This week our guests are Barbara Dudley with the Working Families of Oregon party, Former GOP lawmaker Scott Bruun and The Oregonian/Oregonlive.com’s Laura Gunderson.
Coffee Creek Correctional Facility is one of a few state prisons in the nation that provides tampons to incarcerated women. We talk to Coffee Creek superintendent Paula Myers about the policy.
After two decades on Portland’s City Council, Dan Saltzman retired this week. His seat was filled by Jo Ann Hardesty. OPB reporter Amelia Templeton joins us to look back on Saltzman’s career.
Last year, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) decided to include girls in its scouting program, and new troops of girls are getting underway. We talk with the parent of Paula Kersch, who oversees the BSA’s scouting program in southern Oregon. Kersch’s daughter became a BSA Cub Scout last year and is planning to join the first Boy Scouts’ all-girls troop in Ashland.
A Boy Scouts of American Cub Scouts hat. The Cub Scouts program is now open to girls as well as boys.
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