Episodios

  • LGBTQ+ families question their place in America amid hotline closure and healthcare bans

    LGBTQ+ families question their place in America amid hotline closure and healthcare bans
    Jun 27 2025
    25 m
  • James Beard-nominated Oregon restaurants struggle with rising costs despite national recognition

    James Beard-nominated Oregon restaurants struggle with rising costs despite national recognition
    Jun 21 2025

    What happens when a city's restaurant scene reaches the pinnacle of culinary recognition — yet the chefs behind the accolades can barely keep their doors open?

    Portland's food scene is experiencing a golden moment. The city that once parodied on "Portlandia" for obsessing over farm-to-table dining is now earning serious national respect. Oregon restaurants are sweeping James Beard nominations like never before, with establishments from intimate neighborhood spots to Willamette Valley gems collecting the industry's most prestigious honors.

    But step inside these celebrated kitchens, and a different story emerges — one of razor-thin margins, impossible mathematics and owners contemplating closure even as the awards roll in.
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  • Why Oregon's legal psilocybin industry is struggling to survive

    Why Oregon's legal psilocybin industry is struggling to survive
    Jun 16 2025
    Some legal psilocybin therapy centers are closing in Oregon, as high costs and regulations are having a negative impact on the industry.
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  • 40 Years at The Oregonian: What's Really Happening to Local Media

    40 Years at The Oregonian: What's Really Happening to Local Media
    Jun 6 2025
    After 40 years in journalism, retiring editor reveals what separates local media from national networks and how big tech threatens the industry.
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  • Why this Democrat keeps breaking with her own party despite backlash

    Why this Democrat keeps breaking with her own party despite backlash
    May 30 2025
    Democratic Rep. Marie Glusenkamp Perez, who represents a Trump district, explains why she votes against party lines on key issues despite criticism.
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  • Portland police chief talks public safety, camping enforcement, protest response and staffing challenges

    Portland police chief talks public safety, camping enforcement, protest response and staffing challenges
    May 16 2025
    It's been less than two years since Chief Bob Day took the reins at the Portland Police Bureau (PPB), but he says the city has made meaningful progress in that time on some of its most pressing issues, with substantial declines in homicides, gun violence and car thefts, even as public safety remains a top-of-mind issue. Serving as chief was an unexpected new chapter for Day; he had retired in 2019 after nearly three decades with PPB, having worked his way up to the role of deputy chief. But he agreed to come back in late 2023 when former Mayor Ted Wheeler asked him to serve an interim replacement for former Chief Chuck Lovell. He was initially only supposed to hold the role until June of this year, to give Wheeler's successor the chance to select the next permanent chief, but last year, Wheeler changed his mind and made Day's appointment permanent. New Mayor Keith Wilson still had the option to make a change but chose to keep Day in the top job. Day returned as a guest on this week's episode of "Straight Talk," where he discussed Portland's ongoing crime and public safety challenges, drug recriminalization, camping enforcement, a new wave of anti-Trump protests, the impact of Wilson's tighter proposed budget and PPB's priorities for the next year.
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  • How Trump’s foreign aid cuts are fundamentally changing the global humanitarian sector

    How Trump’s foreign aid cuts are fundamentally changing the global humanitarian sector
    May 9 2025
    The Trump administration's cuts to USAID have dramatically impacted international aid groups, including Portland's Mercy Corps, affecting global health diplomacy.
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  • Oregon's sole Republican congressman gives Trump 'A' grade

    Oregon's sole Republican congressman gives Trump 'A' grade
    May 2 2025
    Oregon Rep. Cliff Bentz defends the Trump administrations federal cuts, immigration and tariff policies.
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    25 m