COMMENTARY | Working to fight HIV/AIDS In these partisan times, it can be difficult to find topics on which we all agree. Ongoing bipartisan support is needed to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and globally, and we need this support to exte ...
1 Dec 2016 - Stacy M. Cross
COMMENTARY | Trump's AG pick threatens progress in shrinking prison populations As I write this column, it’s been less than 48 hours since Donald Trump announced Sen. Jeff Sessions as his choice for attorney general. My chest tightens and tears fill ...
1 Dec 2016 - Shannon Wight
COMMENTARY | Get out there, get engaged and let’s make change together The progressive people of Portland – and the United States – are reeling from the election of Donald Trump. Many feel confused, beaten and hopeless. These feelings are real, and they a ...
1 Dec 2016 - Daisy Quiñonez
The rock star discusses his legacy and his charitable efforts to combat homelessness We’d last seen Jon Bon Jovi about 24 hours earlier at the listening party for his new album at London’s Ivy Club, one of those joints that have their own name emblazoned ...
1 Dec 2016 - Terri White
Shawn uses his negative experiences to help others heal Shawn Knight is smart as a whip and taking steady steps to get off the street. He was born in Ohio and grew up in Texas. “I’ve been an electronics geek since I was a kid,” Shawn said. “When I was 8 ...
1 Dec 2016 - Leonora Ko
Rucker is the Integrated Health and Recovery Treatment case manager. But he used to be on the other side of the patient and case manager relationship. In a sterile hospital room in the depths of Oregon Health & Science University, Tyrone Rucker sat wi ...
1 Dec 2016 - Corinne Ellis
They pulled off the most expansive, coordinated takeover of fossil fuel infrastructure ever attempted in the U.S. Leonard Higgins was starting to panic. The industrial chain he was attempting to cut loose was made of case-hardened steel. It was thicker a ...
1 Dec 2016 - Emily Green
We stand with all media in this town that refuse to bend under threats Within 10 days of President-elect Donald Trump's Nov. 8 victory, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported nearly 900 cases of hate crimes across the country. Oregon topped the li ...
1 Dec 2016 - SR editorial board
An interview with Oregon's former governor In her autobiography, “Up the Capital Steps: A Woman’s March to the Governorship,” Barbara Roberts writes of a dynamic time in Oregon’s history. And if you are lucky, she notes, “you get to make a little his ...
1 Dec 2016 - Joanne Zuhl
The former governor and activist speak with Street Roots about the lasting impact of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act Barbara and Frank Roberts were Oregon’s original power couple. By 1991, Barbara was culminating an already remarkable political career by ...
1 Dec 2016 - Joanne Zuhl