Reacting To This Weekend’s Attack On The MAX

Portland-based author of Ricochet River, friend and colleague of Brian Doyle

The Ramadan Tent Project is a worldwide effort to bring Muslims and non-Muslims together for conversation and education. We’ll talk to two students, Sadaf Assadi and Hanan Al-Zubaidy, who brought the project to Portland for the first time last year, and expect an even bigger turnout this year.

Washington state’s 3rd district representative Jaime Herrera Beutler

OHSU physician Dr. Vinay Prasad, is worried that a drug company is skirting regulations by using the plot line of a popular soap opera to push its product.

The Washington Legislature is now in its second special session as lawmakers try to reach a budget agreement. OPB reporter Austin Jenkins fills us in on why these negotiations are so contentious.

We sit down with Oregon native [now living in Toronto] Teva Harrison. In her memoir “In-Between Days,” she blends her drawings and graphics with prose to tell the story of her stage four breast cancer diagnosis at age 37, her subsequent treatment, and her struggle to find meaning and joy in her day-to-day life.

Gregory McKelvey with the protest group Portland’s Resistance joins us in studio to give his take on the nationwide search for a new police chief, and discuss what the group would like to see from the Portland Police Bureau more broadly.