Here is the latest television spot for Yes on Measure 104 by the official campaign. The Measure 104 TV ad is very good and shows what is at stake.
This is no joke. For instance, the politicians created HB 2006 in 2017 which rolled back the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction for homeowners by introducing new income limits and tough rules on which homes qualify. The tax was labeled Not-a-Tax (despite raising a $100 million) and was allowed to bypass the Constitution’s 3/5 rule.
The politicians also created HB 2060 in 2017 which voided the Small Business Tax Cut for any businesses that didn’t hire new employees. The tax was deemed Not-a-Tax (despite it raises a ¼ billion) and was allowed to bypass the Constitution’s 3/5 rule.
These are real tax raising tax bills being sold as non-tax budget tweaks. Don’t buy the lie – Vote Yes on Measure 104!
Nearly 75% of the public has not voted. Please get your family, friends, neighbors and co-workers to turn in their ballots and Vote Yes on Measure 104.
We need to honor the will of the voters.
In 1996, Oregon Voters approved a Constitutional amendment requiring all taxes and fees to require a 3/5th majority of votes.
This higher 3/5 vote (60%) threshold in the Constitution has stopped a flood of tax increases from being passed over the past 20 years.
Now, the politicians have found a way around it.
By changing who qualifies for tax credits and deductions, the politicians can raise billions in new taxes without it ever being considered a tax increase.
This is why we need Measure 104!
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Some examples of inner-conflict within the Oregon Democratic Party.
— The biggest Oregon Democratic fundraiser of the year, the Wayne Morse Gala, in Portland was met with 50 angry anti-Israel protesters who demanded yanking U.S. support for Israel and for an extended cease fire. Protesters agitated both entrances so no one could escape according to FB News (4/15/24). This Oregon example is similar to when President Biden was interrupted by the same pro-Hamas protestors in North Carolina[3] and in New York[4] during the glitzy fundraiser with Obama and Clinton. It is all building up in intensity before the Chicago convention.
— This week it was discovered that former Oregon State Representative Brian Clem has raised[5] $1 million in a Political Action Committee called Oregonians are Ready which is dedicated to electing moderate Democrats to Oregon’s State Legislature.
— Possible target races for the new Brian Clem PAC are 6 contested State Representative Democrat Primary battles this election (District #8, #16, #33, #35, #37, #46).
— The Oregonian has endorsed[6] former City Councilor Jeff Gudman over former State Senator Elizabeth Steiner and for Congress District #3 sided with lawmaker Maxine Dexter over the more radical Multnomah former chair Susheela Jayapal. These picks reveal big tensions between two entrenched sides within the Oregon Democratic Party.
Portland has been suffering from street takeovers where mobs of people show up in the middle of the street to watch vehicle stunts.
Portland Police reports[7], “Officers spent hours each night disrupting street takeover events in all corners of the city. The mission resulted in 12 arrests and numerous citations. Additionally, one firearm was recovered and 33 vehicles were towed. Six of those vehicles were forfeited as a result of the passing of Oregon Senate Bill 615.”
I like accounts of a President long before he ran for office. Once in office, partisan bias can become too great to expect candid assessments. That’s why I like Richard Holbrooke’s take on Joe Biden almost thirty years ago. It’s preserved in George Packer’s Our Man[8], a biography of the late foreign policy hand.
This book draws on Holbrooke’s diary, personal letters, and other papers, often quoting them in full. Holbrooke’s diary entry covering his confirmation hearing to become the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has a timeless observation of then Senator Joe Biden:
YESTERDAY I HAD confirmation hearings in front of Senator Biden and Senator Lugar, which lasted an hour and were rather pleasant, the senators both being very complimentary. Biden, however, sought to portray me as being in opposition to Christopher and the administration on Bosnia and predicted that I would come to blows with them over the policy. I tried to suggest that I was comfortable with the policy, although in fact Biden knew that he was right. Earlier, I had met with Biden privately in an attempt to create an intellectual and moral base. This meeting took place in the vice president’s beautiful and ornate office off the Senate floor during the health debate and was preceded by brief chats with about ten or fifteen senators, most of whom were old friends like Sam Nunn, John Danforth, and Paul Simon. My private conversation with Biden was difficult. His ego and the difficulty he has in listening to other people made it uncomfortable, but useful.
