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Portland's Frye Undergoes Ankle Surgery - Espn.com
portland, ore. -- portland trail blazers forward channing frye will likely miss the start of the regular season after having surgery to remove bone spurs from his left ankle. the arthroscopic surgery was performed monday in southern california, and ...
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Portland Kindergarten Teacher Gets A Star
every fall, tess miller greets a fresh crop of kindergartners at lincoln park elementary school in outer southeast portland. most are poor. most never went to preschool. nearly half speak little or no english.
www.oregonlive.com

Portland To Electric Car Maker Byd Auto: Build Your Car Here. Please!
political and business heavyweights are rolling out the green carpet in hopes of convincing a chinese electric car manufacturer to set up shop in the portland area. representatives from byd auto of shenzhen have met with gov. ted kulongoski, u.s. sen. gordon smith, mayor tom potter, mayor-elect ...
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Grocers See Popularity Of Prepared Foods Grow - Times-argus
portland, ore. — somewhere amid the sweet pea salad with blue cheese and spicy beef wraps at the grocery deli counter, natalya toker found her lunch. toker said she prefers eating homemade food. but like many americans, when she does choose to eat ...
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Oregon Boy Loads Gun, Shoots Himself - Seattle Post Intelligencer
eugene, ore. -- the father of a 4-year-old cottage grove boy says his child loaded a bullet into a borrowed gun and accidentally shot himself. in a statement released monday through oregon health & science university in portland, travis davis said ...
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Portland's Laurelhurst Is Wrapped In Charm
portland's laurelhurst area has such a harmonious mix of quirky shops, trendy restaurants and a couple of old-school alcoholic dens that one can't help but feel a cozy, neighborhood charm.
seattlepi.nwsource.com

Portland Woman Charged With Bilking Mom
portland (ap) — a multnomah county grand jury indicted a portland woman accused of charging more than $40,000 to credit cards fraudulenlty obtained in her elderly mother’s name.
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Cities Poised As Leaders In A Globally Warmed World - Zdnet Blogs
copenhagen, doha, edinburgh, helsinki, oslo, portland (or), reykjavik, victoria (can), wellington (nz), rotterdam. major energy using nations not on this list at all: china, france, indonesia, italy, japan, russia. the entire continent of africa has ...
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Portland Jazz Festival Pulls The Plug - Seattle Times
portland is losing its prestigious jazz festival, after event organizers said they lost their major sponsor and could not find enough grants and funds to keep the annual event going. the 2009 portland jazz festival, planned for feb. 12-22, has been ...
seattletimes.nwsource.com

Portland Man Victim Of Hate Crime, Police Say
portland police are seeking the public's help in identifying two men who viciously attacked a 31-year-old man because they thought he was gay.
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Bicyclist Injured In Run-in With Car In Southeast Portland
a 19-year-old bicyclist was in serious condition tonight after striking the side of a turning car about 6 p.m. in southeast portland, police said.
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Update: Newspaper, Union Agree To Arbitrate - Portland Press Herald
blethen maine newspapers inc. and the portland newspaper guild have agreed to meet with an arbitrator as soon as possible to resolve a contractual dispute, after meeting with a federal judge in portland this afternoon. u.s. district judge george ...
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Portland Commercial Real Estate - View Portland Commercial Real Estate ... - Portland Business Journal
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Loss Of Portland Jazz Festival Hurts
the recent news that the portland jazz festival is almost sure to shut down -- mere months before it could host a highly anticipated tribute to blue note records -- comes as a disheartening blow to the area's jazz lovers.
www.oregonlive.com

Portland Police And Fire Pension Fund Seeks Opinion On Overpayments
the portland public safety pension fund today voted unanimously to ask the irs if its okay simply to stop the overpayment of retirees' pensions, an error that went unnoticed for 13 years, and not recover the lost $3.1 million already paid out.
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List: Black Enterprise's 20 Best Places To Retire - Houston Chronicle
— black enterprise magazine has released its "20 best places to retire" list in the october edition. the publication ranked cities on quality of life, health care, taxes and leisure, arts and culture and climate. here's the list: 1. durham, n.c. 2 ...
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Sept. 11 Memorials - Channel 6000
portland , ore. – it has been seven years since terrorist attacks in new york and washington d.c. several memorial services and events are scheduled in the portland area. the historic belmont firehouse will host an open house from 7 in the morning ...
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Missing Ingredients In Portland Bike Rental Plan: Money, Sex
here’s the question that must be answered if portland’s stalled plans for a bike rental system, like the set-ups in paris or washington, d.c., are to be more than talk: who’s got the money? so far, money talk has been conspicuously absent from the bike-rental discussion in portland. today’s news from the north suggests why: if memories of portland’s theft-plagued yellow bike project didn’t turn ...
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The Former Portland Jazz Festival
the portland jazz festival is no more. word went out that next year's edition has been scrubbed and the festival will not be revived. here is part of the official announcement.
www.allaboutjazz.com

Portland Confidential: The Wheeler Dealers Even Have An Office - Portland Tribune
somewhere during the course of 12 long years – spent, it should be noted, in some of the toughest prisons in the country – he made the acquaintance of one freddy arellanes. although arellanes, who hails from tijuana, was incarcerated in the ...
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