January 2012
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War and peace and the Occupy
Movement
I had this response to Wim Laven’s
article (“OPEN FORUM: It’s impor-
tant for the Occupy Movement to stay
peaceful”) in the December issue.
According to Wim Laven of PSU’s
Dep’t of Conflict Resolution, “At our
cores we know: whatever the problem,
violence is never the solution.”
I have this question for Mr. Laven:
It’s 1940. Hitler is rampaging through
Europe, Russia, and North Africa.
He’s killing Jews by the trainload in
camps like Auschwitz and Dachau. The
Battle of Britain is raging and there’s a
good possibility that Britain will fall to
the Nazis.
That’s the problem. What’s your solution?
Michael Trigoboff
Southwest Portland
Headwaters Apartments should
not have been subsidized by
taxpayers
As a Multnomah Village resident,
I am outraged to read about the City
of Portland’s Headwater Apartments
(located in Multnomah Village).
These high-end apartments are
LETTERS/NEWS
clearly rented to those with above
average incomes and the city pays no
taxes. This means that the rest of the
Multnomah County residents must
pay even higher property taxes to
make up for slick maneuvers like this.
The city has no business being in
the apartment business, high end or
otherwise. Just like the City had no
business building a tram for OHSU, a
state university hospital.
But wait, there’s more. How about
those huge bills generated for allow-
ing the homeless to camp illegally in
downtown Portland?
You can bet that if any of the rest
of us had tried that, we would have
been booted immediately. We just
keep paying for poor planning and
management at the city level.
When will they stop spending the
taxpayer’s hard earned money on proj-
ects that are inappropriate and not the
business of the city? Is there no one
accountable one more time?
Patti Waitman
Multnomah
We must learn from our
experience in Iraq
This day (December 15, 2011), the
day marking the end of combat troops
in Iraq, has been far too long in com-
ing.
This misguided war should never
have been fought, but today we can
all celebrate that all our troops are
coming home and that, after more than
eight years, billions of dollars spent
and thousands of lives lost, military
operations have come to an end.
I have the deepest admiration for
and gratitude to the brave men and
women in uniform who did all we
asked of them and more. We owe all
of them our thanks.
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Many have lost their lives, many
have returned home with profound
injuries, and thousands of families
have been forever impacted. We must
reaffirm our commitment to standing
up for them, as they stood up for us.
Our thoughts and prayers are with
them all.
New Sellwood Bridge
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ties for this administration. We have
a strong partnership with the State of
Oregon.”
Cogen said, “A lot of people thought
that this day would never come. But
it’s here, and this is a project that
will help people get to work and put
people back to work.”
According to Cogen, the bridge
construction will employee 400 work-
ers. “It will expand our transportation
capacity without adding cars. When
we work together we can make big
things happen.”
Adams said that with work about
to start on another Willamette River
bridge for transit, “it solidifies our
position as Bridge City.” Among other
things it will provide new transporta-
tion options for South Portland, “The
most constrained part of our city bar
none,” Adams said.
State Representative Carolyn Tomei
said she “took pride in finding a way
to get this project done. It’s tremen-
We must learn from our experience
in Iraq. The next step should be to ac-
celerate our transition out of Afghani-
stan. It is time to bring these chapters
to a close and bring our troops home.”
U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon)
Washington, D.C.
dously beneficial to both sides of the
river, to Multnomah and Clackamas
counties.” This last produced some
titters and Tomei noted that she lives
in Clackamas County.
State Senator Diane Rosenbaum
said the project “restores my faith in
our ability as a community to come
together.”
Jason Tell of the Oregon Department
of Transportation called the process
“extreme collaboration. The level of
cooperation was really an impressive
feat – but that alone wouldn’t have got
us here. It was leadership.”
In this context Tell gave credit to
various participants, including Ad-
ams for seeking a replacement for a
facility “owned by another govern-
mental entity.”
There were also brief speeches by
Madelein Adriance and Ava Martin-
son of Llewellyn Primary School and
Riley Wolf of Sellwood Middle School.
Kafoury gave thanks to the project’s
citizen advisory committee and to
County public affairs spokesperson
Mike Pullen.
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