Scores of COVID-19 deaths in Oregon’s prisons underscore the failures of America’s carceral system E xpendable. The word refers to something that is normally used up or consumed in service, or something that is more easily replaced than rescued, salvaged ...
10 Mar 2021 - SR editorial board
Realtors’ efforts paved the way for the dire lack of housing solutions in Josephine County Grants Pass, the hub of Southern Oregon’s Josephine County, just saw its plan for a short-term homeless shelter collapse under the pressure of community opposition. ...
24 Feb 2021 - SR editorial board
Almost two years since Street Roots first proposed it, the program has launched. Now, there’s room for creativity to inform its development. “When stepping into a situation, try to keep an open mind. Ask what they think would resolve the problem the best. ...
13 Jan 2021 - SR editorial board
Oregon can be a model for successful drug decriminalization, or it can be used to show why other states shouldn’t do the same W e decriminalized drugs. Let that sink in. Once Measure 110 is implemented, those who use drugs will no longer live in fear of a ...
11 Nov 2020 - SR editorial board
Local government can only do so much. We expect more from our national leadership. H omelessness looks very personal. And it is, in the way that all tragedies are personal. While it’s a national crisis — created over generations by local and federal polic ...
21 Oct 2020 - SR editorial board
As tragedies unfold all around us, we cannot neglect one need without jeopardizing them all Summer ended this week, and what a summer it’s been. But if the trials of 2020 have shown us anything, it’s that we are standing on common ground. That may seem ha ...
23 Sep 2020 - SR editorial board
The mayor's response to the protests is underwhelming. It's time for city leaders to unite for meaningful change. There is intense national focus on the nightly unrest in Portland. The protests are often framed as violent, and this weekend, our ...
2 Sep 2020 - SR editorial board
Oregon is covered in racist slurs and iconography, and we are all to blame In Portland and many other cities, we’ve come to a time where it’s becoming commonplace to recognize the Native tribes whose land we stand on and from which we prosper. It demonstr ...
10 Jul 2020 - SR editorial board
Portland should begin the process of transitioning to equitable emergency response and away from an oppressive system of violence that’s proven it’s unsalvageable There’s a reason protests in Minneapolis following the police killing of George Floyd resona ...
5 Jun 2020 - SR editorial board
Street Roots endorses Measure 26-210 Tens of thousands of people are unhoused in this region, and many more are on the brink of homelessness. That was before the COVID-19 pandemic. Record unemployment levels point to drastic increases in severe poverty ah ...
1 May 2020 - SR editorial board