Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendors tell us what they’re doing to keep customers safe
"What are you doing to keep customers safe?" Street Roots vendors respond: Dan Newth “When it’s windy, I can’t let the papers sit on a stand. So when I sell a paper, I’m just sliding it out of the plastic bag one at a time. I’m really good about wearing the mask and the hand…
Opinion
Opinion | Housing advocates and frontline providers agree: Yes on Measure 110
The overdose epidemic, housing crisis, COVID pandemic and policing disparities have many Oregonians eager to find something to be hopeful about. That’s why we’re excited to tell you about Measure 110, a ballot measure that will help our state address many problems at once. Measure 110, which we’ll be voting on in November, makes deep,…
Opinion | Keeping people in their place: The economics of racial violence
Millions of people in the streets calling for an end to police violence against Black people have given a push to policy changes that have been stalled for decades. Legislators are at last prioritizing bans on choke holds, accountability for law enforcement officers using excessive force, and a shift of resources away from punitive responses…
Opinion | Ripples of Walden Pond on an Oregon tidewater
I answer my call of duty — to find the most interesting and outside-the-box people for this column. I received a blind-copied email from Wallace Kaufman, announcing his latest book, “Grow Old and Die Young – A Naturalist in Life’s Theater.” I took the bait hook-line-and-sinker after doing a quick “search” on this Oregon Coast man…
Kaia Sand | Share this Street Roots vendor tradition with us
The moment she walked in and those smells wafted through the air, it was a 180," Tina Drake told me, reminiscing about the mornings when Katherine Deumling would set up her cook stove and make breakfasts at Street Roots. People were usually exhausted from braving the streets, but a home-cooked breakfast lifted everyone's spirits. Until March,…
News
Magic moment: Oregon could be first to legitimize psilocybin therapy
On the morning of July 19, a Sunday, Neal drove from his home in Portland to a cabin in a remote part of Oregon. The person he traveled to meet greeted him and welcomed him in. On her advice, he’d abstained from drinking alcohol or caffeine for a few days, and they had a brief…
PSU students struggle with housing, food insecurity
Housing and food insecurity among students and staff at Portland State University are widespread, and they’re hitting vulnerable groups on campus hardest, according to a new report by PSU’s Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative. Researchers fear that job insecurity and disruption sparked by the coronavirus pandemic will only deepen the problem. “We knew anecdotally that…
Housing
PSU students struggle with housing, food insecurity
Housing and food insecurity among students and staff at Portland State University are widespread, and they’re hitting vulnerable groups on campus hardest, according to a new report by PSU’s Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative. Researchers fear that job insecurity and disruption sparked by the coronavirus pandemic will only deepen the problem. “We knew anecdotally that…
