• Tons of food generated by the Waterfront Blues Festival to benefit Oregon Food Bank since the festival started in 1988: 800 • Amount raised in last year’s Waterfront Blues festival: $1.3 million • Number of meals they could buy with that money (estimate ...
5 Jul 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Ly Tran* is washing dishes when I arrive at her house. She wears a gray sweatshirt and sweatpants with neon green lines running up the leg, her short black hair bobbing up and down as she wipes dry a plate. Her quiet demeanor contrasts with the slew of br ...
10 Jul 2014 - Samantha Lew
The Jade District, the neighborhood center located around Southeast 82nd Avenue and Division Street, is literally boxed in by major transportation corridors: Southeast 80th Avenue to the east, outer Southeast Powell Boulevard to the south, 93rd Avenue to ...
10 Jul 2014 - Luann Algoso an...
Street Roots vendors work hard in the summer. It’s not easy. Being homeless in the summertime isn’t any fun. Longer periods of daylight are a welcome sign for many Portlanders, but for many people on the streets it can mean going long stretches of time wi ...
10 Jul 2014 - Israel Bayer
Jennifer Batten didn’t become one of rock’s most accomplished professional guitar players with a waifish, coy girlie image. She got there by living, breathing and being music — by being a badass woman in an industry dominated by men. She did three world t ...
15 Jul 2014 - Suzanne Zalokar
Voz Workers Rights Education Project, Portland’s day laborer organization, was recently faced with a difficult decision: Either pursue a promising $75,000 grant through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, or forfeit the money and stay in solidari ...
15 Jul 2014 - Joanne Zuhl
Around the state, a grassroots movement is calling for a higher minimum wage and a fair shot at economic opportunity. They’re right. The truth is that our wage floor is too low. As Labor Commissioner, it’s my job to ensure that Oregonians are treated fair ...
15 Jul 2014 - Brad Avakian
How could this have happened? This question has reverberated in people’s minds and hearts since high school freshman Jared Padgett shot and killed 14-year-old Emilio Hoffman and injured physical education teacher Todd Rispler before taking his own life. A ...
15 Jul 2014 - Kerry Naughton
Homelessness is not a crime. The belief that it is, is what Daniel Cox hopes to help change with advocacy work in the future. Daniel sells Street Roots and volunteers with Sisters of the Road. “Being part of that community and now joining the Street Roots ...
16 Jul 2014 - Sarah Hansell
A spat between a drug manufacturer and states that use the death penalty could soon be impinging upon residents’ right to die. Pharmacists I’ve spoken with from Portland to Seattle, report the manufacturer of pentobarbital, the drug used under Washington ...
16 Jul 2014 - Hunter Marshall