Temperatures will be especially dangerous beginning Wednesday night, when temperatures are predicted to drop to 17 degrees before wind chill, through Friday morning, when temperatures are expected to reach as high as 30 degrees Portlanders and those in th ...
21 Dec 2022 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots asked the new head of Portland Police Bureau about police oversight, protest response, gun violence and more Portland’s new chief of police has had no shortage of media attention. Following the police killing of George Floyd, protests calling ...
15 Aug 2020 - Street Roots Staff
The bureau wants someone knowledgeable of homeless issues to train police to better respond to the needs of unsheltered communities Portland Police Bureau is looking to hire a homeless community liaison, according to a job announcement posted Monday morni ...
17 Dec 2018 - Street Roots Staff
The average age of death was 49, according to the annual Domicile Unknown report Trauma, addiction, chronic health conditions and more claimed the lives of 80 people experiencing homelessness in Multomah County last year, according to the county’s just-re ...
14 Dec 2017 - Street Roots Staff
Speeches planned outside World Affairs Council of Oregon As the U.S. ambassador to Brunei speaks at a Nike-sponsored event in Portland, demonstrators will gather outside to protest Nike’s recent trade deal with the Southeast Asian nation. Brunei’s dictato ...
17 Mar 2016 - Street Roots Staff
Food Recovery Network helps colleges recover surplus unsold food On Oct. 14, Willamette University’s Food Recovery Network collected the food discarded from students’ plates and weighed the results: 219 pounds of food wasted. It was one of several simila ...
4 Feb 2016 - Street Roots Staff
The Health Streets pilot program includes outreach to injection drug users Responding to what it called a significant increase in heroin and other injection drug use, the Multnomah County Health Department has installed two large sharps containers along P ...
4 Feb 2016 - Street Roots Staff
Women were able to continue parenting their children while they served their prison time Click or tap the image for a gallery of photos by Joe Glode. In celebration of the holiday season, participants with the Family Preservation Project enjoyed a perform ...
23 Dec 2015 - Street Roots Staff
Words of wisdom from the pope, authors, entertainers and more Pope Francis in an interview with the International Network of Street Papers: "Jesus came into our world without a home, and he chose poverty. The church seeks to embrace us all and says t ...
23 Dec 2015 - Street Roots Staff
This holiday season, Street Roots vendors are grateful for love, support, housing – and you, their customers “2015 was a year that I faced so many challenges, on positive and negative levels. Every year, the communities support me with immense love and su ...
17 Dec 2015 - Street Roots Staff