From court-appointed attorney fees to supervision fees, a legal nonprofit’s new guide seeks to make financial penalties easier to understand If a defendant financially qualifies for a court-appointed attorney to represent them in court because they are un ...
7 Aug 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
Historically Black church finally moves forward on a new climate-friendly vision, hoping the final permit stages won’t cause delays Local nonprofit Depave and a group of volunteers broke ground on a project to turn Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church’s ...
3 Jul 2024 - Jeremiah Hayden
Founded in 2019, the farm aims to stabilize food systems with Black communities at the forefront Oregon's extensive history of family-owned farms is changing. Corporations bought more farmland than any other buyer in recent years, according to a 2019 ...
12 Jun 2024 - Kimberly Cortez
Oregon Humane Society and Portland Animal Welfare Team offer neuter clinics and other low-cost per services for housing insecure pet owners The big German Shepherd, Rolo, and the pit bull, Titan, sit with their owners, Kaniko and Bari, on the sidewalk whi ...
12 Jun 2024 - Ellen Clarke
Born out of a need to communicate across difference and build community, Street Roots civic circles engage Portlanders in dialogue For a few months now, Street Roots vendors Sonya Aho, Robin “Shaggy” Douglas, George McCarthy, Craig Preston and Robert Wate ...
29 May 2024 - Thijs Kleinpaste
A tragic fire brings the community together The brightly lit, colorful food carts at 7238 SE Foster Road contrasted cheerfully with the gray, rainy day when they reopened on Jan. 26. It's the first milestone in a much-longer recovery process, and the ...
21 Feb 2024 - Ellen Clarke
Opinion | Free Geek, Personal Telco and Street Roots partner to launch the AfroVillage Old Town Community Network There’s a tiny piece of equipment on the roof of the soon-to-open Street Roots building on West Burnside Street that’s hard to glimpse from b ...
31 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Help Street Roots raise $27,237 for elevator construction Flying chairs, ascending rooms, steam-powered elevators descending into mines. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. For millennia, people ...
17 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Annual Willamette Week project aims to raise $8.25 million for 250 nonprofits by year’s end I returned to the question a couple of times in my conversation with Richard Meeker: “Why do you do this?" I was curious about why Meeker, as the fo ...
8 Nov 2023 - Kaia Sand
A vision for a community space is currently on hold due to costly review process The future backyard of Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church looks more like its neighboring Khunamokwst Park than its current application as an unused parking lot, but a ci ...
18 Oct 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden