Street Roots asked Multnomah County's 2016 commissioner candidates 13 questions After graduating from the University of Portland, Eric Zimmerman entered the Army and Oregon Army National Guard as a second lieutenant. In 2009, he was deployed to Iraq ...
26 Apr 2016 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Multnomah County's 2016 commissioner candidates 13 questions Brian Wilson is an active community leader and volunteer, and is a partner in a small multifamily housing and medical clinic development company. He is known for helping ...
26 Apr 2016 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Multnomah County's 2016 commissioner candidates 13 questions Mel Rader is a strong progressive dedicated to social justice and defending the environment. He has a decade of experience as a political advocate championing public heal ...
26 Apr 2016 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Multnomah County's 2016 commissioner candidates 13 questions Sharon Meieran is an emergency physician, a former lawyer, a community and public health advocate and a mother. She is also the medical director for the Oregon Foundati ...
26 Apr 2016 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Multnomah County's 2016 commissioner candidates 13 questions Marisha Childs grew up in Troutdale in the early 1980s and has lived in District 1 for the past 11 years. She attended Oregon Institute of Technology and graduated from t ...
26 Apr 2016 - Street Roots
Ian Brennan brings music of far-off cultures to American ears I an Brennan has worked to bring music diversity to the ears of listeners around the globe since he began making field recordings in San Francisco in the early 1990s. His first journey to ano ...
25 Apr 2016 - Suzanne Zalokar
Your support of Street Roots matters! Thank you. Wow! What a spring for Street Roots! Newspapers are flying. Our advocacy is in overdrive. The Rose City Resource Guide is saving lives. We know readers care about helping people. Street Roots believes in ...
22 Apr 2016 - Israel Bayer
COMMENTARY | Extending insurance coverage to more people would be a big step forward Take all the people who live in Eugene and Salem, Oregon’s second- and third-largest cities. Add to that the population of Corvallis, the state’s tenth-largest city. Wh ...
21 Apr 2016 - Janet Bauer
Street Roots was a catalyst that helped get Shayne off the streets It has been a long road, but Shayne Methvin is creating a better life for himself. He was born at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, began reading around 3 years old and attended Chapman Elemen ...
21 Apr 2016 - Leonora Ko
As Multnomah County grapples with widespread inequities in its criminal justice system, heads turn toward the D.A. Prosecutors wield a tremendous amount of power in the courtroom, and in an effort to keep it that way, they systematically block attempts to ...
21 Apr 2016 - Emily Green