The Debrief

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. Top stories include:

The Medford Pears? A minor league baseball team courts the city

Loss of federal funding could devastate rural schools and counties

‘A confusing time': Federal firings leave utility assistance programs uncertain

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. Top stories include:

GOP senator's bill to end vote-by-mail in Oregon faces public backlash

Major legal win for environmental groups in Southern Oregon will protect old-growth forests

Homeless campers in Grants Pass can't be prosecuted until the city meets two conditions

SOU students try to build brotherhood by reviving fraternity

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. Top stories include:

Fountain Wind Project in Shasta County deemed ‘not necessary’ in state assessment

Grants Pass must wait for judge's decision in homelessness lawsuit

Humboldt extends deadline for farmers to pay cannabis tax. County says it’s the last time

Second Shasta County elections clerk in a row steps down within a year

[Fri 9 AM | NW forest plan; Cal Poly budget; mental health crises; chicks] The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. Top stories include:

Update on the Northwest Forest Plan

Cal Poly Humboldt plans for budget cuts amid enrollment and funding shortfalls

Ninth Circuit ruling is reshaping police responses to mental health crises

The scramble for backyard chickens in the Rogue Valley

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week.

Top stories include:

Del Norte County launches mobile unit for mental health and substance use crises

Hundreds of Humboldt cannabis growers risk losing permits over unpaid taxes

Shasta County public safety struggles with too few staff, high workloads

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. Top stories include:

Ashland youth force city to punish Natural gas users

Homeless restraining order extended

Forest Service fires workers

Animal rights violations at Bandon Zoo

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week.

Top stories include:

Some tribes are using sovereignty to skirt regulations on payday lending

Venturing into the cold for the annual tally of homeless people

Humboldt County Supervisors sign historic agreement for Eel River

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. Top stories include:

Non-logging forestry work, like planting trees or fuels reduction, is big business in Oregon. But if you’re picturing those doing this work as classic lumberjacks — plaid shirts, big beards, white guys — think again. Foreign guest workers make up much of this labor. And Jackson County is a national center for the industry.

The Trump administration’s planned undocumented immigration crackdown has spread anxiety in some immigrant communities. We asked Southwestern Oregon sheriffs if their policies on immigration enforcement have changed.

Homeless people in Grants Pass can’t be cited, arrested or prosecuted for camping during the next two weeks. A Josephine County judge issued a temporary restraining order on Monday in a lawsuit against the city over its treatment of homeless people.

Local service providers in Northwestern California worry that the Trump administration’s goals to cut federal spending could have major impacts on countless services in rural communities.

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week on The Debrief. Top stories include:

• Hoedads in Oregon: History of the timber industry in Oregon
• Northwest forest plan; environmentalists seek protection for old growth forests
• Disability Rights Oregon files a lawsuit against the City of Grants Pass alleging mistreatment of the homeless

The JPR news team gathers for a roundtable discussion of the top news stories they've been working on this week. Top stories include:

Earlier this month, a levee was breached, which separated Agency Lake and the Upper Klamath National Wildlife Refuge. That re-connected 14,000 acres of wetland habitat to Upper Klamath Lake.

The tiny town of Scotia, California on the state’s remote Redwood Coast was built up entirely around a large sawmill. An attached biomass plant that burns the wood waste for electricity stands in the middle of a climate debate in the region.

The Curry County Board of Commissioners has sued their sheriff in the latest escalation of tensions between the offices.