Hillsboro Herald

01/05/2026

🛰️🧵 Hillsboro just gained “Ring” status — and with it, a new reality: we’re being marketed as a trans-Pacific internet gateway.

🏖️ Oregon Coast landings → 🧵 terrestrial backhaul → 🏢 Hillsboro data centers
That’s the pipeline. And once a region becomes a cable + ring + interconnection hub, the land rush gets baked in.

🤐 Here’s the part that burns: Where are the public meetings?

🏛️ Why are residents always left in the hallway with ZERO input?

📣 Read the full breakdown at the Hillsboro Herald (link in bio / site).

🔥Cables + Ring + AI = a land rush… and we’re not invited to the map.🔥

🛰️ Subsea cables
🧵 Fiber “Ring”
🏛️ City Hall / secrecy
🤐 No public meetings
🇺🇸 National infrastructure
🌏 Trans-Pacific gateway
🧠 AI demand
⚡ Power load
💧 Water demand
🏗️ Land expansion / UGB
💰 Tax breaks / incentives
🔌 Interconnection / carriers
🧾 Receipts / documents
🚨 Urgency / warning
📣 Public accountability

Hillsboro isn’t just “a data center town" now. It’s a trans-Pacific internet gateway of National and International importance. Here’s how subsea cables land on the Oregon Coast, how they route into Hillsboro, and what a fiber “ring” really is.

01/03/2026

Does anyone believe that this 🇻🇪 got job is about anything else but and corruption within our supposed leadership? WE MUST NOT ACCEPT THIS IN

01/01/2026

This is how many people are feeling... if these Creightons were any number of those in power in the highest places, this would be about right. We all see it. We all know it. We, all us people of good heart and conscious, want justice for the many victims. At least the arm of the law which we know believe does not exist. This was a good scene from and powerful movie.

12/31/2025

🧨 Hillsboro’s Top Stories of 2025 — chosen by readers.
Intel. Data centers. Energy projects. Farmland loss. Road closures. Accountability.
This is what people actually read because it affects real lives.

👉 Full Year-in-Review on HillsboroHerald.com.
Question: What should we investigate next in 2026?


https://hillsboroherald.com/hillsboro-herald-2025-year-in-review-data-centers-intel-ice-dominate-top-stories/

The Hillsboro Herald completed its 5th year on a roll, bringing news stories to the world that no one else dared to cover. From the massive layoffs at Intel Corp to the ongoing explosive growth of Data Centers, our community and its people were being pushed like never before by mid-year. Then came I...

12/31/2025

💙🧱 Hillsboro Community Foundation = local impact you can actually measure.

In 2025, HCF delivered $661,881 in grants, scholarships, and community support—arts & culture, scholarships, the all-inclusive playground at Hidden Creek, youth sports, and more.
The Hillsboro Herald

Also worth knowing: HCF qualifies for the Oregon Cultural Tax Credit (when paired with a matching gift to the Oregon Cultural Trust). Max credit amounts listed: $500 individual / $1,000 joint / $2,500 C-corp. (Not tax advice—check your situation.)
The Hillsboro Herald

Let’s build 2026 the right way—locally, transparently, and together. 🤝

Hillsboro’s future has always been shaped by people willing to show up, lead, and think beyond their own time. As our city changes fast, one value should never move: enhancing the quality of life for everyone who calls this place home. That’s the mission the Hillsboro Community Foundation (HCF) ...

12/30/2025

🔋 HILLSBORO’S BATTERY BOOM IS HAPPENING IN THE QUIET — AND THAT’S THE PROBLEM.

🌾 Yesterday: fields + farms + Helvetia vibes
🏗️ Today: industrial-scale lithium battery yards — moving fast, with most people never even told.

⚠️ What’s already true:
✅ PGE’s 75 MW “Constable” in Hillsboro has been operating since Dec 2024.
🔥 A Hillsboro data center battery fire burned for ~5 hours in 2025 — firefighters “played defense.”
🌫️ The Moss Landing battery fire (Jan 2025) forced evacuations up to ~1,500 people — a reminder that when these go bad, the consequences are outsized.

🧾 What I’m asking for isn’t anti-progress — it’s civic adulthood:
👁️ Full visual disclosure (real renderings, setbacks, elevations)
🚒 Plain-language safety case + real response plan
🧪 Environmental containment + cleanup + decommissioning plan
💰 Transparency: who owns it, insures it, profits, and pays if it fails

📌 If it’s going near homes, farms, schools, and small businesses—
nothing this consequential gets built in the dark.

