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Lane County leaders are asking Oregon lawmakers to clear legal hurdles to build a planned recycling and methane extraction facility known as the IMERF, or CleanLane project.

After small pox was eradicated and vaccinations against the disease came to an end, people in parts of Africa started getting sick with something rarely seen before - mpox. Researchers eventually realized that with the end of smallpox vaccinations, any immunity to other pox viruses such as mpox went away. They say this helps to explain why there are historically high numbers of mpox cases in the world today.

The Artemis II mission is the first time humans have headed to the moon since 1972. That year also marked the debut of The Godfather and the Egg McMuffin.

David Edelstein is a film critic for New York magazine and for NPR's Fresh Air, and an occasional commentator on film for CBS Sunday Morning. He has also written film criticism for the Village Voice, The New York Post, and Rolling Stone, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times' Arts & Leisure section.

Jessica Taylor is a political reporter with NPR based in Washington, DC, covering elections and breaking news out of the White House and Congress. Her reporting can be heard and seen on a variety of NPR platforms, from on air to online. For more than a decade, she has reported on and analyzed House and Senate elections and is a contributing author to the 2020 edition of The Almanac of American Politics and is a senior contributor to The Cook Political Report.

On this edition, we talk with OSU researcher Julia Marks-Peterson, about her study which reveals new information about climate change by evaluating carbon locked in Antarctic ice for more than three million years. We also talk with KLCC's Macy Moore about two stories they recently produced from Corvallis about a new low-barrier housing shelter and OSU mental health services using doctoral students.

On this edition, we talk with Patrick Moore of the News Review about the possibility of ICE opening a facility in the city, and we talk with Kyra Buckley of OPB about the inaugural season of Oregon's newest pro team, the Portland Fire.

On this edition we talk with local Girl Scouts Kylie Holton and Ella Killingsworth about their scouting journey and how it's providing them impressive leadership skills. We also talked with KLCC's Rebecca Hansen-White about election results in CD-4 and Lane County Commissioner races.

On this edition, we talk with Oregon Treasurer, Elizabeth Steiner about how the state has invested in clean energy projects and how that has been a positive for state pension funds. Damon Motz-Storey of the Oregon chapter of the Sierra Club joined as well to talk about their partnership with the state.

Need to beef up on Leonard Bernstein? Hear the musical polymath's most delightful tunes, from West Side Story classics to surprises from Aretha Franklin, Tom Waits and Selena.