The business group that agitated for this task force’s formation not only claims 1/3 of all city lobbying activity over the past ten years, they’ve also made their aims clear by opposing every progressive tax measure in recent memory. If anyone is responsible for the state of downtown, it’s the PBA

The measures mentioned above are the same the task force now points to as failures, on account of a lack of felt progress on the problems the measures proposed to address — a feeling the PBA actively works to cultivate through reporting in PBA-member media outlets like the Oregonian and WW