Reposted by Drew MilleganJonathan Berk 🏠 @berkie1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026“71% of carless households in the United States pay for a parking space they don’t use, and that required parking spaces can raise construction costs for small apartments by 38%.” 📓 UCLA Center For Parking Policy report 37825
Reposted by Drew MilleganWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026We saw this stuff constantly during and after Metro Surge here in MN; you see it in how Trump has stripped the protected status of Haitians. “You’re in a racial group we detest, but you’re an American or have a legal right to be here. No matter: we’ll simply change the rules, now you’re illegal.” 626644
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026For reference, it's currently unclear if Russia can even meet it's own domestic demand for diesel. Prior to this there was an export ban because so many of their refineries were taken offline. 000
Reposted by Drew MilleganSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026The president is actually doing the same thing in the third to last panel. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bet-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 522841
Reposted by Drew MilleganSightline Institute @sightline.org · 08/10/2026How many people live in Cascadia? (Spoiler: 21M. But let’s break it down.)sightline.orgTwenty-one Million Cascadians: An Overview | Sightline InstituteWho is Cascadia? A new series on the bioregion’s people. 2201
Reposted by Drew MilleganSMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It's not a topical comic in that I suspect I'll be posting it every few years for a long time. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/woops PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com 635058
Reposted by Drew MilleganMarco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Like, regulations that establish decreasing density at arbitrary distances from higher-order transit stations are pure political compromises, with no scientific evidence, and a caricature of how market forces work (or how laypeople think they work). 49212
Reposted by Drew MilleganStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a success story of vulgar YIMBYism and an indictment of places that are spending profligately on "affordable housing" for people who could, in the long run, easily be served by the market.wsj.comPortland Real Estate Is Such a Mess That All Housing Is Affordable HousingRarely has the Oregon city seen such a narrow price gap between market-rate and affordable units. 210623
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A domestic violence charge was made public against a local McMinnville city councilor, Dan Tucholsky. That alone was crazy, but now he's come unglued and publicly threatened people on Facebook. He's a NIMBY, so I can't say I'm sad to see his political career implode, but wow. 001
Reposted by Drew MilleganCalifornia YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social · 22/09/2026GGWash: Zoning doesn't decide if housing is "affordable" - funding does, and that can happen anytime, even after a building opens. So opposing market-rate housing to "save room" for subsidized housing is incoherent: you can't subsidize a building that never gets built. ggwash.org/view/104401/...ggwash.orgWant more subsidized housing? Start by building any housingMost subsidized or “affordable” housing in America was not initially built as such. It makes little sense to oppose new homes because they are not subsidized from the very start; those homes very… 0205
Reposted by Drew MilleganSpooky Rin Stedecore 👻🎃 🔪 @stedeco.re · 19/09/2026This is incredible and "but without the opposition to the Anschluss" turns it into art 310926
Reposted by Drew MilleganNo More Freeways @nomorefreewayspdx.com · 14/09/2026funny how traffic just evaporates when freeways are shut down 0335
Reposted by Drew MilleganCity Observatory @cityobservatory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Carmaggedon? Here are two snapshots of weekday morming commute travel speeds on Portland freeways, one is from before the Rose Quarter shutdown, one is from after. Can you tell which is which? 15511
Reposted by Drew MilleganWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026ICE has to be completely scoured away 1158087
Reposted by Drew MilleganJarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 31/08/2026A huge win for professional free speech. Professional licensing boards cannot control or punish advocacy within the profession. @clmarohn.bsky.social, founder of @strongtowns.org, wins his long battle. www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026...strongtowns.orgCan an Engineer Speak Out for Reform? | Strong TownsA federal court has answered a question that matters for every professional willing to challenge the practices of their own profession. 37917
