Extra! Extra! Tomorrow is May Day and Street Roots is marking the day and with a package of stories reflecting on the immigrant labor experience during these remarkable times. It’s the perfect read before or after the march, or on Saturday morning over co ...
30 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
More cases added in challenge to secret police list From the March 20 edition of Street Roots. Lawyers challenging the Portland Police Bureau’s downtown crime enforcement strategy have added two more cases in their argument that the bureau’s policy is unc ...
1 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
Cambodian community talks about troubled past, looks to the future It's been three decades since the Khmer Rouge killing fields, and Sochanny Meng still has nightmares. Meng, 49, came to the United States as a refugee from Cambodia, where between 197 ...
1 Apr 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Smile and the whole world smiles with you! Give it a try, starting with your neighborhood vendor who is always happy to see you. The new paper comes out tomorrow, the first day of spring, and a perfect way celebrate is to pick up your copy h ...
19 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Mental health care funds left behind in the recovery In February, Chris Bouneff got a phone call from a man whose wife has bipolar disorder. She had been managing it well with private health care, the caller said, but then the couple both lost their jobs, ...
19 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Two more cases add to 'The List' trial And oh yeah, the police want stimulus money to expand it... This morning, Multnomah County Judge Dale Koch heard two more cases pertaining to the Portland Police Bureau's "secret list" of dow ...
11 Mar 2009 - Street Roots
Sight Unseen: City’s count of people on the street finds some, but misses the broad scope of modern homeless demographics By Mara Grunbaum, Staff Writer Want to fill out a survey?” asked outreach worker Brandon Schwanz of a young man on a bench outside th ...
19 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Posted Jan. 22, 2009 So much news, so little time! But it only takes a minute to trade a buck for the finest collection of news and information assembled on 16 pages. Here’s what you’ll find in the new edition of Street Roots, available from ...
22 Jan 2009 - Street Roots
One building owner's journey to preserve affordable housing From the Dec. 12 special affordable housing edition, "In need of a new deal." In the 22 years he's lived in downtown Portland's Admiral Apartments, Michael Mulvey has ama ...
24 Dec 2008 - Street Roots
HAP, Nick Fish fight uphill battle to increase Section 8 housing options From the Dec. 12 special affordable housing edition, "In need of a new deal." The Housing Authority of Portland has a perennial problem: thousands of people in need of subs ...
24 Dec 2008 - Street Roots