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Welcome to the lemmy.world community for Portland, Oregon!

This community has kind of been empty since it was created, I'm hoping to change that!

Unlike "other" Portland communities you may have seen "elsewhere", I believe in a "warts and all" approach. You are free to take off your Rose tinted glasses and talk about topics that are dragging our city down.

At the same time, sunset pics, snowmageddon, traffic monster, cones, that's all welcome as well. Let's collectively keep Portland weird!

2024 is going to be an interesting year politically with all the changes to city government, I will attempt to tag political threads with a [Politics] tag and encourage users to do so as well.

Other than the lemmy.world restrictions on spam, copyrighted material, and adult material (USE that NSFW tag!), there's only one real way to get in trouble here:

  1. Don't attack other users.

It's OK to go after Teargas Ted, it's OK to say Rene Gonzales is a fascist, ACAB, BLM, whatever floats your boat (WEFYB).

It's NOT OK to attack or diminish another user. Feel free to disagree, you can point out the many ways you think they're wrong, just don't start throwing perjoratives AT OTHER USERS.

Links to know!

Portland Trailblazers Schedule!

https://www.nba.com/blazers/schedule

Portland Winterhawks Home Game Schedule!

https://www.rosequarter.com/events/winterhawks

Portland Timbers Pre-Season Starts in February!

https://www.timbers.com/schedule/matches#competition=all&date=2024-02-10

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TBH, I'm not sure how many other Portlanders are "here", here. :)

But just in case, here's the link to watch the debate live!

Edit: This link has the full recording as well!

https://www.kgw.com/article/news/politics/elections/portland-mayor-candidate-debate-kgw-oregonian-how-to-watch/283-d69dc5a1-7611-4cd7-b1c2-65f6bc385d65

Also on terrestrial television, channel 8.

This is really the first time I've seen the candidates speak for themselves.

City Council Members:

Rene Gonzalez
Carmen Rubio
Mingus Mapps

Trucking executive:

Keith Wilson

Stripper and Arts Advocate:
Liv Osthus

Gonzalez has drawn fire for more law and order, right wing style policing policies along with a financing scandal for altering his Wikipedia pages.

Rubio has had issues with LOTS AND LOTS of parking and traffic tickets. More than can be rationally explained.

Keith Wilson, I'm sure, is a lovely guy, but he looks like someone voted most likely to be cast as a Nazi in an Indiana Jones movie. ;) I know, I know, totally unfair... but LOOK at him...

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