Extra! Extra! If you don’t think 2010 holds in store anything special for you, then you’re forgetting that the new edition of Street Roots hits the pavement tomorrow, warmed by the personalized delivery of a friendly neighborhood vendor! Here’s a preview ...
21 Jan 2010 - Street Roots
Helping students find the humanity of it all with Street Roots Colleen Kaleda teaches “Street Roots: Exploring Issues of Homelessness,” a Capstone class at Portland State University. By Colleen Kaleda Contributing Writer I expected to be taught and talked ...
18 Jan 2010 - Street Roots
Vendor passes along thanks to SR readers By Israel Bayer Staff Writer Kevin Robinson has been looking for work. But like many who find themselves out of work during this long recession— Robinson has had no luck. “I came to Street Roots to continue to buil ...
15 Jan 2010 - Street Roots
Paper day, early Friday morning [caption id="attachment_2423" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Paper arrives."] [/caption] Street Roots vendor Bruce Heino helps unload the truck when papers arrived Nov. 27. ...
30 Nov 2009 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Thanks to all of you who wrote in about our vendors lately. We’ve known how great they are for years, and it’s good to hear it from their customers, too. So, if you haven’t talked to your vendor lately, you’ve got a great reason to swing by ...
20 Aug 2009 - Street Roots
Alien boy trailer is out According to filmmakers (and many Portlanders), "In September 2006 James Chasse was tackled by three law officers on a downtown street corner before a dozen eyewitnesses. James was not suspected of a crime, he had not committ ...
23 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Portland handed down additional funding by the Feds According to staff with the Bureau of Housing and Community Development, the HUD Continuum of Care awards were announced late last week. Portland is one of 23 communities in the country to receive funds ...
23 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Homelessness Marathon today on KBOO! The Homelessness Marathon will be on KBOO today on 90.7 starting at 4P.M. and running until 6A.M. tomorrow morning. The annual 14-hour radio broadcast features the voices and stories of homeless people from around the ...
23 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Open houses scheduled to consider the fate of Fareless Square This your chance to chime in on the Fareless Square debate. It’s become an annual affair to have TriMet attempt to do away or curtail the idea of free bus travel through the city’s central cor ...
20 Feb 2009 - Street Roots
Sight Unseen: City’s count of people on the street finds some, but misses the broad scope of modern homeless demographics By Mara Grunbaum, Staff Writer Want to fill out a survey?” asked outreach worker Brandon Schwanz of a young man on a bench outside th ...
19 Feb 2009 - Street Roots