Features

 

San Antonio Current

Aged Out— Texas’ overburdened foster care system has produced a generation of lost adults

Lamar Smith’s War on Science — How a Texas Congressman’s newfound power could silence critical climate change research

Do No Harm — Will Bexar County be the first in Texas to legalize needle exchange?

Under the Bridge — How the Hays Street Bridge property has become a symbol of resilience in San Antonio’s Eastside

Help, not Handcuffs — What’s behind SAPD’s shifting approach to homelessness

 

ThinkProgress

An Indiana city is poised to become the next Flint

‘There’s no detox when you’re dead’: Boston wants users to get high under supervision

How the Bundy standoff could screw over ranchers

Meet the people who provide protection at abortion clinics

Street Roots

Sex, Lies, and Homelessness — Sexual abuse is woven into Portland’s homeless community (Awarded second place in SPJ Social Issues Reporting, 2013)

Open Wide  — How Oregonians are eating the social and economic cost of bad oral health

East of Eden — former pastor 
Mike Davis
 ministers to the hundreds of homeless in East Portland

Designated Drivers — An evening on the beat of Portland’s pick-up crew for over-imbibers

 

Portland Mercury

Trafficking Trust — Portland’s new shelter for sex-trafficked youth leaves doubt at the door

When You Gotta Go — A century of Portland’s public bathrooms

Toxic Avengers — Occupy Portland takes on Hanford’s nuclear waste

Eugene Weekly

Teachers or Tutors — Will budget woes make tutors the only way Eugene kids get an education?