Beat Check with The Oregonian
299 episodes - English - Latest episode: 17 days ago - ★★★★★ - 110 ratingsA weekly look inside Oregon's biggest news stories with the journalists at The Oregonian/OregonLive.com.
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Are electricity rate increases fair to customers?
April 08, 2024 13:00 - 48 minutesMany homeowners in Oregon are feeling the impacts of higher electricity bills and facing the prospect of yet another rate increase next year. As electricity bills have skyrocketed, causing widespread anger and frustration, many people have begun to question how and why utilities recoup money from their customers. Last month, the Oregon Citizens’ Utility Board, a state nonprofit group that advocates for those customers, asked Oregon regulators to dismiss Portland General Electric’s newest rate...
The Oregon police chief fired by two small towns
April 01, 2024 13:00 - 30 minutesIn February, elected leaders of a small town in Marion County took the extraordinary step of firing its top cop amid a series of troubling allegations. Gervais Police Chief Mark Chase’s removal has since touched off a feud between the chief’s defenders and officials in the quiet community about 15 miles NE of Salem. Chase, it turns out, is no stranger to controversy on the job. Leaders in Junction City, about an hour south of Gervais, fired Chase from his role as police chief there in 2016. O...
What Intel’s $8.5 billion federal subsidy means for Oregon
March 25, 2024 12:00 - 25 minutesOregon’s largest corporate employer has been one of the biggest boosters calling for an infusion of taxpayer dollars into U.S. manufacturing of computer chips. Last week, Intel got its wish: an $8.5 billion check from the federal government. Mike Rogoway, who covers the chip industry for The Oregonian/OregonLive, spoke with business editor Elliot Njus about what this award means for Intel in Oregon and around the world. He also discussed his reporting on the Oregon Employment Department, whic...
Why does Oregon plan to divest from coal?
March 18, 2024 13:00 - 28 minutesEnvironmentalists notched what they consider a major win in the 2024 short legislative session. The COAL Act directs the state to drop about $1 billion in coal investments and to cease new investments in companies that mine and burn coal. Proponents say the legislation aligns the state’s public pension investments with Oregon’s existing climate goals to reduce carbon emissions and transition to 100% clean energy. Oregon isn’t the only state going this route. Fossil fuel divestment campaigns, ...
What might happen with drug courts now that legislators recriminalized some drugs?
March 11, 2024 13:00 - 21 minutesA lack of funding and the passage of Measure 110 dealt a double whammy to Oregon drug courts. Even as fentanyl became a scourge, one of the best tools to help addicts largely faded away. Programs in Deschutes, Benton, Polk and Multnomah counties shut down in recent months or years and others have been hit with funding problems. But in this short legislative session, the Oregon Legislature voted to increase funding to $37 million this two-year budget cycle, an increase of almost 50%. Legislato...
Why are Oregon electric, gas rates going up so fast?
March 04, 2024 14:00 - 51 minutesUtility customers in Oregon have seen steep rate increases in the past two years – and more are in the works. What gives? Portland General Electric customers saw their bills go up by 18% in January, in addition to a 14.8% rate increase in 2023. Pacific Power customers saw bills increase by 21% at the start of 2023 and by another 12% in January. Pacific Power just filed another rate increase proposal in Oregon seeking a 17% average increase. Idaho Power is also seeking to raise rates by nearly...
The trouble at Crater Lake National Park
February 26, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutesThere is trouble at one of the most beloved natural attractions in Oregon and all of the Pacific Northwest.Busted buildings. Hazardous spills. Injuries and allegations of sexual assault. Years of mismanagement by Crater Lake Hospitality, a subsidiary of Aramark, the corporate behemoth hired by the National Park Service in 2018 to operate concessions at Crater Lake National Park, has endangered the park’s employees, visitors and pristine natural environment, a new investigation by The Oregonia...
Two in-depth articles examine Oregon’s fentanyl crisis
February 19, 2024 14:00 - 22 minutesIt’s hard to escape the fentanyl problem in Oregon. The use of fentanyl is evident on the streets of Portland and provides added fuel to Oregon’s homelessness crisis. The decriminalization of the drug and others is at the heart of a debate in the Oregon Legislature over Measure 110. The Oregonian/OregonLive recently published two in-depth articles that came at the fentanyl crisis through vastly different lenses. Education reporter Julia Silverman profiled a mother’s attempt to see help for he...
