The students on Southeast Third Avenue and Madison Street in downtown Portland could take comfort in knowing they'd been joined by students in London, Berlin, Sydney and New York City, to name but a very few. School districts in New York, Boston and, notably, Portland, granted permission for students to skip class for this protest.

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Our readers were thinking about global warming ahead of the Climate Strike on Sept. 20

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We cannot depend on private venture capital investors for Oregon small businesses. Currently, 80% of all venture capital investment in the country occurs in California, New York and Massachusetts.

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We have real and important political and social issues to deal with in our city, our state, our nation. Those who seek to do so with their fists, or with thrown bricks, are the enemy of that discourse.

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