Subj : 2020 Summer of Love
To   : NIGHTFOX
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Thu Jun 06 2024 04:12 pm

>DW> The government, and some of the residents, always complain about how no
>DW> new businesses (especially retailers) want to locate downtown.  They were
>DW> complaining about it not long before their downtown errupted in violence.
>DW> If they cannot connect the dots, they are pretty damn stupid.

>That reminds me of how Portland, OR has gotten worse in recent years.  People
>generally wouldn't have felt this way years ago, but there have been
>significantly more incidences of unsafe activity in Portland, including
>vandalism of companies' buildings, causing some companies to decide to close
>their Portland locaitons.  Reduction in police funding over the last few years
>may have something to do with that.

IIRC, I think it was the Portland mayor who showed up in the national news
trying to make friendly with "antifa"/the unsafe activists during that
Summer.  That doesn't send out a good message to businesses and
organizations that might want to invest in the city, either.


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