The Portland, OR, City Council Resolution on Zenith will be heard at the next Transportation and Infrastructure Committee meeting on Monday, March 10th from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Show up in support and WEAR RED. You can find the resolution here: https://www.portland.gov/council/documents/resolution/actions-related-zenith-oversight

When: Monday, March 10th (Zenith resolution will be heard around ~10:30 a.m.)
Where: City Hall, Council Chambers, 2nd Floor (1221 SW Fourth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204)
Tune in virtually (YouTube, OpenSignal Website, or Xfinity Channel 30 and 330)
Sign up to testify verbally HERE: https://www.portland.gov/council-clerk/testimony-registration?session_id=19039&agenda_items=49576

*testifiers will only have TWO MINUTES
Submit written testimony HERE: https://www.portland.gov/auditor/council-clerk/submit-written-testimony?agenda_item=49576

*make sure to choose SUPPORT in the position section
Use this excellent letter (courtesy of 350 PDX and Breach Collective) as talking points to write your testimony: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lq3BOFU2-yhbp654TYGy3UQG99cDnEobCmJHwOZ-0t4/edit?tab=t.0

FUNGUS!
#traingraffiti #graffiti #portlandor #portland

Bill Evans, Live at the Village Vanguard, 1967 on Riverside

This is actually a reissue of what originally came out in 1961 (also on Riverside) as Sunday at the Village Vanguard, credited to the Bill Evans Trio “featuring Scott La Faro.” La Faro died in a car accident less than two weeks after the gig was recorded. Evans on piano, La Faro on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. Produced by Orrin Keepnews.

Not sure why Riverside reissued this credited to just Bill Evans, but happy to find a pressing from the 60s in great shape. An absolute must have.

My copy via Crossroads Records in Portland OR.

#1960s #1961 #1967 #BillEvans #BillEvansTrio #CrossroadsRecords #jazz #PaulMotian #PortlandOR #Reissue #Riverside #ScottLaFaro #vinyl #vinylcollection #vinylfinds

https://oregoncub.org/news/blog/protecting-oregonians-with-energy-responsibility-power-act-hb-3546/3100 #pdx #DamnPortlanders #PortlandOR #PortlandOregon #Oregon #PGE #DataCenters #power #electricity

Sheriff's deputy pleads guilty to falsifying activity records https://www.kptv.com/2025/03/01/multnomah-co-corrections-deputy-pleads-guilty-lying-about-making-welfare-checks/ #PDX #multnomahsheriff #PortlandOR #PortlandOregon #ACAB

Any #anarchist groups (or people) in #portlandOR who I can get involved with for building up a solidarity economy in the area? Not interested in hanging out with anarchists whose primary activity is indiscriminately vandalizing businesses, although I know that might just be a lie that libs told me. But just to be clear I'm a "build something else and THEN destroy" type of anarchist

excerpts:

Advocates have long argued the Zenith LUCS is a “quasi-judicial process,” meaning state law would require the city to provide sufficient notice of land use hearings in the vicinity of the property, to local neighborhood associations and community groups, among other requirements....

The lawsuit comes just one month after the City Council held a Jan. 21 work session on Zenith followed by two hours of public testimony, with the overwhelming majority asking the city to deny the LUCS....

The appeal may come as little surprise to the city. Environmental advocates sent a letter on Dec. 16, 2024 putting the city “on notice” about the legal vulnerabilities if the city was to approve the LUCS, and demanding the city commit to a public process....

Read it all:

https://www.streetroots.org/news/2025/02/24/environmental-organizations-sue-city-portland-over-zenith-land-use-approval

#StopZenith #StreetRoots #PDX
#PortlandOr

Jeremiah Hayden at Street Roots is doing excellent reporting on the backroom dealings (yes) of the Portland Metro Chamber of Horrors--I mean, Commerce, aka the Portland Business Alliance.

excerpt:
The new records raise the ongoing question of how deputy city administrators like Oliveira — appointed by City Administrator Michael Jordan to cover six distinct service areas — make decisions in Portland’s new form of government and whether the City Council, Mayor Keith Wilson or Metro Chamber lobbyists should hold the power to guide the city’s work.

Wilson and city bureau staff approved Zenith’s LUCS on Feb. 3, despite a resolution City Councilors Mitch Green and Angelita Morillo filed on Jan. 31 directing Wilson to investigate Zenith’s potential violations of its franchise agreement. The resolution also seeks to increase transparency and accountability from public officials — a central tenet of Portland’s new form of government. Councilors Tiffany Koyama Lane and Jamie Dunphy also co-signed the resolution.

Despite the broad public interest and his persistent involvement with city bureau staff, Oliveira long argued that land use approval was an apolitical administrative decision that the City Council could not influence.

Street Roots published multiple stories in the weeks before the City Council’s Jan. 21 work session on Zenith, including a Jan. 9 story outlining Zenith’s efforts to position itself as the preeminent renewable fuels hub on the West Coast and a Jan. 10 story outlining how a city attorney sought to protect a political strategy around Zenith by ensuring their office was included in a meeting to justify attorney-client privilege. Public records revealed an opaque process to rubber stamping Zenith’s LUCS, fueling critics’ fears that the city would engage in a “backroom deal” with business interests, similar to the process that led to Zenith’s previous approval in 2022.

Read it all:

https://www.streetroots.org/news/2025/02/26/relationship-between-city-administrator-and-business-lobbyist-highlights-potential

#pdx #PortlandOR #PortlandOregon #housing #homeless

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