Mike Perham

Portland Timbers legend Diego Chará announced Monday afternoon that he will retire from professional soccer following the conclusion of the shortened 2027 spring MLS season.

Diego Chara, a Portland legend. #rctid

one of the really useful takeaways from fukuyama's political order books is a clear conceptual understanding of what corruption *is* in its fundamental nature. and the answer... is patronage networks organized on personal connections! corruption is *inherent* in these discretionary systems!

BikeLoud has been doing great things with Bike Social Hour (formerly known as Bike Happy Hour)! Go check it out on Wednesday and learn more about all candidates via their handy questionnaire bikeportland.org/2026/10/26/m...

@clackamasdsa.bsky.social Any Clackamas voting guide?

What cities are learning, over and over, is that curb parking is a big net negative for urban society. Don’t charge for it, remove it altogether.

There is much to be said and done about climate change, but three essentials must guide us. 🧵

B2 Arch proposes a rental single stair building at ~3 FAR. Lots of 2 and 3 br units. All corner units. Quite dense at ~2.9FSR (vs our 1.6 FSR prototypes)… I’m hearing that ~2.8 fsr is where rental pencils at the moment. Glad to see a project moving ahead. dailyhive.com/vancouver/21...

Wild that the Trump family is very clearly in the pocket of multiple(!) foreign dictators and apparently nobody even cares. This used to be the stuff of taut thrillers, now it's just oh there's Jared doing bribe stuff again

The new Carrie series on Prime is really good.

The biggest factor to building good multifamily housing is allowing multiple single stair buildings to be connected and form the blocks we see in Barcelona and Paris. It is the single biggest factor to success

This is precisely the type of building cities like Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles need to allow and *incentivize* in R1 zones if they ever want to end their respective housing shortages.

Increases housing supply, reduces car dependence and creates trade jobs. So why is it illegal?

If you want a 7th progressive vote in council, make sure you toss @jameyevenstar.bsky.social $25 and share our voter guide with your friends and family! whosbuyingpdx.com/guide.html

Tomorrow at Bike Happy Hour! Wed 10/21 3-7PM Ankeny Rainbow Road @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social

You can see my full list of endorsements below. I hope you'll join me in supporting these candidates. Ballots are due November 3, but vote early, if you can, and drop it off at your local county ballot drop site. multco.us/info/officia... #orpol

worth emphasizing again: wilson's allies pushed hard to give up all leverage in negotiation and transfer hundreds of millions of dollars to the blazers, citing economic impact that has no basis in reality, during a rolling series of budget crises hitting every level of oregon government

Be the reason a kid wants to go to school. #BikeBus

Hard agree. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s because Meta sued the author and got a gag order that prevents her from saying a single word about her own book. Mark Zuckerberg is a threat to human rights and democracies the world over, including ours. It is vitally important you know how and why.

More for the data wonks. The contributors to the left side of the Portland City Council candidates are typically below age 50. Where more to the right, they are over 50 -- and not even just over, but well over. Olivia be out there repping essentially retirees.

“It is the costliest pension program in the country. And Portland is nearly alone in using this kind of funding system that was common 100 years ago – only Puerto Rico follows this same “pay-as-you-go” approach.”

Doesn’t every PPB officer carry a Taser? Did they use it first?

I'll be there - will you?

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Huge YIMBY win at the CNN Talarico town hall tonight: asked about lowering housing costs, Talarico touts his work on single-stair reform! "Our outdated buildings didn't allow for single-stair housing, which is smaller apartments, smaller condos. It’s a great entry point for homeownership."

You're invited to our board game social, this Saturday October 17th from 4-6PM at the P:NW office (P:NW Office 340 SE 6th Ave). We would love to see you there <3! PS you can check out our full events calendar here: portlandneighborswelcome.org/events

Big congrats to our Canadian bike riding friends. Celebrate every little win.

The lack of daylighting in my neighborhood makes the streets unsafe for EVERYBODY! I just saw a panel about Seattle’s efforts to build more bike and scooter parking, and daylighting corners for corrals was a major strategy! I would love to see Portland do more of this.

Octopus chases laser like a cat, so cute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV0e...

Downtown Portland, today!

Oregon, today is the deadline to register to vote!

Correct 🌶️🌶️🌶️ take on housing. Concrete example: if we think rooming houses and micro suites are not adequate housing, the humane response is not to outlaw them but to strive to create conditions where nobody chooses to live in them.

The canyon gap at the end of the Red Bull Rampage men’s course literally made me say “holy crap” out loud when I first saw it. Terrifying. youtu.be/9is2SYrub3A

Yeah, this is where I'm at too. I want roads to be even safer for cyclists (and pedestrians) than they are for myself when I'm a driver, because they don't have a gigantic steel cage to protect them. Physically separated bike lanes are an essential part of transportation infrastructure.

🧮 Basic street math: Bicycle parking is not the problem, but a fundamental part of the solution.

This, in a letter to the Oregonian today from the chief petitioner of the "participatory budgeting" initiative, inadvertently demonstrates why it is such terrible policy. It's NOT "budgeting" if you can't say (or don't understand) where the money comes from.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

WOW!!

OR Secretary of State Tobias Read has now refused to investigate nine election complaints in cases that are damaging to DSA candidates. Noemi Legaspi lied in the voter pamphlet about her opponent Lesly Muñoz hiring a convicted felon. Insane. Then there’s Chief Day’s statements about Mitch Green:

Vancouver, WA did the biggest upzone / deregulation possibly in the entire nation and not enough people are talking about it. And this all came from City staff - they didn’t have community advocates demanding this for years!