If this were written today, it would have less sting, but this account, from a partisan Democrat, was written in 1994.
Taxpayer conservatives hold very diverse views on how to support Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. The worst way to address the impasse is to lump everything together into one massive bill as Democratic Senate President Chuck Schumer has been doing for many years.
The newly elected House Speaker, Mike Johnson has made good on a top conservative demand that such critical funding issues be held separately. And Speaker Johnson is also answering another conservative principle by allowing more space between when the bill is introduced and when it is voted upon (a classic Schumer, Pelosi and sometimes Mconnell tactic as he recently tried to speed the failed border bill through).
We need to have a separate public debate on each funding measure.
Let each side make their case.
Let the public make their case to their local Member of Congress.
Let each bill rise or fall or be amended based on the merits.
Government never met a computer project it couldn’t completely screw up.
Examples fill Oregon history.
A 300-million dollar Obamacare “coverup Oregon” that literally NEVER worked.
But the latest problems with Oregon’s employment system take the cake.
And it’s not like two different Governors didn’t know about the problem nor have the money and a dozen years to fix it.
Kate Brown, as Secretary of State, did an audit almost a decade before the pandemic that predicted a silicon meltdown if the employment computers ever got stressed.
Brown became the “accidental” Governor.
Yet even with 100-million bucks from the Congress to fix the problem, just ignored her responsibility.
And then covid arrived.
4 years later the Employment division launched a shiny new computer system with a cute name, “Francis”.
To hear Oregon’s recently unemployed tell the tale, six weeks into the newer, better system, Francis is all franked-up.
KOIN tv news tells the story of Gregory Smith: lost a great job at Intel, burned his savings while waiting the last six weeks and still doesn’t have his first check.
Now, he stands to lose his house.
Can we just put the employment division in the private sector where we have actual accountability…instead of more PERS worker FUBAR?
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Over the past few weeks, we have received a number of emails from supporters with a link to this viral YouTube video[12] regarding regulations impacting Oregon’s small dairy farmers. While this issue isn’t necessarily a land use issue, we wanted to help explain what is actually going on with Oregon’s controversial “CAFO” regulations.
As we’ve documented many times on the blog, being a family farmer in Oregon is no easy feat. Whether your operation is big or small, farming in Oregon means navigating a complex web of regulatory requirements from multiple state agencies. For a small family business, it’s hard enough earning a living in this economy, let alone staying in compliance with the barrage of regulations that are constantly changing.
If you raise and sell livestock (or any other animal product) you’re even more likely to be under the thumb of bureaucrats – especially if you run a Confined Animal Feeding Operation, also known as a “CAFO”. Oregon’s regulatory requirements for CAFOs are intense, and it is one of the few “farm uses” in Oregon farm zones that require extensive permitting and a Land Use Compatibility Statement to be legal.
The reason for the heightened scrutiny around CAFOs has to do with state and federal water quality laws. In general, a CAFO permit is intended to protect surface and ground water by limiting the amount of manure, wastewater, and nutrients that can be applied to fields as fertilizer.
In short, operations that qualify as a “CAFO” under Oregon Department of Agriculture rules must apply for a permit that dictates not only the construction of the “facility”, but how manure, wastewater, and nutrients can be applied to land as fertilizer, etc.
ODA targets small farms with new policy.
When the general public thinks of a CAFO they think about a large “mega-dairy” or chicken farm with thousands of animals in confined spaces, and large amounts of animal waste to deal with. Unfortunately, ODA’s definition of “CAFO” reaches farm operations that are much smaller than what a reasonable person would consider a true CAFO.
As background, last year ODA became concerned that some raw milk producers were not registering[13] as CAFOs, which the agency said created environmental concerns and allegedly caused other dairies to complain about “unfair competition”. In response, ODA released a number of “white papers” that essentially established a legal policy making clear that the definition of a CAFO includes even the smallest dairy farms.
