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It is requested that a photograph of Portland Public Schools school district headquarters (to be the image in the education section representing K-12 education in most of the city), 501 N. Dixon Street, Portland, OR 97227 be included in this article to improve its quality.
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Why isnt ANTIFA / BLM terrorism mentioned at all, i mean the city is overrun by these wackos and living for normal people is hell in Portland because of them, yet nothing is mentioned in the article. "Crime section" only covers up to 2014 also. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.157.40.32 (talk) 10:36, 27 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
In September 2022 the Portland City Council adopted a resolution declaring Lviv, Ukraine Portland’s newest Friendship City.
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"Lviv Ukraine becomes Portland OR's newest friendship city" 92.253.212.241 (talk) 17:52, 14 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Noting because INTJulius was recently wondering. One way to see that the borders of Multnomah County and Portland are distinct on the western and southern edges is to visually compare the outlines of Portland and Multnomah on OpenStreetMap. (There's no confusion about Clark County, which is in Washington and separated by the Columbia.) Pete Forsyth (talk) 23:03, 25 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
level-5 vital article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
