Past Issues :: 2006 October 1 :: Contents
Cover Story
Silent no more
Renee Mitchell didn’t have to be hit to know she was hurting. Her bones weren’t broken, but she knew she was ravaged by domestic violence. And when it was over, she knew she didn’t have to be quiet about it anymore.
Editorial
Call out domestic violence in Portland
Letters to the Editor
The exclusion delusion
Street Poetry
Poems
Columns
Director's Desk
Visionaries abound, but Portland has to be smart and innovative about the changes that are occurring throughout the downtown region.
Hungry in Portland
"Stop!
Stop! Please, no more!" She
knew she had to get out.
The responsibility for addressing the problem of domestic violence does not lay solely with crisis intervention programs like Portland Women's Crisis Line — it requires a coordinated community response.
Ross Bennett
Motives and
ulterior motives: Time to pull back the curtain
In the end, the shelter systems provide CEOs with full-time salaries, some of them six-figure amounts, while people on the short side of the stick called "poverty" are kept in a perpetual transition mode.
Memoirs of a Vietnam Vet
More cars, roads are only
fueling our country's oil habit
Have you driven cross-country lately? How were the roads? You know poor road conditions in the U.S. lead to over $54 billion a year in repairs and operating costs.
Street Culture
A Day at Dignity
5 a.m. Tuesday. The early morning crew wakes and slowly drifts toward the community gathering center. Coffee is brewed by the gallon on this chilly September morning.
Out Key Road, Part IX
"I met a fella out Key Road, was from Mariel. He'd made his way up from Miami to Atlanta and got busted for smoking pot in Piedmont Park. He taught me Spanish as we were pitching cabbage to the pigs."
News
Los Angeles move creates new initiative for 'Skid Row'
Los Angeles launched a new strategy Sept. 24 aimed at cleaning up a squalid patch of downtown known as "skid row."
Street Roots' Speakers Bureau fills a gap in the dialogue surrounding homelessness
Street Roots wants to bring the issues and potential solutions to light. We don't say we have all the answers. Real solutions must be reached with all perspectives at the table.
Street youth advocates collect input for state policy
Walkers CAP off 20th successful fund drive
Street News Service
Las Vegas, Orlando criminalize feeding the homeless
Two cities passed ordinances in July that criminalize feeding groups of homeless people in public parks.
Homeless World Cup gives players new hope
There was not much to link former Liberian child soldiers with a destitute Scot, the editor of a Russian street paper and a Manchester United coach — until the Homeless World Cup.
10 years of Welfare reform. Are America's poor better off?
Welfare reform, once a hotly contested issue in U.S. politics, no longer burns with the contentious fire it used to. But not everyone agrees with the alleged success of the new program.