OPINION | The city deserves praise for placing portable toilets around town, but it's drawn ire — with one police officer reportedly assisting in a sabotage effort Hand washing and hygiene are essential to preventing the spread of the coronavirus. Bo ...
4 Nov 2020 - Kaia Sand
A compassionate approach to first response is popular, and we need that compassion to spill over to more areas The Portland Street Response pilot is a reality. This is a big opportunity, Portland. Now, let us take this will toward compassion, and extend i ...
22 Nov 2019 - Kaia Sand
Injured when a truck rammed his tent, a Portland man says he's had to stop working At first, only the back half of the beat-up pickup truck with a faded-blue paint job can be seen in the security-camera video. About 10 yards behind the truck and to i ...
27 Sep 2019 - John Emshwiller
Workers collect and sort recyclables and trash that would otherwise be left on the ground or shipped to landfills The sun beats down on Audrey McCall Beach directly south of the Hawthorne Bridge, steps from the Eastbank Esplanade. Families cool off in the ...
2 Aug 2019 - Helen Hill
While the agency encourages people to call if they suspect animal abuse or neglect, the vast majority of complaints it receives are unfounded After sitting in traffic for a half-hour, we arrived at Southeast 35th Avenue and Yamhill Street. It was an unsea ...
12 Jul 2019 - Emily Green
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Proposed portable toilets would shift funds used to clean up homeless camps toward facilities that foster dignity and public health If you soon see plaid- and PDX-carpet patterned portable toilets around the city, see, too, the promise o ...
17 May 2019 - Kaia Sand
Sit-lie ordinances are 'cruel and unusual punishment' when no alternatives exist Local governments will have a harder time forcing homeless people out of public spaces after a ruling by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found that government cann ...
12 Apr 2019 - Ashley Archibald
Two Street Roots vendors had been living in the camp for months without hassle On Wednesday, Jan. 10, David Samson called the Street Roots office for his fiancé, Bettyjo Griffiths. His message: Come quickly, their camp was being swept. Before Bettyjo left ...
11 Jan 2019 - Kaia Sand
Danielle Outlaw tells Street Roots staff and vendors that police are chasing the radio while getting blamed for problems they cannot solve Danielle Outlaw has been thrust into the spotlight. The first African-American woman to serve as chief of the Portla ...
7 Dec 2018 - Emily Green and John Emshwiller
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Criminalizing people for being homeless is cruel and inhumane, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled A lot gets written in a day, and on Tuesday, Sept. 4, Donald Trump managed to punch out 16 wild and furious tweets. But among this frenzy, it’s ...
7 Sep 2018 - Kaia Sand