Jobs and Economy

U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici talked ports, arts and coastal resilience during a visit on Thursday that included a stop at the North Coast Land Conservancy’s Circle Creek Conservation Center.

“When we invest in the creative economy, we see the whole community change,” Bonamici said in a call last week. “My office is in Beaverton at The Round and when the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts opened, it was incredible what that did. Now there are restaurants and gathering spaces and people coming together.”

Bonamici tried to appeal to Republicans by offering a fiscal argument. 

“It supports the local economy,” she said, highlighting local theaters in her home state, Oregon, that spread business to shops and restaurants in town. “It really is an economic issue, as well as an issue of what it means to our community to be able to sit together and to laugh and to cry and to ask questions and to be together.”