Mother’s Day, 2010: A view from the street By Nana M., Contributing Columnist Surreal…an out-of-body experience…can’t really be happening to me. I wandered around near my old home in southeast Portland, searching for a likely place to lay my sleeping bag, ...
12 Oct 2010 - Street Roots
Update from sister street paper on Nashville flooding Street Roots sister paper in Nashville — The Contributor is scrambling to help vendors and people on the streets secure safe refuge from yesterday's flooding. Over the past two days— flooding from ...
4 May 2010 - Street Roots
Downtown voluntary alcohol ban extended one month By Amanda Waldroupe Staff Writer The City’s efforts to create an alcohol impact zone limiting the types of beers small grocery stores could sell in an effort to decrease the amount of public drinking in do ...
19 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! The latest edition of Street Roots is hitting the pavement Friday morning, hopefully with some sunshing reflecting off the page. Here’s what you’ll find inside: Casey Neill’s Pacific trail: Israel Bayer profiles the Portland musician’s journ ...
15 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! April has arrived! And so has your new Street Roots! Well, almost. Vendors will be hard at work Friday morning unloading the latest edition for your reading pleasure this weekend. Here’s a sampling of what’s inside this issue: A conversation ...
1 Apr 2010 - Street Roots
PDC unloads affordable housing obligation in North Macadam The League of Women Voters is calling on the city to stand behind its agreement to build affordable housing in the North Macadam Urban Renewal Area after an preliminary agreement indicates the Por ...
23 Feb 2010 - Street Roots
Camping lawsuit talks stall as new rules hang in the balance New guidelines for homeless campsites could land before council in the coming weeks By Amanda Waldroupe Contributing Writer As of late January, the settlement negotiations to a year-old class-ac ...
5 Feb 2010 - Street Roots
Businesses sign on to letter regarding camping settlement The following is the letter to city commissioners — addressed to Parks and Housing Bureau Commissioner Nick Fish — regarding proposed changes in the city's camping laws with regard to peopl ...
5 Feb 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! The wait is over! The latest edition of Street Roots rolls off the press tomorrow morning for a very personalized delivery in your neighborhood by your local vendor. He’s not the only face you’ll recognize this weekend: The home team’s advan ...
4 Feb 2010 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! If you don’t think 2010 holds in store anything special for you, then you’re forgetting that the new edition of Street Roots hits the pavement tomorrow, warmed by the personalized delivery of a friendly neighborhood vendor! Here’s a preview ...
21 Jan 2010 - Street Roots