Brian Owendoff
Brian Owendoff is a Portland-based business owner, civic advocate, and accomplished leader in commercial real estate and has led teams responsible for completing more than $3.5 billion in development projects.
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Inside the Grievance Machinery of Portland’s Radical DSA Class (opens the original)
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The defining characteristic of the modern progressive movement—manifested acutely in organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)—is a complete obsession with controlling other people’s lives. Rather than focusing on self-improvement, personal responsibility, or building something of value, the radical left spends its energy attempting to dictate the choices, speech, and values of everyone else.Cities like Portland have become magnets for dysfunctional underachievers seeking ins
Multnomah County's decision to wipe 3,500 people off its homeless census through an administrative "data clean-up" is a dishonest shell game designed to fake progress. (opens the original)
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When deputy director Anna Plumb casually announced that the county's active homeless count would drop by nearly 20%—falling from 18,000 down to roughly 14,500—she tried to dress it up as mere accounting hygiene. But let us be entirely clear about what is happening here: not a single one of those 3,500 human beings has been housed. They are still sleeping on our concrete, still navigating the exact same systemic failures, and still completely ignored by the agencies tasked with helping them. The
Portland City Councilors Green & Morillo Seek to Raise Taxes on Companies With Highly Paid CEOs (opens the original)
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“Local taxes operate exactly like tariffs: the cost doesn't vanish—it just puts on a ‘big business’ name tag, slips into the checkout line, and leaves everyday consumers holding the bill,” Hoan said. “Portland already saddles its residents with the highest business and personal tax rates in the nation. No matter how smoothly it plays on social media, raising taxes yet again will inevitably drive up the cost of living. The council performance-artistically claims to care about affordability while
The False Equivalent That Won’t Save Mitch Green (opens the original)
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Conduct Unbecoming: How Mitch Green’s Resurfaced Tweets Reveal an Unrelenting Anti-Police Agenda (opens the original)
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