Today we’re discussing homelessness – with Teresa Barnes, the Executive Director of the Astoria Warming Center.

Welcome to the Human Beat!  I’m Roger Rocka.   The City of Astoria is engaged in a process intended to provide some affordable housing downtown, in the area bounded by Duane, Exchange, 11th and 12th streets.  Some additional units would be used by Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare to provide housing and treatment for their clients.   The City is engaged in exclusive...

The United States is facing a national blood crisis, brought on by complications from the pandemic. A significant portion of hospital blood needs for patients is not being met.  Doctors are forced to make difficult decisions about who receives blood transfusions and who has to wait until more becomes available. The American Red Cross is...

On the north side of Commercial Street in Astoria – between 10th and 11th streets – is a building housing the Beacon Clubhouse and Filling Empty Bellies. The two organizations are filling gaps in the community – meeting vital needs – but they serve and attract homeless people and that has caused concern from some neighbors....

Welcome to the Human Beat!  I’m Roger Rocka. Clatsop Community Action is a non-profit agency that has been providing services to low-income residents of the county for over 30 years.  CCA tries to help people meet their critical needs like shelter and food.  Their clients include people who are homeless. The executive director of Clatsop...

In Clatsop County, the primary provider of mental health services is Clatsop Behavioral Healthcare.  We sat down with CBH executive director Amy Baker to talk about the growing mental health problems in the county and across the country, and what’s needed to provide adequate treatment.

Abigail Scott Duniway, Jesse Applegate and Richard Neuberger each helped to shape the Oregon we know today.  We get to know them in Eminent Oregonians, a new book published by long time Daily Astorian editor and publisher Steve Forrester.

Host Roger Rocka speaks with guest Denise Lofman, Executive Director of Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce (CREST).

Finally, two weeks ago, the overture began and Astoria’s Cascadia Chamber Opera Company emerged from the long pandemic shutdown. The new season began with a performance at the Performing Arts Center of the comic opera, The Old Maid and the Thief. I talked with opera Artistic Director Bereniece Jones-Centeno about how things went.

He is Oregon’s all-time winningest high school baseball coach. He has five state titles and seven state championship game appearances. 18 league titles, including 5-for-5 with Astoria High School. In 30 years of coaching, his teams never missed the playoffs. He took the Astoria baseball team to the state championship game four times and won...