Reposted by Drew MilleganNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 27/08/2026It's an ethnic cleansing campaign, and was never about crime. If anything, pulls resources from fighting crime, and increased crime due to crimes by ICE officers. Also, this is NY Times at its best: highlighting an important issue up top, drawing attention to it, and including a useful data visual. 10521203
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I think my brother and I may have just accidentally established precedent on Oregon's housing bill HB 4037 000
Reposted by Drew MilleganJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 21/08/2026every 6 months the Trump administration realizes lowering tariffs will lower prices, applies this insight to one specific good, and then proceeds to never introspect beyond that. It’s honestly beautiful in its stupidity. 1272143430
Reposted by Drew MilleganAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026New in PN: DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew "When the Department of Justice indicted 15 Minnesotans earlier this summer, it was painfully clear that this was a cobbled-together mess, a transparent attempt to criminalize dissent. But boy, we didn’t know the half of it."publicnotice.coDHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knewIt's the stuff of East Germany. 6324361059
Reposted by Drew MilleganThe Oregonian @oregonian.com · 07/08/2026The tracks for the passenger trains between Washington’s and Oregon’s largest cities are right next to the fire-ravaged building, which officials say is unstable. mrf.lu/21pJ1 0197
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm currently sitting in McMinnville City Hall for testimony on a new housing project (I was in favor). What strikes me is how much support there is. A lot of the opposition keeps reusing the same NIMBY talking points, and seem somewhat confused that they aren't working. They seem blindsided. 100
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 16/07/2026There's an affordable housing development being built on church land next door to me in McMinnville, and I can't believe there was even an appeal to block it on the basis of "parking" and "mass" despite no legal basis for denying the development at this point. I guess I'm gonna be testifying today. 020
Reposted by Drew MilleganFischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026COUNCIL VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO DENY BOTH APPEALS WITH NO MODIFICATIONS. the lloyd center master plan is tentatively approved! 1399
Reposted by Drew MilleganMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Stipulation that rent raises over the rate of inflation count as a ‘change of use’ for purposes of tax assessment & code enforcement 2194
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Fun fact - one of the original financiers of the American Revolution died bankrupt 000
Reposted by Drew MilleganWoodworth Contrarian Fund @woodworth.fund · 24/06/2026The new Millegan Memo is live. Subscribers got it yesterday; now everyone can read it. This issue: shorting hype spikes, boring Kraft Heinz, and why America’s founding balance sheet was full of IOUs. #MilleganMemo www.woodworth.fund/news/the-mil...woodworth.fundTHE MILLEGAN MEMO: FEB-JUNE — Woodworth Contrarian FundAt Woodworth, we like value because it usually survives the sort of adversity that exposes everything else. This month’s Memo is about exactly that: puncturing market delusions when hype gets stupid, ... 022
Reposted by Drew MilleganWill U'ren @whollingsworth.bsky.social · 23/06/2026*Taps the Tom McCall quote* This is also about the Blazers “Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll agree you'll be just as sick as I am if you find it is nothing but a hungry hussy, throwing herself at every stinking smokestack that's offered.” 0102
Reposted by Drew Milleganamb @amb.fyi · 18/06/2026you know what else we could with the billions of dollars that ODOT want to spend on the Rose Quarter / IBR? How about a wholly integrated regional passenger rail network? i finally got my hands on a high level feasibility report Metro put together last year: ti.org/pdfs/MetroRe... 411028
Reposted by Drew MilleganWill Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Trying to rush the surrender deal into existence before more Republicans get wind of what it says 312816
Reposted by Drew MilleganKhelsilem @khelsilem.bsky.social · 25/05/2026I need to talk about Sen̓áḵw. This word has been in the news for years, and I still hear it mispronounced constantly—by journalists, politicians, and well-meaning people who just haven't been shown how. It's a word from the Squamish Language. Let me walk you through it. 🧵 18936
Reposted by Drew MilleganSky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10/06/2026"The United States draws its SPR; the world prices off the suppressed signal. When Cushing hits its operational floor — a matter of weeks at current trajectories — the self-correcting mechanism arrives not gradually but abruptly." Sounds bad. www.carlyle.com/carlyle-comp...carlyle.comThe abundance illusionJeff Currie suggests that markets are mistaking temporary relief from Chinese demand flexibility and strategic inventory drawdowns for a lasting improvement in global energy supply, which is underpric... 1440888
Reposted by Drew MilleganSeth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Spare a thought for the people with grass allergies who live in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. www.oregonallergyassociates.com/pollen-counts/ 1615315
Reposted by Drew MilleganCulture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 09/06/2026First look at the Trojan Horse popcorn bucket for 'The Odyssey' 🍿🐴 4630543
Reposted by Drew MilleganArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 05/06/2026With wind and solar power getting cheaper, coal has become the second-most expensive way of producing electricity, trailing only the cost of building a new nuclear plant.arstechnica.comTrump admin tries again to revive dying coal industryMoney would keep coal plants open, build the first new plants in over a decade. 77029
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Ouch. Portland metro continues to underperform. 000
Reposted by Drew MilleganThe Oregonian @oregonian.com · 01/06/2026The governor’s order comes days after the federal government sued the state over its mid-April decision to pause providing such license plates to all federal officers.oregonlive.comOregon halts undercover plates for ICE agentsThe governor’s order comes days after the federal government sued the state over its mid-April decision to pause providing such license plates to all federal officers. 1297
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Happy Earth Day - New article out of Sightline points out that Oregon could easily follow Washington's example on new power transmission legislation. It could be a model to help bring down electricity costs across Oregon while decarbonizing our grid! 010
Drew Millegan @drewmillegan.bsky.social · 16/04/2026This is what I mean when I say the Portland economy is uniquely weak among national rankings. 010
Reposted by Drew MilleganJake Anbinder @jakeanbinder.bsky.social · 19/03/2026I am in The Atlantic today on Paul Ehrlich, who died last week, and how "The Population Bomb" still looms over our politics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comWhat Paul Ehrlich’s Fear of Scarcity Did to American PoliticsEhrlich’s lurid predictions of imminent planetary doom captivated the public, but they did not come true. 55917
Reposted by Drew MilleganRay Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Extremely legit 419518
Reposted by Drew Milleganamb @amb.fyi · 27/02/2026@senkhanhpham.bsky.social on the senate floor today carrying SB 1567; puts $20 million in a newly created construction revolving loan fund for mixed income housing, based on the model pioneered in Montgomery County, Maryland. Bill passes 22-3 #orleg olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2026R1/M... 0476
Reposted by Drew MilleganOPB @opb.org · 24/02/2026Should a McMinville dad be deported for leaving his toddlers alone at home for a half hour 15 years ago? The Trump administration says yes in a pending court case with sweeping implications for both the immigration and child welfare systems.opb.orgOregon family hit with Trump’s latest deportation tactic: Targeting immigrants with minor court casesChild welfare officials and experts told ProPublica they are deeply concerned by the case, as well as several others like it that have been making their way through the courts and are now reaching a decisive point. 31016
Reposted by Drew MilleganKori 🌹 @koriander.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Every left-ish person who isn’t really following “this whole transit thing” and says “fast frequent free” before scrolling on: they are trying to use fare evasion as a pretext for cutting funding. Plz help 33812
Reposted by Drew MilleganLos Angeles Times @latimes.com · 10/02/2026Greg Brown, Cake founding guitarist who wrote breakout hit 'The Distance,' dead at 56latimes.comGreg Brown, Cake founding guitarist who wrote breakout hit 'The Distance,' dead at 56Greg Brown, a founding member of Sacramento alt-rock outfit Cake, has died. Friends honored the guitarist, who wrote the band's enduring hit 'The Distance.' 923483
Reposted by Drew Millegansarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 04/02/2026I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described 591990733
Reposted by Drew MilleganStephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 04/02/2026Very comprehensive Vox article on building code research and reform efforts across the country, fearing John Zeanah’s report for the Center for Building on low-rise multifamily housing and Michael Eriksen’s academic work on building code costs www.vox.com/future-perfe... (gift link)vox.comThe hidden double standards driving our housing crisisApartments are safer and more affordable than single-family homes. Why do we treat them like a hazard? 59027