It's an odd paradox: food comes from rural areas, because that's where farms are, but some rural areas can experience issues with hunger. That's because grocery stores are often small and far apart, and food is more expensive for families living on tight budgets. Oregon Food Bank developed the F.E.A.S.T. concept for community organizing--Food. Education. Agriculture. Solutions. Together.--and invited communities around Oregon to apply for grants. Rogue Valley Food System Network , with other

December 7th, 1941 was forever branded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the "day which will live in infamy," for the Japanese attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. But his administration soon followed with another day seared into the memories of Japanese-American families: February 19, 1942.

Police officers are trained to be police, not counselors. But they frequently encounter people in their jobs who are in mental health crisis, and the usual police techniques would only escalate the situation. So more police agencies are having their people trained in crisis intervention, and crisis intervention teams (CITs) are now scattered across the land. Oregon trainers are now offering a higher level of training , for Certified Crisis Intervention Specialists (CCIS). The idea is to help get

Actors have to make what they do on stage look realistic to an audience. But they don't stop being their real selves when they're acting. So situations like acting as if they are making love can be fraught with complications. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival just hired its first resident intimacy director, to guide actors through scenes that involve nudity and simulated lovemaking.

Name one of the groundbreaking women of history--without Marie Curie. It can be hard, can't it? There's Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission. Her work earned the Nobel Prize--for her male lab partner, since the award committee could not believe that a woman was capable of such discoveries. That's just one example; there are many more in Janice Kaplan's book The Genius of Women: From Overlooked to Changing the World . From women of the past, like Mozart's talented but

Oregon has long lagged the rest of the country in high-school graduation rates. But the most recent report , out in January, shows the class of 2018-2019 graduating 80 percent of its members, in four years. It took a lot of work by students, but many adults also played a part in bringing the rate closer to the national average. What factors contributed to the improvement?

If you are not familiar with HAI pathogens, nosocomial infections, or pathogenic fungi, your chance of being familiar with Biomed Diagnostics is limited. So here's our chance to learn more about this Rogue Valley-based company. When people involved in human or animal health care need lab tests that grow bacteria or other microbes, they turn to Biomed for the cultures where the microbes grow. The company is the focus of this month's edition of our business segment, The Ground Floor.

Given how much outdoor recreation is available in the region, it's a sure thing that we'll visit with the author of a trail guide now and then. This one is a bit different, for two reasons. First, it's hyper-local, including only trails in the general Ashland-Medford area. Second, it's got QR codes to scan, so each trail guide comes with a video. This helps explain the title: AshlandTrails.com The Book . Jim Falkenstein is the creator of what he calls "the beginning of trail books 2.0."

The end-of-year count of Monarch butterflies in the west showed about the same results as the year before. A few more butterflies were found, but there were also more counters. While some news organizations referred to the results as an increase, the Portland-based Xerces Society regards the count as about the same as the year before. And that means Monarch numbers are still very low compared to historical averages.

It is true that California voters are presented with a "jungle primary"... all candidates run in a single primary, all voters see all candidates, and the top two vote-getters (regardless of party) run in November. But... not the presidential candidates. And this year California moved its entire primary, presidential votes and all, to March 3rd, Super Tuesday.