You may know your vendor in Portland, but did you know that he or she is one of tens of thousands of vendors around the globe, working their way out of homelessness and poverty with newspapers papers just like Street Roots. Here are a few of the faces fro ...
7 Feb 2013 - Street Roots Staff
‘Terminal Lance’ strip writer Maximilian Uriarte talks about poking fun at a very serious institution By Robert Britt, Staff writer Few will say that courage is in short supply in the Marine Corps, and for Marine veteran Maximilian Uriarte, his display of ...
17 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
By Erin Fenner, Contributing Writer Chris Kunzler, 33, and Mirna Abraham, 43, met each other at Sisters of the Road when both were new to Portland. Chris had just moved down from Alaska and Mirna had recently escaped an abusive relationship. Mirna didn’t ...
17 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Since her husband’s murder a decade ago, Daniel Pearl’s widow has not wavered from reporting the value of life By Samba Yonga, Street News Service Having faced one of the most unimaginable challenges in her life, Mariane Pearl has come to symbolize hope a ...
17 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Until we are reunited By Mike Wheeler, Contributing Columnist When I first got introduced to my cousins Joe and Isaac, I thought they were twins. Even though Isaac was the older brother by barely a few months, Joe and Isaac went to high school together ...
15 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Portland, Multnomah County update their roadmap to address rise in families on the streets By Amanda Waldroupe, Contributing Writer Now in the autumn of its life, the region’s 10-year plan to end homelessness is getting a makeover, of sorts. The yearlong ...
15 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Street Roots editorial Heard any bad news lately? Seems like that’s all there is these days. From the abhorrently tragic to the flat-out infuriating, 2012’s wrap up was a challenge to our spirits. Indeed, positive milestones seldom grab the headlines like ...
15 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
By Mridula Koshy and Michael Creighton, Contributing Columnists A year and a half ago, our family returned to Portland after six years living in India. We found many things had improved in our absence. For example, food carts had become an affordable alte ...
10 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Looking back on views and voices from our pages in the past year by Street Roots staff “We need a wider way to spread the conviction that moral ethics are really the basis of a happy life. This is true on an individual level as well as on a family, commun ...
8 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
By Israel Bayer, Staff Writer Here’s a brief recap of Street Roots over the past year: Newspaper Street Roots published more than 600 community voices in 2012. The newspaper partnered with more than two dozen organizations that ran op-eds in the newspaper ...
5 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff