01.24.13 Your Morning Buzz

UPCHUCK! Trader Joe’s raises price of ‘Two-Buck Chuck’

ELGL News and Notes

Join ELGL: Students (free), individuals ($20), and organizations ($250)

Newest Members:

Dan Blue, City of Gresham, Recycling and Solid Waste Program Manager

Kenny Asher, City of Tigard, Community Development Director

Upcoming Forums:

• January 24: ELGL Advisory Board Meeting

• January 29: ELGL Central Oregon Meet Up

• February 6: ELGL forum with Mark Zusman, Willamette Week Editor

The High Five

1. New Lake Oswego council is off to a questionable start – The first item of business was to approve a search process for the hiring of a permanent city manager, which was done. Next, however, came a surprise motion made by the mayor himself to remove the current interim city manager and replace him with a new interim city manager. The surprise was not that this was happening. Anytime there is a change in leadership, these changes are not that unusual. What was a surprise, however, was how all of this was handled.

2. Indiana’s Gambling Lock Is Loosened – Threats of casino expansion in neighboring states are endangering a gambling powerhouse’s revenue stream. Above, a newly renovated casino in Hammond, Ind.

3. A Guide to America’s Most Ambitious Transit Projects – The U.S. is currently planning 721 regional transit projects. Don’t hold your breath for their completion, though.

4. Hotseat: Baruti Artharee – The city’s new cops czar talks about making the police safer for his grandkids.

5. Off the Grid – The history behind Portland’s sometimes baffling street grid.

Legislative Sausage-Making

• Metro Council ready to approve a 2013 legislative agenda topped by Oregon Convention Center hotel funding

• Murmurs: Greenlick vs The CRC

• SJ Watch: Number of state workers drops in 2012

• Company Town: Fashion remains an important part of perception in politics

• Panel to advise on state bond limits

• What bills are local lawmakers backing?

• Voter-Owned Redux

• Pay Up or Shut Up

The Fiscal Cliff

• Seattle gets C+ for budget transparency

• House Votes to Extend Debt Limit to May, Averting Fight

• Arch Bridge rehab final cost: $14.9M

• Walden, House say: No Budget, No Pay

• Hales Slashes Programs for Dozens of Kids, Now Claims $1 Million in Savings in Office Budget

• OSPIRG gives Portland a D- for transparency in city spending: Portland City Hall Watch

• Kansas’ Governor and G.O.P. Seek to End Income Tax

• Portland officials seek to protect city’s public safety fund from collective bargaining

• Housing Authority of Clackamas County expected to receive first audit of its management this year

Inside Portlandia

• Lake Oswego temporarily fills planning director position after year-long vacancy

• City Council Approves Boathouse for Randy Leonard Fire Station 21

• Milwaukie City Council sets draft goals for 2013

• Bike cafe, Cove funds approved

• Damascus forgets to swear in its mayor

• Froman-Goodrich named OC engineer

• Permanent city manager recruitment rolls ahead

• Beaverton cheat sheet: Quick facts on Mark Ganz ahead of State of the City tonight

• Old rails could turn into trails

• Portland police chief finds Todd Wyatt can be effective as a lieutenant ‘with close supervision,’ his demotion letter says

Outside Portlandia

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• Lakewood selects new mayor, deputy mayor

• Council OKs City Hall design that would retain circular Council Chamber

• County to streamline operations

• Pasco City Council votes to give city manager $12,000 bonus

• Santa Ana City Council Votes To Fire City Manager 7 Months Into Job

• Central Wash. town featured on ‘Today in America’

• The City of Medford looking to put its roads on a diet

• Longview council will revisit pot garden zoning policy tonight

• Future of Bend’s Mirror Pond dredged up yet again

• Stromberg’s State of the City: ‘Ashland can thrive’

• Kate Brown goes national on voting modernization

• Oregon Supreme Court decision gives leeway to polices on searches

The Career Center

• Secret to Increased Productivity: Don’t Come to the Office – If your employees don’t work from home, you’re missing out on tons of benefits. Guidelines to make a work-from-home program work.

• Overcome Your Fears About Negotiating Salary – But overcoming your fears about negotiation can lead you to increase your starting salary significantly. Here are some of the most common fears about negotiating, and how you can overcome them.

• 5 Strategies to Steal From Google for a Happier Office – the tech giant is known for being a great place to work. Here’s how you can make your office more like Google.

• How Great Leaders Communicate – You’ve just been promoted into one of your organization’s Big Jobs. Now you’ve got an impressive office, a hefty budget and vast expectations about how you will lead dozens.

• 3 Signs It’s Time to Leave Your Job – After years of toiling away at babysitting gigs and barista shifts, you finally found a job that you loved. It was interesting, exciting, and you loved your co-workers like a family. But over time, the shine wore off, and you found yourself feeling stuck and itching for a change. That lovin’ feeling was gone.

Do Something

• Meet Tigard Mayor John Cook – You are invited to join me once a month for open discussion regarding Tigard. Bring your concerns and/or ideas regarding our city or simply stop in and say hello. I am looking forward to meeting with you.

• City seeks sustainability input Saturday – Food goes green (metaphorically) at Forest Groves town meeting Forest Grove’s Annual Town Meeting Saturday has a sustainability theme.

• Welcome to the Mirror Pond Project – You are invited to participate in developing a plan to address the build up of silt and future maintenance of Mirror Pond. A number of alternate plans (visions) will be developed with your help through a community outreach program intended to find a single broadly supported plan (vision) that will guide immediate and long-term responses to the silt deposits. The final ‘preferred plan’ (vision) will be used in fund raising, construction plans, and permitting efforts needed to make your final plan a reality.

• Salem schedules public meetings on budget forecast – The public meetings will include a forecast presentation and will include a question-and-answer session and feedback to City Manager Linda Norris.

The World Wide Web

• 7 Warning Signs You’re Using Social Media Wrong – So you’ve been using social media for awhile. And frankly, you can’t see what all the fuss is about. You’ve been posting status updates on Facebook, sharing stuff on Twitter, heck, you’ve even updated your profile on LinkedIn. But what’s the big deal? If this describes you, you’re probably using social media wrong.

• Facebook Graph Search Shows You ‘Married People Who Like Prostitutes’ And ‘Employers Of People Who Like Racism’ – When Facebook launched its social search engine “Graph Search” last week, Isuggested that Facebook stalking would now be limited only by users’ creativity in coming up with search queries.

• Are These Early Sketches of Twitter’s Logo? “The Bird” was one of the ideas considered for Twitter’s original logo. That is, the extended middle finger gesture known in North America by that name. Other ideas, however, hewed closer to traditional images of birds.

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