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1 Jul 2009, 11:07 am
Now that the Paulson stadiums boondoggle has dropped from one stadium to two, we've been wondering whether the City of Portland would continue to try to make the development a no-bid contract. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 10:45 pm
Boston Globe: Caritas ends joint venture, by Michael Paulson & Kay Lazar: Caritas Christi Health Care, the financially challenged Catholic hospital system founded by the Archdiocese of Boston, is abruptly ending its joint venture with a Missouri-based health insurer at... [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 4:44 pm
I'm not the world's best person to ask when it comes to the status of legislation in Salem, but if I'm reading this correctly, the Paulson stadiums tax bill -- the one that would subvert income taxes on soccer players' salaries to pay for yet another remodel of PGE Park -- died in committee in the state Senate. [read post]
29 Jun 2009, 4:08 pm
Paulson Jr. is scheduled to appear before a House committee on July 16 to explain his role in pushing through the Bank of America-Merrill Lynch deal. [read post]
25 Jun 2009, 9:45 am
So, basically, Garber is now calling the shots, not Paulson or the city council, which you'd never know from reading Redden's article. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 3:46 pm
The former Treasury secretary is expected to testify in Congress next month on his role in persuading Bank of America to complete its acquisition of Merrill Lynch. [read post]
24 Jun 2009, 5:34 am
This seems to be the way of the PDC, the City and big developers taking for instance the Paulson, Lents debacle recently. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 11:09 am
Last September Hank Paulson said we may need martial law. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 4:38 pm
An alert reader sends along a copy of a message -- or at least a draft of one -- apparently sent earlier today from the chair of the Lents "urban renewal" citizen advisory board: From: Ocana-Chiu, Juan Carlos (PDC) To: Adams, Sam; Leonard, Randy; Fish, Nick; Fritz, Amanda; Saltzman, Dan Cc: Wilhoite, Charles; Andrews, Scott; Ferran, Bertha; Mohlis, John; Straus, Steven; Witcosky, Keith J.; Miller Dowell, Amy; Cronin, Kevin; Ocana-Chiu, Juan Carlos (PDC); [many others omitted -- JB] Sent:… [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 6:22 am
As we sit back and gaze in wonder at the political disaster area known as the Paulson stadiums deal, let's not overlook the heroes in the scene. [read post]
21 Jun 2009, 11:55 am
The Paulson stadiums deal has turned into a farce of Shakespearean proportions. [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 4:32 pm
Back in April, when the City of Portland announced that the Paulson satadiums deal was going to be a no-bid affair, one of the justifications the city gave was this: The award of a Predevelopment Agreement to Peregrine should be exempted from competition requirements of state law and City Code on a sole-source basis because Peregrine is the only entity that holds both franchises, is the only entity that will renovate the MLS Stadium and construct the new Triple-A baseball stadium and is… [read post]
18 Jun 2009, 7:09 am
Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson advocated the passage of TARP on the grounds that pumping nearly $1 trillion of "our money" into the private sector would help end the financial crisis.Furthermore, even after many Republicans criticized the idea of providing federal financial assistance to the automobile industry, President Bush (not Obama) proposed using TARP funds to bail out Detroit. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 6:24 pm
But on another, it's distressing that they keep scheduling new meetings, forcing the opponents of the Paulson stadiums boondoggle to give up half their summer -- and it will probably wind up being all summer -- fighting the thing. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 6:01 pm
Here we have on our hands one of the biggest debacles to face Portland's parks in decades -- the paving over of Lents Park for the Paulson minor league baseball stadium -- and the Citywide Parks Team decides to pick this month to call off its monthly meeting. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 4:37 pm
That the Obama blueprint is shorter than the Paulson blueprint, though it retains many, many more agencies, and accordingly has a much more complicated regulatory story to explain. [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 11:39 pm
The b.s. from Mark Larabee and the O about the Paulson stadiums scam just won't quit. [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 8:34 am
The story dramatizes how Paulson called the shots: • Paulson told US President, George Bush, to remove a line from a pending speech disparaging bailouts, as Bush intended, because his administration was about to orchestrate one. [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 7:43 am
Kelly's work is a fascinating look in at the deliberations, and makes it seem like the principles begun by Bear's bailout, and continued thereafter, were Paulson's and Geithner's choices. [read post]
16 Jun 2009, 7:39 am
This Thursday's Lents area "citizen advisory committee" vote on the Paulson stadiums scam is a case in point. [read post]
