Sofia DeMartino

Linn County is growing, and nearly half of that growth is due to immigration.

“We are thinking about what the library’s role might be in the future and planning what we can bring to informational services.”

A few weeks after 9/11, my family celebrated my son’s first birthday. The next day, then-President George W. Bush announced the United States military engagement in Afghanistan.

The imagined danger posed by Black people existing remains a box office smash, turning out voters, consumers, and vigilantes year after year after bloody year.

“If there is no available affordable child care, you can’t work — and more often than not, child care continues to fall within the responsibility of women.”

It is incumbent upon us — us the community; us the collective; us the village — to support the success of our children as best we are able

Throughout the pandemic, a widespread challenge for nonprofit agencies has been maintaining volunteer levels that support the work at hand.

Lack of available housing, exacerbated by last year’s derecho, is a massive barrier to those who have already had their escape plans on hold for months due to the pandemic.

To write this achievement gap off as another outcome of poverty without acknowledging the role of systemic barriers to economic advancement is to do a disservice to the work of equity.

Environmental justice means everyone must have equal access to the decision-making process

Gov. Reynolds praised the new bill as creating “choice” for landlords. Stripping these communities of their source of income ordinances actually offers a reduction in options for tenants.