OPINION | The Trump administration's push to privatize the Postal Service is reckless, scary and unnecessary The ubiquitous blue mailboxes, the slow moving, open-door mail trucks with steering on the right, post offices in each small town — the relia ...
26 Aug 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Street Roots is connecting impoverished people with cash assistance, stimulus checks and tax credits, but it’s not enough These days, I think about money a lot. Where is it, and how can it get into the pockets of poor folks? An antidote ...
15 May 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | While Portland's wealthy make the city appear rich, hundreds of thousands in Multnomah County aren't able to meet basic needs The woman and a man – in their 20s, with big eyes and gentle smiles – stood next to a red sedan. Peop ...
6 Dec 2019 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR'S DESK | The bigotry of the Trump administration’s immigration policy is on full display Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door These are the last lines of the poem at the Statue of Liberty, set ...
16 Aug 2019 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | Criminalizing people for being homeless is cruel and inhumane, the Ninth Circuit Court ruled A lot gets written in a day, and on Tuesday, Sept. 4, Donald Trump managed to punch out 16 wild and furious tweets. But among this frenzy, it’s ...
7 Sep 2018 - Kaia Sand
How do we overturn a sentiment that money gives us worth? There is a woman in Old Town who stores her mound of suitcases under a tarp and stays near it, almost as though she were sitting in a room and the walls themselves fell away. On warmer days, she pa ...
23 Feb 2018 - Kaia Sand
Medicaid expansion has made it possible to extend health care to many Oregonians suffering from homelessness Last week, as the rain fell hard, a group of Street Roots vendors held a blue tarp high above their heads. The truck had arrived with the bundles ...
12 Jan 2018 - Kaia Sand