👉 Full story: HillsboroHerald.com (link in bio)
💬 Comment: Are you for battery storage and for transparency + real safety planning? https://hillsboroherald.com/hillsboros-lithium-ion-bess-battery-boom-is-happening-in-the-quiet-and-thats-the-problem-2/

12/28/2025

🏠 HILLSBORO YEAR-END MARKET CHECK (2025)

✅ Values held (no big drop)
⚠️ Selling got tougher — and the data proves it:

📌 Median SOLD (Nov): ~$500K (down ~3.9% YoY)
⏳ Avg DOM (Nov): 46 days (up from 38)
📉 Homes sold: 89 (down from 95)

Now look at ACTIVE listings (late Dec):
🏷️ Median LIST: $595K
📦 Inventory: 148
⏳ Median DOM: 102 days
✂️ Price cuts: 52% of listings
📊 Market Action Index: 38 (“slight seller advantage”)

Translation: the market is holding its own… but overpriced homes are getting punished. Buyers have time again — and negotiation is back. 🤝

Read the full advisory (link in bio / comments) 🔗
Drop a 🏡 if you’re buying in 2026, or a 🧰 if you’re selling and want the strategy.

#97123 #97124

Hillsboro Year-End Real Estate Advisory (2025): Holding Steady — With Downward PressureAs I mentioned, every quarter, when I do a deep dive into the real estate market for buying and selling, I am among the most experienced real estate brokers in Greater Hillsboro, Oregon. For four decades plus I ...

12/28/2025

🚨 HILLSBORO: WHO GETS PAID, WHO GETS PLAYED?

🏨 Hotels pay a 13.5% lodging tax.

🧊 Data centers host thousands of supercomputers - just like lodgers in a hotel! But they pay NO TAX - No Income Tax- Little to No Property Taxes after they all receive a 5-year property tax abatement under our Enterprise Zone rules. There is No Sales Tax here. And they do not employ more than a handful of jobs- so not really any payroll tax!

🧾 And right now? Hillsboro’s biggest “power users” aren’t paying a franchise fee at all—even as they pull huge loads, drive grid upgrades, and rack up public-safety + infrastructure costs.

💸 Here’s the part City Hall can’t ignore: Hillsboro already collects about $24.8M/year in franchise fees (utilities/cable/solid waste), and about $2.9M/year via a “public utilities tax” for utilities operating without a franchise. That means the mechanism exists.

But NONE of that money is from

⚡ Prineville proved the model works: their FY2024 franchise fees were $8,190,291—driven by electric franchise revenue tied to data center activity.

✅ What we should do (now):
📌 Create a large-load / megawatt-based fee (franchise/privilege-style) so mega-users pay their share
📌 Require reporting + audit rights (no more “trust us”)
📌 Put the money where residents feel it: schools, utility relief, fire/police readiness, and infrastructure

📣 Tag City leaders and ask ONE question:
Why are residents paying full freight while megawatt landlords get abatements and exemptions?

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12/24/2025

remember that it's not the or things under the tree. is all that matters. If you have that, you are truly and lucky indeed!

12/23/2025

🔥🔥Tonight, I stood by a fire on Atfalati / Tualatin Kalapuya homeland and spoke a two-minute reminder: the year turns, the light returns, and what we send into the world matters.🔥🔥

So I sent this into the flame — not as a performance, but as a promise:

🕊️
⚖️
🚫 No oppression — not for anyone
❤️ More love as the focus in 2026
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 More family, more friendship, more connection
🔥 Strength and vigilance through a dark time
🌅 Because the night does end — and the light is returning

💯 If you’re watching this, add your own word to the fire with me:
Drop ONE word you’re sending into the new year (love, courage, justice, peace, hope…).❤️

















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12/22/2025

Before the rush.

Before the noise.

Before the screens.

Christmas in Hillsboro was quieter — and somehow stronger.

A time when winter slowed us down, neighbors looked out for one another, and Main Street felt like home. Horse-drawn wagons. Snow-packed streets. Shared warmth in hard seasons.

The ghosts of Christmas past aren’t gone.

They’re still here — reminding us who we were… and who we can be again.






https://hillsboroherald.com/ghosts-of-christmas-past-remind-of-us-a-simpler-time-in-hillsboro/

12/22/2025

Ghosts Of Christmas Past Remind Of Us A Simpler Time In Hillsboro

Editor's Note - Republished from 2022 - we update this story every year. We added some fun content at the bottom of this story. Happy Holidays, everyone! Ghosts Of Christmas Past Remind Us Of A Simpler Time In Hillsboro. The City of Hillsboro and its citizens have always been passionate about the holidays, even way back when. The first settlers in the Tualatin Valley spent Christmas Eve of 1840 together in a crude tent on the Tualatin Plains. ...

Ghosts Of Christmas Past Remind Us Of A Simpler Time In Hillsboro. The City of Hillsboro and its citizens have always been passionate about the holidays, even way back when. The first settlers in the Tualatin Valley spent Christmas Eve of 1840 together in a crude tent on the Tualatin Plains. This wo...