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5 Apr 2023, 11:21 am by Jack Bogdanski
The economic assisted suicide proposal known as the Multnomah County capital gains tax – to provide free lawyers for deadbeat tenants to jerk their landlords around – will be so expensive to administer that it will eat up all the revenue and more in the year it is set up. [read post]
23 Mar 2023, 11:40 am by Jack Bogdanski
And the response is quite different than here in Multnomah County,” Casey said. [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 11:29 am by Jack Bogdanski
There isn't much in there for shelters, either: Multnomah County, with far more than 3,000 people on the streets, will get enough for 150 shelter beds. [read post]
14 Mar 2023, 11:26 am by Jack Bogdanski
And yesterday we learned:One in five alleged impaired driving cases referred to the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office by Portland police last year fell apart because of a failure by officers to “perform any of the routine investigation expected” in such cases, according to an internal memo prepared by the DA’s office.The transportation bureaucrats at City Hall like to brag, "We plan, build, manage and maintain an effective and safe… [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 2:59 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Because things are going so well in Multnomah County? [read post]
1 Mar 2023, 1:04 pm by Jack Bogdanski
I see that before she left office, former Multnomah County Chair "Deadly" Deborah Kafoury set up a four-story homeless day spa on Park Avenue in the heart of downtown. [read post]
23 Feb 2023, 9:02 am by Jack Bogdanski
If it were up to me, there'd be no Multnomah County Commission. [read post]
21 Feb 2023, 7:07 pm by Jack Bogdanski
(Other municipal services, such as the Multnomah County Library, have dedicated taxing districts.)Just what Portland needs right now – not! [read post]
16 Feb 2023, 4:49 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Local tax increases include property tax levies (Metro Housing Bond and the Portland Parks Levy); the Portland Clean Energy Surcharge (PCES); an increase in the Multnomah County business income tax (BIT); taxes associated with the Metro Homeless Services ballot measure passed in 2020 (business and personal income taxes); and the Multnomah County Preschool for All personal income tax, also passed in 2020.The increase in tax incidence to households and businesses,… [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 7:23 am by Jack Bogdanski
Well, Multnomah County and Metro have done something reasonable. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
California – Calls Intensify for Anaheim’s City Leaders to Keep Promises to Root Out Corruption Voice of OC – Spencer Custodio and Hosam Elattar | Published: 2/9/2023 Resident watchdogs, activists, community leaders, and the Orange County Democratic Party are all pushing back on Anaheim City Council members, calling on them to stay the course on a contracted corruption investigation into City Hall instead of paring down efforts stemming from a scandal that… [read post]
9 Feb 2023, 7:06 am by Jack Bogdanski
TurboTax didn't tell them, although it does warn people about the Tri-Met self-employment tax and the Portland city and Multnomah County business taxes. [read post]
7 Feb 2023, 3:13 am by Jack Bogdanski
According to the reader's data, prosecutions for driving under the influence of intoxicants in Multnomah County in 2022 numbered only about a third of what they were in 2019. [read post]
6 Feb 2023, 6:32 am by Jack Bogdanski
Officials say she had three criminal cases open in Multnomah County, but was granted pretrial release months before burglarizing the first of several businesses.D.A. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 4:41 pm by Jack Bogdanski
[Cameron] Storer allegedly entered the Multnomah County Detention Center and confessed to setting the fire. [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 2:57 pm by Jack Bogdanski
Somebody's got some 'splainin' to do.But one thing everyone agrees on is that people are bailing on Multnomah County. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 5:52 am by Jack Bogdanski
Since August, the number in Multnomah County has easily eclipsed pre-pandemic totals, rising above 700 per month.In April 2020, evictions plummeted after the state issued a near blanket ban. [read post]
16 Dec 2022, 6:46 am by Jack Bogdanski
Multnomah County's boy wonder district attorney, Mike Schmidt, called a press conference at which he, the local cops, and Mayor Dud Wheeler all got up and reassured the public that yes, they are actually still enforcing the laws.This announcement was necessary because it's pretty obvious to anyone with even one good eye that Portland has become an utterly lawless place. [read post]
12 Dec 2022, 4:52 pm by Matthew D. Kaplan
Last month, bicycle advocates filed a lawsuit here in Multnomah County alleging that the City of Portland failed to implement “proper infrastructure improvements” and, in the process, violated a 1971 law that protects bicyclists and pedestrians, Willamette Week reported. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 7:23 am by Jack Bogdanski
If you're following Portland's disgraceful street camping crisis, by now you've probably read that many, if not most, of the tents in which the squatters are dwelling were handed out to them for free, directly or indirectly, by the local government, particularly the "joint office" run by Multnomah County. [read post]