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Come next week it will be very quiet in Portland's independent bookstores, coffee shops, and the free-sample lines at Trader Joe's. All the writers will be at Wordstock III [http://www.wordstockfestival.com/].
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It isn't very sporting to point out that Portland had the foresight [http://www.trimet.org/] to plan miles of rail corridors in less time than it took Seattle to reach consensus on that all-important question, "Should Pine Street be open to vehicular traffic?" So, instead let's point out that around
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