I remember thinking there is so much in the world that is so dire and about which I can do nothing. In the mid 1980s HIV was one of those dire things and back then nearly always meant death. It was happening here in my city, my community, but unlike many ...
31 Dec 2014 - Kathy Oliver
Bridget didn’t want to buy syringes at the pharmacy. It was too humiliating an ordeal for the champion gymnast turned heroin addict to go through. Not too long ago she was doing well in high school, never dreaming she would be a junkie within a few years’ ...
29 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
Portland Children’s Levy first budget reductions cut deep By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer For the first time in its history, the Portland Children’s Levy has cut funding to children’s programs — the byproduct of declining property tax revenues. The dra ...
8 May 2012 - Street Roots
Another political casualty: Needle exchange programs rely on local support after the feds bail on funding By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer For the second time in two years, Congress is reversing its policy on federal funding for syringe exchange programs ...
2 Feb 2012 - Street Roots