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Oregon’s longest-serving Senate president, Peter Courtney, has had a rough legislative session. He faced scrutiny because of the way he addressed allegations of sexual harassment at the state Capitol. His dear friend and longtime colleague Sen. Jackie Winters, R-Salem, died. And two walkouts by Republican legislators have impeded the goals of a Democratic supermajority. OPB Political reporter Lauren Dake talks with us about her profile of Courtney and gives us an update on the state of things in Salem.
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We hear opinions and analysis on some of the big news stories this week from Christopher McKnight Nichols, Doug Badger and Sarah Mirk.
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Oregon writer Debra Gwartney’s new book, “I Am a Stranger Here Myself” is one part memoir, one part pioneer history. She tells her own story interspersed with the story of the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and give birth on the frontier. Her book explores ideas of womanhood, place and belonging — in the context of white settlers who seized Native American lands and claimed them as their own.
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/Democratic Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney watches as senators offer their support for a resolution supporting those who fought and died in the Modoc War in the Senate chambers at the Oregon Capitol in Salem, Ore., Tuesday, April 2, 2019.
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