Oregon Legislature takes on housing, drug decriminalization
February 12, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutesThe Oregon Legislature’s 2024 session is underway, and even though lawmakers’ work is constitutionally limited to just 35 days, they plan to take on some of the state’s biggest issues. On this week’s episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian, state government reporter Carlos Fuentes runs down lawmakers’ top priorities and how a state Supreme Court ruling could affect the dynamic in Salem. Plus, public safety reporter Noelle Crombie on lawmakers’ proposals to roll back parts of Measure 110, the...
What’s the mental health impact of fallen trees, other climate disasters?
February 05, 2024 14:00 - 51 minutesIn January, the Portland metro area was encased in a week-long ice, snow and wind storm that shut down the region. The storm toppled hundreds of massive trees, which in turn crushed cars, felled power poles and lines and split people’s homes in half. The devastation left many people traumatized and anxious – and reexamining their relationships with trees and with the natural world, said Dr. Thomas Joseph Doherty, a Portland-based psychologist who focuses on helping clients overcome anxieties ...
Will Oregon finally get big money out of politics?
January 29, 2024 14:00 - 19 minutesOregon has long been awash in cash when it comes to state elections and political races. One big reason? It’s among just a small handful of states that do not limit how much money candidates can accept from individuals, political groups, corporations, unions or any other entity. But that could change this year, as Oregon voters will likely face a pair of similar-looking — yet markedly different — ballot measures, each of which would limit how much individuals and groups can donate to candidat...
How does The Oregonian/OregonLive’s editorial board work?
January 22, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutesThis year, 2024, is a big political and election year, and Oregon faces many serious and complex issues. The Oregonian/OregonLive Editorial Board meets regularly to talk about significant issues where the newspaper as a local institution might weigh in. Editorials are written by Opinion Editor Helen Jung and appear on the Opinion pages. The opinions of the editorial board are independent of the news operation and the reporters in the newsroom work independently from the board. Editor Therese ...
Reporting on a midflight near-disaster
January 15, 2024 14:00 - 37 minutesA terrifying mid-flight emergency forced an Alaska Airlines plane back to Portland Jan. 5 and launched an investigation that temporarily grounded fleets of Boeing 737 Max 9 passenger jets nationwide. Miraculously, nobody on Alaska Airlines flight 1282 was critically hurt when a “door plug” — a wall panel that’s used as an emergency exit on some planes but just a window on others — suddenly blew off, leaving a hole. The cabin depressurized, and passengers put on oxygen masks while the plane dr...
How should Portland deal with the surplus money flowing into the Clean Energy Fund?
January 08, 2024 14:00 - 41 minutesIn December, Portland leaders announced that the city’s clean energy fund is expected to raise an unanticipated $540 million over the next five years. This staggering surplus comes at a time when city agencies are facing major budget shortfalls. Commissioner Carmen Rubio, who oversees the fund, has proposed funneling half of the excess money to cash-strapped bureaus to help pay for a wide plethora of climate-related projects. They include walking and bicycle routes, LED street lighting, elect...
What Portlanders wish for themselves and their city in the New Year
January 01, 2024 14:00 - 23 minutesDuring the final weeks of 2023, Oregonian/OregonLive reporter Aimee Green crisscrossed Portland to ask strangers from all walks of life what they wished for themselves — and for their city — in the coming year. One hundred people shared their hopes, both big and small. On the latest Beat Check, Green and I discuss her project, the joys of striking up conversations on the street and the optimism that many people have for the Portland area despite its ongoing struggles and challenges. Learn mor...
It’s Season of Sharing time, and you can help make this a better place
December 25, 2023 14:00 - 18 minutesMerry Christmas! This time of year, The Oregonian/OregonLive features nonprofits from Oregon and southwest Washington to highlight their good works for our longstanding Season of Sharing campaign. Longtime features editor Grant Butler talks with Editor Therese Bottomly about the annual campaign, which runs roughly from Thanksgiving to the end of the year. The campaign was started by the Oregon Journal, an afternoon newspaper that served Portland until it merged with The Oregonian in 1982. At ...
What Oregon leaders, mulling Measure 110 changes, learned from a trip to Portugal
December 18, 2023 14:00 - 32 minutesIn late October, two dozen Oregon policymakers, advocates, police and prosecutors landed in Lisbon, Portugal, to learn about that nation’s two-decade-old drug decriminalization law. They arrived a few days after reporter Noelle Crombie, who traveled to the country independently to do much the same. The fact-finding missions come as the voting public has soured on Oregon’s Measure 110, a decriminalization law approved by voters two years ago. Now, as as the potent and addictive drug fentanyl h...
