February 09 2021
Tigard is refining its vision for the regional center, a site that includes parts of Beaverton and Washington County
As Tigard works to refine its vision for how the Washington Square Regional Center will look in the future, several things are clear: High-rise housing isn t in as much demand as it used to be, retail needs are changing with the economy, and while car dealerships are still going strong, the city may press them to downscale their sprawling footprints.
Those were some of the comments made as part of an update to the Washington Square Regional Center Update Project, a multi-year look at ways to refine the vision of an 827-acre site that includes not only the indoor shopping mall, which is in Tigard, but the surrounding area, including parts of Beaverton and unincorporated Washington County.
January 03 2021
OPINION: Tigard and Southwest Portland s state representative reflects on 11 years in the Oregon House.
As my time as your state representative for House District 35 winds down, I want to express my sincere thanks to all of the citizens who sent me back to Salem for the past 11 years. It has been an honor to represent you.
When I was appointed in August of 2009, I felt that I could make a difference for the citizens in Tigard and Southwest Portland.
I was raised in Southwest Portland. Went to grade school in Multnomah and graduated from Wilson High School, so I knew the area. I have lived in Tigard since 1989 and been involved in the community for the past 20 years. Little did I know that what I did in Salem would make what I coin as a quiet difference.
you a copy of our white aryan resistance? the jury in oregon decided tham from san diego he encouraged his followers to invade portland and commit violence. encouraged three members of his gang to attack and kill an ethiopian student here on this street with a baseball bat. in the end, the family of quid pro quo victimized by skinheads will receive a portion of metzger s income and all of his property. and all of his property. after that after that verdict, the father of that man told the associated press this is the happiest i feel since my son died because i know he has not died in vain. so this tactic has a certain elegance to it, right, when it comes to strategizing against ongoing violent terrorist movements in this country, right? responding after the fact to the individual attackers and murderers who commit these atrocities, i mean, it s obviously necessary but it s a little bit like pouring waters on the pouring water on the
edge on the exists race skinhead movement in portland in the 1980s to try to incite the local racist skinheads up there to further and more radical and more violent action. and when those portland skinheads then killed that man outside his apartment building that november night in 1988, the criminals themselves, the skinheads themselves who did it, they were punished by the criminal law. but then there was this lawsuit that was brought not only against them, it was also brought against tom metzger and his organization, white aryan resistance. and that lawsuit, of course, was not a criminal case. it was not going to add criminal charges against metzger or his group. it didn t add additional prison time to anybody s sentence and of course it didn t bring back the man they beat to death, but it did put a $12.5 million price on that murder. as the cost to be paid by that corner of the white nationalist terrorist movement.
that was brought not only against them, it was also brought against tom metzger and his organization, white aryan resistance. and that lawsuit, of course, was not a criminal case. it was not going to add criminal charges against metzger or his group. it didn t add additional prison time to anybody s sentence and of course it didn t bring back the man they beat to death, but it did put a $12.5 million price on that murder. as the cost to be paid by that corner of the white nationalist terrorist movement. so, i mean, where were these racist thugs and these skinheads and these, you know, aryan organizers going to get $12.5 million to pay the judgement in that case? obviously that s a reasonable question. they were never going to get all the way there. they didn t have that kind of money. but anything they did have, right, their homes, their cars, their bank accounts, their personal property, any donation anyone ever decided to make to white aryan resistance, any