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Good morning, Portland! It's going to be another (unseasonably) warm day today, quite possibly the last day of the year to wear a t-shirt. That's good, because it's October. Enough with the sun!

And onto the news.

IN LOCAL NEWS:

• Go off, Portland City Attorney Robert Taylor, who began a letter to the US Department of Justice with this mic

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