This year’s Dungeness crab season in Oregon and Washington has been significantly delayed. It was pushed back from December 1 to January 15 due to the fact that the crabs needed to fill out with more meat. (Industry standards dictate that a two-pound crab must yield at least a half-pound of meat.) Now, the season is being further delayed by price negotiations between crabbers and processors as well as a big storm brewing off the Oregon coast this week. We talk with crab fisherman and Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission chair John Corbin about the impact of the delayed season on crabbers and the coastal economy writ large.

Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott joins us to talk about who’s using the new Voting Center Express that just opened in Gresham.

The Oregonian’s Samantha Swindler was one of the only journalists covering the case of Amy Fabbrini and Eric Ziegler, a couple with low IQ who just won a four year legal fight to get custody of their two sons. We talk to her about the story, and to Bob Joondeph with Disability Rights Oregon, about how common the couple’s story is and the specific changes to the system that advocates would like to see. [Representatives from Oregon’s Department of Human Services declined our invitation.]

We talk with Oregon’s state health officer, Dr. Katrina Hedberg, about the leading causes of death for Oregonians and how mortality rates involving illness, accidents, and violence have changed compared with 10 years ago.

Project Wildfire in Oregon’s Deschutes County shows how individual homeowners can work together to reduce wildfire risk. Gregory Scruggs wrote an New York Times article about the program. He joins us to talk about the successes and challenges of this voluntary effort

U.S. Attorney for Oregon Billy Williams called out problems with the state’s legal marijuana system and says he’ll be convening a summit with federal, state and local law enforcement. This comes two weeks after U.S. Attorney General, Jeff Sessions rescinded an Obama-era memorandum that gave some legal cover to states that had legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana.

On Tuesday, Adrienne Nelson became the first African American on the Oregon Supreme Court. Nelson served for years as a Multnomah County judge before Gov. Kate Brown appointed her to the state’s highest court. Nelson joins us to discuss her new role.

We discuss some of the biggest news stories this week with OPB’s News Director Anna Griffin, writer Naseem Rakha and former state Labor Commissioner Jack Roberts.

The state of Oregon is the latest public entity to file a lawsuit against the agriculture giant Monsanto over the company’s manufacture and distribution of the toxic chemicals known as PCBs. We talk to the company and the lawyer representing a number of other public entities making similar claims, including the state of Washington, the Port of Portland and the cities of Portland, Seattle and Spokane.

OPB Reporter Conrad Wilson joins us to discuss a new plan by the Oregon District Attorneys Association that would support a ballot measure to abolish non-unanimous juries from the state’s constitution.