Opinion
Editorial | Vendor issue highlights integral Portlanders
Letter from the editor: Readers are no doubt familiar with Street Roots vendors. Fixtures of the community, vendors brave cold, heat, rain, snow, pandemics and a litany of other hardships to ensure neighbors have access to the only nonprofit newspaper in Portland. Vendors also faced the elements to distribute information and resources throughout the pandemic…
Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Stephen brings optimism to his art, poetry and his role as a vendor selling papers
Stephen Holladay regularly speaks in verse. He introduces himself with a poem, and throughout the course of a short conversation, he shares many poems that he’s written over the years. The 63-year-old Street Roots vendor describes himself as a “Gentleman-Poet-Sinner-Saint, a Warrior Angel for those who ain’t.” Stephen has been performing his poems for more…
