Street Roots partnered with Portland State University researchers to include vendors’ voices in a statewide study on perspectives and experiences surrounding water The Oregon Water Stories Project is an interdisciplinary team of Portland State University ...
17 Mar 2021 - Sanya Cowal and Clare McClellan
‘He had a purpose and a legacy,’ writes friend and fellow vendor Dorothy Pepper Street Roots vendor Daniel Campbell died Jan. 1. In his December 2020 vendor profile, Daniel talked about how much writing and poetry meant to him and how he looked forward to ...
17 Mar 2021 - Dorothy Pepper
OPINION | Thank you for getting income to our vendors when the storm prevented them from selling papers This past weekend, we put out a call to build an emergency income fund for the more than 200 active vendors who missed sales during the snowstorm. We a ...
17 Feb 2021 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Nurturing is Max's superpower; he's focused on keeping his wife warm outside The reason I made this design is my wife lost a half a foot and a third of a leg two years ago to frostbite,” Max told me, holding up a pale purple leg warmer ...
18 Nov 2020 - Kaia Sand
Episode 12: The longtime vendor talks about the future of Street Roots, the state and the planet On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, longtime Street Roots vendor Dan Newth joined host DeVon Pouncey and discussed what it has been like to be able t ...
14 Oct 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
OPINION | The Street Roots Action Team's voter registration drive builds on efforts to broaden civic engagement They just keep at it. The day the Proud Boys attempted to disrupt the city, the Street Roots Action Team was undeterred and focused, out o ...
7 Oct 2020 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | While some Street Roots vendors return to selling the paper, others need to shelter in place. There are ways to support them, too. That afternoon in early March when Raven Drake walked me to her tent next to I-5 North created the roadmap for how ...
14 Aug 2020 - Kaia Sand
Starting Aug. 12, readers will have a cashless option for purchasing the newspaper from vendors, who will all be trained in new health and safety protocols Hundreds of Street Roots vendors have weighed in. Nearly 700 of you, our readers, took our survey. ...
31 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Reflecting on the poetry of Daniel Cox and its reverberations through these difficult times Daniel Cox handed me a thick packet of paper from a notebook, folded in half. Poems. “I miss people,” he said softly. Kaia Sand is the executive direc ...
24 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | The people with the most at stake must continue to guide the process for this program that Street Roots championed The Portland City Council vote to fund Portland Street Response is a victory for Jim, who told me that when his “brain itc ...
18 Jun 2020 - Kaia Sand