Apr 12 Watch Would a Major Earthquake Sink Portland or Seattle in Liquefied Soil? Would a Major Earthquake Sink Portland or Seattle in Liquefied Soil?… Continue watching
Mar 12 Watch In Oregon, Rare ‘Snowstorm’ of Pine Butterflies Takes Toll on Forests In Oregon, Rare 'Snowstorm' of Pine Butterflies Takes Toll on Forests… Continue watching
Mar 08 Watch Oregon Farmers Surprised to Find Fish in Fields Researchers in Oregon's Willamette Valley found young native fish thriving in ditches that fill with water during the winter months. The unrecognized habitat meant farmers had been inadvertently raising fish in their fields, in addition to their intended crops, for… Continue watching
Dec 11 Patchwork Nation: Health Care System Buckles as Tourism Slows in Ore. By Anna Shoup In Lincoln City, Ore., where the local economy remains heavily dependent on tourism, many jobs lack health insurance. And when jobs become scarce, even more find themselves struggling to find care. Continue reading
Dec 11 Watch Good Times Go On Holiday In Oregon Tourist Town As part of the Patchwork Nation series examining communities across the U.S., Ray Suarez travels to picturesque Lincoln City, Oregon, where the recession has sapped the local tourism industry. Continue watching
Dec 11 Patchwork Nation: Catching the Wind on Oregon’s Central Coast Lincoln City, Ore., known as the "Kite Capital of the World," hosts three kite festivals every year. Continue reading
May 29 Watch States Experiment with Controversial Taxes to Pay for Highway Construction Some states are experimenting with controversial new taxes to pay for highway construction. Special correspondent Lee Hochberg reports from Oregon, where officials are looking into charging drivers a tax based on the number of miles they drive in lieu of… Continue watching
Oct 20 Watch Headed Toward Election Day, Candidates Hammer Messages Home in Battlegrounds After a recap of the latest news from the campaign trail, Gwen Ifill talks to political analysts Amy Walter and Stuart Rothenberg about key congressional races and how the electoral map is shaping up in the final weeks before the… Continue watching
Oct 03 Watch Oregon Poet Laureate Inada Reflects on Internment Along with more than 100,000 other Japanese-Americans, Lawson Inada was sent to internment camps for the duration of World War II. He was one of the youngest to live in the camps, and much of his writing addresses that childhood… Continue watching
Jun 30 Watch Ore. Discovery Challenges Beliefs About First Humans Until recently, most scientists believed that the first humans came to the Americas 13,000 years ago. But new archaeological findings from a cave in Oregon are challenging that assumption. Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Television reports on the controversial discovery. Continue watching