He was a passionate advocate for people on the edge J ohn “Jay” Samuel Thiemeyer III, 73, of St. Johns in Portland, died on Thursday, March 11, at Sunnyside Medical Center. He was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia, where he attended medical school befo ...
31 Mar 2021 - Street Roots
2019’s death toll is the highest since Domicile Unknown reporting began In 2019, Multnomah County tallied the highest number of homeless deaths in any year since the grim figure has been tracked. In its annual Domicile Unknown report released today, 113 p ...
21 Dec 2020 - Street Roots
The co-founder of Sisters of the Road, who died Aug. 19, touched many people. Here's what some of them have to say. Genny Nelson, co-founder of Sisters of the Road Cafe, was an indomidable force of human nature in Portland’s political and social envi ...
26 Aug 2020 - Street Roots
This is a contract position for 30 hours per week for 4 months, beginning in late May Overview Street Roots is hiring a reporter to work 30 hours a week on social and/or environmental justice focused stories for a duration of four months. This position re ...
4 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt whether they'd continue a program that often results in prosecutions for low-level misdemeanors QUESTION: In Multnomah County, each neighborhood has a county prosecutor who focuses, in many cases, on p ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt how they'd change the low prosecution rate for domestic violence cases QUESTION: The last time we crunched the numbers, we found that among Oregon’s five largest counties, Multnomah County has the lowe ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt how they could improve the community court QUESTION: Do you see any opportunities for improvement in the way Multnomah County’s Community Court functions? It could be shaped many ways, such as the service m ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt if they'd eliminate fines and fees for people in poverty QUESTION: People experiencing homelessness and poverty disproportionately interface with the criminal justice system, producing an additional la ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt if they'd release defendants without bail for nonviolent offenses QUESTION: Will you commit during this interview to releasing people who are pretrial for nonviolent offenses without bail, should you w ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots
Street Roots asked Ethan Knight and Mike Schmidt how they'd run the DA's Office differently than the incumbent QUESTION: What’s the biggest difference we’ll see between the way you would run the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office and th ...
2 May 2020 - Street Roots