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Throughout Earl Blumenauer’s 28 years in the US House of Representatives, his constituents back home have taken a certain ...

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Imagine a world where no state, government, or institution, civil or sacred, could ever take a life. Not in war. Not as punishment for law-breaking. In exchange, individual humans were allowed to ...

Portland’s commission form of government. The year was punctuated by a scramble to implement a city charter overhaul and to ...

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