Basically as far as I can tell all the problems in Portland are related to government apathy about staffing. Pretty much every...
illuminator-of-eternal-warfare:
Basically as far as I can tell all the problems in Portland are related to government apathy about staffing.
Pretty much every government agency I get any insight into here is deeply understaffed for the workload, and also deeply committed to not doing anything to attract staff.
Culture war stuff or ideology seems largely unrelated.
“Pretty much every government agency I get any insight into here is deeply understaffed for the workload, and also deeply committed to not doing anything to attract staff.“
Sounds like ideology to me.
Well, sure, but how would you call that ideology? Republican small government ideology? I mean, I guess our city government is pretty right wing.
We’re hoping that once the structural changes go through the bureaucracy will unclog itself a little.
Well, I do think that until the 2020 unpleasantness, the downtown establishment was like “engaged community-oriented young people with leftward-trending opinions? all to the good, they’ll be great allies in developing this liberal city, perhaps as pertains to service provision and incorporating marginalized eastside communities into our (fundamentally neoliberal westside property owner-run) civic order!” and they’re a bit more hesitant to bring new employees or allies on board without proper vetting now.