Beat Check with The Oregonian

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A weekly look inside Oregon's biggest news stories with the journalists at The Oregonian/OregonLive.com.

Episode Date
New poll sheds light on Portland area’s attitudes, sentiments and biggest concerns
May 13, 2024
The backstory to the mystery of ‘Cosmo the talking crow’
May 06, 2024
Why semiconductor manufacturers have a pollution predicament
Apr 29, 2024
Oregon’s troubling track record with treating teens for mental illness, addiction
Apr 22, 2024
How PERS became the behemoth that consumes public budgets
Apr 15, 2024
Are electricity rate increases fair to customers?
Apr 08, 2024
The Oregon police chief fired by two small towns
Apr 01, 2024
What Intel’s $8.5 billion federal subsidy means for Oregon
Mar 25, 2024
Why does Oregon plan to divest from coal?
Mar 18, 2024
What might happen with drug courts now that legislators recriminalized some drugs?
Mar 11, 2024
Why are Oregon electric, gas rates going up so fast?
Mar 04, 2024
The trouble at Crater Lake National Park
Feb 26, 2024
Two in-depth articles examine Oregon’s fentanyl crisis
Feb 19, 2024
Oregon Legislature takes on housing, drug decriminalization
Feb 12, 2024
What’s the mental health impact of fallen trees, other climate disasters?
Feb 05, 2024
Will Oregon finally get big money out of politics?
Jan 29, 2024
How does The Oregonian/OregonLive’s editorial board work?
Jan 22, 2024
Reporting on a midflight near-disaster
Jan 15, 2024
How should Portland deal with the surplus money flowing into the Clean Energy Fund?
Jan 08, 2024
What Portlanders wish for themselves and their city in the New Year
Jan 01, 2024
It’s Season of Sharing time, and you can help make this a better place
Dec 25, 2023
What Oregon leaders, mulling Measure 110 changes, learned from a trip to Portugal
Dec 18, 2023
Will your family qualify for generous home energy rebates?
Dec 11, 2023
Portland needs a new sobering center. Politics keeps one from opening
Dec 04, 2023
‘Lost Women of Highway 20′ resurfaces interest in original Oregonian series
Nov 27, 2023
How the owner of several well-known Portland brands ran into trouble
Nov 20, 2023
Alarming climate study leads to search for solutions
Nov 11, 2023
BONUS EPISODE: Octavia Spencer talks about ‘Lost Women of Highway 20’ and the need to restore their dignity
Nov 09, 2023
The unprecedented string of deaths of Black Portlanders at the hands of police in the 1970s: "The Forgotten Four" project
Nov 06, 2023
We'll be back next week
Oct 30, 2023
What we know about the potential Portland Public Schools teachers' strike
Oct 26, 2023
Oregon’s mental health system dogged by failures, complexity
Oct 23, 2023
Students, legislators push for school districts to tackle climate change: Beat Check podcast
Oct 16, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Taking your shoes off in other people's homes
Oct 12, 2023
How Portland’s promise to target unlicensed Airbnbs went bust
Oct 09, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Dealing with audacious noise pollution
Oct 05, 2023
Looking into the future for Lloyd Center: Beat Check podcast
Oct 02, 2023
Why Tho with Lizzy Acker: How babies complicate friendships
Sep 28, 2023
What to make of Oregon students’ stagnant test scores
Sep 25, 2023
Why Tho? The Podcast: Can your husband demand that you say please?
Sep 21, 2023
Fire as medicine: Using fire to manage forests, prevent catastrophic wildfires in the Northwest
Sep 18, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Let's talk about Zoom etiquette
Sep 14, 2023
Oregon’s pioneering drug policy faces mounting political headwinds
Sep 11, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Ruby Franke allegations and the ethics of children on the internet
Sep 07, 2023
A flurry of activity on the homelessness crisis
Sep 04, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: What can I do about someone's troublesome social media posts?
Aug 31, 2023
Oregon expansion part of Intel’s big gamble
Aug 28, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: What can I do about my annoying neighbors?
Aug 24, 2023
What a Kroger-Albertsons grocery merger could mean for Oregonians
Aug 21, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Should a friend be allowed to dictate who I'm friends with?
