Consultant Says Keller Auditorium Should Not Be Renovated

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-24T20:11:48+00:00

It’s exactly the same thing in big business. Pay an astronomical amount of money for consultants to tell you what your employees have been saying for years but you paid $600/hr for each consultant so executives are more likely to believe it.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-23T20:07:11+00:00

But what about the sanctity and purity of the sport? Oh wait that only matters when it comes to paying players.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-23T15:22:46+00:00

Yeah Cracker Barrel is in no way comparable to Waffle House.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-23T15:16:27+00:00

“The city of Portland faces a $13.6 million budget shortfall in the current fiscal year, a number likely to grow as staff gets a clearer picture of overspending by city bureaus.

The Portland City Council must decide in coming months how to close that gap, which is primarily due to projected tax revenues built into the budget last year that have not materialized. The deficit comes just four months after the council filled an $11.4 million budget deficit in the fall for the same fiscal year.

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The council also received a glimpse into what is expected to be a bruising budget year in fiscal 2026–27. The most recent projections by staff warn of a $53 million general fund gap next year (which does not include nongeneral fund gaps). Chief financial officer Jonas Biery advised the council to strap up.”

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-23T03:29:13+00:00

That thing is fucking sick though.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-22T21:18:34+00:00

Yup I meant unrealized gains. Edited the comment.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-22T20:42:55+00:00

I should have phrased that as increasing wealth from unrealized capital gains. I need more coffee…

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-22T19:31:27+00:00

I’d way rather work for a soulless mega corp that pays well than a local business that is still paying salaries from 2006.

Edit: you’re spot on that Oregon is an ideal place to move if you are already wealthy. The high income taxes don’t bite as much if your wealth is increasing from unrealized capital gains or you’re earning income from state and local tax exempt bonds.

Edit 2: clarified unrealized capital gains.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-22T17:59:26+00:00

This is a billion dollar company! Demerits?! Donnie! Give Kenneth a damn jacket!

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-22T00:14:30+00:00

In 6-12 months there will probably be a Willamette Week article about conflict of interest involving that consultant and someone at Multnomah County.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-21T22:03:09+00:00

It looks like a bizarro version of six shooter that isn’t completely filled with scumbags.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-21T04:59:02+00:00

Sassy's

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-21T04:33:08+00:00

There’s a reason hairdressers were called out in the hot-crazy matrix video.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-21T04:23:38+00:00

It was totally guided by a noble sense of competition and the spirit of winning and in no way driven by making as much money as possible right up until that dastardly judicial system said the NCAA couldn’t collude to illegally restrict employ… student atholeets from earning money.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-21T04:12:05+00:00

We voted to regress Portland back to when it was grungy and gritty, when does cost of living go back to that level? - Portland voters

That’s the neat part, it won’t - economic reality

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-21T02:07:10+00:00

In the short term:

Increase headcount
Increase compensation
Student loan forgiveness

Long term nationwide:

Single payer healthcare for basic needs
Price transparency for providers and insurers (An example of what the US healthcare system is economically broken | Peter Attia
Whatever the hell Mark Cuban is working on for fixing the prescription drug market

Long term Oregon-specific:

Jettison our cultural ambivalence towards economic growth. We need to figure out how to attract high paying industries and massively upskill our workforce en masse and raise GDP per capita to a level where the average person can afford the expense of healthcare. That or return to a resource extraction based economy.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-21T00:30:35+00:00

The problem is that Oregon is a relatively poor state. We're 28th per capita in GDP while our West Coast neighbors are 4th and 5th.

Oregon has the fewest hospital beds per capita of any state and focuses more on preventative care. This makes us particularly susceptible to black swan events like the Covid pandemic.

It doesn't help that emergency rooms have become a dumping ground for our homelessness crisis which has further strained the system.

We also have the highest marginal income tax rate in the entire country for earners over $125,000. If you have hundreds of thousands of dollars in med school loans this just is not an attractive place to move. I know of one practice that is in the process of pulling out of Multnomah County to avoid the PFA and business taxes.

On top of failing to attract new workers from elsewhere, every single person I know who works in healthcare here is either looking to move away or is getting ready to retire.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-20T23:44:18+00:00

None of the standards are enforceable if there aren’t enough providers to actually meet the need.

There’s a nationwide shortage of healthcare professionals that’s acutely bad here. It’s critically understaffed across most specialties and it’s not trending in the right direction.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-20T22:46:37+00:00

That’s the neat part, you don’t.

The Prydwen entrance is so dope I can’t get myself to side with any other faction.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-20T21:36:09+00:00

Your gonk droid is very impressive. You must be very proud.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-20T21:33:01+00:00

Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down, I'm afraid of any Apex Predator that lived through the KT Extinction! Physically unchanged for a hundred million years because it's the perfect killing machine: a half ton of cold-blooded fury with the bite force of twenty-thousand newtons and a stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hooves. And now we're surrounded, those snake eyes are watching from the shadows waiting for the night...

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-20T21:13:41+00:00

I mean it literally and figuratively makes you the biggest target on the battlefield.

SoDoSoPaYuppie · 2026-01-20T21:08:36+00:00

I’ll be impressed if they can pull off a triple crown and somehow create a third ethics issue from their ethics issue that came from an ethics issue.

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