Donating to Street Roots through Dec. 5 means your dollar goes twice as far Good journalism is often expensive and difficult to fund. NewsMatch, a collaborative fundraising program for Institute for Nonprofit News members like Street Roots, seeks to bridg ...
29 Nov 2023 - K. Rambo
Opinion | Kotek’s decision to hide her new task force’s conversations from the public is opaque, unethical and counterproductive Now, I promise what follows isn’t a setup for a joke, though there’s something one could argue is comedic within the subject o ...
6 Sep 2023 - K. Rambo
After 2 years at Street Roots, K. Rambo provides a look at what's happened and a look at what's ahead July 5, 2021 was a very different time for Street Roots, Portland and the entire United States. We had a different governor, different city cou ...
5 Jul 2023 - K. Rambo
As cherry blossoms begin to depart and the spring sun musters all it can to chip away at the gloomy canopy making its home atop the Willamette Valley, winter-weary Portlanders are treated to a quietly crucial election season. Southeast Portland voters ha ...
26 Apr 2023 - K. Rambo
Portland could have a transparency advocate, but City Council has to approve putting the choice in voters' hands Feb. 22 While Portland’s city government lists “transparency” among its core values, anyone tasked with filing (or fulfilling) more than ...
15 Feb 2023 - K. Rambo
Over the next four weeks, expect to learn a lot about what candidates plan to do about housing and homelessness Letter from the editor: It's getting to be that time again. The time when people throughout the state argue (or alternatively agree) with ...
21 Sep 2022 - K. Rambo
A ubiquitous feature in the Portland landscape, Street Roots vendors make the city better Letter from the editor: Readers are no doubt familiar with Street Roots vendors. Fixtures of the community, vendors brave cold, heat, rain, snow, pandemics and a lit ...
7 Sep 2022 - Raven Drake and Gary Barker and K. Rambo
There’s a strained saying about being a journalist that essentially amounts to, ‘the pay is bad and the hours are horrible, but at least everyone hates you.’ While there is some truth to the saying, as there would be with any public-facing job, Street Roo ...
24 May 2022 - K. Rambo
Dear reader, When the editorial team set out to curate the Spring Anthology issues, we knew we had a tough task before us; to parse more than 800 pages with only 32 to fill. Curating a selection of impactful and important stories from a 12-month period le ...
27 Apr 2022 - K. Rambo