LOCAL NEWS
A City of Bridges: Twelve Ways Across the Willamette
Twelve spans, three lift mechanisms, one transit-only newcomer: the Willamette bridges are Portland's founding infrastructure and its daily choreography.
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LOCAL NEWS
Powell's: The Bookstore That Ate a City Block
A full city block, a million books, new and used shelved together in defiance of retail logic. Powell's is less a store than a Portland institution with a roof.
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LOCAL NEWS
Forest Park: 5,200 Acres of Wild Inside the City Limit
Eighty miles of trail, thirty of them on one spine, and a working Douglas-fir forest inside the city limits. Forest Park is Portland's wildest acreage and its best-kept bargain.
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LOCAL NEWS
The Pods: Portland's Accidental Food Halls
Hundreds of tiny kitchens, a dining room open to the sky, and the most democratic food scene in America: how the pod became Portland's signature restaurant.
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LOCAL NEWS
Roses for Optimism, Maples for Rain: Washington Park's Two Gardens
One garden tests roses for the nation; the other teaches stillness on a hillside. Washington Park's paired masterpieces are at their November best.
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LOCAL NEWS
The River Came Back: Portland's Long Negotiation With the Willamette
From combined-sewer punchline to summer swimming river in a generation: the Big Pipe, the Superfund, and the long negotiation between Portland and its Willamette.
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WEATHER
November: Portland's Rainy Season Stops Rehearsing
Five-plus inches of rain, sunsets before five, atmospheric rivers in trains: November is when Portland's real climate reports for duty.
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TRAFFIC
The Bridges Lift, the Freeways Crawl: Portland's Two Traffic Systems
Freeway bottlenecks at the Rose Quarter and the Banfield meet a river that still opens its bridges at noon: the two traffic systems of Portland, and the trains that thread between them.
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INVESTIGATIONS
Your Tap Water Starts in a Locked Forest
A closed forest, a gravity-fed supply, and a filtration plant that ends a century of treatment-free purity: Portland's Bull Run system is being rebuilt for the next rulebook.
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SPORTS
Rip City in November: The Blazers' Season Gets Measured
One championship, one pinwheel, and a region's whole winter: November is when the Blazers' season stops being a promise and becomes a measurement.
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SPORTS
Providence Park and the Valley's Other November Religion
A 1926 stadium holding two of America's loudest soccer crowds, and the green-and-orange feud dividing the valley: Portland's sporting November changes flags, not intensity.
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