Past Issues :: 2007 February 1 :: Contents
Cover Story
Why is Mike Kuykendall on the cover of Street Roots?
Mike Kuykendall is vice president of Downtown Services and Central City for the Portland Business Alliance. When it comes to how people on the streets are affected by public policy, Street Roots and the organization Mike represents haven't always seen eye to eye. A member of the SAFE Workgroup, Mike has a lot to say on the latest rendition of the sit-lie ordinance. Seems only fitting to let him do it in Street Roots.
Act Now
Open the way for the real estate transfer fee in Portland
Editorial
Too many, too long, too much, Mr. Bush
Horoscope
Astro logic
Letters
Restore the right to habeas corpus;
Her name was Tina, not ‘Bunk 21’
Street Poetry
Poems
Columns
Director’s Desk
It's been a busy couple of weeks on the homeless front. The mayor pulled the sit-lie ordinance off the table until park benches, restrooms, and a day access center are in place. While everyone and their brother continues to tell Street Roots that a law banning people from sitting or lying on a sidewalk is a fair trade for direct services, we don't buy it.
Grace E. Reed
Officers and those others
This happens every day: homeless kids gathering at malls, sitting at tables, trying to blend in, using the restrooms, trying to fulfill human needs we all take for granted.
Hungry in Portland
Woman’s basement provides more than temporary shelter
Carol Kaufman has been teaching blind and deaf children in Portland public schools since 1975. She has also had personal and direct contact with folks who were working and never expected to be homeless.
Paul Boden
Seems they forgot the reason it’s
called home-less-ness
The Republicans may have lost control of Congress, but they still maintain a tight rein on homeless policy and the public perception of homelessness.
Street Culture
Tossed and Found
Workers from Outside In have gotten creative with their frustration about federal and state healthcare budget cuts. Tossed and Found, a show of reuse art (made from discarded materials), is the result. Stevenson writes, "Reuse art demonstrates what communities and social services do: make something from nothing."
Diary of Homelessness, Part II
Tuesday: My left hip give me fits just about every night. No matter how I turn in the car, I'm still in a contorted position, & this ain't yoga, it's just cramped bullshit conditions & it gives my 54-year-old body aches & pains.
White Train
Tramping was relative on Ponce. Old tramps tramped the sidewalks as they once had stalked empty boxcars. The lifelong incapacitated slogged with them, all similar now in discard, though the stories of how they arrived at this linear wandering differed.
News
Anuradha Mittal: Change global policy, not food technology
At a time when genetically engineered foods are being touted as a way to address hunger, especially in Africa, Anuradha Mittal is exploring the real causes of endemic hunger.
Street News Service
South Africans mourn slain former street paper director
Richard Ishmail, the former managing director of The Big Issue South Africa, passed away tracigally in Cape Town on Wednesday, Jan. 10. He'd been on life support in Groote Schuur hospital for several days, after being stabbed in his Woodstock home on Jan. 6.
Film Review
“Mardi Gras: Made in China”
Boobs and beads can only mean one thing, Mardi Gras. The new film "Mardi Gras: Made in China" explores where those beads are traditionally thrown and manufactured, a journey starting in China and leading all the way to New Orleans.
