[logi_cal869]

I'm putting this up in General/Chat even though the story that spurred me to look and see if anyone had listed Oregon's technology failures was prompted by the current story of the 4/16/2014 Portland K9/Officer Shooting here

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/04/sw_portland_shooting_portlands.html

"SW Portland shooting: Portland's emergency alert system failure isn't the first, city leaders cite 'growing concern' "

Which is a story about the failure of the emergency alert system (again) in the metro area...ANOTHER in a list of expensive failures, the most expensive being OWIN, the latest, of course, Cover Oregon.

I'm hoping I might spur others on to post RAT/Lib/Prog failures in their respective areas. Maybe Admin can even lump them all together under a specific tag, including all the Dem arrests of-late.

The problem is 3-fold: The LIV public have short memories, are subject to suggestive propaganda and the intelligent remainder of us simply don't have the recall to remember ALL the events that end up getting swept under the rug...

[Brad from Tennessee]

[Off-the-shelf is another way of saying, “It works!” Use the resources that have already been developed and tested. Learn the lessons from other states and municipalities.]

The problem with that suggestion is the governor doesn’t get to hire one of his cronies to design the program and get a fat kickback out of the deal.

[logi_cal869]

The latest failure link:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/04/sw_portland_shooting_portlands.html

[upchuck]

Oracle is mostly poison. Smoke and mirrors. Good marketing. Piss poor implementation.

[logi_cal869]

And Oregon: The New Oligarchy (from 2002?)

http://brainstormnw.com/Politics/OregonTheNewOligarchy.html

and, since I’m going down the memory-hole here,

http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-3935-who_knew.html

That 2nd link sums up the intertwining mess involving the coverup of Neil Goldschmidt’s ‘alleged’ rape of a 13 year old girl, kept secret for 30 years