Game On! The first thing to understand is “we” are already behind. The tax reform “game” in Oregon is already late in the third quarter and our team bus has yet to arrive at the stadium. Not only have right-wing, anti-tax groups been at this game 24-7 for ...
13 Feb 2014 - Robin Hahnel
Every few years, when Congress turns its watery eyes toward the nation’s subsidy-rich Farm Bill, it chomps hard on the bit that is food stamps. This year was no exception. Between the Democrat plans for $4 billion over 10 years, and the Republican goal of ...
13 Feb 2014 - Joanne Zuhl
LaVonne Griffin-Valade doesn’t mince her words. Nor would she. As a former elementary school teacher and aspiring fiction writer, she values the precision of perfect grammar. As the city’s auditor, she values the ability of a well-written, researched — an ...
12 Feb 2014 - Amanda Waldroupe
Ask any Street Roots vendor and you’ll learn there’s more to selling the paper than you may think. Take Sean Sheffield and Rebecca Moran, for example. The dynamic selling duo dominates the corner of Southwest Fifth Avenue and Morrison Street, and if frequ ...
12 Feb 2014 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Caught in battles, animals are often displaced and, sadly, many get killed in crossfire. This series offers some startling photography, highlighting both the pain of war and how compassion can survive in the most horrific of circumstances. These photos we ...
10 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff
• Average income needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment in Multnomah County: $17,720 • Average annual Social Security payment for retired workers in Multnomah County: $12,861 • Number of hours per week a worker earning minimum wage must work to afford a ...
10 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff
What a week on the homeless front. A partnership between some of the most powerful interests in the city and a group of homeless activist, a snowstorm and the Portland police chief announcing a plan to address homelessness downtown. Wow. I haven’t even me ...
7 Feb 2014 - Israel Bayer
Pearl District developers want Right 2 Dream Too out of their neighborhood, so much so that they’re willing to pony up more than $846,000 toward the homeless groups future home. City Council will vote next week on whether to accept the money. Pearl Hotel ...
6 Feb 2014 - Joanne Zuhl
People often ask me, what motivated you to get into this line of work and to be engaged with politics. There’s a lot of different ways I could answer that question. Growing up in rural-industrial America, my first relationship to anything even remotely po ...
5 Feb 2014 - Israel Bayer
Portland’s water and sewer bureaus have an interesting year ahead of them. Alleged illegal use of ratepayer funds, controversial expenses on projects seemingly beyond the scope of the bureau’s mission, along with questionable public recourse on rate decis ...
5 Feb 2014 - SR editorial board