In case you moved here in the last few months and you’re wondering how to get more connected with the Portland startup community ( #pdx #portland ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E5DgHS8Ajs

Apply today for the Transportation System Plan Community Advisory Committee

https://www.portland.gov/transportation/news/2025/3/11/apply-today-transportation-system-plan-community-advisory-committee

Intriguing: a proposal for north-south passenger ferry service in Portland, OR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIZNeu58oPk

Took in some #Sportsball on Ice last night. It’s #Playoff #Hockey time! #PDX #Portland #PortlandWinterhawks

These flowers just burst out of the top of a wall covered in moss, ferns and sedums. #Bloomscrolling #PDX

https://multdems.org/action-alert-hands-off-portland-fights-back-rally-this-saturday/

HANDS OFF! Portland fights back rally

Saturday, April 5th, 11:30 AM
Battleship Oregon Memorial
SW Naito Pkwy, Portland, OR 97204

Your participation matters:

Power in numbers!

Stand together with neighbors and build the movement we need to win.

Join neighbors from ALL OVER PORTLAND who are meeting up to travel to the protest together.

Sign up for our event on Mobilize:
https://www.mobilize.us/multnomahdemocrats/event/771275/

TIL the Portland Ritz Carlton hotel, which #pdx's most beloved food cart pod was dismantled to make room for, now houses a food court because the hotel remains unprofitable

Metro voted to approve the Rose Quarter freeway expansion project.
#PDX

https://nomorefreewayspdx.com/2025/04/01/no-more-freeways-statement-on-metro-councils-rose-quarter-mtip-vote/

TIL "road guy rob"

posts in-depth vids about road projects across the US, including how bike lanes and mass transit get built into them

last month, he released a new video on the interstate bridge between #pdx and vancouver, WA

does an AMAZING job talking about the balance OR and WA wants, light rail, hayden island, height requirements for boats, and even airspace (!) because of a nearby airport

vid is half an hour but well worth it if you live in the PDX area

https://youtu.be/CRlZwDQUa9A?si=jNIKoSpkMVuwYLV0

hahahaaaaaaa the electrical problems on the streetcar at PSU are persisting, apparently #pdx

We demanded an unarmed Portland Street Response, to deal with public nuisances and people in crises, so the cops won't kill so many people. The old City Council dragged their feet underfunded it, tried every bureaucratic trick to kill it

We defeated the Columbia River Crossing, highway expansion/bridge to Washington. Now ODOT are back with a plan to spend billions called the Interstate Bridge Replacement, but you can still see where CRC has been crossed out and the new name written in.

We decriminalized drugs, then the wealthy and their cops camped out in the legislature until they were re-criminalized.

Seems to me we've got a problem with a lack of democracy in Oregon.

#PDX #Oregon

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/oregon-new-drug-law-arrests

#PDX https://theonion.com/man-spends-afternoon-volunteering-opinions-about-the-homeless/

I grew up around thunderstorms but️ is not common here in #pdx . So today when a bolt hit 200-300 meters from our house it was pandemonium… our teens screaming, running around, dog barking. It made me happy they could (safely) experience that. #lightning

#PDX folks!

Councilor Morillo (who is rad) has an ordinance banning algorithmic rent price fixing that’s moving to full council on April 2nd (this Wednesday)

Different ways to help (via an email from the councilor’s team):

Sign up for public testimony (2-minute speaking slots)

https://www.portland.gov/council-clerk/testimony-registration?agenda_items=50006&session_id=19198

Submit written testimony in favor of the ordinance

https://www.portland.gov/auditor/council-clerk/submit-written-testimony?agenda_item=50006