Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | A path to stability and a path to recovery
When Jeremiah Leggett first started selling Street Roots in 2004, he was struggling with addiction and mental health issues. At the time, he was going through treatment at Central CIty Concern, and Street Roots provided him with a steady income, a reliable schedule and an outlet for his writing, all of which helped him during…
Opinion
Opinion | The Supreme Court: Working hard to make a business-friendly America
President Calvin Coolidge, in a January 1925 speech to newspaper editors, asserted, “the chief business of the American people is business.” The claim, although far from true, did capture the short-lived success of business leaders in structuring the country’s social institutions for the benefit of the wealthy. Martin Hart-Landsberg is a professor emeritus of economics…
Poetry & Art
Portland museum hosts exhibit featuring art by descendants Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II
A new art exhibit at the Japanese American Museum of Oregon features artists whose grandparents were interned by the U.S. government during World War II, bringing hope and healing from generational trauma. “Resilience — A Sansei Sense of Legacy,” a traveling art exhibit curated by Gail Enns and Jerry Takigawa, is open to the public at…
Housing
Medford City Council candidate stirs up anti-poor politics with environmentalism
On a sweltering October day in Medford, Oregon, five Medford police officers approached a tent nestled among the trees lining the Bear Creek Greenway, a 20-mile paved pedestrian path connecting several towns in Southern Oregon. “They’re coming,” yelled Pixie, a homeless woman who’s seven months pregnant, to her boyfriend, T-Bone. The five officers were armed…
News
Opinion | Street Roots endorsements for 2022 measures
Charter reform measure (Measure 26-228) This measure promises to bring Portland’s city government into the modern era, improve representation on City Council, rein in the powers afforded to the mayor and make city management more effective and efficient. It’s for these reasons Street Roots endorses Measure 26-228. Portland has the largest percentage of white residents of…
