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Jun 30Liked by JOHN SPRITZLER

Portland heats a former sports complex that was called Veterans Memorial Coliseum. It formally disallowed veterans to supervise veteran-housing there, though there are some small rooms, showers, laundry facilities, etc. How Portland has fallen since the time of Mayor Bud, who had a battle of the bands in this building for his inauguration.

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Jun 30Liked by JOHN SPRITZLER

Portland is a dystopian example of slap-green-paint-and-call-it-progressive. The primary gated community, before I left, was Dignity Village, run by formerly houseless. I do not know if Dignity Village is still there. I know of Dignity because some residents volunteered with Re-Thinking Psychiatry, at a workshop where Mad in America and MindFreedom and others were able to present.

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