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New sculpture in downtown Portland will celebrate Oregon’s ‘Bike Bill’

A tribute to mark 50 years of cycling advocacy.

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November 29, 2018

Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)

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Sam Oakland, leader of the ‘Shift of the 1970s,’ dies at 80

Sam Oakland, an English professor, poet and author who rode his bicycle to work at what was then Portland State College, started rallying bicycle riders to attend City Hall hearings in the late 1960s.

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April 1, 2014

Michael Andersen (Contributor)

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