The true colors of many people who are in charge of and influence public safety and policy have been rising to the service. Lets start with civility. That was the topic of a recent summit that brought together policy makers, students, businesses, nonprofi ...
16 Oct 2013 - SR editorial board
Street Roots is currently participating on a committee convened by Portland City Commissioner Dan Saltzman and County Commissioner Deborah Kafoury to determine where $1.7 million should go to support housing and homeless services. It’s great to think that ...
17 Oct 2013 - Israel Bayer
The first thing I fell in love with was her voice. We were at a party at Carefree Lounge in Southeast Portland. She was from Georgia, and she had a southern drawl that grabbed my ear. I had to talk to her. “No, honey, I can do this by myself,” she replied ...
17 Oct 2013 - Cece Barnes
Several weeks ago Democrat Bill de Blasio won the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City while running a progressive campaign based on ending the city’s growing inequality. The Center for Economic Opportunity recently released a report stating t ...
17 Oct 2013 - M. Nels Johnson
•Nearly 25,000 African immigrants and refugees live in Oregon: Source, Coalition of Communities of Color •About 24 percent of the Portland Metropolitan Region was made up of youth ages 0-17. Nearly 11 percent were residents 65 years of age and older. •Thr ...
21 Oct 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Activists continue to find fault with sheriff’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Miguel Hernández, not his real name, really wanted a drink and a night out. What he got was a detention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...
21 Oct 2013 - Nathan Gilles
How one man is building a better life from the ground up It was Kyler Buzalsky’s nature of acceptance that attracted me to his story. I teach dialectical behavior therapy, among other subjects, and if ever there was a poster child for cool, calm detachmen ...
21 Oct 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
I was adopted at a young age, yet I still remember my adopted parents telling me they were my new parents. Then asking if it was OK, I answered, “yes.” They were pleased; next they told me I could change my name if I wanted to. They gave me some examples ...
21 Oct 2013 - Leo Rhodes
Technically speaking, he was a transient white male, age 59, declared dead from natural causes at 9:18 p.m., Oct. 7, in East Portland. To his friends, he was Alvin Smith. He lived with about 50 other people at the controversial camp along Johnson Creek at ...
22 Oct 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Forty years after the military coup in Chile, author Isabel Allende remembers the paralyzing fear that swept the county. Chilean author Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim when her bestselling first novel, “The House of the Spirits,” was published in 198 ...
23 Oct 2013 - Ole Hoff-Lund