Opinion | Petition for PSR amasses more than 10,000 signatures Friends of Portland Street Response organizers delivered a 10,000-signatures-and-growing petition to Portland City Hall on Aug. 2 at noon, celebrating on the steps with a giant check depicting ...
9 Aug 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | A new section in the guide lists services for people exiting incarceration GET YOUR ROSE CITY RESOURCE GUIDES Pick up Rose City Resource guides by visiting our office at 211 NW Davis St. in Old Town. We are open 8:30 a.m.- 2 p.m. Monday, Wednesd ...
2 Aug 2023 - Kaia Sand
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
Opinion | Deaths due to fentanyl use are rising. We can, and should, use harm reduction techniques to mitigate risks. Vendor program director DeVon Pouncey and I walked through Old Town nearly every week for the past six years, but these walks changed the ...
19 Jul 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | The collective strength of Old Town is a force to be reckoned with. How do we continue a campaign of hope for our neighborhood? Hope is on the rise in Old Town. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her view ...
12 Jul 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | PSU researchers release 2-year evaluation, find police-alternative works, needs investment, support Portland Street Response is achieving what it set out to do. Portland Street Response is in danger of being dismantled. Both are true. Kaia Sand ...
27 Jun 2023 - Kaia Sand
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
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
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
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