sarah doesn’t think so.
“She [Stott-Smith] sat in those meetings just like a normal parent,” she says. “There was a picture of her with him [Eldon] in her lap, on the first day of school. Just like, normal. It was just normal.”
I say to Sarah, she was the mom next to you.
“Yes,” she says. “She was like every parent, suburban mom, driving a station wagon.” "
Nancy's series is a must-read for those of us still wondering – why?
- Portland, Ore. mayor headed for foreclosure? | Wallet Pop
Portland writer Sarah Gilbert delivers a down-home smackdown to our mayor, using national finance site Wallet Pop as her forum: "It's clear you haven't paid a dime of your $118,144 annual salary toward your mortgage since the big sex scandal broke, and you started paying for substantial legal fees. But couldn't you have prioritized just a touch better? It's clear you're setting the example for us: live raucously. Lose big. Cover your behind. And forget about the little stuff, the mortgage payments, to look both ways before proceeding across an intersection, until your name is being called out at an auction on the steps of the Multnomah County Courthouse." Read the rest, then see if it doesn't ring true — sure did for me!
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