Beat Check with The Oregonian

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Beat Check with The Oregonian Podcast

A weekly look inside Oregon's biggest news stories with the journalists at The Oregonian/OregonLive.com.

  1. 1 DAY AGO

    Connie Chung on her new memoir, the future of women in journalism and Richard Nixon

    Connie Chung is an icon. It’s been almost 20 years since she was regularly on air, but she’s still a household name and a namesake for a generation of Asian American women. Americans remember her as one of the faces of the news, from the 1970s through the early 2000s. She interviewed Nixon and Oregon’s one-time Olympic darling-turned-national villain, Tonya Harding and covered the events that rocked the country from the O.J. Simpson trial to the Oklahoma City bombing. In “Connie: A Memoir” released Tuesday from Grand Central Publishing, Chung, now 78, tells her own story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    30 min

  2. 16 SEPT

    Portland area schools work to address climate impacts

    School is back in session, but September has been warmer than usual. Thousands of students in the Portland area were let out of school early or had classes canceled earlier this month as temperatures reached triple digits and dirty air from wildfires in the region triggered air quality alerts. With extreme weather events on the rise both during summers and winters, schools are being forced to adjust to the impacts of a warming climate, including by upgrading their buildings, swapping gas-gurgling buses for electric ones and writing new climate-focused curriculums, among others. Julia Silverman, The Oregonian’s education reporter, talked on Beat Check about how schools are hoping to fund new HVAC systems and other climate-related changes, what approaches rural schools are taking and why climate-related learning disruptions can significantly hamper student success. Read more about schools’ response to climate change on The Oregonian/OregonLive.com: Portland-area schools hope city will fund more AC and climate upgrades, via clean energy tax proceeds How shabby or shiny are your local schools? In Oregon, it depends where you live 6 down, 3 to go as another renovated high school opens in Portland With extreme heat in the forecast, Portland-area school districts weigh their options Students, legislators push for school districts to tackle climate change A Portland high school student has Oregon governor’s ear on environmental justice Young Somali American brings green Islam movement to Portland Students nationwide have rebounded after pandemic. But not in Oregon. Consequences could be severe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    37 min

  3. 9 SEPT

    Chronicling Portland’s historic elections for mayor and City Council

    Portland City Hall is on the verge of some truly monumental changes, ranging from the radical transformation of how the city’s government operates to an historic election in November that will usher in a new mayor and expanded 12-member City Council. The work to get here has now been years in the making. Few have followed the twists and turns of this civic saga as closely as Maja Viklands Harris. A longtime journalist and local government watcher, Harris is the founder of Rose City Reform, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news and research site that’s become a must-read for reporters, political insiders and many of the people seeking local elected office this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    28 min

  4. 2 SEPT

    Will Oregon spark new clean energy boom at wave energy test site?

    new wave energy test site is nearly complete off the Oregon coast. The site, overseen by Oregon State University, will allow private developers to test devices that can harness the power of ocean waves, a technology that’s still in its infancy. The hope is that wave energy can become another major source of clean, renewable electricity akin to solar or wind power and can help power the world’s clean energy transition. Burke Hales, a professor at Oregon State University and the chief scientist at the test site, talked on Beat Check about why Oregon is at the forefront of this new technology and what the challenges are going forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    42 min

  5. 26 AUG

    The mysterious shadow economy around winning Oregon Lottery tickets

    Last month, watchdog reporter Ted Sickinger published an in-depth article examining a loophole in the Oregon Lottery’s rules. In Oregon, it is perfectly legal to re-sell your winning lottery ticket at a discount, allowing the buyer to claim the prize. Why would anyone do this? Well, if they wanted to avoid having the state seize part of their winnings for taxes or back child support, for example. And why would the state allow this? Lottery officials told Sickinger they were aware of the practice of “discounting” and despite the fact other states have moved to close down similar schemes elsewhere nothing had been done in Oregon to prohibit the workaround. Sickinger joined Editor Therese Bottomly on “Beat Check with The Oregonian” to talk about how he got onto the story and how he tracked down participants willing to talk with him. He also talked about reaction to his piece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    21 min

  6. 19 AUG

    Oregon’s record-setting wildfire season

    The 2024 fire season so far hasn’t encroached on as many highly populated areas or forced as many mass evacuations as some recent years. But it’s been historic nonetheless. More acres have burned across the state than in any year since at least 1992, when officials started keeping a reliable tally. Sujena Soumyanath and Fedor Zarkin, public safety reporters for The Oregonian/OregonLive, discussed fire damage to date, dispatches from the front lines and the outlook for the rest of the season on Beat Check with The Oregonian. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    26 min

  7. 12 AUG

    Can Portland solve its housing crisis?

    Portland, like much of Oregon, is still in the throes of a housing crisis. Rents and home prices continue to squeeze some residents and move further out of reach for many more. Developers who could help reverse these troubling tends are skittish. Meanwhile, the dream of converting swaths of empty offices in Portland’s beleaguered downtown to apartments remains elusive and unlikely to materialize in the near future — if ever. On the latest Beat Check, reporters Shane Dixon Kavanaugh and Jonathan Bach discuss Portland’s housing crunch and how it could be solved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    23 min

  8. 5 AUG

    Reporter Zane Sparling takes you behind the headlines of the Nancy Brophy podcast

    This summer marked the debut of The Oregonian/OregonLive’s first long-form serial narrative podcast with Wondery. “Happily Never After” rapidly climbed the charts and left listeners wanting more about the case of Nancy Crampton Brophy, convicted of murdering her husband, a Portland chef. Reporter Zane Sparling, who covers Multnomah County Courts for The Oregonian/OregonLive, held an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit to answer burning questions. For “Beat Check with The Oregonian,” Editor Therese Bottomly welcomed Sparling back to revisit the successful podcast (an excellent diversion for a summer vacation). “Since the 2022 trial, I’ve spent the past two years interviewing dozens of people about Dan and Nancy, reviewed thousands of pages of police reports, listened in on Nancy’s jail calls — and, yes, read through all her novels.,” Sparling said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

    22 min
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A weekly look inside Oregon's biggest news stories with the journalists at The Oregonian/OregonLive.com.

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  • Creator
    The Oregonian/OregonLive
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2024
  • Episodes
    306
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    Clean
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