News
Street Roots is hiring a part-time Administrative Assistant
Street Roots Administrative Assistant: This position is a part-time 12-hours a week at $15.50 an hour. Duties: Weekly deposits (Vendor/Newspaper sales and donations/sponsorships, etc) Maintain weekly/monthly deposit report Record Keeping Track and file all Street Roots purchases, checks, paper sales, etc. Maintain Street Roots donor databases, including GiftWorks Record and code all checks and transactions…
Oregon’s new poet laureate gets back to her roots as a writer
To meet Elizabeth Woody is to feel the full breadth of nature embodied in a woman. She truly understands the human condition. And she is an endless well of experience, knowledge and fascinating stories. This made her a natural choice to become poet laureate of Oregon, an honor she received in March from Gov. Kate…
Nick Licata tells us how to change society
Nick Licata is a lifelong political activist who spent 18 years as a Seattle City Councilman. His early activism involved work on anti-redlining and poverty issues in the early 1980s in Seattle. During his tenure as a city councilman, he has been an avid supporter of low-income people and progressive causes. Licata will be speaking…
Police oversight panel clings to wrong policy before critical vote in Taser case
Matthew Klug was justifiably frustrated, and you could hear it in his voice as he pleaded with the Citizen Review Committee, again and again, to look at the evidence he’d brought to his appeal hearing May 4. The committee before him that evening is an arm of the Independent Police Review, staffed by volunteers, that…
Trump pushes immigrants to apply for U.S. citizenship
Presidential candidate Donald Trump released his contentious immigration plan in August. Between that time and January, the average number of applications for U.S. citizenship each month was an average of 14.5 percent higher than during the same period a year earlier, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services data. Oregon saw an even greater increase…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: He loves his bike, and his customers
It all started when a Street Roots customer gave a bike to vendor Mike Lang. Mike describes what happened: “She bought a paper and asked me how it was going. I said, ‘It’s not too bad. It’d be nice if I had transportation to get around.’ All of a sudden they took off. Ten minutes…
Opinion
Street Roots editorial: Anti-immigration proposals unworthy of Oregon
Hate speech has always been a part of our public discourse, but this year it seems to swell with added oomph, energized by a foul whiff of validation from our national electoral debates. It gets tempered for the more liberal palate and dog-whistled for the masses, but it’s still there. This year, as in years…
