Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendors tell us how they spent their stimulus money
Street Roots vendors’ pandemic revenue trends are no different from others’ in the wake of Portland’s hushed street traffic. Reduced paper sales coupled with delays of government-issued stimulus checks have created high anxieties since the $600 was promised in December. After five months of waiting, May has finally brought an influx of checks addressed to…
Environment
Uncovering industrial NW Portland’s twisted past in an effort to save its future
Buried secrets lie beneath Portland’s Northwest Industrial District. Wander between Northwest St. Helens Road and the Willamette River and you’ll come across asphalt manufacturing, petroleum tank farms, warehouses both active and derelict, weeds buckling empty lots, vacant docks, and if you know where to look, a tiny, decommissioned railroad station. What you won’t see is…
News
Uncovering industrial NW Portland’s twisted past in an effort to save its future
Buried secrets lie beneath Portland’s Northwest Industrial District. Wander between Northwest St. Helens Road and the Willamette River and you’ll come across asphalt manufacturing, petroleum tank farms, warehouses both active and derelict, weeds buckling empty lots, vacant docks, and if you know where to look, a tiny, decommissioned railroad station. What you won’t see is…
Culture
At this Tokyo pop-up restaurant, mistakes are forgiven when the servers have dementia
An order for a hamburger steak can turn into pot stickers, but mistakes aren’t fussed over in this caring setting. It’s a restaurant in Tokyo with a intriguing disclaimer, one that states, “At this restaurant, no one knows if what you ordered will come out OK.” It is aptly named The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders,…
Housing
Houseless young people have banded together in SW Portland
Southwest Bertha Boulevard is busy. It zips through the center of Southwest Portland, connecting major streets to highways and winding along large shopping centers and workplaces. It’s so busy that the many drivers of the cars, vans and trucks that speed along Bertha’s slim lanes might not have noticed a change in their daily commute.…
Portland has laid out plans for new shelters, but numbers and locations remain elusive
Portland city leaders adopted a code change in April intended to get houseless people off streets and into shelters. But with camp sweeps already accelerated, how and when those shelters will open remains unclear. On May 28, during a meeting of A Home For Everyone, Portland City Commissioner Dan Ryan proposed the city allocate $20…
Kaia Sand | We can learn a lot from the wisdom of the streets
“I think it’s great,” Leo Rhodes told me of the range of camp villages the city and county governments are floating for Portland. “What I like about what they are doing now is different types,” the longtime organizer of tent cities and safe sleep sites in Seattle and Portland explained to me as we stood talking in…
Opinion
Kaia Sand | We can learn a lot from the wisdom of the streets
“I think it’s great,” Leo Rhodes told me of the range of camp villages the city and county governments are floating for Portland. “What I like about what they are doing now is different types,” the longtime organizer of tent cities and safe sleep sites in Seattle and Portland explained to me as we stood talking in…
