http://morehockeylesswar.org Peace, Justice and Hockey Fri, 09 May 2008 01:58:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Maybe not, but the e-mail I got from his former boss today sure seems like it. With Middaugh's opponent Nick Fish picking up all three big media endorsements (Oregonian, Willamette Week and Tribune) and trouncing Middaugh by 21 points in BlueOregon's straw poll, the Middaugh campaign has called on his ... http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/05/08/middaugh_campaign_grasping_at_straws/ I've written some recently about gentrification and certain candidates' fixation on the idea that 300,000 new residents will be shortly arriving in Portland. Sam Adams, Chris Smith and Jim Middaugh have all thrown this number around as the gospel truth, to the delight of big real estate developers who are ... http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/05/08/more_on_the_inevitable_growth_crowd/ Mayor Tom Potter's proposed budget would cut all public funding for IFCC, North Portland's unique arts presenting organization. I wrote up a piece about this over on Metblogs, including information on getting your voice heard in the budget discussion. Time is of the essence; the final budget hearing is tomorrow.Share ... http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/05/07/potter_slashes_ifcc_budget/ For a while now, I've been using Oregon Reddit, a local version of the social bookmarking site hosted by OregonLive, the sort-of Web front for that dying dinosaur of Portland media,The Oregonian. For a while when it first started, before people really figured out what it was or even that it ... http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/05/06/oregon_reddit_now_slightly_less_broken/ MayorFlip a coin. The business candidate who can't articulate a single policy proposal (or pay his rent and taxes on time) or the career insider in the hip pocket of the big condo developers who will bring nine-story "green" towers and rich white people on bikes* to a gentrifying neighborhood ... http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/05/06/the_mhlw_2008_portland_oregon_voters_guide/ I always find that on International Workers Day it is good to reflect on the basic reality that labor creates all wealth. This year, as the global economy teeters on the brink of calamity, the end game of three decades of deregulation of the financial sector, this concept is especially ... http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/05/01/happy_may_day-2/ Maybe you won't be after you take a look at this. (The things I miss when I'm busy sitting through school board meetings.) Happy birthday, Amanda!Share This http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/29/still_undecided_about_city_council_seat_1/ This just in from the Military & Draft Counseling Project: Portland high school students need your help. Jollee Patterson, chief legal counselor for Portland Public Schools, is now advising high school administrators and the Portland School Board to no longer allow counter-recruitment activists equal access to respond to military recruiting in ... http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/28/_military_draft_counseling_project_action_alert/ Share This http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/27/the_pearl/ So why aren't the candidates for Portland mayor talking about it? It is undeniable that housing prices in Portland have outrun the ability for the local job market to sustain them. Yet our city government continues to promote and subsidize the kind of high-density development that seeks to encourage (and cash ... http://morehockeylesswar.org/blog/archive/2008/04/22/gentrification_is_the_issue/