The Portland singer-songwriter has received the Lowenstein Trust Award for his efforts to support musicians in need In early spring of 2020, the certainty of a profound global pandemic was beginning to sink in. Lives, livelihoods and presumptions of secur ...
10 Feb 2021 - Helen Hill
The Hygiene Hub, under the Morrison Bridge, offers toilets, wind and solar showers, information and other resources A cluster of small, bright blue buildings has recently bloomed beneath the Morrison Bridge on the east side of Martin Luther King Jr. Boule ...
16 Dec 2020 - Helen Hill
COMMENTARY | The monument to Capt. Robert Gray has been seen by countless Oregon Coast tourists and locals for the past two decades On the eastern shoulder of Highway 101, as it runs through the small coastal town of Garibaldi, stands a tall, imposing sta ...
21 Jun 2020 - Helen Hill
‘We can find people like nobody’s business,’ says the founder of the nonprofit, which has celebrated more than 300 reunions across the United States “Everyone is someone’s somebody.” That’s the motto of Miracle Messages, a San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit ...
30 Mar 2020 - Helen Hill
Vendors’ contributions to the Street Roots chalkboard hold special meaning for Wendy For the past several years, a humble chalkboard that stands in the middle of the Street Roots vendor office has been a focal point for art, creativity and inspirational q ...
13 Mar 2020 - Helen Hill
COMMENTARY | The movement to legally enshrine the rights of species and ecosystems has been gaining steam worldwide In a letter to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee dated Feb. 11, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown offered her full support for removal of the four hydroelect ...
6 Mar 2020 - Helen Hill
How do unhoused people keep their clothes clean? Many don't; others rely on resourcefulness The scarcity of laundry, shower and public toilet facilities in downtown Portland stems, perhaps in part, from a historical view of homelessness as a temporar ...
28 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill
Mark, who enjoys feeling safe inside, says the transition from years on the streets ‘has been interesting’ After three years and four months living on the streets of Portland, Mark Rodriguez has his own place. Among other changes, he finds his appetite ha ...
21 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill
A new exhibit by the founder of Gather:Make:Shelter reflects a life of sharing her craft among those without Whirling strands of lace or DNA are painted onto large squares of muslin. The fragile filaments touch at tender points and eddy around a core. Del ...
14 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill
COMMENTARY | Today, it’s Trump’s ban on immigrants who need assistance, but medical injustice for people of color has roots 155 years deep On Jan. 27, the United States Supreme Court voted 5-4 to approve the Trump administration’s “public charge” law, als ...
7 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill