When the city of Vanport flooded, many Native American families were displaced along with African Americans living in the city. Angie Morrill, director of Indian Education for Portland Public Schools, recently wrote about her family’s story and joins us to talk more about it.
We hear from Robin Eckholt, a woman who has been dealing with debilitating injuries in the decade that followed her trans-vaginal mesh surgery to treat her pelvic collapse. Surgical mesh and the lawsuits surrounding them were recently the subject of a "60 Minutes" piece and have been the subject of international news coverage for some time. We also talk with a gynecologic surgeon not connected with Eckholt’s case, Richard Rosenfield, who describes the conditions under which this kind of mesh is implanted and what he sees as the standard of care in his practice and in the industry more broadly.
A former and current student at North Bend High School suffered anti-LGBTQ harassment and discrimination at school. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon recently settled with North Bend on behalf of the students, which resulted in the removal of the principal and a resource officer. We talk with plaintiff Liv Funk and ACLU of Oregon legal director Mat Dos Santos.
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