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| === Saturday | September 4, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Asphalt-to-gardens.jpg|thumb|From depraved to depaved: Volunteers remove asphalt from church parking lot to create community garden.]]
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| '''Tearin' Up The Parking Lot'''<br />
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| City Commissioner Nick Fish helps "[http://depave.org/work/vermont-hills-community-garden/ Depave]" a SW Portland church's parking lot, transforming it from asphalt-covered dead zone to community garden.<br />
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| Go to story: [http://www.portlandonline.com/fish/index.cfm?a=315916 Depave photos]
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| === Friday | September 3, 2010 ===
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| '''Locker Room Pragmatism'''<br /> | |
| City assures public it's providing Portland's homeless folks with access to storage lockers for "practical--not just humanitarian--reasons." Will "creeping compassion" ultimately undermine self-righteous ruthlessness and free-market fanaticism? Experts fret over the "inevitable unwinding" of multiple decades of carefully contrived pro-corporate cultural conditioning.<br />
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| Go to story: [http://www.today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38993089/ns/local_news-portland_or/ Homeless get storage lockers in Portland]
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| === Thursday | September 2, 2010 ===
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| '''Multnomah County [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tapped%20out "Taps Out"] Disposable Plastic Water Bottles'''<br />
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| Commissioner asks employees to "[http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/328800/Bottled-Water pledge]" oaths of loyalty.<br />
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| Go to story: [http://www.portlandonline.com/water/index.cfm?c=39678&a=315454 Multnomah County "Takes Back the Tap!"]
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| === Wednesday | September 1, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Portland_Beavers.jpg|thumb|Portland Beavers! (''From the sketchpad of [http://www.subwayfox.net/?q=node/478 SubwayFox.net].'')]]
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| '''Portland Dealt A Bad Hand'''<br />
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| Aces come down hard on the Beavers.<br />
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| Go to story: [http://www.rgj.com/article/20100831/SPORTS03/100831075/1321/news Reno Aces defeat Portland Beavers]
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| === Tuesday | August 31, 2010 ===
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| '''Food Cart Fight'''<br />
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| Will Bing's Food Cart Finder best Google Maps' Food Carts Portland!?! The battle rages as iPhone and Android apps skulk nearby.<br />
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| Go to story: [http://portland.daveknows.org/2010/08/31/battle-of-the-portland-food-cart-apps/ Battle of the Portland Food Cart Apps]
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| === Monday | August 30, 2010 ===
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| '''Former Transportation Office Spokeswoman Awarded DUII'''<br />
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| Mary Volm falls off motor scooter while allegedly intoxicated. Mid-life transportation crisis for would-be Portland City Councilperson?<br />
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| Go to story: [http://www.mycentraloregon.com/news/state/ap/191115/Former-Portland-candidate-faces-Ore-DUII-charge.html Former Portland candidate faces Ore. DUII charge ]
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| === Sunday | August 29, 2010 === | |
| [[File:Go-By-Streetcar-Sign.JPG|thumb|The "go by streetcar" sign at NW Lovejoy and 10th in Portland.]]
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| '''A Streetcar Fuels Desire'''<br />
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| Other towns covet Portland's street car success.<br />
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| Go to story: [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-08-30-streetcars30_ST_N.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-08-30-streetcars30_ST_N.htm]
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