The article mentions $2.9 million of city (OUR) money given to developers to open a food market in Stop Six (our downtown Portland) and which went bully up in a few years. Throwing money at this issue goes down the toilet.
If they’d spent that money on a few sets of brass balls, badges and billy clubs they’d probably have had the store and it would be open today!
And of that $2.9 million, have to wonder how much of it made it back to the local politicians that gave it to the developers.