Episode 12: The longtime vendor talks about the future of Street Roots, the state and the planet On this episode of the Street Roots Podcast, longtime Street Roots vendor Dan Newth joined host DeVon Pouncey and discussed what it has been like to be able t ...
14 Oct 2020 - DeVon Pouncey
Vendors express gratitude for God, pets, income opportunities and more "What are you grateful for?" Street Roots vendors respond: Tom Miller “I’m grateful to have a Man up there looking over me. If you don’t have faith, you don’t have much. Thin ...
7 Oct 2020 - Pat Zimmer
OPINION | The Street Roots Action Team's voter registration drive builds on efforts to broaden civic engagement They just keep at it. The day the Proud Boys attempted to disrupt the city, the Street Roots Action Team was undeterred and focused, out o ...
7 Oct 2020 - Kaia Sand
Vendors were asked what measures they've been taking while selling papers during the pandemic "What are you doing to keep customers safe?" Street Roots vendors respond: Dan Newth “When it’s windy, I can’t let the papers sit on a stand. So w ...
30 Sep 2020 - Pat Zimmer
Joe is grateful that Street Roots is printing again so that he can earn an income For Joe V., the five months of March to August without a print edition of Street Roots was tough. By June, he was actively lobbying the Street Roots staff. “I told them, ‘Lo ...
23 Sep 2020 - Pat Zimmer
After a five-month hiatus, vendors returned to selling the weekly paper on Aug. 26 On Wednesday, Aug. 26, Street Roots vendors lined up in front of the Street Roots office an hour before it opened. The first print edition of the paper since March was comi ...
9 Sep 2020 - Pat Zimmer
OPINION | While some Street Roots vendors return to selling the paper, others need to shelter in place. There are ways to support them, too. That afternoon in early March when Raven Drake walked me to her tent next to I-5 North created the roadmap for how ...
14 Aug 2020 - Kaia Sand
Starting Aug. 12, readers will have a cashless option for purchasing the newspaper from vendors, who will all be trained in new health and safety protocols Hundreds of Street Roots vendors have weighed in. Nearly 700 of you, our readers, took our survey. ...
31 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Reflecting on the poetry of Daniel Cox and its reverberations through these difficult times Daniel Cox handed me a thick packet of paper from a notebook, folded in half. Poems. “I miss people,” he said softly. Kaia Sand is the executive direc ...
24 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
Brian, who sees street paper vendors as ambassadors for the houseless community, has had many experiences with generous people Brian Schmidt has been designing a motivational program, which he explained is a “repetition of ancient thoughts” and is based o ...
23 Jul 2020 - Robin Havenick