Aug 17, 2023
Can Gov. Tina Kotek turn around downtown Portland?
Aug 14, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: To medicate your child or not to medicate your child?
Aug 10, 2023
Crime beat is often unpredictable, no more so than during recent Good Samaritan hospital shooting
Aug 07, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Tattoo rules
Aug 03, 2023
Who should clean up the glut of debris from homeless encampments in the Willamette River?
Jul 31, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Why are people insufferable about birthdays?
Jul 27, 2023
Extreme Heat: How cities and their residents should protect themselves
Jul 24, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Jonah Hill and boundaries
Jul 20, 2023
Portland’s sweeping City Hall changes are well underway
Jul 17, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Can I pick my neighbor's fruit?
Jul 13, 2023
Politics and education editor talks issues facing Oregonians, how politics is covered
Jul 10, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Can you ask your free babysitter to clean up your home?
Jul 06, 2023
McMenamins co-founder Brian McMenamin reflects on the iconic chain's 40th anniversary
Jul 03, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Do I approach a stranger with their fly down?
Jun 29, 2023
This ID theft expert has advice for Oregonians after DMV hack
Jun 26, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: How do I stay in the moment?
Jun 22, 2023
Digging into downtown Portland’s peril, promise
Jun 19, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Can I be mad that my bridesmaid didn’t tell me she was pregnant?
Jun 15, 2023
Significant changes in Oregon’s news publishing landscape and signs of hope
Jun 12, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Should I break up with my hairdresser over memes?
Jun 08, 2023
Publishing Prejudice series shows how The Oregonian cheered the destruction of Albina
Jun 05, 2023
Why Tho? with Lizzy Acker: Should I ask my friend to give back a baby shower gift after she miscarried?
Jun 01, 2023
Heat pumps vs. gas furnaces: How to weigh cost and climate implications: Beat Check podcast
May 29, 2023
Coming Thursday: Why Tho? The Podcast, Lizzy Acker's advice column in audio form (Trailer)
May 27, 2023
Beat Check introduces new hosts, relaunches May 29
May 26, 2023
The Unidentifieds Episode 6: Closure
May 15, 2023
The Unidentifieds Episode 5: Human remains found near Multnomah Falls in 1979 identified 4 decades later
May 08, 2023
The Unidentifieds Episode 4: U.S. Forest Service workers find a skull near Government Camp
May 01, 2023
The Unidentifieds Episode 3: Genetic genealogy 101
Apr 24, 2023
The Unidentifieds Episode 2: The unknown baby boy and the reservoir 
Apr 17, 2023
The Unidentifieds Episode 1: Remains found along the Redwood Highway
Apr 10, 2023
Coming soon: The Unidentifieds, a new six-part podcast from The Oregonian
Mar 27, 2023
A bold funding package to fight homelessness
Mar 20, 2023
NW Natural’s uncertain future
Mar 13, 2023
What went wrong at the Multnomah County animal shelter?
Mar 06, 2023
Oregon beer scene shifts to smaller festivals, lower ABV beers
Feb 27, 2023
Behind the scenes of the Oregon bourbon scandal
Feb 20, 2023
A look inside an LA tent camp that could influence Portland’s plans
Feb 13, 2023
The middle schoolers are not alright
Feb 06, 2023
One man who helped transform trails on the Columbia River Gorge
Jan 30, 2023
Inside Portland's housing market and the outlook for 2023
Jan 23, 2023
What's driving Portland's homicide surge
Jan 16, 2023
What to make of Oregon's business climate
Jan 09, 2023
Education Roundtable: The top stories and issues of 2022, previewing 2023
Jan 02, 2023
Kann may already be the most decorated restaurant in Portland history
Dec 26, 2022
The Oregonian/OregonLive's Season of Sharing is here
Dec 19, 2022
The Safest Place: A year inside Rosemary Anderson High School
Dec 12, 2022
An RV explodes outside of Salt & Straw's headquarters, prompting property crime discussion
Dec 05, 2022
Rebroadcast: The man behind Darcelle XV, Portland's iconic drag queen
Nov 28, 2022
A neighborhood 'doused' by diesel
Nov 21, 2022
Recapping the governor's race, looking ahead to Portland's political future
Nov 14, 2022
What to make of Intel's looming layoffs
Nov 07, 2022
Rob Davis talks with Vicki Nakashima, Zachary Stocks about the Publishing Prejudice project
Oct 31, 2022
The Oregonian's racist legacy: Editor Therese Bottomly on the story, her apology and the future
Oct 24, 2022
Who will be Oregon's next governor?
