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Piper McDaniel

Investigative Reporter

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Piper McDaniel reports on social justice, climate change and other interesting things. She was an investigative fellow at Mother Jones, and has been published in The Oregonian, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, High Country News and others. She won a Los Angeles Associated Press award for her reporting on the role of poverty in California’s black-market cannabis industry. Follow her on Twitter @Piperamcdaniel and email piper@streetroots.org.

Articles by Piper McDaniel

  • Street Roots
    A tear in paper reveals Benjamin Franklin and hundred dollar bills.

    Portland business interests walk a murky line with lobbying

    Emails with city officials raise questions about what is and isn’t lobbying
    By
    Piper McDaniel
    January 25, 2023
  • Street Roots
    A collage of excerpts from from ODOC’s “Quarterly Report for Deaths of Adults in Custody.”

    ODOC fails to disclose cause of more than 63% of in-custody deaths

    State agencies can’t agree on who’s responsible. Experts say this is a transparency problem.
    By
    Piper McDaniel
    December 28, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Portland city council building in the background and a cutout of Dan Ryan smiling in the foreground.

    Dan Ryan yet to respond to June call for new tenant protections

    An attorney tasked with enforcing similar protections tells Street Roots why protections work and how they serve to level an uneven playing field
    By
    Piper McDaniel
    December 14, 2022
  • Street Roots
    An illustration of a conveyor belt with houses falling off the conveyor belt. Each house has a label that says, "eviction" on it. In the background are a pattern of scales filling the space.

    Eviction court favors landlords

    Oregon is in a housing crisis. Experts say eviction court is part of the problem.
    By
    Piper McDaniel
    December 7, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Photo showing Commissioner Dan Ryan and Mayor Ted Wheeler flanked by staff and volunteers during Nov. 1 town hall at Blanchet House

    Senior policy advisor for Commissioner Dan Ryan resigns in response to plan for mass camps

    A resignation letter said the recently passed plan to ban unsanctioned encampments and construct mass camps will lead to 'irreparable trauma and unnecessary deaths'
    By
    Piper McDaniel K. Rambo
    December 2, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Ron Wyden talking. His image is overlayed over a photo of an outdoor encampment with an American flag.

    Sen. Wyden says housing is a human right

    Sen. Wyden's DASH Act languishes in committee, despite being among most comprehensive current proposals to address homelessness
    By
    Piper McDaniel
    November 23, 2022
  • Street Roots
    A laptop screen with speech bubbles, thumbs up-like symbols and hearts surrounding the screen.

    ‘Who Targets Me’ tells you which political campaigns bought your data

    A free browser extension collects crowdsourced data to see how ads show up in users social media feeds and who paid for them to be there
    By
    Piper McDaniel
    October 26, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Large black text says, "2022 Street Roots election coverage. State senate."

    2022 Elections | State House

    Candidates running in districts 33, 38, 41, 43 and 49
    By
    Aurora Biggers Piper McDaniel K. Rambo
    October 12, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Large black text says, "2022 Elections. Multnomah Board of Commissioners County Chair""

    2022 Elections | Multnomah County Board of Commissioners Chair

    Sharon Meieran believes the Joint Office of Homeless Services should be ‘overhauled’ to fix the county's ongoing gridlock in addressing homelessness. Her opponent, Jessica Vega Pederson argues the office needs more investment.
    By
    Piper McDaniel
    October 5, 2022
  • Street Roots
    Large black text says, "2022 Local Ballot measures. Measures 26-224, 26-227, 26-229"

    2022 Elections | Local Ballot Measures

    The Portland Community College Bond Measure, David Douglas School District Bond Measure and a Parkrose School District 5-year Operating Levy will be on this year's ballot. Read more about them:
    By
    Melanie Henshaw Piper McDaniel
    October 5, 2022

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