12 OCTOBER 29, 2010 | NEWS + FEATURES | THE PORTLAND PHOENIX

COUNCILOR WANNABES

DO YOUThink Portland’s public

art should exclusively be

created by local artists?

JOHN ANTON*

No.

I support pay-per-bag as a

strategy to reduce trash/

increase recycling, but I do

not believe an incremen-

tal increase in bag price

results in an incremental

decrease in trash/increase

in recycling.

WHAT ISThe single best way

to increase Portland

residents’ use of public

transportation?

DO YOUSupport an elected

mayor in Portland?

DO YOUSupport allowing legal

immigrants to vote on

municipal issues?

DO YOUBelieve increasing

pay-per-bag prices is

an effective way to

reduce trash/increase

recycling?

More frequent and

consistent service.

Yes.

Yes.

I think this indeed reduc-

es the people buying the

blue bags and possibly in-

creases the people finding

Dumpsters to throw their

less-expensive Glad bags

into, which essentially

reduces recycling and in-

creases trash.

I like to think we have

enough extremely tal-

ented local artists that our

public art should indeed

be created locally by local

artists whenever possible.

To be completely honest,

I don’t think there is one

single best way to increase

public use of public trans-

portation short of giving

away free bus tickets.

I support an elected mayor

for the following reasons:

vision-oriented position,

recognized leadership,

selected by the people,

serving long enough to

accomplish a mandate of

the people.

Equal voice for equal taxes,

equal say in local issues

like school budgets, school

committee, and council

representation. Immi-

grants would still need to

become citizens to vote

on state or federal issues,

but would be recognized

by the community they

are invested in by having

restored a right legal im-

migrants had until 1928.

CHARLES BRAGDON* JILL DUSON WILL MITCHELL* ED SUSLOVIC

IN WHICH WE ASK THE CANDIDATES FOR PORTLAND CITY COUNCILABOUT A SELECTION OF THE IMPORTANT ISSUES OF THE DAY.PHOENIX-ENDORSED CANDIDATES HAVE ASTERISKS NEXT TO THEIR NAMES.

AT-LARGE DISTRICT 3(CHOOSE TWO)

No response.

No response.

No response.

No response.

No response.

I believe the pay-per-bag

system generally does

serve that purpose ef-

fectively, however the

recent fee increase seems

to have passed a tipping

point and has therefore

had unintended negative

consequences.

Not exclusively. I am in

favor of buy-local prefer-

ences and of supporting

the local arts community,

and perhaps weighting

proposals with that in

mind, but we should

always be open to world-

class public art.

Improve the METRO bus

system’s routing, frequen-

cy, and visibility/branding

to make it more viable to

more people, including

through the use of tools

like smartphone apps and

Google Transit integra-

tion, and through creative

marketing and promo-

tion. And long-term,

bring the trolleys back.

Up to a point. Pay-per-

bag communities like

Portland have a much

higher recycling rate

than other communi-

ties. We cannot con-

stantly keep raising the

bag fees, however.

No. Portland is a global

community and should

have a two way flow

of art into and out of

our city.

Increase the frequency

of bus service and install

bus shelters with status

boards indicating how

many minutes until the

next bus arrives.

Yes, but I have heard lots

of opposition to the sal-

ary and instant-runoff

voting elements of the

charter proposal from

District 3 residents.

No.

Yes.

Yes.

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