According to the most recent census figures, the average unemployment rate for whites in Oregon: 8.7 percent The average unemployment rate for African Americans in Oregon: 18.4 percent Percentage of Oregonians over age 25 with a 4-year-college degree: 29 ...
19 Dec 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Books to ponder and pore over this holiday season — and beyond Do you think you know your own mind? Do you imagine yourself able to make decisions and interact with others in a fair and balanced manner, unfettered by personal bias? Think again. Authors Ma ...
19 Dec 2013 - Street Roots Staff
If you’ve shopped at the Lloyd Center Safeway during the past few months, you’ve probably seen George Burdine selling Street Roots outside, lifting the spirits of passersby and shoppers. One of the first things one notices about George is his large spirit ...
19 Dec 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
The Oregon Law Center has taken up the case of a group of homeless people who say they have been wronged by the Oregon Department of Transportation when it cleared out their encampment in Southeast Portland. The suit maintains that the law requires ODOT t ...
18 Dec 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Bridgetown Comedy Festival co-founder and comedian Matt Braunger talks about the good times, bad times and the Portland he remembers Though now a successful comedian, actor and writer living in Los Angeles, Matt Braunger hangs onto his Northeast Portland ...
17 Dec 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
The Portland Trail Blazers along with the Willamette Week Give!Guide have teamed up to support Street Roots. Give today (12.17.2013), or tomorrow (12.18.2013) and have a chance to win a signed team Trail Blazer ball and two killer tickets. Game ball infor ...
17 Dec 2013 - Israel Bayer
Portland Audubon Society’s Conservation Director Bob Sallinger talks about controversial political moves that could have serious consequences for the region’s environmental landscape The Audubon Society has long recognized that if you want to measure the ...
16 Dec 2013 - Jasmine Rockow
In 1999, North and Northeast Portland was a low-income neighborhood surrounded by a food desert, and The Portland Development Commission (PDC) promised to do something about it. Fourteen years later, the PDC did-- but many of the people who needed the sup ...
16 Dec 2013 - Cameron Whitten
Highlights from a year of interviews “So, if we can reclaim the House in the election of 2014 and hold the Senate, then Harry Reid rolls back the filibuster, then we can get a lot done the last two years of the Obama presidency. That means we can’t sit ar ...
14 Dec 2013 - Street Roots Staff
On Nov. 3, James Hansen signed an open letter addressed to environmental organizations urging them to demonstrate “real concern about risks from climate damage by calling for the development and deployment of advanced nuclear energy.” Like Hansen and some ...
14 Dec 2013 - Robin Hahnel