We talk with OPB political reporter Dirk VanderHart about the national attention that the Washington county DA race is attracting. The incumbent is not running for reelection, and the seat is open for the first time in decades.

In efforts to improve wheelchair users’ wait times for rides, the city of Portland plans to open a central dispatch center and provide subsidies for wheelchair-accessible vehicles. We’ll hear more about the city plans from Leah Treat, Director of the Portland Bureau of Transportation, and Nickole Cheron, the city’s Disability Equity Policy Coordinator.

Portland police officers shot and killed a man at a homeless shelter on Saturday evening. The encounter was videotaped by bystanders. Maxine Bernstein, reporter for the Oregonian/OregonLive fills us in.

The CEO of Facebook will testify in front of Congress this week. On Wednesday he’ll be grilled by the committee chaired by Oregon Republican Congressman Greg Walden.

Historic Portland movie house the Laurelhurst Theater recently announced it will shift from showing second-run to first-run films. We hear from Woody Wheeler, co-owner of the theater, about why they’re making the change and what it reflects about the movie industry.

Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act was passed, a panel hosted by the Oregon Historical Society examined the history of discrimination in Southern Oregon and its lasting effects on the region today. Two of the panelists, Louise Dix, an education specialist for the Fair Housing Council of Oregon, and Chelsea Rose, a historical archaeologist at Southern Oregon University, join us.

Scott Bruun, Art Alexander and Camilla Mortensen join us on the news roundtable to discuss some of the big stories of the week.

We talk to author Mohsin Hamid.

Inspired by The Oregonian/OregonLive’s investigation into Portland Public Schools’ handling of sexual misconduct allegations, Lincoln High School students reported on how their school handles complaints about inappropriate behavior by teachers. Student journalists Jamie Bikales and Sagarika Ramachandran tell us about their story,“Abused and Afraid.”

A 1985 companion album to Ursula Le Guin’s novel Always Coming Home has just been re-released. Avant garde composer and analog synthesist Todd Barton collaborated with Le Guin, spending time at her Northern California homestead, to create the music and ethnography of Le Guin’s fictional future civilization, the Kesh.