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Integrity of Elections in Marion County
Brian Van Bergen, Marion County Elections Division, explains how our election system works to ensure the integrity of our voting system. He explains the importance of ...
The Job of a City Councilor in Salem
First time Salem city councilors Deanna Gwyn and Linda Nishioka explain what it's like to be a city councilor in Oregon's capital city - time commitments, challenges a...
Policy for the People talks Kicker and IRS Staffing
Policy for the People explores Oregon’s record-breaking kicker, with Oregon Center for Public Policy's Daniel Hauser, which is sending massive tax rebates to the rich,...
Invisible People Explores Simonka Place
Invisible People explores people who are homeless and the community's response to addressing homelessness. In this episode we hear about the programs and services of ...
Salem Revenue Task Force Update
Salem's Revenue Task Force has been meeting to develop recommendations to the City Council about ways to increase revenue to meet looming budget deficits. Task force ...
Thoughts and Gifts Ensures Everyone's Birthday is Celebrated
Thoughts and Gifts is a nonprofit organization in Polk County, Oregon whose mission is to celebrate birthdays of under served youth, people with qualifying intellectua...
Keeping Oregon Oregon Recaps Legislative Session with 1000 Friends of Oregon
Keeping Oregon Oregon talks with Mary Kyle McCurdy, 1000 Friends of Oregon, who explains the “good, bad, and ugly” legislation affecting land use planning after the 2...
Elephant in the Room Talks with Zena Forest Products
Elephant in the Room explores forest health with Ben Deumling of Zena Forest Products, and how this wood products business is pivoting to address the challenges of a c...
2024 Legislative Session Recap with Rep. Tom Andersen
Oregon State Representative Tom Andersen (HD 19) reviews the work of the 2024 Legislative Session. He highlights a bill that makes exceptions to the land use planning...
Meet Salem's New Deputy Chief Debbie Aguilar
Meet Salem's new Deputy Chief Debbie Aguilar. Learn about her journey in law enforcement, what it’s like being a woman in a male dominated profession, how the SPD is r...
Child Abuse Awareness: Car Parade
April is Child Abuse Awareness Month. Kyle Tarr, Liberty House and Vanessa Nordyke, CASA of Marion County talk about child abuse, how their organizations help disrupt...
Behind the Business Explores MaMere's Guest House in Monmouth OR
Behind the Business shines a light on the heartbeat of our local economies – our local businesses. In this episode, Emily McNulty, owner of MaMere’s Guest House talks ...
Conservation Spotlight Shines the Light on Beavers
Conservation Spotlight explores Oregon's state mammal. Jakob Shockey, Executive Director of Project Beaver, shares the history of beavers in the Willamette Valley, the...
Meet Salem's New City Librarian: Bridget Esqueda
Meet Salem's new librarian, Bridget Esqueda, and learn how she became passionate about libraries in her home state of Arizona, the data behind shortening library hours...
Monmouth Monthly Talks with Lucky Crow
Monmouth Monthly chats with Eden Olson and Lindsey Darling - the force behind Lucky Crow Farm and the Eat Crow Supper Club. Eden shares the benefits of a CSA (communit...
Policy for the People on Legislation: Debt Collection and Childcare
Policy for the People examines two bills that passed the recently adjourned legislative session: one to protect Oregonians from unfair debt collection practices and an...
Homelessness in Marion & Polk Counties: Spring 2024 Update
Jimmy Jones, Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency, reviews what's going on to reduce homelessness in Marion & Polk Counties - from recent legislation to the o...
Keeping Oregon Oregon Explores How One Community is Fighting to Keep Its Prime Farm Land
Keeping Oregon Oregon talks with Aaron Nichols of Stoneboat Farm, who is leading the fight to save prime farmland in the area of North Plains, Oregon from development....
Elephant in the Room Explores the Current Status of Our Changing Climate
Elephant in the Room talks with John Kaufmann, a retired policy analyst with the Oregon Department of Energy, on the current status of the climate crisis.
Cities Budget Challenges: Keizer Oregon
City Budget Challenge Series: A look into Keizer with Mayor Cathy Clark and City Manager Adam Brown. They explain how a property tax limitation passed by voters in the...
Salem Health Talks on Heart Health
Salem Health Talks explores heart health and education & support services provided by Salem Health's Community Health Education Center (CHEC) with health educator, Aly...
Behind the Business Talks with Make It Known Media
Behind the Business talks with Seth Halligan, owner of Make it Known Media and Seth David Films. He shares how a life event was the catalyst for starting this business...
City Budget Challenges: Stayton Oregon
City Budget Series explores the City of Stayton with Mayor Brian Quigley, City Manager Julie Hajduk and Finance Director James Brand. This series examines how the prop...
Holla for Labor Showcases CBTU Under 40
Holla for Labor shares a conversation between Bill Lucy, president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and young people in the movement to inspire and guide the...
Conservation Spotlight Meets Todd Anderson
Conservation Spotlight talks with Todd Anderson, new Small Farms faculty with OSU Extension. Todd explains his new role, his background with a diverse range of crops, ...
Monmouth Monthly Explores "Love Local"
Monmouth Monthly talks with Suzanne Dufner with the City of Monmouth about "Love Local", a strategy to incentivize supporting local business with a savings on resident...
Salem Public Library Reduces Hours & Services
Jim Scheppke, retired State Librarian, weighs in on the Salem Public Library's reduced hours of operation in response to a city budget deficit. Scheppke reminds us abo...
DevNW Creates Hope for Home Ownership
Dev NW a nonprofit organization that wants to grow vibrant Northwest communities. Find out what they are doing with Zelene Flores and Jeremy Hardy.
Cities' Budget Challenges: Monmouth - Independence Oregon
Oregon cities are facing a budget crisis. Here how that is playing out in the cities of Monmouth and Independence with Mayors Cec Koontz and John McArdle and finance d...
Keeping Oregon Oregon Talks with a Sheep Farmer
Keeping Oregon Oregon talks with Mickie Killingsworth, sheep farmer from Madras, Oregon about farming and her work with Jefferson County and State Farm Bureaus.
