Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Reciprocating kindness and generosity
Irida was accustomed to a small-town lifestyle before she moved to Portland. Coming from Arkansas, Irida and her partner at first found it overwhelming. “Just there being public transit was a big change,” Irida said. “A big challenge was not knowing where anything was and having to make three different bus changes.” Irida and her…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | This is our opportunity to reimagine a housing-rich downtown
“Want to hear a joke?” Melissa hollered to me across the street. “Sure,” I hollered back. The light changed, and she began to cross the street, leaning on a walker that was heavy with belongings, including a bundle of Street Roots newspapers swaying from the handle in a clear plastic bag. I stayed put so…
Housing
County and advocates disagree on sufficiency of severe weather shelter guidelines
Editor's note: This story originally appeared in the Jan. 25 edition of Street Roots. Since publishing, Multnomah County opened severe weather shelters an additional time, on Jan. 29, and closed them Jan. 30. This instance is not discussed in the article. As temperatures drop, homeless Portlanders struggle to stay dry and warm, while Multnomah County’s…
Community Transitional School aims to provide academic support and stability
“When I was in kindergarten, I did not know what a book was,” a quiet fifth-grade student in Cheryl Bickle’s class recently wrote. “My teacher read books to the class. Then when I got into first grade, I started reading. Then I liked reading. “Here I am in fifth grade, still reading. I will not…
News
New Seasons faces union-busting allegations
A recent failed union vote at a New Seasons Market location is drawing scrutiny from federal authorities. The National Labor Relations Board, or NLRB, will evaluate whether Portland-headquartered New Seasons committed unfair labor practices during the union campaign at its Orenco Station location in 2022. The hearing is scheduled for April 18. New Seasons Orenco Station…
Portland business interests walk a murky line with lobbying
Sam Adams, then-director of strategy and innovation for Mayor Ted Wheeler, professed optimism in an interview with the newly minted Revitalize Portland Coalition, or RPC, published summer 2022. Adams expressed excitement at working with the RPC, one of the latest groups pushing to kick-start the downtown economy, in the brief Q&A. “I think this is…
