Culture
Corporations are dying – and we’re worse for the wear
If you’re feeling shut off from the workforce, meaningful career advancement, or the ability to find a tolerable, livable-wage job and you feel you are to blame for it, you might be a millennial. Gerald Davis’ new book, “The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy,” does a good job of explaining…
Street Roots vendor’s artwork featured at Blick in Portland
Two years ago, Street Roots vendor Aileen McPherson walked into Blick Art Materials on Northwest Glisan Street and asked what she would need to do to have her art hang in the windows. Her name was put on a waiting list, and she recently got the call that she would be Blick’s featured local artist. …
‘We Have Our Ways’ shows ‘activism is a form of love
The year is 2023. Health care of any kind is highly inaccessible and in some cases outlawed. Public utilities such as water are privatized and severely restricted. Streets are filled with protesters clutching signs that say “Water is a human right” and chanting “Whose streets? Our streets.” This is the reality of “We Have Our…
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Corporations are dying – and we’re worse for the wear
If you’re feeling shut off from the workforce, meaningful career advancement, or the ability to find a tolerable, livable-wage job and you feel you are to blame for it, you might be a millennial. Gerald Davis’ new book, “The Vanishing American Corporation: Navigating the Hazards of a New Economy,” does a good job of explaining…
Director’s Desk: Finding our moral power to put people in poverty front and center
There is a woman in Old Town who stores her mound of suitcases under a tarp and stays near it, almost as though she were sitting in a room and the walls themselves fell away. On warmer days, she paints bright pages in her notebook – bold strokes of blues and yellows and reds. When…
‘Treatment works’: Judge Ginger Lerner-Wren leads nation’s 1st mental health court
In 1993, Aaron Wynn suffered a psychotic episode while he was in a grocery store in Broward County, Fla. It was a residual effect from the head trauma he suffered when a car hit his motorcycle in 1985. In the throes of the episode, Wynn rushed out of the store and collided with an 85-year-old…
Unlikely lobbyists push for reforms to Oregon’s addiction services
Jay Z’s “Marcy Me” reverberated throughout the room, drowning out sounds of billiard balls knocking into each other as a couple of 20-somethings in baggy clothes swung their cues. About a dozen other young adults lounged around black leather sofas arranged in a square nearby. Some had face and neck tattoos; most carried a conditioned…
‘We Have Our Ways’ shows ‘activism is a form of love
The year is 2023. Health care of any kind is highly inaccessible and in some cases outlawed. Public utilities such as water are privatized and severely restricted. Streets are filled with protesters clutching signs that say “Water is a human right” and chanting “Whose streets? Our streets.” This is the reality of “We Have Our…
Opinion
Director’s Desk: Finding our moral power to put people in poverty front and center
There is a woman in Old Town who stores her mound of suitcases under a tarp and stays near it, almost as though she were sitting in a room and the walls themselves fell away. On warmer days, she paints bright pages in her notebook – bold strokes of blues and yellows and reds. When…
