We’re in a housing crisis. We need to lift the pre-emption on rent control. We cannot build our way out of our housing crisis. The free market will always cleave to profits as high as the market can bear. And in a city as desirable as Portland, regardless ...
4 Jan 2019 - SR editorial board
Portland must have a 24-hour, fast-responding service unit to address where people are, right now In our interview with Portland Police Chief Danielle Outlaw, a recurring theme emerged. We need new responders on the front lines to attend to the calls for ...
7 Dec 2018 - SR editorial board
Oregonians' consumer decisions are adding up, but we can change that The Oregon Global Warming Commission this month adopted a draft report that shows how climate change is already drastically transforming Oregon’s ecosystems and weather patterns. Fr ...
26 Oct 2018 - SR editorial board
Perhaps it’s time Oregonians reconsider who can and cannot pay to change the state’s Constitution We encourage you to peruse Street Roots’ November 2018 election edition. As a nonprofit, we cannot endorse political candidates. But we do offer up the unva ...
19 Oct 2018 - SR editorial board
EDITORIAL ENDORSEMENT | Vote 'no' on the proposed constitutional amendment In the Sept. 28-Oct. 4 edition of Street Roots, we dived into the pea soup of claims and accusations surrounding Measure 103, a proposal to change Oregon’s Constitution t ...
28 Sep 2018 - SR editorial board
Street Roots endorses Measure 26-201, which would benefit the environment, as well as poor and diverse communities When the air is thick with the smoke from forest fires, it is people on the streets who have to breathe that air day and night. They are the ...
14 Sep 2018 - SR editorial board
Criminalization is not, and never has been, the answer to a health crisis This week, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein penned an opinion piece in the New York Times in response to the momentum building around safe injection sites for intravenous ...
31 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
You can’t dismiss President Trump's anti-press rhetoric as simply hyperbole Remember when the phrase “alternative facts” was laughably absurd? It was the term coined by a White House spokesperson a few days after the Trump administration took office ...
16 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
Portland has a need for authentic immigration reform and justice It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. If ever there was a time to aspire to that philosophy, it is now. On Saturday, the so-called Proud Boys and Patriot Prayer moveme ...
3 Aug 2018 - SR editorial board
Now is the time to speak out to our representatives and tell them “never again.” It has been an emotional, gut-wrenching few weeks. The images and sounds of young children screaming and crying for their mothers and fathers has pushed many of us to the lim ...
22 Jun 2018 - SR editorial board