Welcome back, Chloe! Love the post, but I see a couple issues I'm hoping you can address.
1. The district map you included in the post is incorrect. That's one of the maps the commission considered, but rejected, mainly because it would have resulted in Sandy Blvd dividing several neighborhoods in NE Portland. The one they settled on and was adopted follows the neighborhood boundaries around Sandy Blvd in a stair-step pattern. You can find it here: https://www.portland.gov/transition/districtcommission/map
2. As a person with red-green colorblindness, I often face this situation where people very naturally use a "red/yellow/green" color system for "bad to good" because it's intuitive to follow the way traffic signals work. However, traffic signals use a special type of green color that makes them still completely legible for those of us with red-green colorblindness. The colors you use in this post are just standard red and green with a similar level of saturation, and as a result I can't really tell the difference between the ones that are meant to be opposites! Given how common this color-perception disability is, with about 5% of all men and 1% of all women having some form of red-green colorblindness, I always encourage people to keep this in mind when choosing a color scheme. The easiest thing to do is replace green with blue, since blue is also often associated with "positive" in people's minds, and blue doesn't really get confused with any other color in the vast majority of color-perception issues (the gene for seeing blue is on a totally different chromosome, whereas the genes for red and green are right next to each other on the same chromosome, hence they get confused in some people). You can also do things like make one of them light and the other dark, like light green and dark red or vise versa, or mix in another color into one of them (traffic lights do this, mixing some blue into the green light). Or avoid colors altogether and use hatching or shading.
Bond measures direct public money for specific purposes. For instance, a bond for more preschools or to solve homelessness can’t be applied to the City’s General Fund, which is used for internal public offices and entities that don’t raise money. How will candidates supply funding for the Park or Fire Bureaus, or internal offices such as City Attorney or Risk Management? I’m just trying to play Devil’s Advocate with you Chloe. I really hope you can cover some of that or include it in your candidate’s ratings.
Welcome back. And thank you for explaining your personal reasons for the lapse in your blog. A lot of people take in family members as needed, and that’s a nice thing about you, Portland and other cities.
As I grow older I grow more conservative and also know more Conservative people. I’ve learned that many people voted for the change in government without really knowing what it involved or what the impacts would be. I think people would benefit for the continuity represented by Gonzalez, Mapps and Rubio, so they all deserve support depending what people think of their views. I think they all deserve positive appraisals, and also some appreciation for their service. We’re facing a reduced budget, probable government layoffs, and some reduction of some services in the city. These candidates all need to address funding of services and which ones bring in money and which ones can’t continue at previous levels. That takes specific knowledge of the city and a range of views to make it all work.
Finally, anyone with a solid plan to restore downtown Portland will get a lot of votes,
Welcome back, Chloe! Love the post, but I see a couple issues I'm hoping you can address.
1. The district map you included in the post is incorrect. That's one of the maps the commission considered, but rejected, mainly because it would have resulted in Sandy Blvd dividing several neighborhoods in NE Portland. The one they settled on and was adopted follows the neighborhood boundaries around Sandy Blvd in a stair-step pattern. You can find it here: https://www.portland.gov/transition/districtcommission/map
2. As a person with red-green colorblindness, I often face this situation where people very naturally use a "red/yellow/green" color system for "bad to good" because it's intuitive to follow the way traffic signals work. However, traffic signals use a special type of green color that makes them still completely legible for those of us with red-green colorblindness. The colors you use in this post are just standard red and green with a similar level of saturation, and as a result I can't really tell the difference between the ones that are meant to be opposites! Given how common this color-perception disability is, with about 5% of all men and 1% of all women having some form of red-green colorblindness, I always encourage people to keep this in mind when choosing a color scheme. The easiest thing to do is replace green with blue, since blue is also often associated with "positive" in people's minds, and blue doesn't really get confused with any other color in the vast majority of color-perception issues (the gene for seeing blue is on a totally different chromosome, whereas the genes for red and green are right next to each other on the same chromosome, hence they get confused in some people). You can also do things like make one of them light and the other dark, like light green and dark red or vise versa, or mix in another color into one of them (traffic lights do this, mixing some blue into the green light). Or avoid colors altogether and use hatching or shading.
Thank you for your consideration.
Bond measures direct public money for specific purposes. For instance, a bond for more preschools or to solve homelessness can’t be applied to the City’s General Fund, which is used for internal public offices and entities that don’t raise money. How will candidates supply funding for the Park or Fire Bureaus, or internal offices such as City Attorney or Risk Management? I’m just trying to play Devil’s Advocate with you Chloe. I really hope you can cover some of that or include it in your candidate’s ratings.
Chloe,
Welcome back. And thank you for explaining your personal reasons for the lapse in your blog. A lot of people take in family members as needed, and that’s a nice thing about you, Portland and other cities.
As I grow older I grow more conservative and also know more Conservative people. I’ve learned that many people voted for the change in government without really knowing what it involved or what the impacts would be. I think people would benefit for the continuity represented by Gonzalez, Mapps and Rubio, so they all deserve support depending what people think of their views. I think they all deserve positive appraisals, and also some appreciation for their service. We’re facing a reduced budget, probable government layoffs, and some reduction of some services in the city. These candidates all need to address funding of services and which ones bring in money and which ones can’t continue at previous levels. That takes specific knowledge of the city and a range of views to make it all work.
Finally, anyone with a solid plan to restore downtown Portland will get a lot of votes,
Thanks again for your consideration.