Culture
Salt, fat, acid and Samin
Interviewing Samin Nosrat, even on the phone, is a lot like watching her Netflix show. You can feel her passion and enthusiasm – for life, for food, for cooking. She laughs easily and is as genial as can be. The only thing you miss out on is getting to see her eat something amazing. Nosrat…
Building characters: Street Roots vendors create cartoons
Street Roots vendors are working with Portland social-justice writer and cartoon artist Sarah Mirk, learning to draw and create their own cartoons. Mirk is a contributing editor at The Nib, a graphic journalism website that publishes daily online comics as part of First Look Media, which features political cartoons, journalism, essays and memoirs about what…
PIFF films hold a mirror to society
This year’s Portland International Film Festival, fondly known by many Portlanders and audience members as “PIFF,” is going to make you think – and feel. Each year, the three-week film festival – organized by the Northwest Film Center and running March 7 through March 21 – chooses a theme that loosely ties together the more…
News
Oregon foster youths seek $8.5M to help those aging out of foster care
Whitney Rodgers has spent nearly half her life moving from placement to placement in the foster care system, but it wasn’t until she turned 17 that she began to worry about what came next – after foster care. “I was always expecting there to be another step or two before I turned 18,” she said.…
Oregon foster parents fight to be heard
Many families believe the first step toward solving Oregon’s foster home shortage is giving current foster parents a spot at the decision-making table. “We weren’t treated like part of the team,” said Alicia Bigelow, a former foster parent from Portland, who said she never plans to do it again. “It felt pretty crummy, for sure,”…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile: Something to prove
Tony PD hates to wait. “It’s not in me to sit still,” Tony said. “It’s either talking or doing. I’d rather do.” While Tony was waiting for this interview, he busied himself and swept the Street Roots floor clean. At the same time, he teased Executive Director Kaia Sand about sweeping her off her feet…
Housing
SR editorial: Time for Oregon to quit subsidizing second homes
What does it say about Oregon’s priorities when in the midst of a low-income housing shortage, we, as taxpayers, subsidize people who buy second homes? That is what we do, and have done for decades, by allowing people to claim the mortgage interest on a second home as a tax deduction. It’s been a point…
Opinion
SR editorial: Time for Oregon to quit subsidizing second homes
What does it say about Oregon’s priorities when in the midst of a low-income housing shortage, we, as taxpayers, subsidize people who buy second homes? That is what we do, and have done for decades, by allowing people to claim the mortgage interest on a second home as a tax deduction. It’s been a point…
