Opinion | Despite the fear and backlash, let’s fight for the lives of people using drugs Overdose prevention centers reduce “overdose and unwanted public use” while connecting people “with addiction services and social supports including voluntary treatme ...
25 Oct 2023 - Kaia Sand
Opinion | Kotek’s decision to hide her new task force’s conversations from the public is opaque, unethical and counterproductive Now, I promise what follows isn’t a setup for a joke, though there’s something one could argue is comedic within the subject o ...
6 Sep 2023 - K. Rambo
Opinion | Jo Ann Hardesty was subjected to relentless racist and sexist attacks during her tenure on City Council The map is complete, and soon, Portland City Council candidates will announce their intentions to run. Kaia Sand is the executive director of ...
23 Aug 2023 - Kaia Sand
As cherry blossoms begin to depart and the spring sun musters all it can to chip away at the gloomy canopy making its home atop the Willamette Valley, winter-weary Portlanders are treated to a quietly crucial election season. Southeast Portland voters ha ...
26 Apr 2023 - K. Rambo
Commissioner Rene Gonzalez prohibiting first responders from distributing tents is unethical — so is turning away from 'grim and murderous reality' In January 2017, a woman lost and alone in a Portland snowstorm suffered through the agony of lab ...
22 Mar 2023 - Ariel Stone
OPINION | County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson announces plan to begin housing homeless Multnomah County residents Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson announced a planned $14 million investment to begin housing homeless Multnomah County residents F ...
8 Feb 2023 - Kaia Sand
The Mental Health Association of Portland opposes city of Portland’s camps for people who are homeless, as described in five resolutions passed by four of five City Council members The Mental Health Association of Portland opposes the city of Portland’s c ...
16 Nov 2022 - Mental Health A...
Opinion | Portland should build a local Project Turnkey Program The Comfort Inn sign is now wrapped in black plastic, but plenty of hotel amenities remain at River Haven, a housing program for people in early recovery run by Central City Concern. The hote ...
15 Jun 2022 - Kaia Sand
Are body-worn cameras a remedy to police use of force or a really expensive way to record police assaults? In response to police violence against protestors in the summer of 2020 and the murder of George Floyd, the United States Department of Justice prop ...
28 Feb 2022 - Ariel Stone and Amanda Marshall
Forcing people into a camp patrolled by military personnel, unarmed or otherwise, doesn’t end or address homelessness, it simply contains it in a carceral complex Mayoral aide Sam Adams’ proposal to build mass camps for unhoused Portlanders and staff them ...
14 Feb 2022 - SR editorial board