Halfway into the 10-year plan, success tempered by challenges By Joanne Zuhl, Staff writer Midway through the city of Portland and Multnomah County’s 10-year plan to end homelessness, an impressive number of people have been housed through a coordinated, ...
15 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! You may be able to hold out a few more days before the skies break and the sun arrives, but you don’t have to wait a moment longer for a sneak peak at the new Street Roots, coming your way, hand delivered by your friendly neighborhood vendor ...
10 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Reps from street papers gather in Melbourne, Australia, to share skills, aspirations By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer It was in the middle of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Network of Street Papers that we all went home. Home being that place ...
8 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! In making you’re holiday weekend plans, don’t forget to pick up your new edition of Street Roots. Vendors will be out there rain or shine Friday morning and throughout the weekend with the new issues. Here’s what’s headed your way: Home agai ...
27 May 2010 - Street Roots
Storm Large talks mental illness, drugs, the streets and why it’s all fit to print in her upcoming book By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer When Storm Large was 9 years old, a doctor told her that she would go crazy in her 20s. And in a way, she did — crazy as a ...
27 May 2010 - Street Roots
SR receives three first place awards from Society of Professional Journalists Street Roots received three first place, and one, second place award this weekend from Oregon/Southwest Washington Society of Professional Journalists. Amanda Waldroupe took fir ...
24 May 2010 - Street Roots
Say hello to ‘Working’ Kirk Reeves By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Approximately 40,000 motorists and 17,000 cyclists go over the Hawthorne Bridge each day. And nearly every one of them has probably met “Working” Kirk Reeves. “Hello! Hello! How are you today ...
13 May 2010 - Street Roots
You’ve got questions? 211Info has the answers by Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer On the 8th floor of 621 SW Alder Street, beats the pulse of Portland’s economic and social wellbeing. It is the headquarters for 211Info, the nonprofit referral center for communit ...
10 May 2010 - Street Roots
Benefits specialist takes training statewide By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Mellani Calvin remembers vividly the day Oregon did away with its General Assistance program. She was working as a paralegal for a disabilities attorney, and the program helped disa ...
5 May 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Keeping Portland weird can be a full-time job, or you can do what comes naturally and see what happens. That’s how Street Roots comes together, with the help of dozens of volunteers and dedicated vendors who tomorrow morning will have your f ...
29 Apr 2010 - Street Roots