Podcast

GOP lawmakers have launched three podcasts from a Salem basement this year, with more on the way.

We tagged along with OPB capitol reporter Dirk VanderHart for a day to see what’s going on behind the scenes of our state government.

Today, we’re bringing you up to date on the Klamath River. What’s on folks’ minds now that all the dams are out a year later — and what still needs to be done to piece this basin together again?

In our "At Work With" series, we talk to Pacific Northwesterners from different professions and ask them your questions about what it’s like to do what they do.

Republicans and Democrats head to Salem for the long legislative session with many big debates looming.

Shilo George and Brianna Bragg help listeners tap into humor, joy and the idea of survivance through their podcast.

The night Harriet Thompson was murdered in 1998, her neighbor Patricia Hubbard was sitting on her porch and heard some of the tragic events. But police officers rejected her help in the case.

A police oversight board was formed in Salem after police regularly targeted people of color in their efforts to crack down on drug users in the 1990s. But the head of the police union, who investigated the murder case involving Jesse Johnson, opposed the board.

In 1998, police in Salem, Oregon, discovered the body of Harriet Thompson inside her apartment. And within a week, they arrested Jesse Johnson for murder.

In the first season of this new investigative podcast, we delve into the case of Jesse Lee Johnson, a Black man who lived on death row in Oregon for 17 years and pled innocent the entire time.