Calisthenics gym at McCall Waterfront Park, when!? @mayorkwilson.bsky.social @councilorgreen.bsky.social @councilorclark.bsky.social @councilorzimmerman.bsky.social

Up to $25k is available for businesses who relocate from Lloyd Center to nearby groundfloor commercial spaces. 🥕 #savelloyd #dontsavelloyd

Highlights: Fuckhouse, Dragging an Ox Through Water, Control Alt Defeat, Uncanny Valley Girls, and the open invitation to hang out in the street on random residential blocks I would not otherwise be hanging at. Portland continues to squeeze culture from our open streets, in delightful ways.

Looks like they’re putting throttles on the Biketown bikes now.

Overlook porch fest 2026 is A++ #pdx

The Fields Bar & Grill really living up to their reputation.

Did Portland Parks quietly open the city's first beer garden inside a public park? 👀

Never forget that Councilor Zimmerman voted NO to paving our streets and filling our potholes. #pdx

I'm vocal about the state of the industry being rather bleak and bars/breweries/restaurants needing your support. It's true, it's a struggle out there to make things pencil. But these write ups are annoying clickbait, looking backward without looking forward. Pretty common for today's Oregonian.

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Seems like a great idea. Let's pink up Old Town!

I am beyond ready to jettison these Old Town grifters.

My thoughts on Graham Platner in today’s news roundup, and a reader note: www.portlandmercury.com/good-morning...

Spent most of the past week talking with Portland Fire players about Carla Leite, who now owns the team's single-season assists record and co-owns the single-game scoring record. She's clearly the best point guard Portland has ever had. Everyone says this is only the beginning of The Leite Show.

Private equity is buying America's hospitals and nursing homes. The playbook: pile on debt, sell the building, cut staff. The result, one landmark study found: patient deaths up about 11%. #news #information #privateequity

Aviation Gin always sucked. There are no good celebrity-owned spirits, sorry!!

> More than half the land in the US is devoted not to gardens, parks or golf courses but to farms/ranches. 30% is managed forest. 6% is occupied by cities, major suburbs and their green spaces. 20mil acres of grass lawn that Tallamy proposes converting to native plant communities amount to a mere 1%

For anyone who's found themselves saying, "I wish they would re-purpose those retired MAX trains into something cool." -- AfroVillage is actually doing it.

Interesting to learn the org behind the Pickles + Cherry Bombs has 15 full-time staff.

Elevator was out (again) at the MAX stop yesterday. Random guy and I stopped to help carry a dude's wheelchair while he dragged himself up the stairs to street level. Feels deeply messed up that there were no #Trimet staff around to assist (yet always seem to have omnipresent security)

It's kinda messed up how the legislature had little trouble putting together hundreds of millions in state funds for the Moda Center yet didn't seek answers to the dozens of critical questions asked today by pdx city council. They're also to blame for setting this artificially compacted timeline.

RIP Take Two. RIP Grits & Gravy. RIP Museum of Cartoon Arts. Tough week #pdx

The state of Oregon has agreed to pay $49 million to the families of inmates who died while in state custody during the COVID-19 pandemic and to the more than 5,000 people who contracted the virus while incarcerated.

TKL "I know, Councilor Ryan, you're making little comments over here but I've got the floor."

Finding a PCP in Portland is nearly impossible right now. I was advised to call at 8am on July 1 to grab a slot for January 2027, and if I don't get that call in by 8am the slots will be gone within a half hour. Fucking hell. How are folks navigating this? Do I need to go to the burbs?

I saw visible poverty and drug activity yesterday and I didn’t think to myself, “If only we had more police we could arrest our way out of drug addiction and poverty,” because I’m not a monster. I want to fund healthcare and housing and drug rehab.

Buried detail in this: "The city confirmed to KOIN 6 News it paid a $108,000 early termination penalty [to close the Pearl shelter early]." What the hell are we even doing, man.

NEW: A Canadian mining company has resurrected plans for a copper mine just outside Oregon's Opal Creek Wilderness. The company is looking to fast-track the mine under Trump admin rules but also stressing environmental safety: tinyurl.com/45fueec5

Stoked for progress here. It's still hard for me to accept the city chose for Darcelle Plaza to be a fenced+locked city park with no bathroom or rain cover. But! There's a dog park. Hopefully next time, when PPR works on the permanent phase of the park, it won't be dictated by Brian Owendoff et al

Dan Ryan: "Last night, I voted no on the City of Portland’s 2026-27 budget. It was the most important vote City Councilors will cast all year, and I didn’t take the responsibility lightly." The budget passed 9-2. 👍

Great Streetroots article. www.streetroots.org/news-stories... #Portland

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Interesting name for an event from the "Portland is burning" demographic.

Yeah we use bottledrop all the time. When I would tell people that during the St. Johns Bottle Wars of 2024 they would look at me like I said I smoke cigarette butts I find on the ground. Bottle redemption is good actually! It's recycling but I get money for it and that money goes directly in a 529!

“Becky, to me, really represented the notion that charity and services are not enough,” he said. “All of the free lunches and all of the shelters in the world can’t fix the problems that we have if we don’t give people purpose.” Great piece from @alexzee.bsky.social on Becky and Ground Score 💔

Event promoters are increasingly making fun things like designing a poster into a never ending conveyor of banal, all the same, lacking nuance and context AI garbage for the gram. Nothing stands out, because it's all the same.

Portland Winterhawks are known for making some poor decisions when it comes to their graphic design and especially who they hire to produce their brand assets. Their latest promo for Juneteenth is consistent with that.

Props to Scotch Lodge on the James Beard award. Portland is lucky to contain such a gem.

Bike parking at moda center is another situation when it comes to the WNBA season. So many people riding bikes to the game, not enough places to park. A good and solvable problem to have. @mayorkwilson.bsky.social @councilorkanal.bsky.social @councilorepg.bsky.social

Hope I'm wrong but learning Dan Yates is involved in this waterfront restaurant revival drops the potential for something truly cool to happen here significantly.

Dan Ryan "I will be a no on this, just to make that point" on another ordinance that sails through 10-1.

Fucking incredible

Away Days makes outstanding beer, the folks who power it are rad too.

RIP Eastburn, where I drank perhaps a few too many $2 microbrews in the aughts. #pdx

@bridgetownbites.bsky.social as we were previously discussing the old Teote building on Alberta. A new entrant (!): Carabiner, from food "influencer" Lauren Kahle. www.portland.gov/ppd/liquor/d...

A few highlights from today's hearing of the TSCC on Portland's budget. (All coming out of questions from Commissioner @ritamoore.bsky.social.) In this first clip, @councilordunphy.bsky.social describes in perfect detail why state ethics rules on serial meetings are so utterly terrible. 🧵 1/

Important context.

You can see live results of the city's Moda renovation funding survey here. h/t @a-wyvern.bsky.social #pdx

From what he was telling me, is all of the “typical issues” that other BottleDrops have, they do not have because they do a good job self regulating and do not tolerate any sort of activity that could have their organization shut down.