Opinion | Street Roots’ Burnside building is composed of stories galore Street Roots vendors who stop at the office for a cup of coffee and to read the newspaper before they hit the streets will soon be supported by chairs from the Central Library, restor ...
10 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | An eventful 2023 for Street Roots gives way to a historic 2024 This has been a year of creating a strong foundation for Street Roots as it enters its 25th year. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her view ...
27 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | A record 315 unhoused Multnomah County residents died in 2022, according to annual death count released by the county, Street Roots advocacy At least 315 people who were unhoused died before their time in Multnomah County in 2022. Their early de ...
20 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Street Roots is a collective effort of many moving parts. Such an effort could not exist without all its supports. “I sing, trailers for sale or rent / Rooms to let, 50 cents / No phone, no pool, no pets / I ain't got no cigarettes / Ah, bu ...
13 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Drug users in Vancouver, British Columbia reverse overdoses through jobs paid by the regional health authority “We’re good at saving lives,” the man told me. This is a series of columns that explores bettering public-health responses to our over ...
6 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | However you give, and however much, it helps this organization run 1. Buy the newspaper and a zine. Find a vendor to buy a zine and a newspaper. Vendors are out in all weather selling a new issue every week, and for the next six weeks through De ...
22 Nov 2023 - Kaia Sand
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
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
Director’s Desk | Jennifer was a light and her legacy lives on at Street Roots The swallowtail butterfly clung to Jennifer Bradford like a corsage. It had landed on her at her MAX stop and traveled all the way to Street Roots, a bright, yellow-winged blos ...
1 Nov 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Despite the fear and backlash, let’s fight for the lives of people using drugs Overdose prevention centers reduce “overdose and unwanted public use” while connecting people “with addiction services and social supports including voluntary treatme ...
25 Oct 2023 - Kaia Sand