Full-time journalist and part-time crooner, Shapiro talks about his year on the road with Romney By Joanne Zuhl Staff Writer No one would accuse public broadcasting of being sexy, but fans of Ari Shapiro could make a pretty good case. The Beaverton High S ...
20 Dec 2012 - Joanne Zuhl
By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer The Portland Business Alliance has brought forth a bill to the Oregon Legislature that for all intents and purposes is a shot over the bow of the city’s sidewalks — and everyone who uses them. House Bill 2963, under the genera ...
21 Feb 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Rep. Jennifer Williamson talks about new public safety initiatives and the potential for real reform By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer In the past 10 years, Oregon’s prison population has grown by nearly 50 percent, and while it remains lower than that nationa ...
27 Mar 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Long, long ago, in a country not unlike our own — actually, exactly like our own — people were people and corporations were corporations. Today, however, we have corporate personhood, a court-manufactured status that lets comp ...
7 May 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
The second annual report on homeless deaths shines a light on the toll taken by the streets By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer He was one of a kind — the man in the white tuxedo and Mickey Mouse ears, playing his trumpet from a corner perch on the Hawthorne Bri ...
10 May 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
A conversation with Portland’s Margaret Van Vliet on her charge to overhaul the state’s housing agency By Joanne Zuhl, Staff writer Oregon’s Housing and Community Services department is arguably not the most glamorous in state government. But it’s definit ...
20 May 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
A conversation about the housing challenges and opportunities facing Oregon farmworkers Oregon employs between 90,000 and 150,000 farmworkers, not including their families. The precise numbers are difficult to establish year by year, because of the nature ...
5 Jun 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Right 2 Dream Too, the homeless way station at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Burnside, will square off with city attorneys next week for perhaps the final round in their 20-month standoff. On July 11, a motion to dismiss by the city will be considered i ...
1 Jul 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Across the nation, suburbs now surpass cities and rural areas in the number of people living in poverty If you want to know what homelessness looks like in the 21st century, you have to look beyond the familiar hoods and urban alleys. You have to head out ...
5 Jul 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
Across Oregon, low-income families are adjusting to a little less, thanks to the national reduction in the food stamp program that went into effect Nov. 1. We haven’t seen the last of it. Lawmakers in Washington D.C. are currently threshing out two plans ...
18 Nov 2013 - Joanne Zuhl