Oct 17, 2022
Jeff Manning on Dan Wieden's legacy, why hospitals are hurting
Oct 10, 2022
How a high school soccer refereeing memo unearthed a longstanding problem
Oct 03, 2022
Portland's form of government will either stay 'weird' or be reformed
Sep 26, 2022
School is back in session: Talking learning loss, higher ed changes
Sep 19, 2022
Amazon's overwhelming presence in Morrow County
Sep 12, 2022
What a PGE wind farm's woes say about the industry
Sep 05, 2022
Portland's beer scene keeps growing, evolving
Aug 29, 2022
How Oregon’s little-known public defense agency became a story
Aug 22, 2022
Investigative editor Brad Schmidt talks data journalism
Aug 15, 2022
Heat wave sparks 'absolutely miserable' memories at Portland mobile park
Aug 08, 2022
Intel and the case of the forgotten microchip
Aug 01, 2022
Recapping the World Athletics Championships in Eugene
Jul 25, 2022
Reporting on Portland's Deadliest Block
Jul 18, 2022
Get to know Bill Oram, The Oregonian’s new sports columnist
Jul 11, 2022
What’s causing Oregon’s rising gas prices?
Jul 04, 2022
The heat dome, climate anxiety and Oregon’s future
Jun 27, 2022
The return of large homeless sweeps
Jun 20, 2022
Is Eugene ready for the World Athletics Championships?
Jun 13, 2022
Sherry Hall's many election flubs
Jun 06, 2022
Inside the Nancy Crampton Brophy trial
May 30, 2022
A deep dive into ventilation, filtration and the air inside our schools
May 23, 2022
Best of 3: A quick look at the race to be Oregon's next governor
May 18, 2022
Portland author Shawn Levy on the queens of stand-up comedy
May 16, 2022
Fentanyl's stunning rise in Oregon, horrifying death toll
May 09, 2022
A May election primer: Governor's and Congressional races
May 02, 2022
How Beaverton became a food and drink destination
Apr 25, 2022
Intel's future in Oregon
Apr 18, 2022
Portland's quirky form of government: A look at the reform effort, potential changes
Apr 11, 2022
What’s driving Portland’s rampant catalytic converter theft problem
Apr 04, 2022
For Ukrainians in Oregon, war is a nightmare
Mar 28, 2022
Portland's 'visible' homelessness and why outreach remains a challenge
Mar 21, 2022
UO's win-win idea for Concordia campus meets Lutheran school's rocky past
Mar 14, 2022
Our COVID era enters yet another chapter
Mar 07, 2022
Portland's stunning gun violence continues
Feb 28, 2022
Saying goodbye to Hair of the Dog, other beer news
Feb 21, 2022
Black landmarks inch toward historic recognition
Feb 14, 2022
Kate Brown's criminal justice legacy
Feb 07, 2022
Intel's Ohio expansion and Oregon's industrial lands quandary
Feb 04, 2022
Why Lake Abert matters
Jan 31, 2022
Big-time changes coming in Salem as long-time leaders leave
Jan 24, 2022
Oregon's newest billionaire wants to revive horse racing, tribal leaders say his plan is illegal
Jan 17, 2022
What the downtown Hillsboro fire revealed
Jan 10, 2022
How a talking crow (or raven) befriended an entire Oregon elementary school
Jan 03, 2022
Public Plea: Episode 5
Dec 29, 2021
Public Plea: Episode 4
Dec 27, 2021
Public Plea: Episode 3
Dec 24, 2021
Public Plea: Episode 2
Dec 22, 2021
University of Oregon project examining Measure 11, juveniles
Dec 20, 2021
Ricky's Dilemma: Episode 1 of Public Plea
Dec 20, 2021
Food critic Michael Russell on his dining guide, restaurant of the year
Dec 13, 2021
What will the rest of the school year look like?
