Article: Portland, Ore., Activist Takes Stand against Cell Phone Towers.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Jan. 26--When Vera Katz was in the Legislature, she remembers the federal government downplaying the potential health risks of the Vietnam War-era defoliant, Agent Orange, now an acknowledged carcinogen.

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So Thursday, the Portland mayor and cancer survivor took a dramatic public stand against what she calls the unknown health risks of cell phone towers.

In a land use appeals hearing on a proposed 80-foot cell phone tower in the Montavilla neighborhood of Southeast Portland, Katz said she could not vote because she had ...

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