Opinion
Opinion | Remembering the fight against Ballot Measure 9
Thirty years ago, a ballot measure went before Oregon voters that has since been referred to as “one of the most comprehensive — and harshest — anti-gay measures put to voters in American history.” Sponsored by right-wing evangelical group the Oregon Citizens Alliance, or OCA, Ballot Measure 9 would amend the state constitution to prohibit…
Kaia Sand | Wheeler, Ryan, you are cordially invited to a town hall. Please RSVP.
The mayor’s office, along with Commissioner Dan Ryan, unleashed the best of the plans and the worst of plans, with no evidence that unhoused people had been thoughtfully engaged in its formation. So I will start there. Before City Council votes on a plan that will change the lives of people who have the least…
News
‘Who Targets Me’ tells you which political campaigns bought your data
When Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016, people were shocked: voters, media, pollsters and analysts alike didn’t see it coming. The victory that would go on to reshape U.S. politics and bring the nation to the current moment of democratic peril was regarded as the biggest political upset in modern U.S. politics. The…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | 16 years of selling Street Roots
Craig Preston’s Street Roots origin story is similar to many vendors. Out of work as a car salesman, he walked the streets downtown, came upon a man selling Street Roots, and asked how he could get a job like that. Once Craig walked into the Street Roots office he was sold, “It was so inviting,”…
