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 They carpooled and packed into buses, wearing buttons in solidarity and some paired in matching T-shirts. More than 150 of them, of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, made the trip. They came for Housing Opportunity Lobby Da ...
23 Apr 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
What people are saying around Portland about suburban poverty “We are seeing more and more calls coming to City Hall. Our staff get three to five phone calls a week from people seeking help of various kinds. Prior to the recession we did not get any calls ...
26 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