Opinion | Petition for PSR amasses more than 10,000 signatures Friends of Portland Street Response organizers delivered a 10,000-signatures-and-growing petition to Portland City Hall on Aug. 2 at noon, celebrating on the steps with a giant check depicting ...
9 Aug 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | A new section in the guide lists services for people exiting incarceration GET YOUR ROSE CITY RESOURCE GUIDES Pick up Rose City Resource guides by visiting our office at 211 NW Davis St. in Old Town. We are open 8:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. Monday, Wednesd ...
2 Aug 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Sign the Friends of Portland Street Response petition. Volunteer. Lend your logo to the effort. “Not every crisis is a crime,” a Street Roots vendor jotted on a scrap of paper four years ago to hold up at a city council budget meeting. Kaia Sand ...
24 Jul 2023 - Kaia Sand
Transforming Justice | Parole and probation, once thought a solution to mass incarceration, increased drastically since the 1980s. A new movement seeks to make it more equitable. Hope, racial equity and success are some of the values we want at the core o ...
19 Jul 2023 - Babak Zolfaghar... and Shannon Wight
Opinion | Deaths due to fentanyl use are rising. We can, and should, use harm reduction techniques to mitigate risks. Vendor program director DeVon Pouncey and I walked through Old Town nearly every week for the past six years, but these walks changed the ...
19 Jul 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | The collective strength of Old Town is a force to be reckoned with. How do we continue a campaign of hope for our neighborhood? Hope is on the rise in Old Town. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her view ...
12 Jul 2023 - Kaia Sand
Street Smart Economics | From a lack of resources to a movement for child labor, growing up in the US is bad and getting worse The state of America’s children is not good. And there is every reason to believe that things will get worse as a result of the ...
12 Jul 2023 - Martin Hart-Lan...
After 2 years at Street Roots, K. Rambo provides a look at what's happened and a look at what's ahead July 5, 2021 was a very different time for Street Roots, Portland and the entire United States. We had a different governor, different city cou ...
5 Jul 2023 - K. Rambo
Opinion | PSU researchers release 2-year evaluation, find police-alternative works, needs investment, support Portland Street Response is achieving what it set out to do. Portland Street Response is in danger of being dismantled. Both are true. Kaia Sand ...
27 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | A tribute to Daniel Ellsberg’s tireless work in the name of truth He first gave the documents to The New York Times, then The Washington Post. Next came The Boston Globe — his hometown at the time — followed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 11 ...
20 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand