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Portland Civic Lab @portlandciviclab.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Who's bankrolling the City Council candidates? When were the largest spikes in donations? And from who? How do candidates spend their money? Which vendors makes up $2M council elections economy? Find out here: www.portlandciviclab.org/deep-dives/c...
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The money behind Portland’s next council
A chart-led investigation of Portland Districts 3 and 4: public matching, fundraising surges, shared donors, endorsements and cash reserves, with an auditor profile and statewide context.
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Portland Civic Lab @portlandciviclab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Candidates statements and voting records tell us what they want government to do and how they propose to do it. We describe tradeoffs and institutional limits. We do not endorse candidates, recommend rankings, assign ideological scores, or infer private motives.
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Portland Civic Lab @portlandciviclab.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How do you make sense of 35 candidates running for Portland City Council? Where can you find what candidates pledge to deliver, how they plan to do it, and how they measure success? We try to answer those questions in our Voter Guide for 2026. www.portlandciviclab.org/voters-guide
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Portland Voter Guide 2026 | Compare City Council Candidates
Compare Portland City Council candidates in Districts 3 and 4 for November 3, 2026. Explore their plans, experience and votes in a free, nonpartisan guide.
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Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the fact that the NBA was forced to investigate and punish its richest owner because of a scandal uncovered by an investigative journalist… shoutout to pablo torre! journalism is so important!!!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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Portland Civic Lab @portlandciviclab.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today at City Hall: council.portlandciviclab.org
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Portland E-Bike Rebate Program: Get up to $1,600 off a new Standard Class 1 e-bike, plus $300 for accessories.
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This was super helpful for me to actually get up to speed on topics I haven't followed closely. Hope it can do that same for you!
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Really excited to release this. If you have feelings about your City Council, or want to know more about how things actually go down, we built this independent guide. Please tell us how to make this better for you!
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
THIS IS GOOD REPORTING. www.bizjournals.com/portland/new...
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Economists doubt Portland’s ability to get ROI in Moda deal - Portland Business Journal
There's a powerful psychological factor at play in Moda negotiatons. “A good analogy for approaching pro teams is to think about it as a romantic relationship,” an economist who studies stadium deals ...
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mitchgreen.bsky.social @mitchgreen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨PHD economist JC Bradbury of Kennesaw State University studies stadium deals, and says the Moda deal on the table is NOT a market-rate deal, as the mayor and others have said, but rather a total outlier, where the people have to sign the check without knowing what they’re even paying for.
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Marc Poris @marcporis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Just signed the Fan Compact. Thanks for this discussion and all the hard work, @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social. www.ripcitynotripoff.com/compact
To the fans
One more thing, and it is the thing I care about most. Throughout this process, the deal’s arithmetic has treated Portland’s fandom as worthless — a given, a rounding error, a thing that will show up and pay regardless. Every number in the term sheet prices the team’s scarcity. Not one prices ours.

But an NBA team is only a civic good because a city makes it one. Thirty years of sellouts in a small market. The loudest building in the league, for teams that often didn’t deserve it. Your hours, your money, your best memories — my best memories. That devotion is the asset this entire deal is secured against, and the people who hold it were the only party never represented at the table.

So here is my last request, as I step back. Keep loving this team — that was never the question. But remember what you now know. The record of how this was done exists, in public, with page numbers. The next time someone tells Portland the clock has run out and the price is the price — pull up the record, and start the meeting over.

And do one thing for the city that gets this next. Somewhere right now — Memphis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, San Antonio, a city that doesn’t know it yet — someone is about to spend their summer the way I spent mine, discovering far too late that the number was settled in a room they were never in. They should not have to start from nothing, the way we did. The Fan Compact is what I wish had existed in February: five rules, written down, that a fan in any market can hand to their council before the clock starts.

Owners are organized. Players are organized. We are the only ones who never were — and the only reason any of it is worth anything.

