Last week, a snowboarder and skier died in two separate incidents involving tree wells on Mt. Bachelor. Paul Baugher, a life-long ski patrol member and director of the Northwest Avalanche Institute, joins us to discuss snow immersion suffocation and the hidden dangers of tree wells.

Alex Pettit, Oregon’s Chief Information Officer joins us to talk about his plan, which passed overwhelmingly in the recently concluded legislative session, to get broadband internet into vast rural swaths of the state.

Though Portland is increasing renters protections for residential renters, business owners say that they, too, need stronger legal protections from landlords and rising rents. Khanh Le, state director of the Oregon Main Street Alliance, and Marci Pelletier, owner of the clothing store Shwop, join us.

A new documentary screening at the Hollywood Theater in March as a part of Women’s History Month tells the story of Oregonian Rita ‘Bo’ Brown, an activist, revolutionary, and bank robber. Julie Perini directed the film.

The Multnomah County Library is currently accepting submissions for a free music streaming and download service, which will spotlight - and compensate - local musicians. Local musician Arietta Ward, who’ll help review submissions, joins us to talk about the Library Music Project and how musicians navigate the local music industry.

Bespoke Bodies is an exhibition and education program about the past, present, and future of prosthetic design. It will be on display at the Pacific Northwest College of Art’s Center for Contemporary Art & Culture until May 9th. Erica Rife, managing director of the Design Museum Foundation, and Erica Bruns, an amputee and athlete from Oregon, join us to discuss the intersection between the human body and technology.

A new book looks at counseling programs for sex offenders, and the specific needs of women who have committed sex crimes. Tim Buckley, is the co-author of SO, The New Scarlet Letters. Barbara has served time for a sex offence and has been out of prison for 16 years.

We go to Olympia to sit down with Washington Governor Jay Inslee. We

talk about local issues, from the recently vetoed public records law and the Vancouver oil terminal that wasn’t.

Suzanne Stevens, editor of the Portland Business Journal, joins us to discuss a proposed toll on I-5, a decline in the enrollment of international college students, an increase in coworking office space in Portland, and Oregon’s evolving cannabis industry.

The Oregon legislature wrapped up its short session over the weekend. OPB’s senior political reporter Jeff Mapes will tell us what they accomplished… and what they didn’t. He’ll also fill us in on Oregon’s annual Republican conference, which also took place this weekend.