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Speaking Freely With Annette Newell

Aug 29, 2022

Kids:under stress:  It can lead to serious health problems as they get older.  That’s the finding of researchers with the National Institute for Health Care Management.  The non profit, non partisan group says millions of children are living with the far reaching effects of the  COVID-19 pandemic, and more...


Aug 22, 2022

 Oregon Health and Science University scientists have gotten significant new support in their efforts to turn skin cells, into egg cells, possibly leading to a new way for people to have children. For this episode, I talked to Dr. Paula Amato, a professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, involved in the research.

Anxiety...


Aug 13, 2022

Its authors call it the "Inflation Reduction Act,"  but how much will it really do to slow prices that have been climbing at their fastest pace in about 40 years?  Oregon U.S. Senator Ron Wyden is credited with having played a major part of this 755 page, 700 billion dollar package, he says it’ll lower energy and...


Aug 8, 2022

We start, with wildfires this week.  Fires, that are already scorching tens of thousands of acres across Oregon, Washington and California.  One of the biggest burning right now, is the McKinney Fire, in California, chewing through dry timber near the Oregon State line, causing orders for thousands to evacuate from...


Aug 4, 2022

We hear it, again and again.  A shooting erupts.  Horrified neighbors make anxious calls for help.  Someone, ends up dead.  We’ve had several instances like that, just in the past week in Portland alone. In one case, a 19-year-old with a gun, shot and killed during a domestic violence call.  In another, a...