Between Us

Conservative Casey Runyan, a candidate for Oregon's 9th House District, is multifacted.  He served as a US Marine, he is the son of longtime Michigan school teachers and he has a passion for politics.  As such, he is a staunch defender of the 2nd Amendment.  Don Merrill tal... Read more

Attorney James Buchal is a Republican running for US House of Representatives for Oregon's 3rd District.  He has strong views on education, free enterprise and the Federal Government's role in our day to day affairs.  Don Merrill talked with Mr. Buchal about why, if he had ... Read more

Pavel Goberman is a Democrat and Russian immigrant who is campaigning for US Senate in Oregon.  He has been a fixture in the local political process as a candidate for a number of offices.  And he has filed complaints and lawsuits against those he feels have wronged him.  D... Read more

Robert King, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been made famous by their treatment at the infamous Angola State Prison in Angola, Louisiana.  Named for a former slave plantation, the prison, according to Mr. King; the only member of the Angola Three both alive and free... Read more

Judge Keith Raines is a non-partisan and a sitting judge for Oregon's 20th Judicial Dist. Circuit Court in Washington County. He is a running for re-election.  He talked with Don Merrill about judicial activism, running a court on a tight budget and how sharing his own mist... Read more

Jason Heym is campaigning as a non-partisan candidate for the 1st Position Judgeship in the Columbia County Circuit Court.  The court, in Oregon's 19th Judicial District, is a trial court and Heym is thinking seriously about a run for trial court judge.  Don Merrill talks w... Read more

John Lewis is a congressman, writer, activist and one of "Big Six" in the civil rights movement.  He has just written, with two co-authors, a graphic novel called "March".  It is the first in a trilogy that looks back at his career in an effort to present the past to young ... Read more

Natasha Bjornsen is a Douglas County Democrat and teacher running for House member in Oregon's Second District.  She talked with Don Merrill about why education is the key to her strategy, how collaboration and compromise are not dirty words, and how she gets annoyed when p... Read more

Wanda Sykes is a comedian, but so much more.  As an actor, she has had two shows on Fox.  She's also been in the hits, "Curb your Enthusiasm" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine".  And her voice has been in several animated hits such as "Ice Age: Continental Drift" and... Read more

Kelly McGonigal has a PhD in psychology from Stanford University, the home of the famous "Marshmallow Test".  In the late 70s, four and five year olds were tested on how well they could resist the temptation to eat a bowl of them; a willpower test.  Don Merrill talks with M... Read more