Some Portland buses will run 24 hours a day starting in September. We’ll hear from Tom Mills, manager of service planning at TriMet, about this and other changes coming for bus riders in the metro area.
Medford Mail Tribune reporter Kaylee Tornay tells us about her three-part series profiling the Gonzalez family, who came to the U.S. seeking asylum from the violence and death threats they faced in El Salvador. (To protect their safety, the paper is not using the family’s real name.)
In 1960, the American Research Institute launched Project Talent, a first-of-its-kind national study of 440,000 high schoolers that included some Portland students. Now, following up with participants more than a half-century later, researchers are hoping to learn what promotes resilience to Alzheimer’s and dementia. We talk with Kay Toran, a participant from Portland, and Jennifer Manly, a principal investigator for Project Talent, about the study.
Eight immigration detainees who have been held at the federal prison in Sheridan for four months were released this week.. We will talk to one of them, Karandeep Singh, an asylum-seeker from India, and Victoria Beharano Muirhead with the Innovation Law Lab, which has been helping the detainees.
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/Passengers exit a TriMet bus.
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