COMMENTARY | By underfunding health care and education, Oregon is on a fast track to becoming Appalachia West Corporations and the wealthy understand where their self-interest lies in regard to taxes. It’s time for the rest of us to wise up and start voti ...
28 Mar 2017 - Robin Hahnel
The largest housing subsidy dwarfs the funds dedicated to housing Oregon’s most vulnerable populations The time has come, Oregon. It’s time to modify the state’s mortgage interest deduction. Of course it’s popular, and of course people love it. It’s a ta ...
23 Mar 2017 - SR editorial board
Trump's grave promises make local and state housing legislation essential In the past few months, a bar owner brandished an assault rifle at police. He was drunk and upset at individuals experiencing homelessness in the community. Another man tossed ...
16 Mar 2017 - Israel Bayer
ICE's draconian measures are terrorizing families and children It’s heartbreaking to watch. A young man, taking his 13-year-old daughter to school, is handcuffed and taken away by immigration officers, all while his daughter – still in the car – fil ...
9 Mar 2017 - SR editorial board
Oregon lawmakers made a bold statement this session when they decided that all law enforcement agencies in the state must establish policies that prohibit profiling. This is less of an impact on Portland, where such a policy is already on the books, but i ...
10 Jul 2015 - SR editorial board
In many ways this legislative session was a success, especially when you think about just how far to the right the rest of our country continues to be on social justice issues. Creating policy that gives hard-working Oregonians time off for sick leave, tr ...
10 Jul 2015 - Israel Bayer
There’s a lot of reason to celebrate this Independence Day. July Fourth is a time to look back on the founding of the United States and the documents that shape and control our democracy. We saw the system at its best during the last days of June: the Sup ...
7 Jul 2015 - Janet Byrd