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Spring water is poured out of a glass bottle

Opinion | ‘I don’t have much money, but I pay for good water’

Street Roots partnered with Portland State University researchers to include vendors’ voices in a statewide study on perspectives and experiences surrounding water
By
Sanya Cowal Clare McClellan
March 17, 2021
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Portrait of Daniel Campbell

In memory of Daniel Campbell: A Street Roots vendor who touched many lives

‘He had a purpose and a legacy,’ writes friend and fellow vendor Dorothy Pepper
By
Dorothy Pepper
March 17, 2021
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act

Opinion | The failings of our unemployment insurance system are there by design

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | It is hard to celebrate a system that covers fewer than 30% of America’s jobless
By
Martin Hart-Landsberg
March 17, 2021
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Crisis response survey results (bar graphs): Do you think Portland police are the best equipped to deal with people having mental health crises? (80.4% say no.) Plus another bar graph whose response is in the body of the story.

Editorial | Crisis response shouldn’t be a bargaining chip

Take the Portland Street Response program out of the police union contact
By
SR editorial board
March 17, 2021
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Jail Cell Door And Welded Iron Bars

Opinion | The rising tide of unnecessary death in Oregon jails

Disability Rights Oregon report documents how criminalizing disabilities leads to deaths in jail
By
Liz Reetz
March 10, 2021
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Ga lo Vann portrait

Opinion | A prisoner’s perspective: This moment is about more than COVID-19

‘We all share the same surfaces because we are less than you, smaller spaces because we are less than you’
By
Ga lo Vann
March 10, 2021
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Oregon State Penitentiary

Editorial | The prison system cannot be fixed

Scores of COVID-19 deaths in Oregon’s prisons underscore the failures of America’s carceral system
By
SR editorial board
March 10, 2021
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The OHSU tram

Opinion | We need to stop driving to work

MOVING FORWARD | It might be up to you to see that we have a choice
By
Henry Latourette Miller
March 3, 2021
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1909-18 NAACP map shows the occurrences of lynchings in U.S. states

Opinion | How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America

The Black Panthers and other counter-mappers used maps to reimagine cities for communities of color
By
Derek H. Alderman Joshua F.J. Inwood
March 3, 2021
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Power lines

Opinion | Texas blackouts show why energy should be a universal right

We need an infrastructure that works, and we can’t ignore climate change
By
Gordon Walker
March 3, 2021

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