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At the bottom is a red button with white text that says SIGN THE FAN COMPACT ->
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Rita Moore @ritamoore.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A billionaire treats a city with contempt, demanding taxpayers pay for his vanity project. Electeds surrender to the extortion while cutting essential services. Same story everywhere for 30 years. Time for fans to organize. If we're not at the table, we're on the menu. Join the Fan Compact.
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
@candaceavalos.bsky.social doing good work today with her 3 amendments that all passed. Setting good precedents. Providing clarity for long term capital projects.
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some of the people who’ve taught me the most are younger than I am. I’d have missed so much if I thought mentorship only flowed in one direction.
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Mayor Melanie Kebler @melaniekebler.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As a lifetime Blazers fan, I remain confused by the approach to *gestures* all of this. Why wouldn't we want public tax dollars invested in the stadium to bring the most public ROI possible? Why would we expect a public body to start by negotiating against itself? Idk, idgi.
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J.C. Bradbury @jcbradbury.com · 08/08/2026
One highlight, because few people understand how "relocation" is used for leverage. It's not about extracting a ransom from desperate fans. It creates fear among representatives who know better, and gives them, civic leaders, media members, etc. a pretext to support bad policy.
Koyama Lane told OPB that, through conversations, these lobbyists ‘have made it clear that elected officials will be blamed if the team leaves Portland.’”

News coverage circulated in City files, February 2026 · production C452264, p.147 Verified

