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We hear from the creative team behind a rock opera about the Columbia River Gorge which is kicking off in a series of sold-out performances this weekend in Hood River.

Since its launch in 2022, Portland nonprofit Wildly Kind has been working to expand its mission of providing acts of kindness to strangers, from buying a cup of coffee to handing out gift cards or flowers to brighten someone's day.

Portland author and illustrator Aron Nels Steinke joins us to talk about his latest book, "Speechless," a graphic novel that explores social anxiety and friendships from the perspective of a sixth grader who suffers from social anxiety.

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality seeks to add PFAS, which are synthetic chemicals commonly used in manufacturing, to its list of contaminants the agency regulates.

We hear from two directors of foster youth advocacy programs in southern and eastern Oregon about the impact of the loss of federal funding they were expecting to get this fiscal year.

We hear from a University of Washington robotics researcher and a person with a motor impairment about their efforts to develop a robotic-assisted feeding system for people who depend on caregivers for helping them eat.

We hear from the co-founder and publisher of a magazine written for people with dementia, a community which is expected to nearly double among older adults in the U.S.

We listen back to a conversation we first aired in 2015 with a niece of Minoru Yasui, who was posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama for challenging a military curfew on Japanese Americans and their internment during WWII.

We hear from an official at ODOT about the state's voluntary, pay-by-mile program for motorists which is now a decade old.

A new study reveals that butterfly populations in the U.S. declined by more than 20% from 2000 to 2020.