Archive - FidelityPDX’s Newsletter

Portland Cops and their broken ideas on harassing people with traffic stops

News data on traffic stops shows how reforms on gang enforcement has changed but is still flawed and broken.

Jun 25 •

May 2024

A retrospective of the 2014 paper "Density At Any Cost"

I suppose it's really frustrating for people new to Portland to look around and see this city in such an ongoing crisis all the time, with bad news…

May 20 •

March 2024

Cylvia Hayes 2.0 and a short list of Kotek's least favorite people.

Is now a good time to criticize the Governor for a moment?

Mar 27 •

February 2024

Is Rep. Rob Nosse a Communist?

Can we find actual communists within the Oregon Democratic Party or the political establishment? Would anyone wear this on their sleeve and admit it?

Feb 6 •

January 2024

Outlaw and Grifters

The con continues

Jan 5 •

December 2023

Progressive Outcomes: Homeless death rate exceeds peak Vietnam War deaths

Unrelated ramblings of news and history

Dec 21, 2023 •

Silver Lining in the clouds - Analysis of Central City Task Force docs

Forecast still calls for the apocalypse.

Dec 15, 2023 •

October 2023

The Bizarre Story of PBOT and a Transportation Ideology that Failed

PDX.Real digs into a street-level scandal

Published on Portland Dissent • Oct 10, 2023

June 2023

TriMet's problems are exponentially worse than anyone is talking about

Public opinion of TriMet's decisions have been pretty mixed, mostly because TriMet's decisions are so convoluted that they can be a real challenge to…

Jun 6, 2023 •

February 2023

The Tale Of The Sunken Hoboat

"Pirate Boats" or "Hoboats" whatever you want to call them.

Feb 14, 2023 •

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January 2023

What is going on with Portland’s towing and Zombie RV mess?

Let’s look at some numbers and ask: Is PBOT lying? Is one of the biggest towing contractors in Oregon simply a criminal syndicate? Is there a resolution…

Jan 25, 2023 •

November 2022

In case you missed it: the Multnomah County Point-In-Time Count was published just days after the election

Let's look at discrepancies between what Multnomah County claimed would be in the report, and what was actually there.

Nov 11, 2022 •

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