Incarceration is not health care; police are not physicians By Gustav Cappaert, Contributing Writer In May 2010, someone called the Portland police to report a man talking to himself and spitting on cars in Old Town. When a police officer arrived, he foun ...
23 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
‘Sounding the deeps of his nature’ — Remembering Ted Jack By Israel Bayer, Staff Writer Ted Jack was a simple man. He lived a very complex and hard life. Born on a boat off the Alaskan coast into a youth spent in orphanages, Ted ran away from a world he w ...
26 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
The health care debate isn’t over: Let your voice be heard By Sam Metz, Contributing Columnist Does the specter of your family going bankrupt from a disease not covered by your health insurance keep you staring sleeplessly at the ceiling? Have you lost ho ...
29 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
Dear City Council: A prescription for healthy streets By Rob Sadowsky, Contributing Columnist I write this letter to the Portland City Council as it seats two new members: Mayor Charlie Hales and Commissioner Steve Novick. As you sit down over the next fe ...
29 Nov 2012 - Street Roots
A room with a view: One year on in housing By Leo Rhodes, Contributing Columnist Dec. 7, 1941, is a day that will live infamy, as President Roosevelt put it. Coming from Arizona, this day was and still is a big date as the USS Arizona became the first shi ...
4 Dec 2012 - Street Roots
by Melissa Favara, Contributing Columnist So, we had a spontaneous deep bedroom cleaning today. We sorted clothes for Goodwill and hand-me-downs for little Maret down the street; we excavated year-old New Yorkers and dust cattle from beneath our bed; we e ...
5 Dec 2012 - Street Roots
By Robert Britt I met Brian Bland just before Veterans Day. Brian, a former Marine Corps corporal who served two deployments in Iraq, had been invited to Reynolds High School in Troutdale, just east of Portland. The school was hosting a Living History Day ...
15 Dec 2012 - Israel Bayer
Experiencing a city like Portland doesn’t just happen by accident. From our creative neighborhoods to our lush urban forests, we are proud of the environment in which we live. We have some of the best music and arts on earth. We are humane and care for on ...
20 Dec 2012 - Israel Bayer
Partnership for Safety and Justice column By David Rogers, Contributing Columnist Are we witnessing the diminishing influence of tough-on-crime campaign rhetoric and the politics of fear? The election results show a compelling shift in the attitudes of th ...
20 Dec 2012 - Street Roots Staff
Welcome friends, to the new Street Roots news website. The news website is really in the beginning stages. While we make the website live today, we will still be working through different aspects of the site and glitches that may occur. You will see a hea ...
21 Dec 2012 - Street Roots Staff