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Kaia Sand | Canadian overdose prevention sites ‘keep people alive’

Director’s Desk | Kaia Sand launches ‘Better not Backward’ column series exploring next steps two years into Measure 110 with a visit to the Overdose Prevention Society Our conversation began in the dark. Trey Helten had warned me before I walked the mile ...

15 Nov 2023 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Why I lent my voice to the lawsuit against the city

Opinion | The Portland camping ban is dangerous and reckless Editor’s note: This column discusses power-based violence and death. There’s a separation at Street Roots that is complicated but worth it. That’s the firewall between our journalism and our adv ...

4 Oct 2023 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | No matter what, Street Roots is steadily humane

Opinion | Amid all the changes in policy and practice around Old Town, the Oct. 5 Morning Broadcast shows Street Roots holds steady in its mission My bus drove north when a street car passed, heading south. I glimpsed a Street Roots vendor across the way ...

27 Sep 2023 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Join the campaign to save Portland Street Response

Opinion | Sign the Friends of Portland Street Response petition. Volunteer. Lend your logo to the effort. “Not every crisis is a crime,” a Street Roots vendor jotted on a scrap of paper four years ago to hold up at a city council budget meeting. Kaia Sand ...

24 Jul 2023 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | He risked everything, and the press is stronger for it

Opinion | A tribute to Daniel Ellsberg’s tireless work in the name of truth He first gave the documents to The New York Times, then The Washington Post. Next came The Boston Globe — his hometown at the time — followed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and 11 ...

20 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Future candidates, find your constituents at ‘Third and Burnside’

Opinion | Street Roots’ West Burnside building, currently under construction, will be a space for civic engagement “For those who can’t afford free speech.” That’s been the Street Roots tagline since the first issue was published in December 1999 — a tip ...

14 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Camping bans are cruel and inhumane

Opinion | Just like everyone else, unhoused individuals are trying to fulfill their basic human needs, but they are often out of reach. Food, water, respite and a restroom. Why make it harder? Imagine you have to carry everything you own — bedding, the fo ...

8 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
Kaia Sand | Tell us your Street Roots vendor stories

Opinion | Human connection, despite housing status, makes us stronger “When I moved to Portland, I didn’t know anyone,” Stacey Heath, Street Roots board chair, told me. Then she met Bruce Heino. It was 2009. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street R ...

31 May 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | It didn’t go as planned — and that is ok

Director's Desk | Street Roots groundbreaking ceremony was motivated by hope and community It didn’t go as planned — and that is OK. The day came after weeks of planning the Streets Roots groundbreaking processional. It was time for the community to ...

29 Mar 2023 - Cody McGraw
Kaia Sand | Regard people not by their worst moment but by their best future

OPINION | Late vendor Dennis Chavez taught us lessons in grace An elderly man pumped his fists to “Back in Black” by AC/DC, his wheelchair pivoting beneath his animated body. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her ...

1 Feb 2023 - Kaia Sand