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Voting in the Bay Area seemed to go smoothly on Tuesday, thanks in part to California’s efforts to get people to vote early and by mail.. That says a lot, in an election where there’s been so much misinformation about the process, and where a pandemic threatened the health and safety of people voting in … Continue reading How Voting Went Down in the Bay Area →

The Oregon State Police have been in the spotlight recently for their role in the police response to the Portland protests. Terri Davie is taking over as superintendent of the state agency during a tumultuous time.

Eric Ward is a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center and the executive director of the Western States Center. We talk with Ward about what this year’s contentious election could mean for hate violence and preserving democratic institutions, protests in Portland and across the country.

Democrats in Oregon had a lot to celebrate in Tuesday’s election, as the party took all statewide races and maintained its supermajority in the state Legislature. But Oregon Republicans prevailed in a number of hard-fought races, and Cliff Bentz handily won the open 2nd Congressional seat.

The Oregon Employment Department says it is preparing for a surge in unemployment claims after Gov. Kate Brown announced a statewide “freeze” to combat the spread of COVID-19.

For more than two decades, Chuck Hudson has been an advocate for both salmon and Indigenous people in his role as the intergovernmental affairs director for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission. As he starts his retirement, we talk with Hudson about his legacy and his hopes for the future.

Portland activist and hip-hop journalist Mac Smiff tells us about how the presence of federal officers changed the protests, and what comes next for him if they leave the city.

In the last four months of Black Lives Matter protests across the country, Eastern Oregon organizers and activists have been holding marches and events for rural Oregonians. We talk with Briana Spencer, an organizer of the movement in Pendleton.

A week after wildfires began consuming thousands of acres in western Oregon, firefighters are making progress on some of the most destructive blazes in state history. At least nine people have died, and countless homes and businesses have been scorched.

Oregon Health Authority director Patrick Allen joins us to discuss the latest trends in infection rates in the state and how the wildfires have complicated data collection.