Portland bureau faces entrenched personnel issues

For years, rank-and-file staff have been sounding alarms about management at the bureau that they allege ranged from sloppy to abusive: filing at least four complaints with human resources, 11 union grievances and 20 complaints with the city’s ombudsman. The bureau’s turnover rate alone, in the words of one labor expert, should have cast a “flashing red light” over management problems.

Local filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone's new short film "See Me" premiered at the Portland International Film Festival. It tracks the lives of three Black Portlanders during last year’s statewide shutdown — and how their lives intersect with the chaotic world outside.

OPB education reporter Elizabeth Miller has been looking into how the hybrid education model is working in Oregon and Washington schools.