Jan 26, 2022
In this episode, we’re focusing, on what’s become an historic time for housing. The COVID-19 pandemic, labor, trucking, infrastructure and chip shortages and challenges, along with record low mortgage rates, are all combining to fuel record spikes in housing prices in Oregon, Washington, and much of the rest of...
Jan 25, 2022
It could be a big breakthrough: Oregon researchers have discovered that certain cannabis plant acids, can block the COVID virus from infecting human cells. I talked to Oregon State University’s Richard Van Breeman, who is leading this research, about how he and scientists made this discovery: and what comes next,...
Jan 20, 2022
As Omicron cases spiked, setting pandemic record after record, an Oregon State University history professor’s editorial in The Washington Post, sparked dozens of comments and links to other national outlets. In it, Dr. Christopher McKnight Nichols pointed out similarities between this pandemic, and another one: the...
Jan 20, 2022
My guests for this episode are U.S.
Representative Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon, and Jonathan Pidluzny,
Vice President of Academic Affairs, American Council of Trustees
and Alumni
Topics: New COVID-19 variant, homelessness, transportation’s impact on the environment, and a lack of history and civics education making...
Jan 17, 2022
Children's advocacy groups did a deep data dive into exactly how the pandemic child tax credit affected Oregon families, and children in poverty. Specifically they looked at how a sample of 600 families spent the money on necessities like food and shelter. In 2021, 93,000 families in N.W. Oregon received $219...