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You voted for it. This week: who really pays for Downtown Clean & Safe, and who really decides.
Read the filePortland handed Daimler a tax break to keep manufacturing. Weeks after the ribbon-cutting, the plant is closing.
Read the fileA transportation deal collapsed in Salem, and the cost landed as the largest layoff in Oregon state-government history. Plus a housing bond that overdelivered, then started losing money.
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