News
Crumbling confidence: Some of America’s favorite snacks now made in Mexico
Lamar Kennedy has worked at the Northeast Portland bakery that makes Oreo cookies and other Nabisco-brand snack products for more than 25 years. The bakery, located on Northeast Columbia Boulevard just northeast of the Kenton neighborhood, employs 210 people full time, according to the bakers’ union that represents workers there. During the first two decades…
Adam Smith is feeding the world with food waste
When Adam Smith speaks about his stand against food waste and poverty, he is passionate, unstoppable and completely unequivocal. “We should be deeply embarrassed and ashamed as a society that we’ve got children going to school hungry, food banks and homelessness on the rise in the U.K., resources being wasted all over the planet, and…
Portland’s Prism Health breaks ground on LGBTQ+ care
Brandon wore his favorite blue nail polish the first time he visited Prism Health, and as he walked into the brightly colored building on Portland’s Southeast Belmont Street, a staff member complimented him on the color. For some, this exchange may seem unremarkable. But for Brandon, the throwaway line welcomed him in – he let…
Should the Rose City have publicly owned internet?
Advocates behind a new campaign want the city of Portland to lay and operate its own fiber optic network to ensure that all city residents have access to an open and free internet. Municipal Broadband PDX is urging the city to become an internet service provider that operates like any other public utility. The group plans to…
Environment
Adam Smith is feeding the world with food waste
When Adam Smith speaks about his stand against food waste and poverty, he is passionate, unstoppable and completely unequivocal. “We should be deeply embarrassed and ashamed as a society that we’ve got children going to school hungry, food banks and homelessness on the rise in the U.K., resources being wasted all over the planet, and…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: ‘I want to help’
Barbra Weber describes herself as a tiny person, but she has enormous compassion, intelligence and an activist’s dedication to improving the lives of people who, like her, call the streets home. Barbra was born in Kellogg, Idaho. “I had the odd couple for parents,” she said. Her mother was bipolar and eventually placed in long-term…
Opinion
Director’s Desk: Want to be part of the solution? Support Measure 101
Last week, as the rain fell hard, a group of Street Roots vendors held a blue tarp high above their heads. The truck had arrived with the bundles of Street Roots newspapers, precious cargo for 170 people who brave conditions of homelessness and poverty to sell this paper. From the truck to the front door,…
