7 case files tracing where Portland's tax dollars actually went. Filter by status, or dig through the whole drawer.
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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.
Read the fileA bridge doubled in price, an arts tax tripled the teachers, a gas tax lost half its punch.
Read the fileA $2B freeway with a $1.5B hole, a preschool tax that worked too well, and a Black student center that sat in a drawer for five years.
Read the fileThe MAX Green Line was a $575M promise. In August, it stops halfway home.
Read the fileA $500M water plant became a $2.56B megaproject. A parks levy passed with an $800M ghost in the basement. And one bond that's actually beating its goal.
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