COMMENTARY | When supporters speak to the threat to 'our way of life,' they are invoking the white supremacist history of Oregon The sun came out on a recent Thursday in Salem. For many of the attendees at the Timber Unity rally against cap-and- ...
21 Feb 2020 - Kaisa Schlarb
Mitigating Clatsop County’s housing crisis is complicated by another looming emergency: the Cascadia earthquake and tsunami In a recent conversation with a rural Clatsop County woman, she spoke of her housing options for retirement between Astoria and War ...
10 May 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb
Helping Hands maximizes space by using the building as a group-housing re-entry program rather than renting out units In November, Helping Hands, a reentry and outreach nonprofit serving those who are experiencing homelessness, opened an Astoria facility. ...
12 Apr 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb
Clatsop County has more housing units than it has residents, but many are second homes that are vacant most of the year It isn’t that there is a shortage of housing in Northwest Oregon’s Clatsop County; it is that a lot of the housing is out of reach to y ...
12 Apr 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb
Filling Empty Bellies ensures access to a meal and fosters trust in vulnerable communities ASTORIA – On a still sunny fall day, two women sit in the grass by the Columbia River to eat their lunch: cheesy potatoes, cooked carrots and chicken. The meal is s ...
29 Mar 2019 - Kaisa Schlarb