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Dispatch from the land of the lotus eaters
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The Gloss of Good Intentions
How Portland Squandered a Chance to Become a Great American City
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Reservation Elections: A Visit with Robyn Whitecloud
Listen now (36 mins) | The candidate on what's going right on the rez (and what can go better), famed family members, and the community delight over…
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The Reality Portland Does Not Want to See
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The Portland Set to Emerge as the Next Great American City is Dead by Its Own Hand. What Now?
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Amanda Stott-Smith, 1977-2023
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Portland Was Not Ready
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Dispatch from Portland 2023: Coffee With A Cop
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"It Became Portland Against Trump"
A litigator talks about what it was like to be inside the Portland federal building during the 2020 uprising, and whether the city can get out from…
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Portland Was Not Ready
I commend the Times for looking at what’s going on in Portland now. Still, the distortion required to have seen protesters as full of golden promise…
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The Ones We Sent Away
No post today but an alert to “The Ones We Sent Away,” by Jennifer Senior, which posted yesterday in The Atlantic. I don’t recall ever being as rocked…
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Abortion Wars Continue
Saturday confrontations at a Lower East Side church. Plus this week's (NYC-centric!) recommendations
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At the Courthouse
Joe Lewis, Sam Bankman-Fried, an ex-con who wants a date, a smiling German tourist and a fellow would-be jurist meet in lower Manhattan
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How To Write About Murder: "Lost Girls," Bob Kolker, and the Arrest of the Gilgo Beach Killer
Listen now | In December 2010, a K-9 handler and police dog moved through scrubland on the edge of a barrier island between Long Island and Fire Island…
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Murder Begets Murder
Whether Michael Reinoehl knew he was lying when he said he murdered Aaron "Jay" Danielson "in self-defense," who can say? I see him as a moth willing to…
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