Best SR photos of 2009 Street Roots has some of the best photographers in the city. The newspaper is lucky to have an all volunteer, all-star tandem of award winning shooters, like Leah Nash, Ken Hawkins, John Ryan Brubaker, and Elizabeth Schwartz. They ...
24 Dec 2009 - Street Roots
Living between two worlds: African refugees battle cultural isolation as they try to adapt to their new home in Portland From the August 7 edition of Street Roots. On a toasty Tuesday afternoon, Suleqa Ismail wears the trademarks of two different contine ...
20 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Journalism is the first rough draft of history, a famous publisher once said. Get a leg up on the future and buy a copy of Street Roots first thing tomorrow. Your friendly neighborhood vendor will thank you! Here’s what’s making history on o ...
6 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
Copy editors discuss (foul) language today in office From left to right, Eddy Barbosa, Cassandra Koslen, Mary Pacios, Art Garcia, Mara Grunbaum, Ruth Kovacs. The word is question was motherf*cker. After much debate, it was decided that it is one word, and ...
5 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
Veterans arriving on the streets not who you think (Rick Stoller, who directs the Harbor Lights shelter, says it's becoming increasingly difficult to find appropriate affordable housing for veterans.) Shock Waves from the May 29 edition of Street Roo ...
10 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Street Roots wins honors from Society of Professional Journalists Street Roots writers Mara Grunbaum, Tye Doudy and Joanne Zuhl took home honors from the Oregon and Southwest Washington Society of Professional Journalists May 30. The event honors journal ...
1 Jun 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Quick! Grab your Street Roots and head to the park! Summer time is here and it always seems to vanish before we really get to enjoy it. Your vendor knows it too, and they all have their summer sales hats on, with new papers in hand starting ...
28 May 2009 - Street Roots
Enviros charge up to challenge coal Cesia Kearns and Robin Everett with Oregon's Sierra Club. From the May 15 edition of Street Roots Cesia Kearns and Robin Everett came to Oregon with a purpose: to scrub the state clean of coal power. Coal-burning p ...
27 May 2009 - Street Roots
Immigrant workers face extremes of economic crisis Published in the May 1 edition of Street Roots Growing up in the riverfront manufacturing town of St. Helens, Yesenia Sanchez knew only a handful of other Latino families. Born in Oregon to Mexican immigr ...
13 May 2009 - Street Roots
Talking food in the new world By Mara Grunbaum Staff Writer What does the word “hunger” call to mind? A malnourished child in a third-world country? An unemployed man in a tattered coat standing in a Depression-era breadline? How about a mother working tw ...
1 May 2009 - Street Roots