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Good Morning, Portland: We're calling in Walt Whitman this morning, who wrote in "Song of the Open Road:" "Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road / Healthy, free, the world before me / The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose." How 'bout a little news for that road?

IN LOCAL NEWS: • Today in the Oprah-like dispensation of permits, Gov. Kotek appeared at Portland City Hall on Thursday to announce she and Mayor Wilson have cooked up a multi-pronged plan to spur more affordable housing in Portland.The plan? Waiving developer fees for the next 5,000 multi-family units built over th

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