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Beat Check with The Oregonian — 360 episodes · page 1 of 4
(2023 Replay) The Unidentifieds Episode 2: The unknown baby boy and the reservoir
(2023 Replay) The Unidentifieds Episode 1: Remains found along the Redwood Highway
(2024 Replay) The backstory to the mystery of ‘Cosmo the talking crow’
(2024 Replay) The mysterious shadow economy around winning Oregon Lottery tickets
(2024 Replay) Why heat waves are growing more frequent, and what’s being done
Fiona Conneely & Shelley Schuler: Food hubbing emerges as a solution for feeding us all (Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment)
More than words: Language and belonging in rural Oregon (Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment)
Adam Davis: Humanities resilience (Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment)
Beat Check is taking a short break for the summer, stay tuned
Duncan Hwang: Advocacy in organizing and politics (Oregon Speaks: Voices from this moment)
Therese Bottomly on four decades in Oregon journalism
The charm and gossip in reporting in rural Oregon
How the Trump immigration crackdown is impacting Oregon
Does Oregon’s cherished Bottle Bill compound Portland’s fentanyl crisis?
Fact vs. speculation: How true crime podcasters approach the Kyron Horman case (Part 4: Guest podcast: Bookies with Your Besties)
Long hours, daylong stakeouts: How reporters pursued the Kyron Horman story in 2010 (Part 3: Shane Dixon Kavanaugh)
How a critical time gap derailed the Kyron Horman investigation (Part 2: Maxine Bernstein)
15 years later: The haunting disappearance of Kyron Horman (Part 1: Noelle Crombie)
Five years on, Portland journalists reflect on 2020 protests
The Trail Blazers are for sale. What’s next, who might buy them and will they stay in Portland?
Behind The Oregonian/OregonLive’s headlines about a trucker licensing scheme
Burning questions on the Portland Public Schools bond
A perilous moment for Portland mass transit
How to keep hope alive as Trump upends climate, environmental work
Trump’s tariffs and his trade war’s ‘sobering’ impact on Oregon small businesses
Everything you ever wanted to know about polls, because we are not afraid to ask.
Is Portland ready for a large wildfire in Forest Park?
How officials at one Oregon sewer agency scored years of lavish trips and lots of meals
Scandals plague Oregon’s adult prisons, youth detention facilities
The fight to keep Mt. Bachelor ski resort local
The effort to land a baseball team in Portland is swinging for the fences
How dangerous are wood stoves and fireplaces to human health and the planet?
Are Portland’s stubbornly high homicide numbers a new normal?
How The Oregonian/OregonLive is covering Trump orders, policy changes
Recreational marijuana and Oregon’s cannabis economic crisis
Putting together the pieces of Oregon’s affordable housing puzzle
Can legislators shield consumers from the cost of powering data centers in Oregon?
Oregon lawmakers report to work. Here’s what they’re up to
The ‘Starfish’ surveys that rattled the highest echelons at Nike
What happens when Oregon approves massive thousand-acre solar farms?
A conversation with the superintendents of Oregon’s 3 largest school districts
UFOs, mysterious red lights in Oregon skies and perplexed pilots
How the largest U.S. supermarket merger in history imploded
How Oregonians can support Season of Sharing, our holiday campaign
The stolen identity of Roger Pearce
An end to Oregon’s record-breaking kicker tax rebates?
How Oregon’s foster system failed to protect a Portland teen from sex trafficking
Unpacking Election Day 2024 with The Oregonian’s politics team
Oregon’s cutthroat race for congress and its national implications
A makeshift cell, a daring escape: Oregon trial brings kidnapper to justice
Unpacking pre-election poll results with John Horvick
Do tribes see a way forward for Oregon’s offshore wind?
Who will be Portland’s next mayor?
Election 2024 help for Oregon, Portland voters is here
Connie Chung on her new memoir, the future of women in journalism and Richard Nixon
Portland area schools work to address climate impacts
Chronicling Portland’s historic elections for mayor and City Council
Will Oregon spark new clean energy boom at wave energy test site?
The mysterious shadow economy around winning Oregon Lottery tickets
Oregon’s record-setting wildfire season
Can Portland solve its housing crisis?
Reporter Zane Sparling takes you behind the headlines of the Nancy Brophy podcast
Should Oregon add an environmental rights amendment to its Constitution?
Remembering renowned Portland chef Naomi Pomeroy
Nike’s ‘sustainability bloodbath’
Why heat waves are growing more frequent, and what’s being done
A closing conversation with a longtime Oregonian reporter Tom Hallman Jr.
Why is eastern Oregon’s groundwater contamination crisis still unresolved after 30 years?
Oregon’s transportation system is ‘hemorrhaging.’ Is there a fix?
Diving into why college going rates are declining in Oregon
BONUS episode: How the Portland airport carpet design became a civic icon
‘Happily Never After’ pulls back curtain on a Portland murder
What the spate of wolf poisonings says about Oregon’s co-existence with wolves
Will Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt dodge voters’ wrath?
New poll sheds light on Portland area’s attitudes, sentiments and biggest concerns
The backstory to the mystery of ‘Cosmo the talking crow’
Why semiconductor manufacturers have a pollution predicament
Oregon’s troubling track record with treating teens for mental illness, addiction
How PERS became the behemoth that consumes public budgets
Are electricity rate increases fair to customers?
The Oregon police chief fired by two small towns
What Intel’s $8.5 billion federal subsidy means for Oregon
Why does Oregon plan to divest from coal?
What might happen with drug courts now that legislators recriminalized some drugs?
Why are Oregon electric, gas rates going up so fast?
The trouble at Crater Lake National Park
Two in-depth articles examine Oregon’s fentanyl crisis
Oregon Legislature takes on housing, drug decriminalization
What’s the mental health impact of fallen trees, other climate disasters?
Will Oregon finally get big money out of politics?
How does The Oregonian/OregonLive’s editorial board work?
Reporting on a midflight near-disaster
How should Portland deal with the surplus money flowing into the Clean Energy Fund?
What Portlanders wish for themselves and their city in the New Year
It’s Season of Sharing time, and you can help make this a better place
What Oregon leaders, mulling Measure 110 changes, learned from a trip to Portugal
Will your family qualify for generous home energy rebates?
Portland needs a new sobering center. Politics keeps one from opening
‘Lost Women of Highway 20′ resurfaces interest in original Oregonian series
How the owner of several well-known Portland brands ran into trouble