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The school year is starting up for students across the state, and many districts are holding classes online. We hear what an 8th grader and a high school senior think about school in the time of coronavirus.

New Seasons started giving its grocery store workers “Thank You” bonuses at the start of the pandemic in March. In June, New Seasons stopped distributing the extra pay to workers because they said it was no longer feasible for the company. Grocery store worker Tekiah Elzey recently created a petition asking New Seasons to reinstate the bonus pay.

The Medford Expo Center is providing shelter and services for many southern Oregon fire evacuees.

Are overdue library book fines necessary? Librarian Dawn Wacek wants all libraries to do away with overdue fines to make library services more inclusive and welcoming to all readers.

The increase of COVID-19 cases throughout the state and a limited number of ICU beds has forced the St. Charles hospital in Bend to prepare contingency plans. We hear from St. Charles Chief Physician Executive Dr. Jeff Absalon about how things are going, and what he’s learned since the start of the pandemic.

In July, the Multnomah County Library announced it would be making staffing cuts due to branches being closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Last week, library staff started to learn which positions were being eliminated. Multnomah County Library Director Vailey Oehlke told OPB that the library was eliminating about 13% of all staff. We hear from Oehlke about how the library is handling the layoffs and from library assistant and union representative Elleona Budd about how employees are responding.

Kindergarten is about so much more than ABCs. It’s about learning how to be in school — how to hold a pencil, how to share, how to sit still during story time. So, how do you do that when school is all online?

Many Oregon colleges and universities have released their plans to hold remote and online classes for the lion’s share of their instruction. The University of Oregon and Southern Oregon University say they’ve worked hard to help instructors make their distance learning instruction as engaging and effective as possible.

If you had to explain to a newborn what it means to live on Earth, at this time of crisis — what would you say? Writer, illustrator, and artist Oliver Jeffers gives his answer in a letter to his son.

Linfield University professor Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt recently wrote about what she calls the “corporatization" of universities and that one of the goals is “to attack and even destroy tenure.”