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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December 09, 2019 Vision Zero and Portland's surge in traffic fatalities
Portland has seen a dramatic increase in traffic fatalities this year. The death toll this year is pushing toward 50, well above the average for the past two decades. On the latest episode of Beat Check with The Oregonian, Officer Phillip Maynard discusses his time on the Portland Police Bureau’s Major Crash Team. Then, Portland Transportation Commissioner Chloe Eudaly discusses the dangerous year on the city’s streets and what we can do as a city to make things better.
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December 02, 2019 The man behind Darcelle XV, Portland's iconic drag queen
Walter Cole is perhaps the most prominent living Portlander, but many people likely don’t know him by that name. Instead, they know him by his stage name, Darcelle XV. The Oregonian's Beth Nakamura and Brooke Herbert talked about Cole's life and legacy and about their contributions to a recent video and profile.
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30min
November 25, 2019 Brad Schmidt on his investigation into radon in public housing
The Oregonian's Brad Schmidt spent the past year investigating how federal regulators and local housing authorities have failed to test for radon, an odorless gas that is the second-leading cause of lung cancer nationwide, in low-income housing complexes. He talks about the investigation and how he got the story. Also, a brief discussion of The Oregonian's Season of Sharing holiday fundraising campaign.
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November 21, 2019 Gordon Sondland goes to Washington
The Oregonian's Jeff Manning reflects on a remarkable day in Washington, D.C., where Gordon Sondland, the Pacific Northwest hotelier and U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, testified before the House Impeachment Panel for hours. There were some revelations and lots of political theater.
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November 18, 2019 Ted Sickinger on Oregon's failing forests
Get an inside look at how The Oregonian's investigative reporter, Ted Sickinger, approached his series on the state forestry's financial woes, the $1 billion lawsuit facing the agency and why Oregon is owed more than $100 million in past wildfire costs.
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38min
November 11, 2019 Jeff Manning on Gordon Sondland
Gordon Sondland is a well-known commodity in Portland business and civic circles, but now the Republican hotelier is an internationally-known character and one of the key players at the center of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Jeff Manning, an investigative reporter at The Oregonian, has reported on Sondland's rise to business power locally and his role in the impeachment inquiry. Manning discussed Sondland's rise, his background and much more.
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26min
November 04, 2019 Molly Harbarger on a new approach to homeless camp cleanups
Portland hopes a new program will help break a vicious cycle -- where homeless camps pop up, are swept away, only to reappear again in the same place. Molly Harbarger, The Oregonian's homelessness reporter, talks about that program and the recent report documenting how any people experiencing homelessness died in 2018. We also chatted about my recent column regarding the inner struggle over whether to call the police or the emergency line on issues surrounding people experiencing homelessness.
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36min
October 28, 2019 Tania Culver Humphrey: Mercy Corps, faith, and light amid the darkness
Tania Culver Humphrey talks about what her life has been like since The Oregonian published a series of stories documenting her credible sexual assault claims against her father, Mercy Corps’ cofounder.
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35min
October 21, 2019 Michael Russell - An Interview with The Oregonian's food critic
Michael Russell, The Oregonian's food critic, talks about his 2019 Restaurant of the Year, how he eats all that amazing food, and the latest trends in Portland's dining scene.

More from Russell:
Eem is Portland’s 2019 Restaurant of the Year
Portland's 40 best restaurants, ranked

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26min
October 16, 2019 Trailer
Beat Check with The Oregonian is a new weekly podcast from the state's largest news organization. Here's what to expect from the show, which is hosted by reporter Andrew Theen.
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