Early in June, the bureaucrats of the city of Portland approved the murder of 16 beautiful and perfectly healthy birch trees, after being hidden behind an ugly chain link and black plastic construction fence at the corners of Middle, India and Fore streets.
This marks the beginning of the construction of yet another hotel in our city. Make no mistake, the city prefers to see more dollars in the coffers than trees in our neighborhoods.
The Forest City is being overrun by foreign corporations that build soulless architecture of no benefit to the people who live here.
Julia Flanders
Portland
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