The activist talks to Street Roots about her work and her new book, 'Make Trouble,' ahead of an appearance in Portland It started relatively small: A black felt armband worn to her Texas grade school as part of a nationwide protest of the Vietna ...
30 Mar 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
The city's utility discount program has long struggled to reach renters in multi-family buildings In 1995, Portland’s water bureau became one of the first in the nation to offer a low-income discount program to residents. It began with the goal of re ...
16 Feb 2018 - Joanne Zuhl
The commission's longest-serving member, who opposes the decision to roll back protections, discusses what's at stake When the Federal Communications Commission voted this month to gut internet neutrality protections, Commissioner Mignon Clyburn ...
29 Dec 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Dreamers deserve a path to citizenship, says the congresswoman from Oregon One out of every eight residents in U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici’s District 1 is Latino or Hispanic, making the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program a critica ...
7 Sep 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
He publicly walked away from an adviser role for the Environmental Protection Agency, but he's still dedicated to smart housing and healthy communities As a civil engineer, Carlos Martín could expect to get a few “likes” now and again on his social m ...
2 Jun 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Oregonians take pride in the state’s “sanctuary” posture, but immigrant detainees from ICE are being held in county jails on a daily basis – for money. A movement in Oregon and elsewhere is pushing to get them out. On a sunny Saturday in early May, Ramon ...
17 May 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Street Roots separates facts from falsehoods on issues that matter Fiction: Being in the United States unlawfully is a crime. Fact: Not necessarily. Being here unlawfully – such has having expired documents – isn’t a felony, or even a misdemeanor. It’s co ...
20 Apr 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Even when the GOP plan was still on the table, the congressman from Oregon was working on a revised proposal After a grueling 27-hour debate, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Oregon’s Rep. Greg Walden, voted March 9 to advance the ...
23 Mar 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
Most of the billion-dollar housing subsidy goes to top earners. Realtors will fight to preserve the popular homeowner benefit. Oregon’s biggest – and most beloved – housing subsidy is subsidizing the wrong people. That’s the perspective of a growing coali ...
12 Jan 2017 - Joanne Zuhl
An interview with Oregon's former governor In her autobiography, “Up the Capital Steps: A Woman’s March to the Governorship,” Barbara Roberts writes of a dynamic time in Oregon’s history. And if you are lucky, she notes, “you get to make a little his ...
1 Dec 2016 - Joanne Zuhl