Under OAR 603-074-0010(3), ODA defines a CAFO in part as:
(a) The concentrated confined feeding or holding of animals or poultry, including but not limited to horse, cattle, sheep, or swine feeding areas, dairy confinement areas, slaughterhouse or shipping terminal holding pens, poultry and egg production facilities and fur farms;
(A) In buildings or in pens or lots where the surface has been prepared with concrete, rock or fibrous material to support animals in wet weather; or
(B) That have wastewater treatment works; or
(C) That discharge any wastes into waters of the state.
On its face, this definition is extremely broad. One could interpret this definition to read that you are a CAFO if you milk a single goat for 20 minutes in a stall on a concrete slab in your horse barn. That’s a far cry from a “mega-dairy” milking thousands of head of cattle for international sale.
As far as is known, raw milk dairies will generally be considered small CAFOs, defined as having fewer than 200 mature dairy cows and fewer than 3,000 milking goats or sheep (OAR 603-074-0010). The confinement of animals is highly variable among operations, but all animals are technically confined during the milking process, whether in pens, lots, or buildings.
In short, according to ODA, if you’re milking an animal in a building or pen that has really anything but grass underneath, you’re operating a CAFO and are subject to the same regulatory requirements as a farm with hundreds or thousands of animals.
Raw milk producers push back with lawsuit.
As you can imagine, this policy from ODA sparked a firestorm of concern from small dairy farmers, most of whom produce raw milk. As well it should, as this interpretation is nuts.
In response, a group of small raw milk producers filed a federal lawsuit against ODA[14] for this new interpretation. According to the lawsuit, obtaining and complying with the CAFO regulations will be extremely burdensome for these very small micro-operations.
As an example, Plaintiff Sarah King of Godspeed Hollow Farm only has three dairy cows. She runs a unique raw milk dairy operation, where local patrons can buy “shares” of her cows to receive fresh raw milk on a regular basis.
King’s operation is simple and similar to most small dairies. King leads her cows from pasture into the barn or “milking parlor” to a milking stanchion where the cows are milked. The floor of the stanchion is rubber mats on top of gravel. When the cows are done being milked, they are let back out to pasture. The entire process takes about 15-20 minutes from start to finish.
Under ODA’s policy, Godspeed Hallow Farm is a CAFO. According to King, she will now have to “comply with expensive and elaborate infrastructure requirements that are an affront to her farming philosophy and disregard its sustainability practices” and potentially incur up to $100,000 in costs. She will have to track her cow’s manure output, and comply with the same regulatory requirements as a farm with a hundred head of cattle.
ODA temporarily pulls back enforcement.
ODA’s new policy was supposed to come into effect on April 1, 2024. However, after the lawsuit was filed, ODA apparently decided it was rescinding the new CAFO policy[15]and publicly stated it would not be enforcing the policy.
Regardless of ODA’s change of heart, the administrative definition of CAFO still remains. This means that it is unclear what size or type of operation needs a CAFO permit, and which ones don’t. Moreover, the lawsuit filed by King and the other raw milk producers is still moving forward. Although the Oregon legislature could step in and fix this mess, there’s no indication they will do so. As of now, Oregon’s small animal producers have to operate in regulatory limbo.
OPOA will be keeping track of this issue as it progresses, and will continue to advocate for the rights of farmers of all sizes to use their land in the ways that work best for them.
The opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not represent the opinions or positions of any party represented by the OPOA Legal Center on any particular matter.
Just type the word “meme” into the Oregon Catalyst Search Bar on the right hand margin and see the site’s extensive library of memes and other visual messages.
Why memes? There is only so many breaking news stories of Oregon’s apocalypse we can broadcast on this website before the viewers start descending into chronic depression.
The former Mayor of Beaverton, Denny Doyle, was re-arrested[16] after violating his parole. After serving a 6-month sentence behind bars for possessing digital illicit/illegal images of children, Mr. Doyle was on parole when he violated the terms. There were electronic devices in his home not previously reported. There is more details on the case and can be found at the Oregonian/Oregonlive[16].
Portland business suffered 10 new tax increases since 2018.
