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Houseless plaintiffs win in lawsuit against Grants Pass

In a town where no year-round emergency shelter is provided, people forced to sleep outside will have relief from punitive measures A federal judge on Wednesday issued an opinion in the class-action lawsuit homeless residents brought against the Southern ...

23 Jul 2020 - Emily Green
Restaurant in Lincoln City under fire for its name

Lil’ Sambo’s Family Restaurant on Highway 101 is named after an old children’s book with racist illustrations. Now the owner faces pressure to change the name. For over 60 years, Lil’ Sambo’s Family Restaurant in Lincoln City has been a self-proclaimed “c ...

5 Jul 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Lawsuit: Grants Pass criminalizes homelessness while offering no shelter

City officials had a simple approach to homelessness: Make life so uncomfortable, they leave. Now a class action suit is the first to test the Boise decision and reveals systemic punishment and harassment for sleeping outdoors. GRANTS PASS — Kirt Morrill ...

25 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
Up against polarization and COVID-19, McMinnville homeless-service providers find a way

In a town where residents are often contentious with the homeless population, resources for unhoused residents are scarce during the pandemic McMINNVILLE — When McMinnville’s library closed in response to the coronavirus pandemic, people experiencing home ...

15 Apr 2020 - Tom Henderson
Rural Oregon school districts shift to outreach, connecting homeless families to services

When coronavirus hit, homeless students lost their safe haven: school Butte Falls is written in fine print on the Jackson County map, about 30 miles uphill northeast of Medford. It’s a small community of about 450 people, one gas station, one grocery stor ...

14 Apr 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
Clam digging continues amid pandemic; Oregon Coast lawmakers demand state action

As razor clam season ramps up, northern counties worry clammers will bring higher rates of COVID-19 to coastal communities Lawmakers in Oregon’s two northernmost coastal counties want clamming season closed. They've asked both the Oregon Department o ...

7 Apr 2020 - Emily Green
Opinion | COVID-19 through a literary lens

FINDING FRINGE | My conversations with librarians have been the bright line in a ‘world of words’ “Look, we have been on the front lines of all sorts of diseases. New strains of TB. Hep C. Even bedbugs are blamed on us. This virus doesn’t scare me. The pe ...

31 Mar 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
Oregon bill pits housing against the environment

Lawmakers are considering weakening wetlands protections to encourage development of much-needed affordable housing A bill moving through the Oregon Legislature aimed at easing housing construction in some rural areas is at odds with regulations set under ...

22 Apr 2019 - Emily Green
Lingering occupation: Behind the documentary on the Malheur standoff

Richard Wilhelm and Sue Arbuthnot discuss their new film, "Refuge," about the 2016 Bundy occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge What is a refuge? Is refuge what we would call home? Are we fleeing from something – or someone – when we ...

25 Jan 2019 - Amanda Waldroupe
No, Portland's not sending all its homeless people to small Oregon towns

Since the city rolled out the Ticket Home program, it’s been blamed for increases in homelessness in more rural areas of the state It’s a story Street Roots reporters heard again and again as they traveled to small towns around Oregon: “Portland is sendin ...

17 Aug 2018 - Emily Green