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Housing, walk bike transit, Portland Ore
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In Portland, in most neighborhoods, the official "neighborhood associations" are attended almost exclusively by older homeowners, and I hope our new Council realizes that. That said, there ARE a few NAs that have broader representation. PDX is 47% renter households, BTW!

Canadians get H5N1 vaccine, but we can't in US?

This is the attitude we need!

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Correct. Those of us who actually care about trees support additional density because that’s how we reduce the climate pollution that is the biggest threat to Seattle’s urban forest.

And you would not believe how many people inside the City of Seattle, among many departments, believe their lie that it’s about trees

"Give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average..."

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

There’s reasons for hope with Portland’s new 12-seat council, just now starting to govern.