When I was a young guy,  a friend had a shack he shared with another guy,  and over the front door was a sign "You Used Me."    Relevant.  Gilliam county needs one of those signs at the I-84 exit at Arlington.

Portland and Metro are crooked to the core,  and always have been.  WM is mob connected,  because there is no way in these United States you can become a nationwide garbage company without mob approval.  Just  how things work and have worked over the last century.  Portland has always been a mob town, where government exists only with mob approval.  Read the history.

Governments get franchise fees,  a percentage of the take,  the utility bill,   vigorish,  from 
"utilities" for use of streets and alleys.  They like them  to raise prices because they get more money,  more power,  from that money,  and it doesn't take tax payer approval.    Metro is playing a dangerous game.  WM will be at Arlington long after Metro players are gone.  And there is no Connie McCready to fight 'em.