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As COVID relief funds run dry, school districts in the Portland area, and
around the state, are looking at extended periods of budget cuts. What’s to
be done? And who will bear the brunt of the lean times? Traci and Abe take
your calls.
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Oregon’s experiment with drug decriminalization appears to be coming to an
end, with Gov. Kotex poised to sign a bill that would undo many of the tenets
of Measure 110. To the surprise of exactly no one, the impact of the law is
expected to fall the hardest on communitie...
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What would a second Trump presidency be like? Spoiler alert: not good. Traci
and Abe dig into Project 25, the Trump team’s autocratic playbook. Join the
conversation at 503-231-8187.
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Much ink has been spilled, and airtime devoted, to the unsatisfactory choices
presented to us year after year by our two-party political system. Many
alternatives have been proposed — protest votes, a viable third party,
political abstinence, revolution. What is a progre...
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The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen embryos are, in fact, people.
Because of course they did. What does it mean for would-be parents in
Alabama, and for the increasingly slippery slope of reproductive freedom?
Traci and Abe take your calls.
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Traci is away this week. In her absence, Abe looks at a column from Ezra
Klein of The NY Times which makes the case for Joe Biden to drop out of the
presidential race in favor of someone, well, younger. Is this possible, let
alone feasible? What would need to happen in o...
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A new study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association
estimates that, since the Dobbs decision in 2022, 64,000 pregnancies have
been caused by rape in states that have passed total or near-total abortion
bans. Traci and Abe take your calls.
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After a decline during the pandemic, food insecurity is on the rise in Oregon
and across the nation. Globally, the trend is much the same. Amid this era of
plenty, what’s going on? Traci and Abe take your calls.
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