Will your family qualify for generous home energy rebates?
December 11, 2023 14:00 - 37 minutesHeat pumps, electrical work and insulation projects are very expensive – and many families in Oregon can’t afford them, despite their potential for reducing carbon emissions, saving energy and slashing utility bills. The federal government has promised financial help: generous rebates and tax credits to defray the costs of home energy efficiency upgrade projects for low- and moderate-income families. The tax credits are already available, while the rebates will be rolled out in Oregon by mid-...
Portland needs a new sobering center. Politics keeps one from opening
December 04, 2023 14:00 - 39 minutesIn 2019, Portland’s lone drop-off center for people experiencing severe intoxication from drugs or alcohol abruptly shuttered. The closure left a massive gap in how Oregon’s largest city could respond to those in the throes of visible — and often dangerous — bouts of crisis, just as drug use and overdose deaths began to soar. Dozens of local leaders began immediately working on a plan to replace Portland’s decades-old Sobering Station. After four years, the effort largely collapsed this fall....
‘Lost Women of Highway 20′ resurfaces interest in original Oregonian series
November 27, 2023 14:00 - 25 minutesFive years ago, The Oregonian/OregonLive published the award-winning five-part series, “Ghosts of Highway 20,” accompanied by a full video series along with the articles that chronicled the victims of an Oregon serial killer. Lead reporter Noelle Crombie, a senior criminal justice reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive, joined Editor Therese Bottomly for a conversation about the original series, which is seeing renewed interest because of the debut this month of a new docuseries available on M...
How the owner of several well-known Portland brands ran into trouble
November 20, 2023 14:00 - 19 minutesA bunch of well-known Northwest brands – like Bamboo Sushi, Sizzle Pie, Water Avenue Coffee and Rudy’s Barbershops – were bought up during the pandemic by Sortis Holdings, a company that positioned itself as a savior for businesses that were struggling. But now, Sortis Holdings has had to call off a big transaction, disputes over unpaid bills have spilled into courts, and it’s laying off staff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Alarming climate study leads to search for solutions
November 11, 2023 13:00 - 31 minutes"Life on the planet is imperiled," "we’re on the brink of collapse" and there’s "little progress on combating climate change." That’s according to a new climate study published at the end of October by a group of renowned U.S. and global scientists, including several researchers from Oregon. On this episode of Beat Check, The Oregonian's environmental reporter Gosia Wozniacka interviews Dr. Jillian Gregg, an ecologist and principal investigator of Corvallis-based Terrestrial Ecosystems Resear...
BONUS EPISODE: Octavia Spencer talks about ‘Lost Women of Highway 20’ and the need to restore their dignity
November 09, 2023 13:00 - 15 minutesWhile true crime tales have become mainstays of media and pop culture, the disturbing stories told in The Oregonian/OregonLive’s 2018 prize-winning project, “Ghosts of Highway 20″ had a particular impact on Octavia Spencer, the Oscar-winning actor, who help produce the new “Lost Women of Highway 20” documentary series for Investigation Discovery. You can watch “Lost Women of Highway 20″ on Investigation Discovery (ID), MAX and via the Philo streaming service, which offers a free trial. Watch ...
The unprecedented string of deaths of Black Portlanders at the hands of police in the 1970s: "The Forgotten Four" project
November 06, 2023 14:00 - 29 minutesThe murder of George Floyd at the hands of police set off social justice protests across the nation and in Portland. For some members of the city’s small Black community, Floyd’s death was a reminder of Portland’s painful history. In this podcast episode, reporter Fedor Zarkhin joins Editor Therese Bottomly to talk about his recent four-part series, “The Forgotten Four,” which told of the unprecedented string of deaths of Black Portlanders at the hands of police in the 1970s. The four deaths ...
We'll be back next week
October 30, 2023 13:00 - 1 minuteWe'll be back with another episode of Beat Check next week. In the meantime, don't miss the episode we published Thursday, answering your questions about the potential Portland Public Schools teachers' strike. Given the dynamic nature of that story, we wanted to bring it to you as soon as possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What we know about the potential Portland Public Schools teachers' strike
October 26, 2023 00:30 - 39 minutesOn a special edition of The Oregonian’s Beat Check podcast, education reporter Julia Silverman and City Hall reporter Shane Dixon Kavanaugh answer your questions about the potential Portland Public Schools teacher strike. Read our previous strike coverage here: Portland Teachers Vote to Authorize a Strike Final Offers, Plenty of Acrimony and Little Movement Portland Families Brace for Strike Fallout With a Possible Strike Looming, a $200 Million Gulf Widens Learn more about your ad choic...