Businesses fled.
Portland then began this year offering $250,000 tax credits for business to locate in Portland.
That’s right! Portland taxed some businesses out of town while paying others to come back.
Oregon has passed some of the nation’s most harsh and restrictive environmental laws. These laws primarily punish businesses that actually make things — like manufacturing. So when it comes to manufacturing growth, Oregon has been declining while the rest of America has been increasing. China manufacturing is up 10%.
Now Oregon is awarding millions in taxpayer funded manufacturing grants[17] to lure manufacturers to come back.
To put it simple: Politicians raises taxes to fix problems created by high taxes.
Once Oregonians realize how their tax dollars are being wasted like this — they tend to vote against future taxes. If only people would share this cartoon more.
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley a few weeks ago called for cutting military aid[20] (non-defensive) to Israel while they were in the middle of a major war against Hamas terrorists in Gaza and rocket attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon (Hezbollah has fired 3,000 rockets so far) and rocket attacks from Houthis in Yemen.
This month, the United States had to borrow patriot missiles from Japan. That is right, we needed to borrow Patriot missiles. These were likely needed to offset ones we provided to Israel/Ukraine. This means the United States is short on Patriot missiles reserves.
This comes as liberal senators push to reduce military spending.
The current bill to aid Ukraine/Israel/Pacific in the Senate includes a new order of 500+ defensive missiles. Since Iran just launched 300 various aerial weapons in a single day it begs the question how long will ordering 500 defensive missiles last?
Don’t forget that U.S forces have been attacked over 100 times in the Middle East since October 7th. Why reduce defensive spending during such a time?
The danger is real.
The world is more under fire than in the past 15 years.
Senators like our Jeff Merkley are playing politics while the world burns and he is throwing away the fire extinguishers.
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There has been an article making the rounds of the internet claiming that it is attributable to a column in a Prague, Czech Republic newspaper.It really doesn’t make any difference whether that is true or not or who the author may turn out to be. It is in fact the inescapable conclusion of logic driven by our own observations.
“The danger to America is not Joseph Biden, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of a Biden presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Biden, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Biden, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”
That is a pretty harsh assessment of where we stand today.
But let’s forget about Mr. Biden and, for that matter, former President Donald Trump. The die is already cast by both sides and, short of the death or disability of either of them prior to the election there is nothing we can do about it.
The problem is that we, the electors, despite unparalleled demonstrations of incompetence, continue to return the same people – or clones of them – back to the same public offices in which they have already failed. For instance, take Portland/Multnomah County, Oregon. During the summer of 2020, street thugs – Black Lives Matter and Antifa – took over the streets of Portland. For one hundred days and nights they blocked the streets, destroyed and burned vehicles, attacked, looted and burned businesses and attacked and injured people. Not once did the mayor of Portland condemn the hundred days of rage or send the police to stop the carnage. In fact, the mayor – in a show of solidarity with the criminals – joined them in their activities while the fires burned brightly, stores were looted and people threatened. So cloying was the mayor that the rioters laughed at him and then proceeded to light fire to the building in which his condo was located. That would have been bad enough, but not a single member of the Portland City Council, or the Multnomah County Commission – or in fact the governor or the senior Democrat members of the state legislature sought to disagree – a city of sheep.
But the real capper came in the following election when the top two candidates in the primary were the cowardly mayor and a woman who embraced many of the elements of Antifa advocacy and never once condemned their violence. That’s right, the only person coming anywhere close to defeating the offending mayor was someone even more besotted by progressive fantasies than the mayor.. The mayor had proved his inability to perform his office and so the voters chose as his opponent someone even less qualified. The destruction of Portland/Multnomah County continues unabated because, while the mayor proved to be incompetent, the voters proved themselves to be even more so.
In Chicago, the voters were so dissatisfied with Mayor Laurie Lightfoot that they made here the first mayor in forty years to be defeated for re-election. Ms. Lightfoot’s Achilles heel proved to be the extraordinary rise in violent crime. But in inexplicable twist, these same voters turned away a “law and order” candidate in favor of another soft on crime progressive and the crime wave awaits the annual summer free-for-all. Chicago will remain mired in crime, corruption and filth because the voters proved themselves unable to discern the primary cause of their problems – themselves.
Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York City, Minneapolis/St. Paul likewise suffer from the fact that they will not hold public officials accountable for their failures. The “confederacy of fools” allow these incompetent people to continue and seem amazed at the common outcome – failure. Failure at every level. It isn’t just crime in the streets. It includes failure in simple things like delivering services such as welfare, unemployment, automobile titles, water and sewer services, billing for water and sewer services, passable roads, traffic congestion, administration of elections, and virtually every thing they touch. No one seems to demand a demonstration of competence – even after a term in which officials have demonstrated gross incompetence.
In the end, if you are looking to hold someone accountable for the mess in which we find ourselves – start with the man in the mirror. This has nothing to do with ideology, it has to do purely with competence.
Over 50 people were arrested for a pro-Hamas/anti-Israel protest located at the southbound lane of Interstate 5 at Harlow Road near Eugene. Police say walking out in a highway to block traffic is dangerous and a threat to motorists.
A few weeks ago, pro-Hamas/anti-Israel protesters shut down Interstate 405[23] around Portland. They also invaded and disrupted[23] a pro-Israel rally.
Also, on two different occasions the pro-Hamas/anti-Israel protestors shut down traffic[24] to Portland International airport.
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By Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer
Press Release,
Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), who led the federal charge against[25] tolling along I-5 and I-205 in the Portland metro area, released the following statement after Governor Tina Kotek announced her decision to halt the plans.
“This is a long overdue but welcome announcement. The entire process has been riddled with flaws and missteps from the beginning – including an unacceptable failure to inform the public and listen to feedback from those who would be impacted most. As a member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, I’ve been working hard to bring Oregonians’ voices to the table and make their concerns understood loud and clear. From the hearing room to the House floor, I’ve brought this issue directly to Secretary Buttigieg, the Federal Highway Administrator, and I’ve introduced multiple bills to pump the brakes on tolling.
“With this decision, Oregonians were successful in making their voices heard, and our communities will be better off because of it. Stopping tolling will protect our neighborhoods from traffic congestion and save Oregonians from paying a regressive tax just to get to work. I hope this decision to halt tolling gives families some peace of mind, and now I urge the governor and state officials to kill these proposals permanently so Oregonians never have to go through this again,” Chavez-DeRemer said.
Chavez-DeRemer began speaking out[26] against tolling last year with a letter to Federal Highway Administrator Shailen Bhatt. She quickly followed up with a meeting, where she made it clear that tolling should not[27] move forward. Chavez-DeRemer introduced two anti-tolling pieces of legislation: the Tolling Transparency Act[28] and the No Tolls on Oregon Roads Act[29]. Last September, she questioned[30] U.S. Department of Transporation (USDOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg directly on the department’s ability to prevent state-led tolling proposals from moving forward on federal highways. She questioned Administrator Bhatt in a separate committee hearing at the end of last year and expressed frustration with the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) failed process for implementing tolling.
The ever-popular and ever-growing In-and-Out Burger still wants to build a restaurant in the Portland area, even after an independent hearings officer denied its application in 2022 to erect a drive-through at 10565 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway in unincorporated Washington County. The denial stemmed from the restaurant’s proposed location between a Commercial Business District, which allows drive-throughs, and an Office Commercial District, which seldom does. Concerns focused on parking and driving aisles interfering with traffic in the Office Commercial district, but In-and-Out, which appealed the decision in May 2023 to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals, suggested a transportation management plan to prevent customers from interfering with high traffic could address the concerns.
There is also a plan to set up a restaurant in the Bridgeport Village mall near Tualatin
We state up front that we acknowledge that Oregon Governor Tina Kotek is indeed smart (she wisely fought her way to be Governor) but our point is that Kotek is not very helpful — and could be easily replaced by a fifth-grader.
Kotek submitted only one bill during the February legislative session— even a fifth-grader could do that.
Kotek’s 2023 budget included a 23% increase in spending but left it to others to figure out how to pay for it–a fifth-grader could do that.
