While I do not know where Alice resides, this is why I feel people outside of Portland should really preface their comments. I don't know any Portlander that truly wants to chase off their largest employer. I don't know any Portlander who doesn't think subsidies are important to continue to build a world class research organization. I don't know any Portlander who doesn't want to see PSU and OHSU become larger regional institutions. I don't know any Portlander that would rather see OHSU expand in the burbs than in our own city. I don't know any Portlander that is against OHSU's mission, or the good they do for our community, both inside Portland and for the entire region being one of only one of two trauma centers. I don't know any Portlander that thinks doctors are poor citizens. I don't know any Portlander that thinks a brownfield that has sat vacant for decades outside of downtown are negative when turned into sleek towers, a regional campus that connects three universities (OGI, OHSU, PSU), spectacular Willamette riverfront parks, better Salmon habitat, and green principles in all the buildings that are rising.

I understand the funding issues with the tram. I see people pointing fingers at everyone for a relatively small amount of money, compared to other projects in this city as well as nationally. I see people who don't live in Portland complaining about how Portland spends their money, when the tram, if the city indeed spends $10mil out of general funds money (which it is not), comes to roughly around $18 per person. I don't see the outrage in that number especially when the federal government just took a $30,000 loan out on the heads of every man, woman, and child in America on top of the loans we already owe.

The tram was poorly planned. There was some shady information withheld by irresponsible people that got the numbers wrong and didn't come forward even though they knew it. That doesn