June-November 2025 guides are in stock and available for pick-up! Street Roots is the publisher of the Rose City Resource Guide (RCRG), the most comprehensive list of services for people experiencing ...

The fund is also intended to keep Sotelo’s small business afloat throughout this ordeal. Sotelo’s protégée, Victoria Reader, is currently running Novo Start, according to Hoffman. Reader came to ...

Anti-homeless policy has been a staple of cities the world over, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city’s infrastructure and public ...

Street Roots is an award-winning weekly investigative publication covering economic, environmental and social inequity. The newspaper is sold in Portland, Oregon, by people experiencing homelessness ...

SEX WORKERS have been making money in Portland’s Old Town for as long as the neighborhood has existed. In the late 1800s, prostitutes filled storefronts known as cribs, hung out in saloons, and held ...

From lakes to creeks, mountains to plateaus, efforts across Oregon to change offensive and racist geographical place names are increasing in recent years, though dozens remain. Last month, the U.S.

The waiting list for treatment foster care in Illinois has grown to about 10 to 15 youths at any given time for the teams’ 40 slots — which will increase to 50 if LSSI is able to fund the additional ...

Prophets of Rage kicked off their short run of U.S. club dates in September in Boston, leading up to the Sept. 15 release of their self-titled album. Part of the proceeds of the show were donated to ...

So much of what I was putting up (in the exhibit) is like, this is everything that I have wanted to see. So a lot of it is selfish like, this is what little queer me wants. Like, I want to walk into ...

Ghosts of Agent Orange: The notorious defoliant continues to ravage generations of Vietnamese Former Marine and member of Portland’s Veterans for Peace chapter, Dan Shea knows the lasting effects of ...

In the mid-1980s, the most dire problem on the streets of Portland (from the point of view of the downtown business community, which funded campaigns to elect persons to city hall and the county) was ...

When the fire call data is broken out over the year, the numbers follow a similar pattern. There were 220 fire calls along the greenway in 2020, 267 calls in 2021, and Browning expects upwards of 200 ...