Kotek last year, let 300 bills pile up on her desk before going to the public and asking them how she should vote on them — and ended up saying yes nearly 98% of the time—a fifth-grader could that.
Kotek toured all 36 Oregon counties on a grand listening tour, a tour where people didn’t even know she was in town. Kotek never shared what she learned, and never mentioned any concerns from the 12 counties that voted to study leaving Oregon for Idaho. Even a fifth grader could tour Oregon, meet mostly your friends and come away with no actual benefit to Oregonians.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, hoping for a Major League Baseball stadium inside the city, encouraged backers of the Portland Diamond Project to consider the 144-acre Rose City Golf Course. But Craig Cheek of the Portland Diamond Project said backers of the MLB team still prefer the 164-acre RedTail Golf Course in Beaverton in Washington County and offered the city of Portland—its owners—$50 million for the property in January, according to the Portland Business Journal[31]. A smaller site at the Lloyd Center has also been discussed. But the RedTale site near Washington Square Mall lacks public transit and infrastructure. Salt Lake City also hopes to be the new site in the West for an MLB team, so time may be running out for the Portland Diamond Project and a proposed new $1.2 billion new stadium.
Already, Oregon taxpayers paid $40 million to upgrade the Hillsboro Hops baseball stadium which only serves less than 2,000 people on a given day, making it among the worst sports attendance leagues.
Photo award: killed, tortured ex-Oregonian by Hamas
Former Oregon student and German-Israeli dual citizen Shani Louk was kidnapped by Hamas in Israel on October 7th. Shani Louk was later raped and paraded on the streets of Gaza.
The Associated Press photo of her dead body on a truck bed (photo not featured here) was just (eerily) awarded[32], “Team Picture Story of the Year.” by the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute located at the Missouri School of Journalism.
The Times of Israel reports,[33]“The father of Shani Louk, who was abducted and killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, said Saturday it was a “good thing” that a photo of his daughter being kidnapped was among a collection of photos that won a prestigious journalism award, though her friends and pro-Israel activists decried the move.”
The father also said “This is history. In 100 years they will look and know what happened here. I travel the world and everyone knows who Shani is,”
This is what Shani Louk from her social media before October 7th.
Providing Homes Oregon Families Can Afford Is a Solvable Problem
This month, Cascade Policy Institute is releasing a new report explaining why government-mandated “affordable housing” doesn’t actually make housing more affordable.
In The Affordable Housing Scam[34], author Randal O’Toole writes that while “U.S. taxpayers spend tens of billions of dollars a year subsidizing housing for low-income households,” those units cost “about 20 percent more per square foot than unsubsidized homes.” Developers, not low-income households, capture most of the benefits of taxpayer-funded subsidies. O’Toole recommends that “[i]nstead of wasting money on high-cost housing, project-based affordable housing funds should be abandoned in favor of tenant-based voucher subsidies.”
Most families want to live in single-family homes, not apartments or small attached units. Yet, state and local government planners impose growth policies on their constituents that restrict supply of what their communities really want. The supply of land available for new homes is artificially constrained by urban growth boundaries, which drive up the costs both of existing housing and new construction within UGBs.
Oregon can bring down housing costs at all price points by increasing the supply of land available for new homes. In a state that is 98% open space, building neighborhoods that people want to live in should not be a problem.
Kathryn Hickok is Executive Vice President at Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon’s free market public policy research organization, and Director of Cascade’s Children’s Scholarship Fund-Oregon program.
Drug users gathering at the Multnomah County Central Library to use fentanyl face a crackdown by the Portland Police Bureau, which arrested 17 people and issued 36 drug citations. Those 17 were addition to 9 arrested a few days earlier.
Police officers arrested 11 people on outstanding warrants and four for trespassing.
The library is considered a fentanyl hot-spot with many smoking the drug in public.
The Multnomah County Library District is one of the most expensive library districts in America. It just finished a costly $300+ million remodel, and now it is unsafe and a crime zone.
P.S. The Taxpayers Association of Oregon was the only organization to oppose the $300 million library tax bond when it came before voters in 2020.
