Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | A writer for as long as she can remember
Bronwyn Carver is an artist with a wide range of talents: She’s a journalist, a short story writer, a poet, a jewelry maker, a collage artist and an editor. This is the second year Bronwyn has worked as an editor on the Street Roots Holiday Zine committee and her first as the lead. The Holiday…
Housing
Unpacking the complex relationship of addiction, homelessness, housing and recovery
Fast, cheap and ubiquitous, heroin is engineered for the streets. That’s where Saphire Harris lived, homeless, with her brother and mother. Harris started using as a teenager, but she was trying to get clean, said her mother, Marie Kelley. “My daughter went from doing $80 to $100 (in heroin) a day down to $10 a…
New COVID-19 cases among Portland’s homeless population remain low
The number of new cases of COVID-19 among Portland’s unhoused population has remained flat even as overall case counts have climbed upward, Multnomah County health officials say. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 71 people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 have told health officials that at some point in the previous…
Opinion
Opinion | An Oregon veterinarian brings comfort to pet owners when it’s time to say goodbye
Dr. Sarah Crozier came to this column originally when she tended to my wife’s 18-year-old calico who was on her last legs and needed euthanasia triage. We wanted Ruby to be with us when putting her down, and with COVID-19 lockdown in place, the standard operating procedure for euthanizing a pet would be dropping her…
Kaia Sand | Access to hygiene is a human right, and Portland is stepping up
Hand washing and hygiene are essential to preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Multnomah County Health Department make this clear. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. The United Nations declares access to water and sanitation a human…
News
Their story of refugee life, motherhood and becoming a modern American family
In 1975, Lan Cao left her country of Vietnam to seek refuge in the United States. At the age of 13, she had already faced the atrocities of war and now had to embark on a new journey: assimilating into a different culture. Specifically, a culture that was, at times, hostile toward Vietnamese people. Despite…
Kaia Sand | Access to hygiene is a human right, and Portland is stepping up
Hand washing and hygiene are essential to preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Multnomah County Health Department make this clear. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. The United Nations declares access to water and sanitation a human…