Put that pressure beside the reception where the team introduced councilors to the commissioner, the game tickets and parking passes offered to new members, and a business community that treats this project as the test of whether you are serious about Portland — and you have a vote where conviction and career point in the same direction for almost everyone. Which is exactly why the loudest argument for this deal is the one about losing the team. It is not primarily aimed at the public. It is aimed at the people casting the votes, and it works, because it converts a hard question about price into an easy question about loyalty. I believe several councilors know this deal is bad and will vote for it anyway — not because anyone bought them, but because the structure charges them personally for being right and pays them for going along. That is a design flaw in the room, and the fix is structural, not moral: make the information a precondition, and a councilor who asks for it is following the rules instead of risking a franchise.
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Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com · 08/08/2026
I shared an update and some opinions about the Moda Center stuff. Not ultra-spicy, but hopefully useful maybe as something to share with buddies who aren't as big of sickos about this stuff as we are: www.blazersedge.com/trail-blazer...
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Local Government Next Steps With Moda Center and Portland Trail Blazers
The City of Portland and Multnomah County have made moves.
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
This is my final word on the Moda Center saga. This Wednesday, the vote to spend $1.1B of taxpayer funds is going to pass. If you think you ever had a say in the matter, you were lied to. Everyone got what they wanted in the end. Everyone but you. www.ripcitynotripoff.com/everyone-but...
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Everyone But You: how Portland promised $573 million in rooms the public never entered
The league was in the room. The team was in the room. Three governments were in the room. 8,000 pages of the City's own records show who wasn't — and what it cost.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Correction: the City Council moved toward approving a term sheet that commits nearly $400M in city funds, $120M of which is unfunded and $275M has no apparent justification. Had my amendment passed we could have at least found the $120M. Ah well, nevertheless.
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Had a fun time talking Blazers basketball with the lads.
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Field of Schemes @fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Though the phrase “can’t-miss webinar” sounds like an oxymoron, I think this might just be one (tonight at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET).
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Did some modeling at the dais to show you what would happens if we pass my amendment: we’d generate free cash flow from the current encumbrances of Moda fees net of debt service on a $120MM bond issuance. No PCEF $, no general fund obligation and reduced public contribution by 2/3rds
Data table that shows revenues earned from Moda activities and cash flow at different interest rates net of debt service for a $120 m bond
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
WOAH. Blazers leaked emails show they refused to respond to city emails asking basic questions, weeks before any “first-class” claim was mentioned, contradicting Dewayne Hankins claim that that claim “chilled negotiations” They were not negotiating in good faith since the beginning.
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Sean Highkin @highkin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
On the role Adam Silver and the NBA will play in determining the Blazers’ future in Portland, whether Tom Dundon wants to keep them here or not www.rosegardenreport.com/why-adam-sil...
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Why Adam Silver Won't Let Tom Dundon Move the Trail Blazers
City and county lawmakers are preparing to vote on their portions of a Moda Center funding package.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Folks... they're here.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We upgraded our license to accommodate more RSVPs for this webinar! Don’t miss out for this discussion with two senior scholars in the field of sports economics.
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evanem @evanempdx.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Worth noting that Dewayne Hankins said in an interview a few years ago that they were having a record breaking year in concert and event attendance. About the 18:55 mark dcs-cached.megaphone.fm/ADLM79171468...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The league has to get rid of this Dundon guy. He bought the Blazers to hold the city of Portland hostage for arena money and now he's telling all of his underlings to shittalk the city so he can move to Kansas City or something. Cut this shit out or the league will be held hostage by similar ghouls.
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
the more you know.
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Watch this space for a live-skeet thread at tomorrow morning's City Council Moda work session.
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Blazers spokesperson Charles Boyle told OPB that if the deal isn’t finalized on deadline, “it won’t be for lack of information.” Is this dude for real? The city has no plans, details, line items, etc. They just want a blank check like the one they got from the State. www.opb.org/article/2026...
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As Moda Center deal looms, Portland city officials at the center of negotiations weigh in
On Thursday, the Portland City Council will hold its first public meeting on its term sheet for renovating the arena. OPB asked three city officials to weigh in on where the deal stands.
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Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I think our Council President is managing the Moda talks situation deftly. Completely uncharted territory. Thanks for your leadership @councilordunphy.bsky.social
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Dundon may be willing to take the deal to the edge. Portland should not try to beat him at brinkmanship. Here's what the city should do. 🧵
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
We audited every NBA/NFL/MLB/NHL team that left its market in the last 20 years. All 7 of them. Zero left after an authorized majority-public offer. Not one. Ever. Oregon has already authorized 64% of the Blazers renovation. The receipts: edankrolewicz.substack.com/p/every-team...
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Every Team That Left Its Market: A Twenty-Year Audit of the Relocation Threat
What the complete record of Big Four relocations tells us about the risk the Blazers leave Portland — and why the perceived probability matters more than the real one.
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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Remembering Sinéad O'Connor, who died three years ago, on July 26, 2023. Photo by Andreas Larsson. #sineadoconnor
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Jonathan Pulvers @pulverizer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I'm not trying to get people to agree or disagree with me, I just know that it feels like we're making a big investment in the Blazers' arena.
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There isn't a single NBA/NFL/NHL/MLB team in the last 20 years that walked away from a majority-public funding offer. The State has already authorized $365M of a claimed $573M renovation. The Blazers leaving would be an unprecedented relocation story. Would Adam Silver let it happen?
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Repost from @sound_odyssey3 • James Taylor & Carole King — You’ve Got a Friend BBC In Concert · 1971 "Pure comfort in song form. Written by Carole King and shared here with James Taylor, You’ve Got a Friend feels less like a performance and more like a promise. (Cont'd in comments)
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
LFG Portland!
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Field of Schemes @fieldofschemes.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Blazers execs have introduced negging to the sports subsidy game, declaring Oregon taxpayers would get a "sweetheart deal" by only giving Tom Dundon $600m in exchange for no rent or property tax instead of him demanding even more.
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Blazers execs to Oregon taxpayers: Consider yourself lucky to only be giving us $600m
Two days into the week, and Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon's strategy for getting arena renovation money is becoming clear: Send team officials to talk to the media under cover of anonymity t...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
spend two hours hearing me talk about why the Blazers aren’t leaving. Or touch grass. Both cool
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Portland City Councilor Jamie Dunphy @councilordunphy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Weird to miss the robber barons of yore, but at least Carnegie built libraries. He didn't buy the publishing company and threaten to take all the books unless the government built him a better library...
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Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Imagine thinking a handshake deal with the mayor, who has NO budget authority, for hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars (don't forget the total city commitment is actually $400m+) with "concepts of a plan" was the end of the negotiation...🤯 www.nytimes.com/athletic/745...
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Trail Blazers, Portland 'very far apart' on lease agreement as arena saga continues
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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Dundon said he would sign a "market-rate" deal. The only way to know what "market-rate" means is to run a competitive bid. That could provide the City of Portland with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars AND the Blazers would still remain the anchor tenant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjdP...
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Why The Blazers Are Not Leaving Portland | Blazers Podcast
YouTube video by Wake Up RipCity! | Portland Trail Blazers Podcast
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 18/07/2026
The city of Portland delivered the first draft of a term sheet to the Trail Blazers management on Thursday, July 16, setting the city one step closer to a long-term lease agreement with the team for the Moda Center.
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City Sends First Draft Moda Lease Terms To Blazers, To Surprise of Council - Portland Mercury
Updated: 4:48 pm July 17 The city of Portland delivered the first draft of a term sheet to the Trail Blazers management on Thursday, July 16, setting the city one step closer to a long-term lease agre...
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Edan Krolewicz @edankrolewicz.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Have always been pro-renovation. But we need fair deal terms. youtube.com/shorts/Fs2CY...
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The Moda Center needs to be renovated! | Blazers Podcast | Wake Up RipCity!
YouTube video by Wake Up RipCity! | Portland Trail Blazers Podcast
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Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
For those curious, the draft term sheet's been posted here:
portland.gov
City Advances First‑Draft Moda Center Term Sheet, Establishing Framework to Keep Trail Blazers in Portland
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Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Same 🫡
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