Past Issues :: 2006 December 1 :: Contents
Cover Story
Dateline
Africa
Seven thousand miles from here, from a desk in Monrovia, Liberia, young Geeza Williams surveys the toll that 15 years of civil war has taken on his homeland: an impoverished country emerging from years of slaughter with virtually no healthcare or economic structure to build upon.
Editorial
Park exclusions need more than a makeover
Letter / Opinion
Don't be a bystander to bullying
Street Poetry
Poems
Columns
Director's Desk
Street Roots has raised nearly $6,000 during the first three weeks of our winter fund drive. We are asking the Portland community to help us raise $20,000 by the end of the year.
Dr. Wesley Browning
Time to make Bush an example of what we won't
tolerate
Five weeks ago we enjoyed Ted Haggard's pronouncement that President George Bush is not Satan.
Dan Newth
Shuffling people, money around doesn't end
in housing
Money changes everything, and often if you do or don't have it affects your perception of whether those changes are negative or positive. Let's look at the shift of HUD funding from affordable housing to urban renewal.
Street Culture
I am your House Monster
I am the House Monster. I was the House Monster in Africa. I was the concrete dust on the floor that could not be swept off.
Out Key Road, the End
I had realized I wasn't taking care of myself, but in my perpetual fog I didn't care…. The window I stared into one night didn't lie. I hadn't had any way to see what had happened over the past several years, not in its entirety. The figure was not me at first.
News
Parks exclusion ordinance redux
City Council has given Parks Department staff and legal advocates for the homeless until Jan. 11 to hash out new wording for the proposed revamped parks exclusion ordinance. Homeless advocates say the current revisions merely clarified language, but still allowed authorities to use prohibited behaviors to remove homeless people from public areas.
News Briefs
Human chain Jan. 1 to demand charges against Bush, Cheney
Write Around Portland new anthology hot off the press
Participants needed for Sisters of the Road Hygiene Drive
Street News Service
Ending buses will stymie regrowth of New Orleans
Since Katrina, free buses, funded by FEMA, have been carrying an average of 1,000 displaced workers daily from their temporary housing in Baton Rouge to their jobs in New Orleans and back. But funding for buses was scheduled to end Dec. 1.
