Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Consistency and building community
Tony Boone has been a Street Roots vendor since 2013. Over the years, he’s become a fixture at New Seasons on Southeast Hawthorne Blvd., where he sells the paper most mornings with his dog, Sinatra. In fact, many of his customers have been buying Street Roots from him for years. Whenever they need the latest…
Opinion
Opinion | After 27 years as a mitigation specialist in death penalty cases, Ellen Rogers is retiring
Sept. 6, 1996, was one of those days that make tourists want to stay in Oregon forever. The air was warm as birth, the cerulean sky cloudless. The leaves revealed cooling days that, just getting out of my car, I had not yet noticed. It was a lovely scene, but the looming structure in front…
Kaia Sand | Sweeps deter progress
Construction fences angled in odd directions shape the phantom of what was a smattering of tents on Northwest Second Avenue and Couch Street. A cramped row of bicycle racks, devoid of bikes, stand affixed in front of a boarded-up building near the foot of the Broadway Bridge. Lime green sheets of paper announcing “Notice: Illegal…
News
Questions remain as COVID-19 transmission increases in Oregon prisons
Like elsewhere in the state, COVID-19 isn’t over inside Oregon’s prisons. Amid a growing outbreak at Coffee Creek Intake Center and pending lawsuits regarding the Oregon Department of Corrections response to COVID-19 at both individual prisons and system-wide, Street Roots found unexplained inconsistencies in the corrections department online COVID-19 dashboard — the only substantive publicly…
