Environment
Could nuclear power return to Oregon?
Tucked into a bill calling for additional data collection on Oregon’s carbon dioxide sequestration potential is a provision directing the state’s energy department to study the viability of small modular nuclear reactors to help reach greenhouse gas reduction goals. These reactors are smaller and housed underground in large pools of water, making the technology safer…
News
Could nuclear power return to Oregon?
Tucked into a bill calling for additional data collection on Oregon’s carbon dioxide sequestration potential is a provision directing the state’s energy department to study the viability of small modular nuclear reactors to help reach greenhouse gas reduction goals. These reactors are smaller and housed underground in large pools of water, making the technology safer…
Revisiting the Robert Penn Warren interviews: A snapshot of the civil rights movement
In 1964, Robert Penn Warren, the famed white writer, interviewed a number of black leaders – organizers and writers – and eventually published a lengthy Look Magazine article and a book, “Who Speaks for the Negro?” Fifty-five years later, Stephen Smith and Catherine Ellis have gone back to the original transcripts of the interviews and…
Life on the Streets: A love story
Life on the streets is hard. Some of the hardest living imaginable. So to witness a love that rose from the streets to thrive and deepen over many years, weathering addiction, recovery, chronic illness, loss and endless hardship, is extraordinary and inspiring. Johnny and Stephanie met at Share House, a homeless shelter and hot meal…
You are not welcome here: Anti-homeless architecture crops up nationwide
Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public spaces. Hostile architecture, sometimes called “defensive architecture,” a trend in urban design that discourages the use of spaces in any way other than the intention…
Opinion
Revisiting the Robert Penn Warren interviews: A snapshot of the civil rights movement
In 1964, Robert Penn Warren, the famed white writer, interviewed a number of black leaders – organizers and writers – and eventually published a lengthy Look Magazine article and a book, “Who Speaks for the Negro?” Fifty-five years later, Stephen Smith and Catherine Ellis have gone back to the original transcripts of the interviews and…
A morally reprehensible tour of Hanford nuclear site
About 74,000 people died when the United States deployed a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki in 1945. Thousands more died and suffered health consequences over the following decades. Thousands of people continue to face negative health consequences from the intentional releases of radiation and atomic waste from nuclear tests during the Cold War in the United…
You are not welcome here: Anti-homeless architecture crops up nationwide
Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public spaces. Hostile architecture, sometimes called “defensive architecture,” a trend in urban design that discourages the use of spaces in any way other than the intention…
Coming to terms with our societal sepsis
Earlier this week, I looked around in the vendor office. Of the six vendors who were at tables, drinking coffee and chatting, three had wheelchairs; two used walkers. In fact, people frequently use walkers to unload the newspaper truck on Friday, ferrying bundles on the padded seats to pitch in to the collective effort. Street…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: A writer and a dreamer
Eileen Vizenor wants people to know she’s a survivor. She and her best friend, Vicky, a personable 18-month-old Corgi, can be found near the Multnomah County Central Library selling Street Roots, something she’s done periodically since 2012. Vicky is an icebreaker for Eileen. Naturally a little reserved, Eileen relies on Vicky’s winning charm and entertaining…
Housing
Coming to terms with our societal sepsis
Earlier this week, I looked around in the vendor office. Of the six vendors who were at tables, drinking coffee and chatting, three had wheelchairs; two used walkers. In fact, people frequently use walkers to unload the newspaper truck on Friday, ferrying bundles on the padded seats to pitch in to the collective effort. Street…
