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It’s been a complicated week for people tracking access to abortion services. On this week’s show, OPB health reporter Amelia Templeton and Jeanie Lindsay, a political reporter with the Northwest News Network, explain what recent court rulings mean in Oregon and Washington.
State legislators have sent the governor a big piece of legislation aimed at attracting more semiconductor production. On this week's show, we'll examine the tools they'll use to do that, and the broader philosophical choices they're making about Oregon land use policy.
Oregon lawmakers have been so busy this session working up major packages on housing and semiconductors that the two parties have barely had time to fight over the issues that most bitterly divide them. That changed this week, as Democrats called up three bills that would expand gun regulation in the state. OPB reporters Dirk VanderHart and Jonathan Levinson break them down on the new episode.