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Preschool for All will offer free preschool to ALL families in Multnomah County by 2030. We cannot depend on unreliable federal funding or shrinking state programs.

That’s why the Multco Board is ensuring PFA implementation is on-time and building a stable tax-base.

Portland councilor says he’ll vote against parks tax increase he helped refer to voters “I love our parks, but this levy asks Portlanders to pay for inefficiencies the bureau hasn’t fixed,” Councilor Dan Ryan said Friday.

Classic Dan Ryan: voting to refer the measure to the voters and then coming out against it, while [not entirely incorrectly] pointing out that the measure is only necessary due to the poor financial management at the Bureau he used to lead www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

A nice thing you can do for kids in your neighborhood is have one candy available on halloween that doesn't have any allergens in it. You can check by seeing if any allergens are listed on the label, if they're not you're good. Usually fruit candies are a good choice.

Such awful news. I am so grateful you and your kitty are safe!

TBC that's what the judge should do. We're doing justice, not debate team.

Oh man, I have been in the "plaintiff's haven't argued it" position so many times. I had to argue for a summary judgment against a party who didn't show up and the amount of times I wanted to whine "but your honor, they're not even heeeeeeere."

The post office in downtown Vancouver does the whole process for you from pictures, to swearing the oath, to sending the paperwork. You can make an appointment. Also if you have a baby they will take a picture of her while you sit there holding her with a sheet over your head. If that interests you.

I was like, "nice?"

Oh I love the cognitive dissonance between "we love our immigrant neighbors" and "Californians are ruining our culture."

It is not acceptable to quote random people in eastern Oregon as if their knowledge on the situation in Portland is in any way comparable to the many, many experts who have spoken out against this deployment. (And there is a Parenti quote for every occasion and I intend to find and use them.)

Do what? Illegally revoke the permit without process? Who enforces that when ICE doesn't leave?

Just hearing that this was filed today made my palms sweat! The possible typos! 😵‍💫

Can I join the suit for the year of pantry flies they gave me?

I also hope we don’t forget all the local folks who’ve spent years spreading the “portland is a hellhole” narrative to gain short-term political power and/or social media clout.

They provided ammo to the Trump machine. They fed the false narrative and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

The “stay home” rhetoric from the mayor isn’t ideal, but we can’t give Trump what he wants, a city resembling a war zone. Instead, we’ll make a greater impact by directly assisting our immigrant neighbors. We can make ICE work for their deportations force them to go door-to-door.

It's like we all went through that exercise of remembering Mitch Hedberg's best bits so we could be prepared for today. Escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

I do think the goal is to eventually offer part-time slots. Also as someone said, their summer camps have different options. At my CC summer camp for under-5s is 9-noon four days a week and you sign up for a week at a time. And it can be super affordable if you have an access pass discount.

Count me in on Team Logan, everyone always wants to have this discussion as though Rory and Logan don't have off-the-charts chemistry.

I'm getting the opportunity to help with a pro bono thing and I'm really excited. Just this morning I was trying to figure out how to make more time to do pro bono work and it was like this perfect project just fell from the sky.

Sure but like, why waste the time to listen to a message and call back and hope that the person that called me is still available to talk and not on to the next person in their queue? Plus having to go through a phone tree to get to them. It's a lot simpler to just answer.

I don't know about morality, but I do assume people who never pick up unknown calls are in a privileged position of not having to manage multiple family member's health issues. Doctors offices be calling all the time y'all! If I miss a call it's possible I missed a chance at an appointment.

This is a subtweet of a stranger but if you cannot safely pass a pedestrian with a dog while you ride your bike on the sidewalk then you should dismount IMO. Regardless of the pedestrian and the dog's behavior, you are a guest on the sidewalk.

And of course to even speak to a person I have to spend an interminable time talking to a robot that doesn't understand me even though English is my native language. I hate all banks. fin 3/3

They say no because BofA now requires you to make any auto payments from a BofA account which I don't have because fuck them they suck. So now I guess I just have to keep calling back until whatever system sent me the email catches up with whatever system customer service looks at? 2/3 actually

Bank of America sends me an email that my payment wasn't made and I have to immediately update my autopay information. This makes sense because I closed the payment account. I call and they say the payment was made and they have no idea why I got the email. I ask if I can update my autopay info. 1/2

I second this! My son still likes to read this one and baby is nearly 1.5

We love the car wash! I get them like 10x per year? Here are the benefits: the slappy slappy, free vacuum afterwords that is strong enough to vacuum both whole snacks and dried up stuck on snacks, you can get a sugary coffee beforehand and pretend you are a cool suburban SAHM, and y'know clean car.

the main divide in portland politics is if you think we have a “livability” crisis resulting from high levels of unsheltered homelessness or a broader housing and cost of living crisis of which unsheltered homelessness is one symptom

We do one every year at St. Johns Swapnplay but I think it might be members only? You can get a sliding scale membership but probably not worth it for one event when you live tens of miles away :( This is not the first time I've thought that y'all should have Swapnplay.

Gifting your child a high-powered rifle is also an ideology. We just refuse to speak of it as such.