11/01/2023
Teachers at Portland Public Schools are on strike. What are your plans? How does this school shutdown affect you?
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Teachers at Portland Public Schools are on strike. What are your plans? How does this school shutdown affect you?
What are you or your kids dressed up as for Halloween?
Rep. Earl Blumenauer announced he won't seek reelection to Congress next year after nearly 50 years in local, state and federal office. What will you most remember him for?
"Cancer for Breakfast" is a podcast hosted by two Pacific Northwest creators who are using humor and their own personal experience to discuss life with—and life after—cancer.
Bill Mansfield passed the Oregon State Bar in 1953. Since then he has not stopped practicing law and is currently the state's longest serving attorney with 70 years of experience.
Are you a mushroom forager? What do you enjoy about it?
With Halloween just around the corner, we want to hear your costume stories! Do you have a favorite costume from over the years? Or a serious costume flop? Drop a comment below, or even better, leave us a voicemail at 503-293-1983
The Black Possibilities App is a "digital safe space for Black Oregonians to connect, organize, heal & advocate together."
Do you work in Salem? What are your thoughts about the city's attempt to tax workers earning above minimum wage?
Only five states in the U.S. require s*x education to be made accessible to people with disabilities. Oregon isn’t one of them, but a program in the state is helping to fill that gap.
Since 2017, Bruce Poinsette has helped lead a neighborhood effort to interrupt racism in Lake Oswego. The group is called Respond to Racism, and he’s just launched a new online interview series talking to people of color who have left the “bubble” of LO."
If you grew up in Lake Oswego, what was your experience like?
Description: This video seeks to spotlight the experiences of alumni and former students of color from Lake Oswego schools. "Life After the Bubble" will feat...
To what lengths do you go to recycle or reuse things rather than throwing them away?
The new Oregon Children's Theatre play “SPIDER” centers around teens struggling with the numbing effects of social media, normalized gun violence and the interplay of online reality and real life.
Do you shop at farmers markets? Why or why not?
For the first time, the Oregon Department of State Lands has millions of dollars to remove abandoned & derelict vessels from state waterways.
Do you regularly visit your city’s downtown? What’s your experience been lately?
An instructor at Clatsop Community College has found connections between how cultures as diverse as Vikings and Chinook Indians bury their dead at sea.
The Oregon parks and rec department is updating rules about when visitors might be excluded from Oregon State Parks. Proposed new rules specify the behaviors that endanger the safety of visitors, staff or park resources that would qualify for exclusions.
A survey of wildland fire dispatchers in Oregon and Washington found that “dispatch is experiencing problems that compromise their own health and safety” as well as “the health and safety of other firefighters.”
Nearly 50 years ago, the first-ever American Sign Language feature film was shot and premiered in Portland. "Deafula" tells the story of a man who comes to realize he is a vampire.
New research shows that glaciers are rapidly disappearing from Mount Rainier and Mount Hood. Have you been hiking on the mountains recently? What have you seen?
If you keep backyard chickens, what’s the best or worst thing about having them?
Why did saber-toothed cats and other Ice Age animals die out in the Los Angeles basin? A new study suggests that wildfires caused by human activity were to blame.
Fall classes have started at the University of Oregon in Eugene with a new president at the helm: Karl Scholz.
A new OSU study shows that some 19th-century landscape paintings are accurate enough to aid scientists who are researching historical forest systems.
A new study from Oregon State University shows that some 19th-century landscape paintings are accurate enough to be used by scientists who are researching historical forest systems.
It’s official. Damian Lillard has been traded to the Milwaukee Bucks. What do you think this means for the Blazers? What are some of your favorite memories of Lillard? You can give us a comment here or leave us a voicemail at (503)293-1983.
High schoolers and young organizers from across the country are working on a Green New Deal for Schools campaign. They're asking for safer schools, climate disaster planning and pathways to green jobs.
Portland Community Football Club is creating spaces for kids of all genders and incomes to play soccer. Founder Kaig Lightner says he wants to "liberate sports."
Portland Public Schools teachers may go on strike.
How would it affect you?
The Portland band No-No Boy has a new album, "Empire Electric." It tells stories of Asian American history, including this one from Eastern Oregon.
Listen to No-No Boy's "The Onion Kings of Ontario!" from his Smithsonian Folkways album 'Empire Electric.' A welcome-in that's lush and gentle, the song is d...
Oregon is the third state in the nation seeking federal approval for a basic health program.
Western gray squirrels – the largest species of tree squirrel – have traditionally called the Northwest home. But they’re becoming harder and harder to find as their habitat disappears.
Talking to people we disagree with can be difficult, but it’s also unavoidable. How do you approach these hard conversations?
A coalition of powerful business and political leaders are moving ahead with plans to “fix” Measure 110, the voter-approved drug decriminalization effort.
We talk with an 88-year-old Oregonian who sought out the supervised use of psilocybin to help her deal with childhood trauma.
Benefits have begun rolling out under Oregon’s new paid leave program. Workers can now take up to 12 weeks of paid family or medical leave, as well as safe leave for victims of domestic violence, harassment and s*xual assault. What's your experience with this program?
Have you applied for benefits under Oregon's new paid leave program? If so, what has your experience been?
Red Yarn pays us a visit and plays some music in studio. His family oriented performances include folksongs - and often puppetry!
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This is Aarthi Burtony, a disability rights advocate from Mauritius, who is blind. She's riding a bicycle in Eugene during a team-building event at the Women's Institute on Leadership and Disability. She is one of the participants in this year's program, which helps train people from around the world to fight for disability rights in their home countries.
Yesterday, a listener called in and said that a lot of people don't seem to know how to poop in the woods. Today, another listener responded with VERY THOROUGH DIRECTIONS.
David Saffert and Jillian Snow Harris gave us a sneak preview of their "Liberace & Liza Christmas" show, which opens tomorrow at CoHo Productions.
"I feel free like I'm flying" Jorge Filevitch, founder of Portland's underwater hockey team. (video credit: Josh Humbert)
Right before the end of the show yesterday, we got a call from a woman who dated a stripper, got pregnant, and wanted some advice from Carlos the Rollerblader. So we recorded this audio extra. Enjoy!
On our recent road trip up Washington's Long Beach Peninsula, we met a homeschooler who learned (some of) the facts of life on his grandfather's goat farm...
Books coming down the returns chute in the basement of the central branch Multnomah County Public Library. Tune in today to hear more!
Did you miss Senator Ron Wyden on our show yesterday? Here are some highlights:
Later this month, we'll be talking to these and other high school students about their national dialogue project: What Makes America Great (and Not Great). We'd like your help getting this in front of high school teachers and students. The website for more info and for students to record and upload a video is: flipgrid.com/810c21. Thanks for your help!
Want to check out our humble home at the RNC? Dave Miller takes you on a tour of the media headquarters in Cleveland:
WWII vets share stories of forgiveness, as they return flags taken as war souvenirs to Japan http://opb.is/2dy
There's a line out the door at Main Street Marijuana in Vancouver, Washington where we're broadcasting live at noon.
Can criminals be rehabilitated through education while still in prison? http://bit.ly/1ks0NjZ