Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by legitster on Monday December 11, 2023 @07:19PM
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Man, even Friends of Trees! Literally planting trees for free got cancelled by Portland because of back-room nonsense:
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/07/11/portland-oregon-tree-...
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by jimbob45 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @12:37AM
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Cairo wouldn’t comment on the complaints about her management style. Responding on her behalf, Parks and Recreation spokesperson Cherelle Jackson said the bureau wouldn’t comment on “rumors about a member of our team.” “Unfortunately, too many women in male-dominated industries like forestry face this behavior,” Jackson wrote in an email to OPB. “As a Bureau, we will uphold our values for equality and respect for women in the workplace. If you have evidence that is not based on hearsay, please feel free to share, and we may respond accordingly.”
That was really depressing to read. She nuked the program because of her ego and then let her black spokesperson blame it on race and gender instead of her own lies and deliberate mismanagement.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by mlrtime on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:15AM
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Most of this thread and politics in general are based around failures being the result of somebody else. There is 0 accountability or self responsibility.
Likewise, when people/groups fail today we want them fired or cancelled. This promotes the "blame someone else" as a self preservation tactic.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by uoaei on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @01:34AM
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Exactly right. Hard not to see it as a shadowy system of back-scratches and kickbacks between mayors' offices and the folks who run the NGOs. It's remarkable how hard it is to hold NGOs accountable when they're using public funds.
Re:To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
by hutzlibu on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @07:05AM
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I got a glimpse into how various state support systems work in germany and the basic idea is, private companies get good money to take care of people - but they get nothing for actually helping them get out of the helpless state - they rather have incentive to keep them there, as then they still get money for them.
I don't think it's red tape as such, but rather that Portland suffers from a problem SF also has, which is that government social services are mostly run via the NGO-Industrial Complex. Money is shoveled into a patchwork of local governments, and then shoveled out into a patchwork of local non-profits, and there's almost no accountability for turning $X into Y results, like you might have with a transportation department or a school district.