Melanie Zermer, program host for Willamette Wake Up talked with five women about moving toward a gender-balanced society: successes and challenges. The panelists were Shelaswau Crier, Danielle Meyer, Molly Mayhead, Naseem Rakha and Kate Schwarzler.

In this special Pledge Drive edition of the Forum, hear a death-row attorney, a former Chief Justice, a former governor, and a former prison warden discuss the death penalty in Oregon.

This week on the Forum, Salem Mayor Chuck Bennett delivers the “State of the City” address.

This week on the Forum, hear highlights from the 3rd annual Salem Womyns March.

The longest-serving president of the Senate, a woman state supreme court Chief Justice, a woman who’s the first four-term speaker of the house, and a woman serving her second elected term in office as the governor of Oregon. It was a day of firsts and lots of applause, and we’ll hear the highlights from the (last) inauguration ceremony for Kate Brown…as she also outlines goals for her final term in office.

Internet Security is more than just an anti-virus program: You don’t know the half of how our information is bought and sold, how much data about you is out there, or how everything you do online adds to the digital profile of you that’s constantly collected…sometimes by media and websites you may not suspect.  This is a program presented as an edition of the Salem Chamber Speaker Series and KMUZ thanks the Salem Chamber of Commerce for letting us record the audio for this program.

There’s a lot of money in medicine, but a lot of problems come from the illegal use of opioids, one major painkiller that’s become a number-one street drug. Dr Paul Coelho (KWELL-oh) of Salem Health Pain Clinic and the former U-S Attorney for Oregon, Dwight Holton, now the CEO of Lines for Life, a regional non-profit dedicated to preventing substance abuse and suicide.

A recent discussion about Pearl Harbor, the memories of local residents about the events of that era in World War II, and an introduction to Kylie Pine, the new curator at Willamette Heritage Center.

This week on the Forum, hear the founder of a program called “Sackcloth and Ashes” explain how he was shocked to learn he had a connection to a homeless person he never anticipated, and how it led him to find a way to help the homeless population, with a program that helps create a path to charitable giving for business sponsors, groups and individuals.

John Gear explains the history of the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution.