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Editorial | Vendor issue highlights integral Portlanders

A ubiquitous feature in the Portland landscape, Street Roots vendors make the city better Letter from the editor: Readers are no doubt familiar with Street Roots vendors. Fixtures of the community, vendors brave cold, heat, rain, snow, pandemics and a lit ...

7 Sep 2022 - Raven Drake and Gary Barker and K. Rambo
Editorial | Interviewing unhoused neighbors requires care

Street Roots maintains an internal set of criteria and considerations regarding interview practices for unhoused Portlanders. Compassion and consent lead the way. Street Roots often receives praise from readers for including the triumphs, concerns and exp ...

6 Jul 2022 - SR editorial board
Editorial | Street Roots launches independent Sweep Tracker

Street Roots’ independent Sweep Tracker will use crowdsourced information to provide accountability The only source for quantitative data on homeless encampment sweeps in Portland is the city agency responsible for conducting those sweeps — or most of the ...

1 Jun 2022 - SR editorial board
Editorial | Street Roots takes home top honor for small newsrooms in PNW

There’s a strained saying about being a journalist that essentially amounts to, ‘the pay is bad and the hours are horrible, but at least everyone hates you.’ While there is some truth to the saying, as there would be with any public-facing job, Street Roo ...

24 May 2022 - K. Rambo
Editorial | Street Roots contacted every candidate in city, county, Metro races

Not every candidate responded, but they got at least two emails from us In keeping with the theme of the May 4 issue of Street Roots, this edition started with the basic premise of giving every candidate in contested races a chance to answer questions — a ...

11 May 2022 - SR editorial board
Editorial | Oregon Media Collaborative covered ground for gubernatorial primaries

Journalists throughout the state worked to bring you the answers in this issue In terms of covering elections, newspapers traditionally sift through expansive pools of candidates (particularly during primaries) and narrow the field to a small group of ‘se ...

4 May 2022 - SR editorial board
Welcome back to the Spring Anthology

Dear reader, When the editorial team set out to curate the Spring Anthology issues, we knew we had a tough task before us; to parse more than 800 pages with only 32 to fill. Curating a selection of impactful and important stories from a 12-month period le ...

27 Apr 2022 - K. Rambo
Welcome to the Spring Anthology

A collection of impactful and important stories from a 12-month period Dear reader, When the editorial team set out to curate the Spring Anthology issues, we knew we had a tough task before us; to parse more than 800 pages with only 32 to fill. Curating a ...

20 Apr 2022 - K. Rambo
Editorial | Introducing The Orange Fence Project

Focusing on homelessness policy, enforcement and impact in Portland Street Roots is launching a long-term reporting project and new coverage section: The Orange Fence Project. The project, which focuses on homelessness policy, enforcement and impact in Po ...

9 Mar 2022 - SR editorial board
Editorial | Portland Street Response is waiting for the city to catch up

Portland’s bare-bones commitment to the non-police crisis response program doesn’t reflect the substantial public demand for it Leanne was worried. Her daughter lived in a bus and struggled to manage her mental illness. After the 114-degree heat that resu ...

21 Jul 2021 - SR editorial board