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
The home team’s advantage: Joey Harrington focuses his gaze on Portland’s front lines by Joanne Zuhl, Staff writer Joey Harrington is a guy who happens to play football; not a football player. There’s a difference. Football doesn’t define him, he says, it ...
18 Feb 2010 - Street Roots
Our full potential lies beyond the bias — and ignorance I only thought these people existed on television, in certain areas of the country, and, in the spirit of full disclosure, in parts of my family. Certainly, not in liberal-loving, alternative-transpo ...
3 Feb 2010 - Street Roots