Jack Bog's Blog
Portland, Oregon
 | Jack Bogdanski of Portland, Oregon |
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| Keywords: | portland, oregon, jack bog, politics, northeast portland |
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| Added: | June 3rd, 2003 |
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One of my Independence Day weekend rituals is to listen to "4th of July Asbury Park (Sandy)," one of Bruce Springsteen's early-'70s classics. This was one that my buddies and I heard him sing live before we even owned one of his records. Every line is straight out of my own teenage years. This year my enjoyment of that tune will be tempered, however, by the recent losses of two of its key...filed under: 4th of july, independence day
For a minute there, I thought Mark Rosenbaum of the PDC had been hit by a car.
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posted on Jack Bog's Blog in Portland - 7/4 - 3:11 AM - [3 clicks]
Here's a depressing e-mail I received today: Hello, this is Ticketmaster Customer Service with an important alert regarding your application for tickets to the NCAA Men's Championship Basketball 2009 1st and 2nd Rounds hosted by University of Oregon at Rose Garden for March 19 - March 21, 2009. Unfortunately, your application was not selected by the NCAA to receive tickets. Your credit card...
Let's see... Air traffic is dropping to 2002 levels... Forecast even gloomier... Diesel fuel prices skyrocketing... Routes being trimmed... Carriers heading back to bankruptcy... Jet aircraft identified as a major source of greenhouse gases... Hey, I've got an idea! Let's make the Portland Airport, which is already overbuilt, even bigger! It would be funny if it weren't where Ted...
I see Streetcar Smith's still at it. Now that Earl the Pearl introduced a bill in Congress, all of a sudden the feds are going to fork over big bucks for the east side streetcar. Uh huh. Oh, and get this -- now Tri-Met isn't going to pay any of the operating deficit of the thing. It's all going to come from the city. And where is the city going to get the money? Smith... says no decision...
The City of Portland has "priced" that $66.6 million of "urban renewal" debt that it's loading on this week for the so-called "South Park Blocks" district. And the numbers we've been given by the city's debt manager are pretty sobering: Yields on the $34.58 million taxable Series A maturing 2009 to 2019 ranged from 4.032% to 6.081%. The true interest cost (TIC) was 6.003%. Yields on the $32.02...