Oregon’s mental health system dogged by failures, complexity
October 23, 2023 13:00 - 20 minutesJayati Ramakrishnan and Nicole Hayden, both staff reporters for The Oregonian/OregonLive, produced the first two parts of the newsroom’s in-depth examination of Oregon’s mental health system and its failures. Editor Therese Bottomly leads a discussion of what their findings have been so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Students, legislators push for school districts to tackle climate change: Beat Check podcast
October 16, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutesAt the end of September, students from 50 school districts across the country launched a new campaign to spur climate action in classrooms, school buildings and in the job market. In this episode of Beat Check, The Oregonian/OregonLive's environmental justice reporter Gosia Wozniacka interviews Adah Crandall, a 17-year-old youth climate organizer and recent graduate of Portland’s Grant High School. They discuss the student campaign, new legislation and recent efforts at climate change denial ...
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Taking your shoes off in other people's homes
October 12, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss the etiquette surrounding taking your shoes off in someone else's home, what they're into and not into this week and whether you can keep someone from smoking cigarettes near your house. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: ...
How Portland’s promise to target unlicensed Airbnbs went bust
October 09, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutesFour years after Portland officials passed what they hailed to be some of the strongest rules governing short-term rentals in the country, Portland’s regulation of Airbnb rentals remains fundamentally broken, a recent investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Ted Sickinger found. On the latest Beat Check, I speak with Sickinger about how the city’s big promise to crack down on illicit Airbnbs went bust. Read More: Portland promised to crack down on unlicensed Airbnbs. This happened instead...
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Dealing with audacious noise pollution
October 05, 2023 12:00 - 32 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss what you can do when people are making unnecessary noise in your general area. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/ Lizzy’s advice also ap...
Looking into the future for Lloyd Center: Beat Check podcast
October 02, 2023 13:00 - 15 minutesAmbitious plans for the Lloyd Center shopping mall were unveiled recently. What can we expect to see on the 26-acre site in the future? How will the development change the existing mall and the surrounding neighborhood? Editor Therese Bottomly talks with business reporter Kristine de Leon about the new proposal for the historic mall in inner Northeast Portland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Tho with Lizzy Acker: How babies complicate friendships
September 28, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss how you can still maintain friendships when you don't have a kid but your friends do! For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/ Lizzy’s advice ...
What to make of Oregon students’ stagnant test scores
September 25, 2023 13:00 - 25 minutesScores from the standardized tests Oregon students take each year are out, and the 2023 results are dispiriting, to say the least, for anyone who hoped to see a rebound from a pandemic drop. Education reporter Julia Silverman analyzed the results for The Oregonian/OregonLive and discussed them on this week’s episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian. She describes a growing emergency in schools, where students are quickly losing time to catch up from the pandemic. She also, though, sees bright...
Why Tho? The Podcast: Can your husband demand that you say please?
September 21, 2023 12:00 - 19 minutesThis week on Why Tho? the Podcast, advice columnist Lizzy Acker and social media producer Destiny Johnson talk about the magic word. How magic is it? Can an adult tell another adult that they need to say “please.” For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/ Lizzy’s advice also appears in o...
Fire as medicine: Using fire to manage forests, prevent catastrophic wildfires in the Northwest
September 18, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutesEarlier this month, a federal advisor committee met in Portland to come up with recommendations for updates to the Northwest Forest Plan, a blueprint that will guide forest management in the region through the next century. Ryan Reed, the 23-year-old representative on the committee who is also an Indigenous firefighter, talked with Beat Check about why we all should care about trees, how fire can be used to manage them and why Indigenous cultural burning practices could guide the approach. Re...
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Let's talk about Zoom etiquette
September 14, 2023 12:00 - 36 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss Zoom etiquette in the year 2023. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/ Lizzy’s advice also appears in our weekly advice newsletter. Want to...
