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
Street Smart Economics | The city’s ‘high’ taxes are a beloved talking point of those who seek to gut services, but the numbers tell a different story The local press is again spreading a deceptive business lobbyist talking point, claiming that taxes in t ...
17 Jan 2024 - Mary King
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
Civil Rights icon calls the city a microcosm of nation’s greatest issues following protests, pandemic The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King made a rare appearance this week at Portland State University to deliver a speech he dubbed “A Forgotten Conscious: Portl ...
10 Jan 2024 - Donovan Scribes
After a successful run first as an intern and then Street Roots Zuhl Fellow, Hayden joins Street Roots staff I couldn’t be happier to join the Street Roots editorial team as a staff reporter after serving as an intern this summer and then the Zuhl Fellow ...
27 Dec 2023 - Jeremiah Hayden
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
COP 28, as the prior 27, failed to accomplish the most important goals Two weeks of intense negotiations in the United Arab Emirates resulted in progress and frustration. This is what 195 countries finally agreed to at COP 28: “We call on countries to con ...
20 Dec 2023 - Robin Hahnel
Street Smart Economics | The scales of justice are weighted against workers According to a recent Gallup poll, 71% of Americans approve of labor unions, the highest approval rating since 1965. And worker organizing has led to unionization of stores at a n ...
20 Dec 2023 - Martin Hart-Lan...
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