Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Making his way and changing his life
Longtime vendor Mel Taylor is a familiar face around Street Roots and the Pearl District, where he has been selling Street Roots outside the REI store in Northwest Portland since 2014. “I saw someone selling Street Roots and I was homeless so I came down to Street Roots and did the vendor training in 2014,”…
News
New funding for water facility on Warm Springs reservation
A critical component of a solution to chronic water quality issues on the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation may finally be in sight thanks to a new funding pledge from the Environmental Protection Agency and Indian Health Services. The EPA and IHS announced a $23.8 million spending package to replace the aging Dry Creek Water…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | Good journalism is worth the investment
The election of George Santos is a story of a depleted media landscape, argues Sarah Ellison of the Washington Post. George Santos is the newly elected New York Congressman who has proven to be a lush fabulist of his own biography. While voters could have been informed about his lies before the election — after…
Housing
How tenants around Portland fight back against landlords
In early December, a mutual aid request to help a tenant who needed $4,980 by Dec. 6 to avoid eviction appeared on local coalition Don’t Evict PDX, or DEPDX’s, Instagram feed. The mutual aid request happened after two members of DEPDX noticed the person was experiencing a common theme with recent evictions — rental assistance…
