True to what’s real: Painter Max Ginsburg records the social condition [caption id="attachment_6145" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="“Foreclosure,” by Max Ginsburg, 40” x 65” oil, 2011, depicts the anguish and fru ...
10 Nov 2011 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Street Roots vendors will have a fresh copy of the paper ready for you Friday morning. Make sure you pick up a copy and say hello to a friendly face. It’s still only $1! Here’s what’s waiting for you inside: True to what’s real: Painter Max ...
27 Oct 2011 - Street Roots
TANF programs, already slashed earlier this year, drop again By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Misty McGee is stuck in the waiting game. “I feel like I’m on hold. It’s really frustrating.” Her biggest opponent is her own health. Cancer at a young age took her ...
12 Oct 2011 - Street Roots
Poverty figures unlikely to change course anytime soon By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Census figures released Tuesday put on paper what many of us have known for a long time. Times are tough, getting tougher. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s figures, t ...
26 Sep 2011 - Street Roots
Oregon Law Center scores victory for people sleeping outside by Joanne Zuhl Homeless campers came out the winners in a settlement with the Oregon Department of Transportation that buys them time before their property is swept from camps. The settlement, s ...
12 Sep 2011 - Street Roots
Oregon Opportunity Network's John Miller By Joanne Zuhl, Staff writer Oregon’s network of community development organizations — those developers, nonprofits and agencies that have been the backbone of affordable housing and economic development for l ...
20 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
It’s... it’s... Courtenay Hameister! The host of Portland’s own Live Wire! Radio talks the ugly business of comedy, stagefright and mental health — with a nod to the familiar freak inside us all By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Courtenay Hameister has a grea ...
23 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Fish rolls out fair housing plan, answers allegations of going soft on landlords By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer Housing Commissioner Nick Fish rolled out his fair housing action plan this morning in reaction to an audit earlier this year that found consider ...
10 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Extra! Extra! Our ships have come in! Give a smile to those hardworking men and women out there, and that includes your friendly neighborhood vendor. Tomorrow they will be out in force with the newest edition of Street Roots, featuring something for every ...
9 Jun 2011 - Street Roots
Marcy Westerling, founder of Rural Organizing Project, reflects on community organizing in Oregon, as her own life takes a new direction By Joanne Zuhl, Staff Writer After 30 years, Marcy Westerling recently returned to Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals, ...
25 May 2011 - Street Roots