Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!
This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!
Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.
At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!
2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.
Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:
It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).
It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.
Links to know!
Portland Trailblazers Schedule!
https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule
Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!
https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks
Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!
https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&%3Bdate=2024-02-10
Well yeah, when you spend a shit ton of money on crap and then never do it, but somehow the money got spent anyway, you tent to come up short. This is why I refuse to live or work in Oregon. That 10% just swims its way into some contractor’s pocket, or is spent on meetings that never end up producing anything.
Wasn’t there some big scandal a few years back about a big chunk going to some computer upgrades that just never happened or something, but the money was gone? My memory is foggy
Multiple stories of computer upgrades.
Decades ago the DMV spent millions upgrading to OS2/Warp only to find out it didn't work with their printers or other equipment.
There was some issue with City of Portland Water Bureau too.
The classic fiasco was the health care exchange bungled by Oracle, there were lawsuits over that one.