The Olympic National Park holds amazing things — including signs to a troubled future I’m not much of a hiker, so when Bryant Carlin forged off an established trail in Olympic National Park and led me through a tangle of moss and Pacific fern, I had to sp ...
3 Sep 2015 - Rosette Royale
Book review: Martha Long’s “Ma” series shows her genius for storytelling and phenomenal memory for details There are certain expectations that go with genres. A memoir set in Ireland about a girl growing up in poverty evokes the image of lovable alcoholic ...
3 Sep 2015 - Mike Wold
If you’re not in some way involved with public schools, you may not be aware of the explosion of standardized testing in schools over the past 10 years. Preparing for and taking these tests has significantly affected teaching and learning on all levels in ...
28 Jan 2015 - Mike Wold
About 450 million people live with mental illness worldwide and nearly one million a year die of suicide. Portland’s suicide rate is higher than the national average, according the Portland Police Bureau, and last year the city’s attention was drawn to Vi ...
26 Mar 2014 - Robin Lindley
Associated Press photographer Barry Sweet chronicles four decades of contemporary American scenes from the Pacific Northwest and beyond By Rosette Royale, Contributing Writer Our concept of contemporary history is forever married to the storytelling power ...
30 Jan 2013 - Street Roots Staff
The full four-part series on domestic abuse: Gravity of Abuse [caption id="attachment_7211" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo by Kate Baldwin[/caption] “The gravity of abuse: The personal toll of domestic abuse," gre ...
20 Jul 2012 - Street Roots
The gravity of abuse: Part III: No contact [caption id="attachment_7290" align="alignnone" width="500"] All photos by Kate Baldwinw[/caption] The third in our series on one family’s struggle to survive domestic violence. Read ...
4 Jul 2012 - Street Roots
Collect Calls: Talking about the cutthroat world of debt collection By Rosette Royale, Contributing Writer Working as a debt collector, journalist Fred Williams discovered the extreme tactics collection agencies use to cage the rights of those in arrears ...
24 May 2012 - Street Roots
The hidden epidemic: Medical errors are the leading cause of death in the U.S. by Rosette Royale, Contributing Writer I’ve got a friend, I’ll call him George, who, for several months, experienced an intense pain on his side. Turned out to be a kidney ston ...
28 Mar 2012 - Street Roots
Where we're going wrong in the immigration debate By Adam Hyla, Real Change Even as corporations embark on what has been called “a carefully managed facility migration process” (i.e., going wherever workers come cheap), migration by human beings is a ...
1 Jul 2010 - Street Roots