A conversation about the housing challenges and opportunities facing Oregon farmworkers Oregon employs between 90,000 and 150,000 farmworkers, not including their families. The precise numbers are difficult to establish year by year, because of the nature ...
5 Jun 2013 - Joanne Zuhl
This isn’t garbage. It’s totally useful,” says Marshall, the father of my child and my partner in crime, life, and everything. “It’s not garbage.” Our back gate is open to the alleyway, and a borrowed box truck full of lawn debris, rotten lumber, and sund ...
5 Jun 2013 - Melissa Favara
We are now well past the halfway point of the Oregon Legislative Session. These final six weeks will be primarily focused on budgets and a few outstanding policy items. On Thursday, May 16, the Legislature received the final revenue forecast of the sessio ...
5 Jun 2013 - Alison McIntosh
Oregon is a bountiful state. We produce 220 crops and livestock commodities, a greater variety than any state except Florida and California. The value of these crops and commodities totaled more than $5 billion in 2011, a record high. As consumers, we can ...
5 Jun 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Few City Hall pairings have been as joined at the hip as Commissioner Nick Fish and the Portland Housing Bureau. In his tenure on the City Council, Fish has been the architect of the city’s current housing and homeless operations, a defender of the social ...
4 Jun 2013 - Street Roots Staff
I was a little manic several springs back on the streets of a small Texas town called Mansfield. The police and I had been through several run-ins, which resulted in me landing in a Fort Worth mental hospital. Being a ward of the state scared me a bit, be ...
4 Jun 2013 - Hobo John
Rose Haven expands with the growing needs and numbers of women on the streets Black and blue, on a holiday no less, Jo knew of one place she could turn in a crisis. Rose Haven. She arrived at the hospitality center on Thanksgiving with dark bruises on her ...
4 Jun 2013 - Erin Fenner
The Nation’s Greg Kaufmann dispels the myths about poverty in America and the politics behind it According to the last census, there were 46 million Americans living in poverty — more than the entire population of California. But despite the large mass of ...
3 Jun 2013 - Jake Thomas
Yoga instructor draws on her own experiences to help others heal By Sue Zalokar, Staff writer You can’t control what life throws at you, but you can control how you react to it.” That was the meditation for my second community yoga class at the Old Town C ...
30 May 2013 - Suzanne Zalokar
Gemini (May 21–June 20) Observed the stars from the waterfront and bumped into a Park Ranger. Those are some friendly people. Soup Can sees this as a sign that change does bring good things. Cancer (June 21-July 22) Where did all of your dust bunnies come ...
29 May 2013 - Soup Can Sam