It was the 1970s in Southern California, and a teenage Laynie Roland could be seen most days surfing and boogie boarding along Newport Beach, about 40 miles west of her home in Ontario. With her long, feathered, bleached-blonde hair and wave-riding ways, ...
6 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
Bridget didn’t want to buy syringes at the pharmacy. It was too humiliating an ordeal for the champion gymnast turned heroin addict to go through. Not too long ago she was doing well in high school, never dreaming she would be a junkie within a few years’ ...
29 Dec 2014 - 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
In sports journalism, there are few as legendary as writer and commentator Frank Deford. His transformative and fruitful career has thus far spanned six decades; his stories reaching audiences via radio, television, books, movies and magazines. As GQ simp ...
1 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
Tina McDowell runs Sgt. McDowell’s Military Relief, a nonprofit started by her late brother-in-law that helps Portland-area veterans connect with social services and escape homelessness. Last fall she noticed an increase in the number of women seeking out ...
2 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
There’s big money to be made in our jails and prisons. Just ask Securus Technologies, Inc. In 2013, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) signed a four-year contract with the Texas-based prison-industry giant, allowing it and two other out-of-state ...
6 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
In 1891, George Breckonridge was the first juvenile to be placed into custody at the reform school for boys in Woodburn, Ore. His crime was stealing a newspaper off his neighbor’s porch. Fast-forward 124 years, and the population within the walls of what ...
10 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
"Becky” was in a state of disbelief. One week ago she told her boyfriend she was pregnant. Now he was handing her a hat, insisting, Becky says, that she cover up the bleeding wound he had allegedly inflicted to the back of her head only moments earli ...
20 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Staton’s plan to replace in-person visits with video visiting has caught the attention of county commissioners, who want to see in-person visiting preserved. Both County Chair Deborah Kafoury and Commissioner Loretta Smith ask ...
21 Jan 2015 - Emily Green
Batula Mohamud can’t tell you her age. On paper she’s 26, but she says she’s most likely younger – probably 22 or 23 years old. She was born in Somalia but was forced to flee the country with her mother and siblings when she was a baby to escape the ongoi ...
4 Feb 2015 - Emily Green