Beat Check with The Oregonian

By The Oregonian/OregonLive

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

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The podcast currently has 346 episodes available.

Beat Check with The Oregonian episodes:

October 26, 2023What we know about the potential Portland Public Schools teachers' strike
On a special edition of The Oregonian’s Beat Check podcast, education reporter Julia Silverman and City Hall reporter Shane Dixon Kavanaugh answer your questions about the potential Portland Public Schools teacher strike.
Read our previous strike coverage here:
Portland Teachers Vote to Authorize a Strike
Final Offers, Plenty of Acrimony and Little Movement
Portland Families Brace for Strike Fallout
With a Possible Strike Looming, a $200 Million Gulf Widens

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40min
October 23, 2023 Oregon’s mental health system dogged by failures, complexity
Jayati Ramakrishnan and Nicole Hayden, both staff reporters for The Oregonian/OregonLive, produced the first two parts of the newsroom’s in-depth examination of Oregon’s mental health system and its failures. Editor Therese Bottomly leads a discussion of what their findings have been so far.

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21min
October 16, 2023Students, legislators push for school districts to tackle climate change: Beat Check podcast
At the end of September, students from 50 school districts across the country launched a new campaign to spur climate action in classrooms, school buildings and in the job market.
In this episode of Beat Check, The Oregonian/OregonLive's environmental justice reporter Gosia Wozniacka interviews Adah Crandall, a 17-year-old youth climate organizer and recent graduate of Portland’s Grant High School. They discuss the student campaign, new legislation and recent efforts at climate change denial in classrooms across the U.S.
Read more about youth climate activism on The Oregonian/OregonLive:
Portland youth stage climate strike, call for action from state, federal leaders
A Portland high school student has Oregon governor’s ear on environmental justice
A climate education bill, spearheaded by teachers and students, gets a spotlight in Salem
Climate change kids get ‘remarkable win’ in Montana court
NW Natural booklet for schoolkids becomes flashpoint in climate change debate

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32min
October 12, 2023Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Taking your shoes off in other people's homes
Join The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss the etiquette surrounding taking your shoes off in someone else's home, what they're into and not into this week and whether you can keep someone from smoking cigarettes near your house. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast!

More:
Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/
Lizzy’s advice also appears in our weekly advice newsletter. Want to get it? Subscribe now: https://link.oregonlive.com/join/6fk/signup
Have a burning question for Lizzy? Send her an email at [email protected] or tweet @lizzzyacker!
You can reach producer Destiny by emailing her at [email protected] or tweeting her @hello_destiny!
Or better yet, text Lizzy your question as a Why Tho? insider. Sign up here: https://www.oregonlive.com/advice/2022/03/read-more-why-tho.html

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35min
October 09, 2023How Portland’s promise to target unlicensed Airbnbs went bust
Four years after Portland officials passed what they hailed to be some of the strongest rules governing short-term rentals in the country, Portland’s regulation of Airbnb rentals remains fundamentally broken, a recent investigation by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s Ted Sickinger found.
On the latest Beat Check, I speak with Sickinger about how the city’s big promise to crack down on illicit Airbnbs went bust.
Read More:
Portland promised to crack down on unlicensed Airbnbs. This happened instead.
Portland escalates fight with Airbnb over illegal listings
Portland Reaches Rental Data Sharing Agreement With Airbnb

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29min
October 05, 2023Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Dealing with audacious noise pollution
Join The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss what you can do when people are making unnecessary noise in your general area. For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast!

More:
Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/
Lizzy’s advice also appears in our weekly advice newsletter. Want to get it? Subscribe now: https://link.oregonlive.com/join/6fk/signup
Have a burning question for Lizzy? Send her an email at [email protected] or tweet @lizzzyacker!
You can reach producer Destiny by emailing her at [email protected] or tweeting her @hello_destiny!
Or better yet, text Lizzy your question as a Why Tho? insider. Sign up here: https://www.oregonlive.com/advice/2022/03/read-more-why-tho.html

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33min
October 02, 2023 Looking into the future for Lloyd Center: Beat Check podcast
Ambitious plans for the Lloyd Center shopping mall were unveiled recently. What can we expect to see on the 26-acre site in the future? How will the development change the existing mall and the surrounding neighborhood? Editor Therese Bottomly talks with business reporter Kristine de Leon about the new proposal for the historic mall in inner Northeast Portland.

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16min
September 28, 2023Why Tho with Lizzy Acker: How babies complicate friendships
Join The Oregonian's Lizzy Acker and Destiny Johnson as they discuss your conundrums for Lizzy's advice column "Why Tho?" This week they discuss how you can still maintain friendships when you don't have a kid but your friends do! For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast!

More:
Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/
Lizzy’s advice also appears in our weekly advice newsletter. Want to get it? Subscribe now: https://link.oregonlive.com/join/6fk/signup
Have a burning question for Lizzy? Send her an email at [email protected] or tweet @lizzzyacker!
You can reach producer Destiny by emailing her at [email protected] or tweeting her @hello_destiny!
Or better yet, text Lizzy your question as a Why Tho? insider. Sign up here: https://www.oregonlive.com/advice/2022/03/read-more-why-tho.html

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36min
September 25, 2023What to make of Oregon students’ stagnant test scores
Scores from the standardized tests Oregon students take each year are out, and the 2023 results are dispiriting, to say the least, for anyone who hoped to see a rebound from a pandemic drop.
Education reporter Julia Silverman analyzed the results for The Oregonian/OregonLive and discussed them on this week’s episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian. She describes a growing emergency in schools, where students are quickly losing time to catch up from the pandemic.
She also, though, sees bright spots. Some schools have found ways to improve their scores that could be replicated elsewhere in the state — given time, and funding.
Related coverage:
Oregon student achievement remains mired far below pre-pandemic levels, new test scores show
Oregon’s chronic absenteeism rate 1 of nation’s most alarming
Reimagining math to make it add up for Oregon students

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26min
September 21, 2023Why Tho? The Podcast: Can your husband demand that you say please?
This week on Why Tho? the Podcast, advice columnist Lizzy Acker and social media producer Destiny Johnson talk about the magic word. How magic is it? Can an adult tell another adult that they need to say “please.” For a more distilled version of this, check out Lizzy's column, which will publish at Oregonlive.com/whytho the Tuesday following the airing of this podcast!

More:
Read the most recent Why Tho (and columns past): https://www.oregonlive.com/whytho/
Lizzy’s advice also appears in our weekly advice newsletter. Want to get it? Subscribe now: https://link.oregonlive.com/join/6fk/signup
Have a burning question for Lizzy? Send her an email at [email protected] or tweet @lizzzyacker!
You can reach producer Destiny by emailing her at [email protected] or tweeting her @hello_destiny!
Or better yet, text Lizzy your question as a Why Tho? insider. Sign up here: https://www.oregonlive.com/advice/2022/03/read-more-why-tho.html

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20min

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