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  1. Street Roots vendor profile: Congratulations, Dennis

    VA grant program helps veteran secure housing Street Roots vendor Dennis Chavez got keys to his own apartment in Southeast Portland earlier this month with the help of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Supportive Services for Veterans and Families grant ...

    22 Sep 2016 - Cole Merkel

  2. Relief from post-traumatic stress, pain makes marijuana popular among veterans

    Too bad the VA can’t recommend it It was January 2011 when Anthony landed in the Middle East. He was young, laid-back and credulous. “I had no clue about the real world,” he said in hindsight. Anthony had enlisted in the U.S. Navy when he was 19 years old ...

    8 Sep 2016 - Emily Green

  3. Update: Fort McClellan veterans soldier on

    VA acknowledges veterans’ concerns, but continues to deny claims of toxic exposure Thousands of veterans who trained at Fort McClellan say contamination at the military base caused them to become seriously ill. For more than a decade they’ve demanded the ...

    27 Mar 2015 - Emily Green

  4. Toxic soldiers: A Portland woman among thousands of Army vets who say they were poisoned by chemicals at Ft. McClellan

    It was the 1970s in Southern California, and a teenage Laynie Roland could be seen most days surfing and boogie boarding along Newport Beach, about 40 miles west of her home in Ontario. With her long, feathered, bleached-blonde hair and wave-riding ways, ...

    6 Dec 2014 - Emily Green

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