Instructors at Financial Beginnings Oregon share advice about building credit, packing away retirement savings and staying on budget this holiday season When the Oregon Legislature removed personal finance from high school diploma requirements and lumped ...
23 Nov 2018 - Emily Green
Oregon courts are going through the motions of imposing and collecting punitive fines and fees, but when it comes to low-income defendants, nothing about the process adds up This article is the second installment of a Street Roots investigation into the i ...
16 Nov 2018 - Emily Green
Oregon’s monetary sanctions punish the poor more harshly and tether them to the criminal justice system for years after their initial ticket or fee This article is the first installment of a Street Roots investigation into the impact of criminal and traf ...
9 Nov 2018 - Emily Green
Former lawmaker Rocky Barilla responds to sheriffs’ criticism, says police helped draft the "non-controversial" legislation 31 years ago Sixteen Oregon sheriffs signed a letter in August urging Oregonians to vote yes on Ballot Measure 105 to rep ...
19 Oct 2018 - Emily Green
In Oregon, it's not easy to mandate that someone get mental health treatment. Local officials and a workgroup in Salem want to change that. Two groups have been working separately on legislation for the upcoming session that would make it easier for ...
12 Oct 2018 - Emily Green
An examination of the claims being made around the proposed Oregon ban on taxing ‘groceries’ Oregon voters will soon decide whether to place a statewide ban on taxing groceries. But what exactly “groceries” are and to what industries this ban would extend ...
28 Sep 2018 - Emily Green
Journalist Shane Bauer has written a book about his four months inside as a security guard There are few pretenses under which it’s considered ethical for a journalist to go undercover. Shane Bauer used Poynter’s criteria as a basis for weighing his deci ...
21 Sep 2018 - Emily Green
Teens do better outside of detention, says attorney DeAnna Horne, who will participate in a panel exploring the policy's impact on youths, as well as reform efforts led by state lawmakers Oregon’s practice of automatically trying 15-, 16- and 17-year ...
31 Aug 2018 - Emily Green
Its investigation into complaint alleging voters were misled into signing a petition to get the anti-sanctuary measure on the ballot found insufficient evidence The Oregon Department of Justice said Wednesday it has insufficient evidence to move forward w ...
29 Aug 2018 - Emily Green
The president of the United Farm Workers of America has won union contracts with large growers, but conditions for laborers must improve or we won’t have any more agricultural workers, he warns Since Cesar Chavez’s passing in 1993, Arturo Rodriguez has be ...
3 Aug 2018 - Emily Green