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Good morning, Portland! Hopefully you’re safe in a bunker and have appropriate rations to get by. Your trusted Mercury team will be providing regular dispatches from the battlefield, where the temperature will reach 66 degrees and we may get rained on this evening.

IN LOCAL NEWS:

• Portland Police Chief Bob Day told reporters Monday that police will continue to patrol and monitor protest activity at the local ICE facility. The extent of Portland Police Bureau’s focus on the ICE protests could have significant budget

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