Is there an agenda at work here, or are you all on vacation in Portland, taking in the microbrews and Indie rock and need to figure out a way to write it off as a business expense? Siljaja and Sasha both need to do a little more digging before trying act like they know what's going on in the NW, but I do hope they enjoyed Beulahland. "Boasting one of the highest national per capita rates of resident millionaires, the Puget Sound’s overpriced housing has forced many low-income and middle-class residents to make sacrifices to their economic stability." In addition to …
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"I’ve been a resident of Seattle’s Central District for half a decade, and have personally seen the housing prices here rise to the extent that a historically vibrant (and yes, sometimes troubled), predominantly African American neighborhood that gave birth to the Seattle Black Panthers, Jimi Hendrix, amog others, has been completely shaken by hyper-gentrification. An exodus has ensued: working-class folks, artists, musicians, can’t afford it here anymore." Then is your article about homelessness or gentrification? Or is it about the historically black neighborhood? I responded to the article by criticizing the absence of any talk about the social services the city …
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Have you checked the voting record of Alvadore? Have you checked to see if Alvadore was part of the overwelming rural vote to ban gay marriage? Have you checked to see if Alvadore was included in the round of suckers that voted for Measure 37 and completely screwed up the land management system so that they could capitalize on selling off their trailers for suburbs someday? How do you reconcile the po' folk of Alvadore with the stats that make Oregon more racist than Mississippi? Rural Oregon continues to vote in wars and developers and vote away social services and civil …
Posted to Blue Collar, Bare Cupboards
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