Michael Dunne

On this edition, we ride along with Patrol Officer Alan Kawasaki of Eugene Police to learn what its like to patrol Eugene city streets on a late Friday night.

On this edition, we talk with Tia Nordstrand, who runs Kindred Matters a state-wide nonprofit that helps siblings separated by the foster care system to maintain connection through programs and camps that unite these kids for weekends and summers. We also talk to KLCC reporters Julia Boboc and Hannah Bush about helping animals through wildfire and new upgrades at the Cascades Raptor Center.

On this edition we talk with Jen Baires, a reporter with OPB about continuing issues of trust, and allegations of lying by a deputy at Deschutes County Sheriff's office who is running to become head of the department. We also talk to KLCC's Love Cross about her continuing Oregon Ready series.

On this edition, we talk with Jim Cornelius, editor-in-chief of the Nugget Newspaper in Sisters. He's both the chronicler of The Akawa Butte Fire, and its threat to the community of Sisters, as well as a friend and neighbor to people who've had to flea with their lives from the firestorm. We also talked to KLCC's Macy Moore about a unique and quirky race in Corvallis.

On this edition, we talk with Mike Rogoway of the Oregonian about how the city of Hillsboro - once a champion of data centers - recently voted to stop all new construction on these controversial centers. It could be a harbinger of more prohibitions of data centers in Oregon. Then we talk with KLCC's Brian Bull about his story on the Elderberry Wisdom Farm and its struggle for funding in the age of anti-DEI sentiment.

On this edition we talk with Annie Waldman of ProPublica about her investigative story, "The Milkman," about the largest raw milk producer in the country whose built his empire on bad science and denial of harm from his products.

On this edition, we talk with Lt. Tim Wallace the new head of the Lane County Sheriff's Search and Rescue program. Wallace talks about the role and how search and rescue in Lane County is a complex team effort.

On this edition we talk with Haleigh Kochanski of the Register Guard about her story on a lawsuit against Eugene's Holt International. The suit alleges that Holt failed to disclose severe mental health challenges of an adopted child and coerced a family into the adoption. We also talk to KLCC's Zac Ziegler about his recent stories about housing and development in the community.

On this edition, we talk with Kyle Williams of the Oregon Department of Forestry about how the agency has to change strategies as our wildland fires get more extreme in the era of climate change.

On this edition we talk with Grace Chinowsky of Lookout Eugene/Springfield to talk about her recent article about how ICE deported the father of a Eugene family and the aftermath of a family ripped apart.