COMMENTARY | Ordinary people have real power over real money to make decisions that affect their lives What is participatory budgeting? Participatory budgeting, or PB, is a deliberative democratic process wherein ordinary people decide how to allocate a p ...
31 Aug 2018 - Jim Labbe
COMMENTARY | Portland's Residential Infill Project doesn't threaten trees. With tweaks, it could add trees. One of the more pernicious false choices you hear in debates about trees and redevelopment in Portland is the idea that we must choose be ...
27 Sep 2016 - Jim Labbe
COMMENTARY | Stumptown fables: Setting the record straight on Title 11 Since Portland’s new “citywide” tree code (Title 11) went into effect last year, myths and rumors abound about its impact, its implementation and how to improve it. What follows are so ...
3 Apr 2016 - Jim Labbe
Portland is losing large healthy trees to development and street “improvements.” It needn’t and shouldn’t. Here’s what to do about it. In East Moreland neighborhood, residents organize to save three massive sequoia trees after a developer secured a permit ...
30 Jul 2015 - Jim Labbe