Give twice this holiday season when your purchases benefit charity Make your holiday giving stretch further with purchases that help charity. All Portland businesses and nonprofits in the Street Roots Gift Guide were selected because they offer products o ...
23 Nov 2016 - Street Roots
No other mayor in my tenure has done more for the homeless than Hales We are only weeks away from Donald Trump taking over as the new leader of the free world. People are both scared and angry. We see the dark clouds gathering on the horizon. We know a st ...
27 Nov 2016 - Israel Bayer
Deidra has developed healthier relationships and has regained her independence Deidra Youngerman, or “Peaches,” has an easygoing manner and laugh that has helped her make friends around the world. “I was born in Greenwood, South Carolina,” said Deidra. “B ...
28 Nov 2016 - Leonora Ko
The renter's rights advocate championed historic changes in Oregon law It was Oct. 7, 2015. City Hall was packed. Tenants, community members, organizers and advocates from housing and social justice organizations, and housing and health agency staff ...
28 Nov 2016 - Kari Lyons
The former governor and activist speak with Street Roots about the lasting impact of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act Barbara and Frank Roberts were Oregon’s original power couple. By 1991, Barbara was culminating an already remarkable political career by ...
1 Dec 2016 - Joanne Zuhl
An interview with Oregon's former governor In her autobiography, “Up the Capital Steps: A Woman’s March to the Governorship,” Barbara Roberts writes of a dynamic time in Oregon’s history. And if you are lucky, she notes, “you get to make a little his ...
1 Dec 2016 - Joanne Zuhl
We stand with all media in this town that refuse to bend under threats Within 10 days of President-elect Donald Trump's Nov. 8 victory, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported nearly 900 cases of hate crimes across the country. Oregon topped the li ...
1 Dec 2016 - SR editorial board
They pulled off the most expansive, coordinated takeover of fossil fuel infrastructure ever attempted in the U.S. Leonard Higgins was starting to panic. The industrial chain he was attempting to cut loose was made of case-hardened steel. It was thicker a ...
1 Dec 2016 - Emily Green
Rucker is the Integrated Health and Recovery Treatment case manager. But he used to be on the other side of the patient and case manager relationship. In a sterile hospital room in the depths of Oregon Health & Science University, Tyrone Rucker sat wi ...
1 Dec 2016 - Corinne Ellis
Shawn uses his negative experiences to help others heal Shawn Knight is smart as a whip and taking steady steps to get off the street. He was born in Ohio and grew up in Texas. “I’ve been an electronics geek since I was a kid,” Shawn said. “When I was 8 ...
1 Dec 2016 - Leonora Ko