Hillsboro Herald

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...

12/22/2025

🔥A MUST-WATCH: THE ICE FIGHTER SPEAKS ABOUT BEING SURROUNDED AND NOT SUPPORTED👏

🚨 39 MINUTES. 3 CALLS TO 911. NO RESPONSE.

🧊 The ICE Hunter went live — and the city of got caught flat-footed.

⚖️ If the public is told “call police,” then the response must be real.

🔥Kylie Delgado is out there documenting ICE activity and demanding accountability from local government. 📹👀

🗓️ Dec 10 | 📍 Beaverton City Courthouse (back lot)
Kylie says she witnessed suspicious vehicles, then saw what she believed were ICE vehicles and 12–15 agents. 🧊🚗
She went live, asked viewers to call 911, and says police were nearby — yet she sat 39 minutes surrounded and alone. ⏰📞🚓

She disputes the incident report that followed and is demanding:
🧾 A public retraction of the City statement
📄 An audit of the incident report
⚖️ Real response protocols when the public is told “call police”

🔥 Over 500,000 watched that livestream. This isn’t going away.

✅ If you want transparency and accountability:
SHARE THIS • Comment “AUDIT” • Tag your neighbors

Police Department City Government Mayor Lacey Beaty

12/22/2025

🔥🔥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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12/20/2025

🧊🎥 SUPPORT THE ICE HUNTER: Kylie Delgado 📍Beaverton, Oregon

On Dec 10, Kylie Delgado says she witnessed suspicious vehicles enter the Beaverton City Courthouse back lot — then saw what she believed were ICE vehicles and 12–15 agents. 🧊🚙👀

She went live. She asked viewers to call 911. 📞🚨
She says she sat 39 minutes surrounded and alone — while police were nearby. ⏰🚓

Then came an incident report and a City statement that Kylie disputes. 📄🧾
Now she’s demanding accountability:

✅ PUBLIC RETRACTION
✅ AUDIT OF THE INCIDENT REPORT
✅ REAL RESPONSE PROTOCOLS (not promises)

🔥 Over 500,000 people watched that livestream.

📣 If you believe in transparency and public accountability:
SHARE THIS • Comment “AUDIT” • Tag your neighbors

🧡🤎 Keep it peaceful. Keep it focused. Keep it public-record serious. ⚖️

What should Beaverton do next — specifically?
One action. One sentence. 👇⚖️

12/18/2025

JoDee Clark Lompa spoke passionately and Intelligently to the Hillsboro City Council . We applaud her Voice !

12/18/2025

🔥"We Need The involved - Not In January!" said JoDee Clark Lompa to the , and she is Right!

🧊 NOT IN JANUARY. NOW.
👮‍♂️ VISIBLE PRESENCE
📸 DOCUMENT • DON’T ENGAGE
🏛️ HILLSBORO IS WATCHING
📣 AMPLIFY THIS VOICE

🧊 “Not in January. NOW.”

She’s calling for a visible, uniformed presence — not to interfere, not to escalate — but to show Hillsboro stands with its community and that accountability is real.

📸 People are already documenting.
🏛️ The City can show up now.

💬 Comment NOW if you agree the line gets drawn today — not later.
📩 Witnessed impacts? DM .





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12/16/2025