The best New Years resolution is always the one that includes Street Roots, and we’re making it easy for you with a new edition tomorrow morning, hot off the press in the hands of your neighborhood vendor. Can’t find a vendor? Give us a call and we’ll send you in the right direction. Here’s what you’ll find when you get there:
Ringside at the circus: We asked three Portland media insiders – Jack Bog’s Blog maestro Jack Bogdanski, Willamette Weeks’ crackerjack reporter Beth Slovic, and The Mercury’s fiery news editor Matt Davis – for their vision of what is and what could be for Portland in 2010.
Keeping Portland clean (in a weird sort of way): Leah Ingram writes about a strange new company that will wash your dishes for trade – be it money, a good meal, philosophy or whatever you’ve got to give.
Where is ‘away’?: Many manufacturers have moved their operations off-shore to evade high environmental standards. But when ‘off-shore’ is Tijuana, just the other side of a rusty metal border fence that separates the United States and Mexico, there is little to prevent the problems the United States sends down south from quickly flowing north.
Meet Kevin Robinson: He’s a vendor with a heart of gold starting over in Portland.
Plus, Colleen Kaleda writes on the impact of the Street Roots Capstone class at PSU, Leo Rhodes talks about weathering the Portland’s winter without a home, and Jeff Bissonnette introduces a new column, People’s Planet, which will talk about the environment as a social justice issue.
All this and more greets you tomorrow morning. Thank you, readers!