Findings
Findings, including the ones that help the other side.
A finding grades a specific published claim against a named record as of a named date. It does not settle the underlying argument and it does not pretend to.
We publish findings that cut in every direction and we say who paid for each one. Where a finding was produced without a client it is marked self-funded and published on the same terms as paid work.
self-funded / hillsboro, oregon / 2026-09
Grading a water claim against the city’s own data
A widely circulated figure for data center water consumption does not describe the jurisdiction it was aimed at, by roughly two orders of magnitude. The correction sits on the city’s own website and had gone unused.
Findings in preparation cover electricity rate allocation, abatement magnitude by program, and the parcel record behind a county’s stated land-use exposure.
How to read a finding
- The claim is quoted or described as published, with its source class identified.
- The record is the authority we checked it against, with the retrieval date.
- The finding is a single sentence in the permitted form, never stronger than the record supports.
- What this does not establish is a required section. A finding that does not name its own limits is an argument.
- Funding is stated on the finding itself, not only on the disclosure page.