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		<title>Could Portland Create a City Council That Looks Like Portland?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a few tweaks to voting could create a more representative council. | In the first article in this series, I showed that Portland city government has a dismal record of representing Portlanders. Nonpartisan elections make it hard to measure the council’s ideological representativeness, but it is easy to measure the lack of racial, ethnic, gender, and geographical diversity. For example, although nearly one-third of Portlanders are people of color, no person of color has served on the council in the past quarter-century,...]]></description>
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