-Percent of runaway youth served by Multnomah County Runaway Youth Services that are reunited with their families: 85-Number of passengers PDX received from flights in February: 1,025,571-Number of flight operations PDX saw in February: 14,877-Percent of O ...
22 Apr 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Multnomah County Chair Marissa Madrigal has sharply criticized the Social Security Administration's handling of a troubled nonprofit organization that manages the federal disability benefits of 1,000 individuals who may soon find themselves without a ...
15 Mar 2014 - Jake Thomas
Crouched in the trampled underbrush along the Springwater Corridor, Mike Davis pulls back a loose tent flap to reveal a quietly sobbing woman. “I don’t know what to do, Pastor Mike,” she says, shakily raising an unlit cigarette to her lips. “Can you help? ...
13 Mar 2014 - Alex Zielinski
The knocks came early. At around 7:30 a.m. on Jan. 23, Daniel Hernandez Garcia and his girlfriend of five years, Josefina Aguiniga, answered the door of their Southeast Portland home to find two officers. “They told me they were police officers and they w ...
4 Mar 2014 - Nathan Gilles
Number of chicken wings sold by Fire on the Mountain on Super Bowl Sunday: 25,653 Percent drop in Seattle-area 911 calls during the Super Bowl: 31 Percent rise in Seattle-area 911 calls after the Super Bowl: 75 Dollars per container the Port of Portland w ...
15 Feb 2014 - Street Roots Staff
LaVonne Griffin-Valade doesn’t mince her words. Nor would she. As a former elementary school teacher and aspiring fiction writer, she values the precision of perfect grammar. As the city’s auditor, she values the ability of a well-written, researched — an ...
12 Feb 2014 - Amanda Waldroupe
Marissa Madrigal remembers the first time a television camera was thrust in her face. She remembers a reporter coming to her house. She remembers the day the spotlight was shone on her and a hefty responsibility thrust on her shoulders. She never thought ...
15 Jan 2014 - Jake Thomas
-HIV/AIDS remains an important public health problem in Oregon. From 1981 through 2011, 9,028 Oregonians were diagnosed and reported with HIV infection; approximately 40 percent have since died.-5,384 Oregonians are living with HIV, in addition to an unkno ...
5 Nov 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Oregon’s new health networks are partnering with dental programs to bring better oral care to low-income families Despite the controversy and questions surrounding the new health care law, one concrete benefit is giving many of Oregon’s most vulnerable pe ...
4 Nov 2013 - Jasmine Rockow
Activists continue to find fault with sheriff’s cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Miguel Hernández, not his real name, really wanted a drink and a night out. What he got was a detention from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...
21 Oct 2013 - Nathan Gilles