DIRECTOR’S DESK | Voters need to turn out in droves to pass this homeless-services measure The green and yellow tent backs up to a concrete piling on Naito Parkway. Behind the piling, more tents are equally spaced, an archipelago of brightly colored dwell ...
28 Feb 2020 - Kaia Sand
COMMENTARY | When supporters speak to the threat to 'our way of life,' they are invoking the white supremacist history of Oregon The sun came out on a recent Thursday in Salem. For many of the attendees at the Timber Unity rally against cap-and- ...
21 Feb 2020 - Kaisa Schlarb
‘These are kids that have been failed by every single system,’ says a Bend Republican who supports the $2.5 million plan One dollar and 14 cents. That’s the number Rep. Cheri Helt (R-Bend) wanted people to remember at the close of the initial hearing on ...
7 Feb 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
DIRECTOR’S DESK | This isn’t just a Portland problem; it’s an Oregon problem It is too easy to live in Portland and view homelessness as Portland’s problem. But here’s a startling perspective. Despite the fact that the Point in Time Count measured a sligh ...
17 Jan 2020 - Kaia Sand
Oregon's House speaker reflects on the session and what she sees as wins for housing, education and – yes – the environment The smoke is still clearing from the 80th Oregon State Legislative Assembly, but if there were any open wounds left from its c ...
12 Jul 2019 - Joanne Zuhl
When the Legislature turns its back on Oregonians, it tacitly approves continued hardships for our next generation Years ago – among a collage of street art and other images – Street Roots had a poster on its wall quoting a Swahili proverb. It said, “When ...
28 Jun 2019 - SR editorial board
PHOTOS | Advocates participating in the weeklong Give Us Shelter March are calling for Oregon to declare a state of emergency on housing Advocating for a state of emergency to be declared on Oregon’s housing crisis, demonstrators set off from Portland on ...
31 May 2019 - Street Roots
Oregon House Bill 3145 would bring indigent defense more in balance with the prosecution “Public defense is in a crisis in Oregon.” These are the words of Eric J. Deitrick, general counsel for the Office of Public Defense Services, the very agency charge ...
31 May 2019 - SR editorial board
A bill in the House would help people make it to the five-year mark, where chance of relapse drops drastically Portland was going to be a fresh start for Lor Hiou, 27, and her boyfriend. Hiou had just completed a 30-day inpatient drug treatment program in ...
17 May 2019 - Emily Green
COMMENTARY | Oregon business lobbyists scapegoat public workers while ignoring corporate responsibility for budget cuts The Oregon Legislature is planning a pay cut for public employees, as a big part of a package to restructure the deficits caused by the ...
10 May 2019 - Mary King