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The Seventh Term Won
Year Twenty and the Final Term Won The seventh and final term was won by thirteen points. Twenty years of the same representation complete at the end of the seventh…
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The New Representative at Year Two of the Seventeenth Term
What The Nineteenth Legislation Has Made Year Two Year two of the seventeenth term and the nineteenth legislation has passed: the climate migration planning coordination. Nineteen completions across sixteen and…
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The Sixth Bill Passed
The Threshold Clarification Oregon Made Law Passed The sixth bill passed the Oregon legislature. The elderly housing stability law’s five-year residence threshold is now clarified in the law: the threshold…
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The Environmental Justice Meeting and the Data That Nobody Expected to Be as Bad as It Was
Megan Amram on Portland’s Air Quality, a Community Meeting That Changed Its Own Agenda, and the Specific Anger That Good Data Produces The Meeting I attended an environmental justice meeting…
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Portland in the Rain, Which Is Not News, and the Meeting That Actually Was
Megan Amram on a City Council Session, a March She Did Not Expect to Find Herself At, and Why the Left Is More Interesting Than the Coverage Suggests Wednesday: The…
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Megan Amram’s Diary: On the Substantial Wednesday-Evening Politics of Attending a Substantial Tenants Union Meeting in a Substantial Portland Community Centre
Notes from the substantial folding chair on the substantial day, the substantial book on the Pullman strike I am substantially reading on the bus there, and the substantial small comedy…
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I Went to a Portland City Council Meeting and I Have Unresolved Feelings
Megan Amram on Local Governance, Left Politics, the Week’s Events, and Why She Is Still in Portland Despite Everything Reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat. By Megan Amram…
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Megan Amram on UK Opinion Pieces: The American Left’s Secret Reading List
A Portland Marxist reveals that British opinion journalism is the clearest mirror the American left has Bohiney | The London Prat By Megan Amram Megan Amram on UK Opinion Pieces:…
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Portland in May and the Bohiney Civility Piece and the Specific Left Politics of Disagreeing With It
A Marxist in Portland Reads the Case for Civility and Has Principled Objections That Are Not About Trump From Bohiney and The London Prat. By Megan Amram Wednesday, Portland Bohiney’s…
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Portland in May and the Mamdani New York Situation Are Both Making Me Feel Things
A Marxist in the Pacific Northwest Watches a Socialist Mayor Navigate the Structural Constraints of Municipal Capitalism From Bohiney and The London Prat. By Megan Amram Wednesday, Portland The Mamdani…