Our causes reporters sat down to talk about her work.

Alai Reyes-Santos returns to talk about her most recent column in the R-G. She provides many resources in the piece to be better informed and to help communities of color during the pandemic.

Samantha Krop, a grassroots organizer for Cascadia Wildlands, stops by the show ahead of her final IMO column that runs May 23. 

She might still stop by the show from her new location in the upper left corner of the continental U.S., but in the meantime, enjoy her riff on a Green New Deal for forests!

Erik Burke, the director of the Eugene chapter of Friends of Trees, stops by the show to talk all things trees in Eugene and what you can do to help.

Where I read letters from Bella Corette, Barbara Miller and Robert Van Iderstine.

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Doyle Canning is running in the Democratic primary for Oregon's 4th Congressional District.

Samantha Krop, one of our community columnists and a grassroots organizer for Cascadia Wildlands, has a new column coming out Saturday. We talk a little bit about that.

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RG CAFE 541 stalwart Matthew Denis comes on the show to talk about what it means to be a socially distanced reporter, what lights him up and how CAFE 541 comes together.

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Alai Reyes-Santos, a community columnist, comes on the show to talk about her column in The Register-Guard, poverty and public health.

Jesse Springer draws political cartoons focused on Oregon and Oregon politics. You can see his work every Saturday in The Register-Guard.