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Kaia Sand | ‘Imagine how well it would work if the city and the people who made decisions stood behind it’

OPINION | A conversation with CAHOOTS coordinator Ebony Morgan about how Portland Street Response should be rolled out
By
Kaia Sand
May 12, 2021
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U.S. Capitol

Opinion | The American Rescue Plan Act: A promise of what could be

The federal relief package recognizes that our nation’s crisis began long before COVID-19
By
Janet Bauer
May 5, 2021
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Lennard Ward's mugshot and an aerial photo of OSCI's campus

Opinion | How excessive mandatory sentencing continues slavery’s legacy

Today, the institution of mass incarceration subjects Lennard Ward to the same discrimination inflicted on his ancestors
By
Ga lo Vann
May 5, 2021
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Two women stand in front of the Street Roots office, one is carrying a large box. Tents line the street.

Kaia Sand | Go big, Mayor Wheeler. Our city needs Portland Street Response.

OPINION | The mayor proposes underfunding the non-police crisis response program by 77%
By
Kaia Sand
May 4, 2021
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Illustration of $100 bill with Benjamin Franklin winking

Opinion | IRS audits the poor, ignoring wealthy tax dodgers and big corporations

STREET SMART ECONOMICS | Investing in enforcement of tax laws could bring in over a trillion dollars in government revenue
By
Mary King
April 28, 2021
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George Denison's portrait, integrated with his handwriting from the essay he wrote for Street Roots

Street Roots vendor writing | ‘Words cannot explain my first visit to the dying center’

George Denison recalls living in San Francisco in the 1980s, when his friends, his co-workers and so many others were dying of AIDS
By
George Denison
April 28, 2021
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Hannah Wallace cleans a bathroom while wearing a protective mask

Opinion | How helping my houseless neighbors helped me

A Sunnyside resident shares her experience with outreach and hygiene support in the hopes it will inspire other Portlanders to do the same
By
Hannah Wallace
April 28, 2021
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Flowers, signs, candles and other items adorn the site of Robert Delgado's memorial

Kaia Sand | The bystanders who witness police killings suffer, too

OPINION | Unhoused people are overexposed to trauma. The effects accumulate.
By
Kaia Sand
April 28, 2021
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Street Roots Podcast | Jed Parriott is fed up with sweeps in L.A.’s Echo Park

Episode 17: The Street Watch LA member talks about how police treat people who camp there
By
DeVon Pouncey
April 23, 2021
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Oregon State Capitol

Opinion | Inequity is ingrained in Oregon land-use policy. Let’s fix that.

House Bill 2488 would codify environmental justice principles, but lawmakers are already limiting its scope
By
Lisa Arkin
April 21, 2021

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