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The Portland business community is behind Gov. Kotek's Central City Task
Force and its plan to address downtown Portland's woes. This sort of support
usually doesn't bode well for the city's unhoused. Is anything different this
time around? Traci and Abe take your calls.
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It's taken awhile, but the latest indictment of the Former Guy, at long last,
gets at the heart of his most heinous and enduring crime -- the attempted
coup d'etat on our constitutional order. And not coincidentally, the
indictment sets the nation up for the most consequ...
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This past June was the hottest June in history, and we've just exited a July
that was the hottest month ever recorded. Floods are ravaging China, and
Phoenix, Arizona has endured an entire month's worth of days in excess of 110
degrees. Meanwhile, the Biden administratio...
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For some time now, Florida has been marching bravely back to the 19th
Century. Their latest highlight? History curricula asserting that slavery
was beneficial to the enslaved. Traci and Abe take your calls, and dig into
the dangers of willful historical ignorance.
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A person of interest has been identified in connection with the deaths of
four women in the Portland area. A human tragedy, and a massive story -- and
yet, news coverage and public outcry have been strangely muted. Could the
victims' socioeconomic circumstances -- their ...
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In a decision as puzzling as it is deeply cynical, the Supreme Court of the
United States has ruled to end affirmative action in college
admissions. Systemic racism and historic inequity are terrible things --
they're just not anything the Constitution will permit us to ...
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The great heat dome of the summer of 2021 killed 96 Oregonians, most of whom
lived in Multnomah County. Who's responsible? The fossil fuel industry, says
the County, which has just filed a lawsuit against 17 different oil & gas
companies, seeking billions in damages. And...
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