B.J. Bill highlights the lives of Portland's city councilmembers, focusing on their work within their districts. Hill covers topics ranging from economics to education.

When back-to-landers decided to start their farm, they were faced with a hard choice of switching crops and growing to a market economy or losing their land. Andrew Reiner documents how farmers at Good Earth Farm live a rural lifestyle and the challenges they have faced.

Ronald Clayton documents the lives of individuals who have struggled from drug abuse and the treatments they have received.

Table of contents for May 1989 Salt Magazine.

Despite the outrage from fishermen, sea farmers are fencing off sections of coastal bottom. George Carey documents the controversy between mussel growers and lobstermen.

A member of the Green Party, Pat LaMarche shows pride when she mentions that she once ran for Vice-President of the United States. Beatrice Marovich discusses the life of LaMarche, covering her early life and political career.

For the sea urchin industry, a rough economy is causing tensions to grow between government regulators and sea urchin fishermen. Meghan Daniels explores how the Department of Marine Resources and sea urchin fishermen are encountering issues regarding regulations on how many days are set for urchin fishing a year.

Mindy Duncan inquires into the different lives of sculptors as they attempt to make livings off of their artwork, and also discusses how these art pieces make the people who purchase them feel.

Staff, contributors, trustees, and academic board members are listed.

The United States provides refugee for many different cultures and peoples who are escaping war around the world. Lacey Andrews speaks to refugees from Somali to learn about their community in Portland as they seek stability in the United States.

Curious about a man known for his uniqueness, Salt students visit Arthur Welch of Cape Porpoise. Richard Merrill and other Salt students speak to Welch about his personal life.

Elizabeth Peck documents the work of Peter Hagerty, founder of a Russian-American yarm company. Peck discusses how Peace Fleece was founded on the idea of "peace through trade," and as a way to fight back memories of Vietnam.