Right 2 Dream Too deserves city leadership By Israel Bayer The city should find a way to offer Right 2 Dream Too land to relocate the tent city currently occupying Southwest Fourth and Burnside. The argument that people shouldn’t be living in tents as an ...
2 Aug 2012 - Street Roots
Nick Fish delivers the state of housing, a Portland story By Nick Fish, Contributing Columnist This week I presented my fourth housing budget to the City Council. It is a good time to reflect on the progress we have made together, the challenges we face, ...
24 Apr 2012 - Street Roots
SR weighs in on Office of Equity We are a great city. And we are a city of inequality. Without adequate shelter, people on the streets are criminalized by local government. African Americans are faced with staggering unemployment. Latinos and other immigr ...
1 Sep 2011 - Street Roots
All the world's a stage — street musicians by Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writier Walk just about anywhere in downtown Portland and odds are you will be serenaded by a stranger. But don’t take it personally. This is business. For 16 years, street musicia ...
17 Feb 2011 - Street Roots
Mayor Sam Adams talks with Street Roots By Joanne Zuhl and Israel Bayer, Staff writers Support him or not, probably few people would want to trade places with Sam Adams right now. His first 18 months in office as Portland’s mayor has been saddled with a c ...
24 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
April Fools: Politicians jockey for any position that still has some money to manage By Precious Comstock, Inquiries welcome Multnomah County Commission Chairman Ted Wheeler resigned last month, accepting an offer to become the Oregon State Treasurer afte ...
13 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
April fools: City looks to climate change opportunities By George Itstroo, Now appearing nightly at Mary’s Portland City Council recently adopted an ordinance to study the effects of global warming to determine whether Portland should plan for a “resort l ...
13 Apr 2010 - 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
Human rights group returns to City Hall after 11-year absence Nov. 27, 2008 (From the Nov. 14, edition of Street Roots) New commission has the daunting task of protecting and advocating for the human rights of all Portlanders. (By Amanda Waldroupe, Contri ...
27 Nov 2008 - Street Roots