Break bread with us on Oct. 8 during the Street Roots Family Breakfast The moment she walked in and those smells wafted through the air, it was a 180," Tina Drake told me, reminiscing about the mornings when Katherine Deumling would set up her cook ...
28 Sep 2020 - Kaia Sand
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
OPINION | While some Street Roots vendors return to selling the paper, others need to shelter in place. There are ways to support them, too. That afternoon in early March when Raven Drake walked me to her tent next to I-5 North created the roadmap for how ...
14 Aug 2020 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Reimagine Oregon offers a roadmap to justice we can all follow I biked down to the waterfront to take in a key protest gathering space, Salmon Street Springs, in the daylight. Like all over downtown, art remains. A painting of Quanice Hayes on a ...
7 Aug 2020 - Kaia Sand
Starting Aug. 12, readers will have a cashless option for purchasing the newspaper from vendors, who will all be trained in new health and safety protocols Hundreds of Street Roots vendors have weighed in. Nearly 700 of you, our readers, took our survey. ...
31 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Reflecting on the poetry of Daniel Cox and its reverberations through these difficult times Daniel Cox handed me a thick packet of paper from a notebook, folded in half. Poems. “I miss people,” he said softly. Kaia Sand is the executive direc ...
24 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Under the direction of Street Roots staffer Mallory Smith, our vendors are helping unhoused people take the Census Pops cleaned off a laptop, readying it for the next Census taker. Mask on and wearing a turquoise t-shirt announcing, “We Count St ...
17 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
OPINION | Street Roots has joined others in asking the state to retroactively apply the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling Mike was finishing up paperwork behind the desk in the vendor office to pay vendors on the action team for outreach to camps deliverin ...
3 Jul 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR’S DESK | The people with the most at stake must continue to guide the process for this program that Street Roots championed The Portland City Council vote to fund Portland Street Response is a victory for Jim, who told me that when his “brain itc ...
18 Jun 2020 - Kaia Sand
DIRECTOR'S DESK | Portland’s City Council has a chance to change the city's legacy of prioritizing police over its Black residents’ well-being Portland City Council members will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday to determine how the city’s budget of $4.4 ...
10 Jun 2020 - Kaia Sand