Urban Greenspaces Institute founder says cities, nature can coexist Nature is a part of Portland. The city has one of the densest urban canopies in the country. Nearly every neighborhood has at least one park. People can hit the trails and see wildlife af ...
31 Dec 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
Director talks about providing effective, compassionate mental health care in the wake of the UCC shooting At 10:38 on the morning of Oct. 1, a 26-year-old Umpqua Community College student shot and killed nine students and injured nine more before killing ...
15 Oct 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
A nonprofit coalition’s acquisition of the blighted, defunct 'adult super center' could be key to energizing Portland’s impoverished Cully neighborhood Search Google Maps for “Cully,” and the Sugar Shack is one of only a handful of businesses th ...
1 Oct 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
Researcher discusses his study of black, teenage 'strivers' from working-poor families The stresses of poverty are well known among scientists and public policy experts. The effects of erratic sleep while homeless, the constant worry low-income ...
27 Aug 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
As development increases, neighborhood associations are organizing to save prominent trees and asking the city to change how it regulates the city’s canopy Three towering sequoias in Eastmoreland. A Paradox walnut near Mount Tabor, one of the densest and ...
13 Aug 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
David Riemer and the Community Advocates Public Policy Institute have a plan that would allow poor Americans to earn wages they need to get out of poverty Reducing poverty by 50 percent sounds like a bleeding heart liberal’s dream. Saying that people shou ...
24 Jul 2015 - Amanda Waldroupe
LaVonne Griffin-Valade doesn’t mince her words. Nor would she. As a former elementary school teacher and aspiring fiction writer, she values the precision of perfect grammar. As the city’s auditor, she values the ability of a well-written, researched — an ...
12 Feb 2014 - Amanda Waldroupe
When legislators convene in Salem for the Legislature’s month-long session, scheduled to begin Feb. 3, they are likely to focus on economic development, job growth, continuing to fund and reform education, and pass legislation that didn’t quite make it du ...
13 Jan 2014 - Amanda Waldroupe
As Oregon recovers from the recession, the state’s new director of Human Services looks at meeting the needs of a growing demand When Erinn Kelley-Siel became interim director of Oregon’s Department of Human Services in February 2011 and permanent directo ...
14 Aug 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe
There’s a lot of money — and lives — resting on Oregon’s grand experiment in restructuring health care through Medicaid. Portland metropolitan area’s largest coordinated care organization, Health Share of Oregon, like others across the state, have a manda ...
30 Jul 2013 - Amanda Waldroupe