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Fear
and Loathing
[Part One]
Israel Bayer
staff writer
Headlines of North and
Northeast Portland have erupted once again in
newspapers across the city. For the most part, in
what the city calls the most diverse neighborhoods
in Portland, headlines have portrayed the region
as a battleground of police shootings, homicide,
and gang activity.
Of late, very rarely has the
issue been talked about in the context of poverty,
class, race, education, the current state of the
economy and gentrification. North and Northeast
Portland are not only home to many social problems
most urban environments face, but they’re home
to a growing number of, for better or worse,
hipsters, yuppies, radicals, self-proclaimed
freaks, hippies, yippies and young families...
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