Elizabeth Castillo

We hear from the candidates on their top priorities.

Daniel Bolen, an agricultural science and technology instructor in Elgin, a small town east of Pendleton, has advocated for his program. His district received $250,000 from the Oregon Department of Education’s Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant. Bolen has brought in additional funding to strengthen his district’s program and help kids receive more hands-on learning in livestock management.

One grower floats 46 miles along the Columbia River to break a Guinness world record while another takes home top prize in annual weigh-off contest with ‘Hank the Tank.’

Members of OPB’s politics team join us to provide analysis and share the latest updates on Oregon races in the general election. They’ll discuss the results of statewide ballot measures and analyze some of the congressional district races, as well as the latest developments in Portland’s historic elections to choose a new mayor and expand the city council from five seats to 12. We’ll also hear from some of the candidates who won or are leading in statewide and US Congressional races.

Alex Zielinski, OPB’s Portland city politics reporter, join us to talk about the election, in which voters used ranked choice voting for the first, and what’s next for the city.

The Federal Railroad Administration, which is part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, is investing more than $40 million in rail funding for Oregon. Projects span the state and include work in Linn and Lake counties and Coos Bay.

We learn more about the program from Caitlin Colgin, the president of SnoPlanks and a senior majoring in outdoor products in the college of engineering and Todd Laurence, an instructor and executive director of SnoPlanks Academy at OSU-Cascades.

Under a waiver program, states can test new ways to offer Medicaid services. For Oregon, that means some people on the Oregon Health Plan can get help with housing costs.

For some Oregonians, their medical needs are too high to be discharged from a hospital, but they also don’t need the emergency care that hospitals provide. They remain at the hospital while waiting for space at another facility that can provide the appropriate level of care. Oregon lawmakers created the Joint Task Force on Hospital Discharge Challenges to address the issue. The task force recently approved its

In the Portland metro area, Erika Abdelatif and Kristen Myers have created “Dinky,” a podcast which takes a lighthearted approach about their lifestyle and features other guests who are similarly childfree.