In a big win for nonunion contractors, a Marion County Circuit Court Judge has struck down Gov. Kotek's 2024 order requiring project labor agreements on major projects. Kotek could appeal.
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ODOT is 30% complete with the first phase of the I-5 Rose Quarter project, continuing with what critics call a piecemeal approach to funding the work. Black-owned contractors are pushing for the project to move forward. djcoregon.com/news/2026/03...
Buddy, I think you're missing something here. You can't buy your electricity or water from China, but my web browser navigates just as easily to DeepSeek as it does to ChatGPT.
Looks like it's Feb. 39th out there.
I'm not a strict textualist by any means, but the extent to which right-wing legal theorists will ignore the plain and obvious meaning of the Constitution in service of glorifying executive power is disturbing.
Schadlow: "Congress does not have a constitutional role in the declaration of war."
The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8: "Congress shall have power to . . . declare war."
Yeah, I filled up today. 😬
Finally, evidence that Aaron Judge is good at hitting baseballs.
The Williams & Russell Business Hub is one of the projects Robinson is currently designing.
Chandra Robinson, who until recently was a principal at LEVER Architecture, has left to start her own firm, Chromatográfica. Why she struck out on her own, and what she hopes to accomplish:
This led me to google one of my grandfathers, and here he is showing off a nuclear reactor at Oklahoma State:
And here's what's happening to crude oil prices today.
Gas prices in Oregon are up 46 cents a gallon in the past month, per AAA.
Which location is this?
SITE Centers, which is trying to unload The Blocks retail portfolio, reported earnings today. The Portland retail properties are 70% leased at $37.52 ABR per SF.
Yeah, but downtown and Lloyd Center are two different places. Notice how all of the little niche bookstores are on the Eastside: Mother Foucault's, Literary Arts, Selected Stories, Books with Pictures, etc. I don't think any other bookstore wants to be in Powell's gravity well.
Maybe so, but there's a well-known independent bookstore downtown, and that's not the case for every city.
Just in time for spring home buying season.
I wonder what it's like to be less competent than Kurt Russell and Martin Short in "Captain Ron."
48 seconds into a two-hour interview with Noel Gallagher about guitars:
After years of planning and environmental remediation, the Williams & Russell project is going vertical this week.
Update: Great idea.
I have two dictionaries, including an Oxford Concise, and “wuther” isn’t in either one.
A concept: kimchi grilled cheese.
Portland's Bull Run water project will come two years later and cost $450 million more than originally forecast. The Portland Water Bureau blames drawn-out land-use appeals. djcoregon.com/news/2026/02...
Wrote about this when Gordon Sondland was in the news.
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PGE will spend more than $1 billion on two solar farms in Eastern Oregon, the utility announced Tuesday. djcoregon.com/news/2026/02...
