The federal government has given Oregon and Washington an additional five years to repay more than $135 million in federal highway funds used to pay for pre-construction planning and engineering on the now-scrapped Columbia River Crossing. Oregon said it used $93.3 million from the Federal Highway Administration for work on the proposed I-5 bridge over […]
“Local governments are starting to relax when they look at their bills from the Public Employees Retirement System. After five years of steadily climbing costs, PERS is becoming cheaper or at least not much more expensive. Those costs have made the people who run local governments and school districts squirm and pull out their calculators […]
“I estimated exactly how much money I needed to succeed. The problem with this is that the “perfect” amount of money is a fallacy. Indeed, if you have a unique, revolutionary and proprietary idea, combined with the right amount of money it stands a significantly better chance of becoming a success. But most of us […]