Oregon's progressive U.S. senator is separating himself from the pack in the fight against global warming, housing crisis, political corruption U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley has made a big splash in his eight years in the Senate. One of the Senate’s most pr ...
3 Aug 2016 - Amanda Waldroupe
PART III | Advocates, reforestation operators say effective policy changes will need to come from the top down This is Part III of a three-part series on the working conditions and treatment of Oregon's immigrant forestry workers. Marko Bey was sit ...
18 Feb 2016 - Emily Green
It’s been 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Wilderness Act into law, and Oregon is coming up short. When compared with bordering states, Oregon is dead last in terms of designated wilderness acreage. Additionally, while many western st ...
31 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, a free trade agreement among Pacific Rim nations, is possibly the biggest story you’ve never heard of. That’s partly by design. The United States and the eleven other countries negotiating what is the largest trade d ...
15 Feb 2014 - Nathan Gilles
A look back at the past year in affordable housing, and the investments in play to carry it forward For the past five years, I had the privilege of leading the Portland Housing Bureau. In June, Mayor Hales gave me a new set of bureau assignments, and I pa ...
20 Aug 2013 - Nick Fish
Oregon Senator Merkley "pessimistic" after returning from Afghanistan by Joanne Zuhl Eighteen months since his first visit to Afghanistan, Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley returned home yesterday from the war-torn region, with little in the way of optim ...
25 Aug 2011 - Street Roots
Sen. Jeff Merkley joins a crew of senators taking aim at the Patriot Act and the telecom companies it rode in on From the Oct. 16 edition of Street Roots For eight years now, nearly all things bad coming out of the federal government were tainted by the j ...
28 Oct 2009 - Street Roots
April Fools: City, County and State government confused about stimulus- Merkley says time are hard From the April 1 edition of Street Roots. (The April Fools edition was one of the most popular Street Roots ever published. We sold out of the newspaper in ...
15 Apr 2009 - Street Roots