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Book Review: ‘Invisible in Austin’
At my company’s holiday party in December, a coworker from the East Coast told me of her shock at Seattle’s visible poverty. “You can’t miss it unless you don’t ever go downtown, and even then, in many neighborhoods, you can’t escape it,” she said, marveling at how different that was from her home city. At…
Break it up!
More than 100 volunteers arrived on Saturday morning, July 30, ready and willing to help nonprofit organizations Depave and Human Solutions tear out 4,000 square feet of pavement from the parking lot of the Human Solutions family shelter in Southeast Portland. The morning’s work was the first step in the creation of a green space,…
New babies bring unique challenges to foreign-born moms
Adjusting to the physical changes and endless demands a baby brings into her life can be a struggle for any new mom. But for many foreign-born mothers, these challenges are more likely to be compounded by post-traumatic stress, poverty, discrimination, and in some cases, the lack of any family or friends to lean on for…
Shut out
Julius Brown and his fiancée, Denise William, thought they had found the perfect home after moving into a two-bedroom apartment in April 2015. The couple had already lived in the 68-unit complex — the Mitchell Court Apartments at Southeast 72nd Avenue and Foster Road — for five years. They moved from a one-bedroom apartment to…
Mislead: An interview with the man who exposed Flint’s lead-poisoned water
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan hired veteran investigative reporter Curt Guyette to document the impact of the state’s controversial emergency manager law. The law takes away the power of locally elected officials and allows a state appointee to take complete control of financially troubled school districts and cities. The ACLU considers it the…
