Neil Gross worked for a time as a police officer, before going back to school to become a sociologist. He combines past and present occupations in a book, "Walk the Walk: How Three Police Chiefs Defied the Odds and Changed Cop Culture."

Impersonator scams were the top scam of the year 2022 in America once again, says the Federal Trade Commission.Kerry O'Brien is the Western Regional Director for FTC.

A new book, "The Making of the Northwest Forest Plan: The Wild Science of Saving Old Growth Ecosystems." K. Norman Johnson, Gordon Reeves, and Jerry Franklin all played key parts in detailing the fate of old growth forests and the implications.

Sen. Jeff Merkley and Rep. Val Hoyle from the 4th Congressional district appear together on the JX to lay out the vision for the federal assist to Oregon educators with opiod crisis.

California Academy of Science is one of several institutions signing onto a letter proposing something like a checklist for governments to follow in preparing for ocean acidification. Rebecca Albright is the California Academy's Curator of Invertebrate Zoology and founder of the Coral Regeneration Lab (CoRL).

Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Oregon State University has been involved in identifying what's been killing the condors in Arizona. Kurt Williams is director of the lab.

Sunday (May 7) in Ashland with "Honoring My Sister’s Beauty: A musical and poetic conversation between diverse traditions." Hildegard von Bingen, Florence Price, and other composers provided the pieces, with interpretation by singers Lindsay Patterson Abdou and Brooke Iva Lohman, and violinist, scholar, and poet Dr. Lesa Terry, plus pianist Joseph Williams and Anima Mundi Productions’ resident poet Tiziana DellaRovere.

Rogue Farm Corps and the Growing Veteran Agripreneurs program of Oregon State University Extension. GVA Coordinator Diane Choplin visits and Edward Night of Oak Mountain Farm and a Farm Corps alum, and Greg Pavellas, an alum of GVA.

Oregon Global Warming Commission, which recently released its Climate Action Roadmap to 2030 report includes the Transformational Integrated Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Project Report. Guest: Catherine McDonald, the Chair of the Global Warming Commission.

"Talent, Oregon: The Almeda Fire," which brings together pictures, interviews, and stories of what was possibly the worst day in the small city's history. Guests: Debra Moon, Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator for Talent Historical Society, and Willow McCloud, THS Board President.