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
In Memoriam: National program lays to rest 1,000th homeless veteran [caption id="attachment_6736" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Civil Air Patrol member Nick Henry receives the flag from the coffin of Stevenson L ...
16 Feb 2012 - Street Roots
Working to change the debate Staff writer, by Israel Bayer Street Roots is actively working with a roundtable of folks to begin tracking the number of individuals who pass away on the streets. Sound simple? Not so fast. It’s one thing to collect data abou ...
7 Jun 2010 - Street Roots
Remembering our friends who have passed Also read " The streets claim lives every year. Why aren't we paying better attention?" Downtown Chapel Homeless deaths Homeless memorial NightWatch Print ...
23 Mar 2010 - Street Roots
The streets claim lives every year, so why aren’t we paying better attention? By Amanda Waldroupe, staff Writer “Frankly, they shock me.” Those were the words City Commissioner Nick Fish used to describe the results of the Vulnerability Index survey when ...
17 Mar 2010 - Street Roots