As organizations working to preserve and expand opportunities for low-income people to live and thrive in Portland, we support the proposal by Portland City Commissioners Dan Saltzman and Nick Fish for a dedicated stream of funding for affordable housing, ...
23 Jul 2014 - Israel Bayer
Welcome to the sixth Street Roots Summer Online Auction. We have more food and booze than you could ever imagine. We have summer fun. We have something for you and yours... Check it out! (Auction site is: http://www.streetrootsauction.org/) When you supp ...
21 Jul 2014 - Israel Bayer
Oregon State Treasurer Ted Wheeler admits that most Oregonians know very little about what he does — he said even he didn’t know much about the job before he took it. But it’s an important position, and as financial concerns grow across the state, his dep ...
17 Jul 2014 - Emily Green
What a weird and wonderful election system we have here in Oregon. Myriad initiatives and referendums spinning tens of thousands of signatures into ballot measures in a seemingly endless cycle. This November, one of those initiatives comes from an unlikel ...
17 Jul 2014 - SR editorial board
A spat between a drug manufacturer and states that use the death penalty could soon be impinging upon residents’ right to die. Pharmacists I’ve spoken with from Portland to Seattle, report the manufacturer of pentobarbital, the drug used under Washington ...
16 Jul 2014 - Hunter Marshall
Homelessness is not a crime. The belief that it is, is what Daniel Cox hopes to help change with advocacy work in the future. Daniel sells Street Roots and volunteers with Sisters of the Road. “Being part of that community and now joining the Street Roots ...
16 Jul 2014 - Sarah Hansell
How could this have happened? This question has reverberated in people’s minds and hearts since high school freshman Jared Padgett shot and killed 14-year-old Emilio Hoffman and injured physical education teacher Todd Rispler before taking his own life. A ...
15 Jul 2014 - Kerry Naughton
Around the state, a grassroots movement is calling for a higher minimum wage and a fair shot at economic opportunity. They’re right. The truth is that our wage floor is too low. As Labor Commissioner, it’s my job to ensure that Oregonians are treated fair ...
15 Jul 2014 - Brad Avakian
Jennifer Batten didn’t become one of rock’s most accomplished professional guitar players with a waifish, coy girlie image. She got there by living, breathing and being music — by being a badass woman in an industry dominated by men. She did three world t ...
15 Jul 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Voz Workers Rights Education Project, Portland’s day laborer organization, was recently faced with a difficult decision: Either pursue a promising $75,000 grant through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, or forfeit the money and stay in solidari ...
15 Jul 2014 - Joanne Zuhl