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Crime cars and crime roads
The statistics are staggering. According to a study conducted in the 1990s over a six-year period, over 200 Americans were killed and over 12,000 injured were documented in over ten thousand road rage incidents. These statistics only count documented road rage incidents, where a police report and/or insurance claim was filed; countless other instances of…
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How do we define “success”?
I’ve harped quite a bit on the importance of understanding TriMet’s mission, and so will now ask a related question: How do we define “success”? Cascade Policy Institute recently wrote an article claiming that only 7% of attendees at a recent performance of a Cirque du Soleil show at the Expo Center arrived via MAX.…
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Join Me in Supporting Sunday Parkways
Portland has announced the schedule for Sunday Parkways this year (its fifth year). And as in prior years, perhaps even more important this year because of the City budget, the request for fundraising has gone out as well. Last week I made my contribution of $100 to the “Every Dollar Counts” campaign for Sunday Parkways.…