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A conversation about the Egan Warming Centers and how we as a community can do better to protect our most vulnerable populations during our worst weather.

A conversation with Katie Brown, the founder of Scorpion Creek Ranch.

On this edition of Oregon On The Record, listeners to the show will hear a lot and hopefully learn a lot about the electrical grid and local provider EWEB. How power is generated and distributed, and where the vulnerabilities are. We also talk about how disrupters like solar and wind will impact the traditional power generation methods like hydroelectric and fossil fuels.

Today on Oregon On The Record, you’re going to hear from two University of Oregon professors who study social media and its impact. Through their study and analysis, they see a very muddled picture of what social media is, what it can do, and what it might become. What’s clear is that it has become a central part of our lives no matter our age, social economic status or political affiliation.

Today, on Oregon on the Record, we talk about Oregon's unique tax kicker, and you'll hear from two voices on polar opposite sides of the kicker. John Charles of the Cascade Policy Institute loves the kicker and believes it must stay, while Daniel Hauser, of the Oregon Center for Public Policy says the kicker is inherently unfair and we should instead spend the money on important social programs. It’s a kicker conversation, on Oregon On the Record.

Today, on Oregon on the Record, you’ll hear from two experts who will help us breakdown the 2023 Oregon Legislative Session and help us look ahead to this term. It’s a short session of only 35 days, but there are ambition plans to fund housing programs, adjust the state’s drug policy and address wildfire danger among others. Our two guests, Dirk VanderHart of KLCC and Julia Schumway of the Oregon Capital Chronicle, will both discuss the political landscape impacting decisions in Salem as well as give you their best guess as to what will happen this session.

A conversation with two emergency preparedness experts and get their advice and counsel about how to better prepare for the next emergency, be it snow, wildfire, or earthquakes.

Today on Oregon On The Record, you’ll hear from two authoritative voices inside and outside the Eugene Police Department about the concept and practice of police reform – the chief of police himself and the civilian police auditor for the City of Eugene.How do you both educate new recruits to be good cops, and also retrain older officers who might have developed practices that are outdated and even dangerous? You’ll hear from these two voices about how they are working to reform our police.

A conversation where we check back with Our Children’s trust Executive Director and chief Legal Counsel, Julia Olson, and hear about how the original case and the one’s it inspired are doing in state and federal courts. Many of the original plaintiffs have grown from kids to young adults, but they’ve never lost their passion to advocate on behalf of the planet they will inherent.

A conversation with Dr. Richard Pettigrew, the executive director of the Archaeological Legacy Institute of Eugene. The Institute runs multiple media platforms including The Archeology Channel, subscription video-on-demand service, Heritage Broadcasting Service and a weekly podcast call Audio News from Archaeologica. The mission of the organization is to use media to nurture and bring attention to the human cultural heritage