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Podcast: Cascade CounterPoint
Episode: QP: Local Governments Must Change Course to Fix Their Policy Crises
Description: Full Text: Things are not going well in the Portland region. The region’s residents, voters, taxpayers, and businesses complain about rising crime, spreading homelessness, increasing traffic congestion, and a general decline in livability. Local officials try to tell us things aren’t that bad and that they’re on top of things.
But they are that bad. Just look at all the emergencies they have declared over the past few years. Portland has declared a housing emergency, several homelessness emergencies, and—just last week—a gun violence emergency. Multnomah County has declared racism to be a public hea...