Oregon’s pioneering drug policy faces mounting political headwinds
September 11, 2023 13:00 - 41 minutesLess than three years ago, Oregon became the first state in the U.S. to decriminalize minor possession of street drugs through an initiative that also promised to expand addiction-treatment services to people experiencing substance use disorder. Yet voters who overwhelmingly approved Measure 110 are already souring on the law amid a disastrous rollout and an explosion of fentanyl that’s fueled overdose deaths, petty crime and jarring scenes of public drug use in Portland and other cities. Mea...
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Ruby Franke allegations and the ethics of children on the internet
September 07, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss the child abuse allegations against a Utah mom, Ruby Franke, who used to run a successful YouTube family channel called "8 Passengers." For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): h...
A flurry of activity on the homelessness crisis
September 04, 2023 13:00 - 22 minutesThe city of Portland has been grappling with homelessness for decades. Longtime residents remember then-Mayor Bud Clark’s plan to solve the problem in the 1980s. But the plight of unsheltered residents has continued and the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated efforts to help the unhoused. Now, governments are poised to spend millions to deal with the issue that residents consistently place at high importance, over potholes and parks. The Oregonian/OregonLive’s full time beat reporter Nicole Hayden ...
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: What can I do about someone's troublesome social media posts?
August 31, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss whether you can do anything about someone's troublesome social media posts that are bringing down the vibe of a whole group. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www....
Oregon expansion part of Intel’s big gamble
August 28, 2023 13:00 - 26 minutesIntel appears to be doubling down on its key research and development sites in Oregon, with plans to spend billions of dollars to expand its computer chip factories in Washington County. Mike Rogoway, who covers the tech industry for The Oregonian/OregonLive, broke the news of Intel’s plans earlier this month. He joined business editor Elliot Njus on the Beat Check with The Oregonian podcast to talk about the Intel’s big investment in Oregon – and the challenges ahead for Intel, which happens...
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: What can I do about my annoying neighbors?
August 24, 2023 12:00 - 34 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss whether you should confront your neighbor about their screaming children when you work from home. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/ Liz...
What a Kroger-Albertsons grocery merger could mean for Oregonians
August 21, 2023 13:00 - 21 minutesA proposed $24.6 billion merger could bring together Kroger, the parent company of Fred Meyer and QFC, and Albertsons, which has also owned Safeway since 2015. The Pacific Northwest is one of the regions where the two companies compete directly, so the combination could leave Oregonians with fewer choices for grocery shopping. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Should a friend be allowed to dictate who I'm friends with?
August 17, 2023 12:00 - 29 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss whether it's appropriate to ask someone not to hang out with someone you mutually know. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/ Lizzy’s advic...
Can Gov. Tina Kotek turn around downtown Portland?
August 14, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutesGov. Tina Kotek is convening a panel of local elected officials, business executives and civic leaders to focus on how to best bolster downtown Portland’s economic future. The move comes as Portland’s urban core remains among the nation’s slowest to recover in the aftermath of the pandemic amid blocks of empty offices and storefronts as well as pervasive homelessness, open drug use and public safety concerns. On the latest Beat Check with The Oregonian podcast, city hall reporter Shane Dixon ...
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: To medicate your child or not to medicate your child?
August 10, 2023 12:00 - 28 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss the freedom to have bodily autonomy and making the right choice for your kids and the judgement that can come from it. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregon...
Crime beat is often unpredictable, no more so than during recent Good Samaritan hospital shooting
August 07, 2023 12:00 - 21 minutesMaxine Bernstein has covered a lot of stories in her more than two decades with The Oregonian and now OregonLive. A recent Saturday run along the waterfront quickly gave way to a long day’s work when she heard reports of a shooting at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, not far away in Northwest Portland’s Nob Hill District. In this episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian, Bernstein and Editor Therese Bottomly walk listeners through the chaotic day, which took Bernstein from Good Sam to th...
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Tattoo rules
August 03, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutesJoin The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss the Jonah Hill controversy with his former girlfriend Sarah Brady and what boundaries actually are. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast! More: Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/ L...
Who should clean up the glut of debris from homeless encampments in the Willamette River?
July 31, 2023 12:00 - 45 minutesIn this episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian, environmental reporter Gosia Wozniacka talks to the executive director of Willamette Riverkeeper Travis Williams. His Oregon City-based nonprofit, which aims to protect and restore the river, had spent the past two decades cleaning up trash up and down the watershed. But since the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the organization had watched massive and unprecedented amounts of garbage accumulate in and along the river as a rising number of peop...