Timbers’ David Horst always delivers his best game — on and off the field Portland is affectionately known as “Soccer City USA” thanks to its fervent support of the sport from the professional ranks to the youth leagues. The Portland Timbers have undoubte ...
26 Sep 2013 - Jules Boykoff
Not many people gave them a chance. From the neighborhood and bureaucrats to certain shelter providers and the business community, no one believed that a group of homeless people could be successful in creating their own safe refuge from the harsh realiti ...
26 Sep 2013 - SR editorial board
Alan chronicled Street Roots vendor Allen Bennett’s day as part of the Oregon Project Dayshoot+30, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the original Project Dayshoot which documented in pictures he lives of Oregonians on a single day. Allen carries his c ...
25 Sep 2013 - Alan Borrud
I always like to quote John Keats’ unforgettable “To Autumn” when fall arrives: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves ...
24 Sep 2013 - Melissa Favara
It was easy to pick out Lorry Clark when I went to meet him at his old selling spot at Northwest 11th Avenue and Lovejoy Street. A tall man with an easy posture and a big smile, Lorry could look down on the tops of the heads of most of the people who word ...
24 Sep 2013 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Bill McKibben has pursued the truth about global warming for more than 25 years. It’s up to all of us to catch up. No matter where you live on the planet, you are most certainly noticing intense and changing weather patterns. There is much debate about wh ...
24 Sep 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Concrete actually never really dries. Fifty years could pass and there is still a fraction of water inside. A teensy fraction! That means it can expand and contract, adjust to the changing seasons and actually get stronger with ag ...
24 Sep 2013 - Soup Can Sam
Three months ago when Mayor Charlie Hales assigned new bureaus to the City Council, I was honored to be working on housing and homelessness issues as the new Commissioner in charge of the Portland Housing Bureau. I welcome the new challenge. I see the wo ...
23 Sep 2013 - Dan Saltzman
Last week, a young, frightened woman phoned my Multnomah County office looking for help. She was a mother, with three children, who needed housing. The family had been doubling up with a relative, but now that relative was moving out of town. She needed h ...
23 Sep 2013 - Deborah Kafoury
The Pearl District for many represents a neighborhood on the rise — a shining example of how to plan urban growth, public transportation, sustainability, parks and the environment. The list goes on. Add a bustling food and art scene, a growing tech commun ...
18 Sep 2013 - Israel Bayer