Regional Interests

Legislative Countdown | Painted Hills Beef | New Teacher

Oregon Public Broadcasting | By Sage Van Wing, Samantha Matsumoto, Allison Frost

Published June 5, 2019 at 9:19 AM PDT

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With less than a month left in the Oregon legislative session we get the lowdown on what to expect from OPB political reporter Dirk VanderHart.

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Painted Hills Natural Beef, a collective of ranches based in Fossil, Oregon, supplies grass-fed beef to upscale restaurants and grocers in Portland, Oregon, and across the state. We get a tour of the ranch from Painted Hills Beef Chairman Merton Homer and his son Will Homer, the collective's chief operating officer.

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Mollie Carter moved from Portland, Oregon, to Fossil, Oregon, three years ago to take a job teaching at the local high school. She says the students ask her a lot of questions about what it’s like to live in a city, and she asks them a lot of questions to try to understand her new rural life.

<p>Will Homer and his father, Merton Homer, own and operate Painted Hills Natural Beef in Fossil, Ore.</p> — Will Homer and his father, Merton Homer, own and operate Painted Hills Natural Beef in Fossil, Ore.