Residents torn between the dollars short-term rentals bring in and the quality of life and housing stock they take with them The Deep End Café in Newport was packed full of customers two summers ago when its owner, Charlotte Boxer, got a call from her nei ...
15 Jun 2018 - Emily Green
Simulation allows educators to experience what many of their students face every day Imagine you’re a single mother trying to support two school-aged children on low wages earned working two jobs. You’ve just paid your car insurance and utility bills, whe ...
8 Jun 2018 - Emily Green
An aging population, economic decline and generational poverty have contributed to Coos Bay-area housing issues Charles Buki wasn’t in Coos County to placate its residents. “You need to get your shit together,” he told a banquet room full of locals at the ...
1 Jun 2018 - Emily Green
We won't end racism until we end capitalism, says the radical thinker, writer and labor leader Gun enthusiasm is rooted more in racial suppression than in the Second Amendment, Bill Fletcher Jr. told an audience at the SeaTac Hilton in April. From th ...
11 May 2018 - Emily Green
Monica Lewis-Patrick, Michigan’s water warrior, talks to Street Roots about lessons for the Rose City Michigan’s water crises have attracted national attention as residents in a state practically surrounded by water struggle to access it. From lead-poiso ...
27 Apr 2018 - Emily Green
The Portland Water Bureau aims to expand assistance to at-risk renters “We know that Portland is in an affordability crisis,” Portland Water Bureau spokesperson Jaymee Cuti told Street Roots. “We also know that a sudden emergency hits lower-income custome ...
27 Apr 2018 - Emily Green
Corrections employees named in civil rights lawsuit claiming abuse, including use of solitary confinement as retaliation Oregon Department of Corrections staff fabricated evidence and unlawfully used solitary confinement in order to punish two inmates wit ...
20 Apr 2018 - Emily Green
Annelise Orleck is coming to Portland with her new book, 'We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now,' about how poverty wages have sparked a labor movement unlike any other Inside a crowded café in Tampa, Fla., Annelise Orleck first heard the words that ...
13 Apr 2018 - Emily Green
In Portland, a morning call to action for racial and economic justice will be followed by a nationwide minute of silence and an evening march On April 4, 50 years ago, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while standing on a balcony outsid ...
30 Mar 2018 - Emily Green
Center for Food Safety and Cultivate Oregon take on the Trump administration for killing a regulation that would have bolstered organic-labeling standards Attorneys at the Center for Food Safety’s Portland office have taken the lead in a lawsuit filed aga ...
30 Mar 2018 - Emily Green