Goodbye to a weird I-5 landmark

A Tax Hike Proposal for Funding Shortfall

Three Portland city councilors want to increase the tax levied for the city’s clean energy program and use that money to address the looming $93 million budget shortfall. Specifically, they’d up the 1% gross receipts tax on major retailers to 1.33%. [Oregonian 🔒]

Goodbye to Landmark Billboard

The drive to Seattle is about to get a little friendlier for liberal Portlanders. A billboard that since 1967 has featured Uncle Sam and various conservative messages (with varying degrees of coherence) will likely disappear. The owners of the land are selling. [Willamette Week]

Rose Quarter Project Moves Ahead

On the Friday news roundup, the Oregon Department of Transportation plans to start expanding I-5 at the Rose Quarter, even as the agency has lined up only about half the funding necessary to complete the project. [City Cast Portland 🎧]

This mural at Southwest 36th Avenue and Canby Street in Multnomah Village was a project of the neighborhood association a couple years back.

“I am one of the co-leaders of that painting project!” writes reader Pam Fox. “The mural was funded by a small grant from the city.”

The day to refresh the paint on the mural is coming up soon — June 21. And reader Peter Samson, Multnomah Neighborhood Association board member, writes with an invitation to paint: “Come join us!”

Apparently the steep hill near the mural was known for an unusual pastime: “apple bowling. The tree died last year — and with it the tradition,” writes reader Robert.

A shoutout to the rest of the readers who knew the location: Amy M., Corinne, Pepper R, and Robin Schauffler.

This week’s submission is from reader Annette Morrison:

Where is this celebration of Portland soccer? Please click here to send me the location — and anything you know about it.

If you’re new to the newsletter, there’s a scavenger hunt every Friday. Please send me the location if you know it — and for unofficial bonus points, anything you know about it. In next week’s newsletter, I’ll shout out the first 10 readers who respond correctly (and reveal the answer).

📸 Want to submit a photo? Please email me a snapshot of somewhere in the Portland metro area, and we’ll consider it for an upcoming “Where Is It?” segment!