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Readers Respond to the Prospects of Downtown Portland “We literally boarded everything up in March. It’s been that way since March! It’s not ‘riots,’ it’s not ‘protests,’ it’s the fucking global pandemic. If you have a message, call Western Union. (Brian Burk)
Last week s WW
cover story examined the state of downtown Portland ( Knocked Down Town, Feb. 17, 2021). The blocks surrounding the federal courthouse have become a fixation of national news pundits, who declared downtown a war zone during last summer s protests, and now use images of a boarded-up shops as evidence for this city s decline. So WW