I would like to correspond with a Portland resident...

[Maddy McCall]

who's widely versed in city politics, well enough to know all of the players and to remember City Commissioner Mike Lindberg.

If you fit this description, could you please PM me? Thanks!!

[Syncronaut Seven]

1. From about 10 years back

From mayoral race line up. I recognize the name, I don't think he's a wallflower, seems to have gotten treasury after him and 16 others once, over a planned trip to evil comminist Cuba.




Mike Lindberg
1979-1996
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Hard-partying "Iron" Mike is the Cal Ripken of modern Portland politics: His 17 years in the bigs exceeds the current council's combined experience. He championed the arts, kept peace on the council and dabbled in international causes such as nuclear disarmament and global warming.
STRENGTHS:
Solid staff, great Rolodex, hollow legs.

WEAKNESSES:
Desire to be everyone's friend hindered leadership.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
Pushing Arts Plan 2000 and Portland Energy Plan; putting the "happy" back in happy hour.

RETIREMENT:
Iron Mike retired from the bigs in '96 to take a two-year stint as president of the Oregon Symphony Foundation.

[Syncronaut Seven]

2. More

Are a bunch of neighborhood activists threatening the city?

BY BOB YOUNG,


When Mike Lindberg left the Portland City Council in 1996, his farewell speech sounded like Dwight Eisenhower's parting warning about the military-industrial complex.

"My greatest concern," Lindberg said after 17 years on the council, "is that we in our neighborhoods are becoming too parochial."

Like the former commander-in-chief, Lindberg knew about the danger of which he spoke. In the 1970s, as a progressive young bureaucrat in Mayor
Neil Goldschmidt's administration, Lindberg helped create the city-sanctioned neighborhood groups.

Now, Lindberg's worst fears are materializing. "It has reached an unprecedented level," he said recently of neighborhood protests. It's not just predictable foes like methadone clinics and halfway houses that neighborhood activists are fighting, but also schools, pools, granny flats--even a memorial for Holocaust survivors.

http://www.wweek.com/html/cover021898.html

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