The City of Salem is banning volunteers from distributing food to homeless people under the Marion Street Bridge, and it plans to sweep the homeless camp under the bridge Tuesday morning. Statesman Journal reporter Jonathan Bach gives us the details.
Gabriela Pérez Báez, assistant professor of Linguistics at the University of Oregon, recently got a federal grant to expand her work revitalizing indigenous languages that are endangered. Pérez Báez is the director of the university’s Language Revitalization Lab, and she joins us to talk about the expansion of the lab’s work and how it fits into similar efforts around the country to preserve some of the world’s most endangered languages.
Students who are struggling with chronic illnesses must deal with their health issues on top of their academic and social obligations. University of Oregon journalism student Sararosa Davies joins us to talk about her experience, which she wrote about for Eugene Weekly.
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