Culture
XGames awaken the extremist in you
Imagine you’re a police officer and know that a bomb hidden by a captured terrorist is set to go off in a few hours. Despite intense interrogation, he doesn’t want to tell you where. You know he loves his 10-year-old son above all else. What would you do? Would you allow thousands of innocent people…
What if this artist had succumbed to toxic masculinity?
“White Noise,” Kerry Skarbakka’s current exhibit at the North View Gallery at Portland Community College’s Sylvania campus, is about a man who almost was. Through videos and wall-to-ceiling photographs, Skarbakka uses the canvas of his own white, male body to explore his concern for what he views as the crisis of white masculinity in a…
News
What if this artist had succumbed to toxic masculinity?
“White Noise,” Kerry Skarbakka’s current exhibit at the North View Gallery at Portland Community College’s Sylvania campus, is about a man who almost was. Through videos and wall-to-ceiling photographs, Skarbakka uses the canvas of his own white, male body to explore his concern for what he views as the crisis of white masculinity in a…
Craft workshop opens doors to money-making ventures for Street Roots vendors
Every Friday for the past two months, volunteer Richard Golden has been coming into the Street Roots front office for an hour or two, bringing boxes of colored beads, braided string, ropes, pliers and clasps for an open crafts and jewelry-making class for any and all interested Street Roots vendors. Some vendors haven’t missed a…
Trump and Native American Heritage Month: A tale of two proclamations
Since 1990, Native American Heritage Month (or a similar variant) has been acknowledged in presidential proclamations every November and issued every year on the same day: Oct. 31. But this year is different. Trump did honor the tradition but also declared the month of November “National American History and Founders Month,” a celebration of America’s…
With Portland Street Response, city is piloting for success and fewer obstacles
The Portland Street Response pilot is a reality. This is a big opportunity, Portland. Now, let us take this will toward compassion, and extend it again and again, centering unhoused people in policy. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. You can reach her at kaia@streetroots.org. Follow her on Twitter @mkaiasand City Council voted unanimously…
Housing
Medicaid expansion may improve housing stability, study finds
Expanding Medicaid in the United States may help reduce the rate of eviction by lowering the cost of health care for low-income people and giving renters a better shot at keeping up with housing costs, according to a new study published in the journal Health Affairs. Researchers at Columbia University and Boston University analyzed eviction…
Opinion
Trump and Native American Heritage Month: A tale of two proclamations
Since 1990, Native American Heritage Month (or a similar variant) has been acknowledged in presidential proclamations every November and issued every year on the same day: Oct. 31. But this year is different. Trump did honor the tradition but also declared the month of November “National American History and Founders Month,” a celebration of America’s…
With Portland Street Response, city is piloting for success and fewer obstacles
The Portland Street Response pilot is a reality. This is a big opportunity, Portland. Now, let us take this will toward compassion, and extend it again and again, centering unhoused people in policy. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. You can reach her at kaia@streetroots.org. Follow her on Twitter @mkaiasand City Council voted unanimously…
