Mayor Charlie Hales' Business Tax Hike Appears Dead. Will A Construction Tax Take Its Place?

Portland Mercury:

IT WAS A WHOPPING 90 minutes into Portland City Council’s first hearing on Mayor Charlie Hales’ proposed budget Tuesday before the ailing elephant in the room finally died.

Taking pains to applaud Hales for his “extraordinarily collaborative” approach, Commissioner Nick Fish nonetheless announced he wouldn’t back the most controversial element of Hales’ new budget—one knocked by some for being notably noncollaborative.

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