Opinion | It’s an act of bad faith to pit the Portland Street Response against the Portland Fire Bureau If budgets are how a city demonstrates its values, city leadership must show it values Portland Street Response. Kaia Sand is the executive director of ...
5 Feb 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Free Geek, Personal Telco and Street Roots partner to launch the AfroVillage Old Town Community Network There’s a tiny piece of equipment on the roof of the soon-to-open Street Roots building on West Burnside Street that’s hard to glimpse from b ...
31 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Why did city leadership disappear when it came to severe weather shelters? Thick crusts of ice covered the sidewalk. Trees fell on rooftops and trucks. Powerlines snapped, letting loose the deadly currents that killed members of a young family. ...
24 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Help Street Roots raise $27,237 for elevator construction Flying chairs, ascending rooms, steam-powered elevators descending into mines. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her views. For millennia, people ...
17 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Street Roots’ Burnside building is composed of stories galore Street Roots vendors who stop at the office for a cup of coffee and to read the newspaper before they hit the streets will soon be supported by chairs from the Central Library, restor ...
10 Jan 2024 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | An eventful 2023 for Street Roots gives way to a historic 2024 This has been a year of creating a strong foundation for Street Roots as it enters its 25th year. Kaia Sand is the executive director of Street Roots. This column represents her view ...
27 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | A record 315 unhoused Multnomah County residents died in 2022, according to annual death count released by the county, Street Roots advocacy At least 315 people who were unhoused died before their time in Multnomah County in 2022. Their early de ...
20 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Street Roots is a collective effort of many moving parts. Such an effort could not exist without all its supports. “I sing, trailers for sale or rent / Rooms to let, 50 cents / No phone, no pool, no pets / I ain't got no cigarettes / Ah, bu ...
13 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Drug users in Vancouver, British Columbia reverse overdoses through jobs paid by the regional health authority “We’re good at saving lives,” the man told me. This is a series of columns that explores bettering public-health responses to our over ...
6 Dec 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | However you give, and however much, it helps this organization run 1. Buy the newspaper and a zine. Find a vendor to buy a zine and a newspaper. Vendors are out in all weather selling a new issue every week, and for the next six weeks through De ...
22 Nov 2023 - Kaia Sand