Dec 06, 2021
Rebroadcast: "The Loneliest Polar Bear" returns to Oregon
Nov 29, 2021
Grant Butler on how to shakeup your Thanksgiving staples
Nov 22, 2021
What is happening in Newberg
Nov 15, 2021
Data, water and and why an Oregon town is suing The Oregonian
Nov 08, 2021
Body shaming allegations rock Oregon Ducks track and field program
Nov 01, 2021
Editor Therese Bottomly on transparency, public records, missing the newsroom
Oct 25, 2021
Another COVID crisis for Oregon's prisons
Oct 18, 2021
Under the gun: Inside Portland's rise in homicides
Oct 11, 2021
Land at Willamette Falls is finally in tribal hands again. Now what?
Oct 04, 2021
Eli Saslow of The Washington Post on his new book, 'Voices from the Pandemic'
Sep 27, 2021
Report Card: Checking in on the back to school situation
Sep 20, 2021
An update on Portland politics, plus Rose Quarter project hits potential uncertainty
Sep 13, 2021
Dispatch from a Portland critical care unit
Sep 06, 2021
What you need to know about back to school plans
Aug 30, 2021
A Portland pediatrician on back to school, Delta, vaccines
Aug 27, 2021
Oregon breweries died, survived or grew during the pandemic
Aug 23, 2021
The Delta variant strikes Oregon
Aug 16, 2021
The state of homelessness in Portland
Aug 09, 2021
How Dutch Bros became an iconic Oregon company
Aug 02, 2021
The Obsession: Anatomy of a Murder
Jul 26, 2021
Oregon athletes begin cashing in on name, image, likeness rules
Jul 19, 2021
Portland's ongoing traffic violence and one woman's story
Jul 12, 2021
Recapping Top Chef Portland
Jul 08, 2021
Why the deadly heatwave is unlikely to be Oregon's last
Jul 05, 2021
Will Portland's red-hot housing market cool down?
Jun 28, 2021
Rep. Peter DeFazio on the transportation talks
Jun 21, 2021
Addiction in a pandemic, plus a post-COVID jaunt up Mount Tabor
Jun 14, 2021
Klamath crisis: 'There just isn't enough water to go around'
Jun 07, 2021
Janelle Bynum emerges as a police reform leader
May 31, 2021
Portland's protest movement 1 year later
May 24, 2021
Downtown Portland: Perception vs. Reality
May 17, 2021
Linfield University's many crises
May 10, 2021
Employment Department issues remain; Oregon's gets sixth Congressional district
May 03, 2021
A remarkable acquittal
Apr 26, 2021
With all Oregon adults eligible for COVID vaccines, who's actually getting them?
Apr 19, 2021
Portland tries to stem gun violence without adding police
Apr 12, 2021
Oregon State's change in management and the evolving culture of accountability
Apr 05, 2021
Meet some of Oregon's Black pioneers
Mar 30, 2021
Checking in on Nora, "The Loneliest Polar Bear"
Mar 22, 2021
Small moves toward normalcy in schools and restaurants
Mar 15, 2021
News roundtable: Oregon's economy, the pandemic and... is that optimism?
Mar 08, 2021
1 year of COVID in Oregon
Mar 01, 2021
Renee Watson, Portland-raised author, on her newest book
Feb 22, 2021
What's behind disparities in pandemic-era kindergarten enrollment?
Feb 15, 2021
A look at Multnomah County's reform-minded DA after 6 months on the job
Feb 08, 2021
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's second term off to an interesting start
Feb 01, 2021
Stuck in a snowstorm, Oregon health officials go car to car to ensure vaccine doses aren't wasted
Jan 28, 2021
The 'speck of light' a Biden presidency brings to Oregon Dreamers
Jan 25, 2021
When a fertility clinic, bankruptcy and COVID-19 collide
Jan 18, 2021
The slow COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Oregon
Jan 11, 2021
How has 2020 changed us?
Jan 04, 2021
Beat Check roundtable: A look back at 2020
Dec 28, 2020
Oregon's looming eviction and foreclosure crisis
Dec 21, 2020
One of Oregon's first vaccinated healthcare workers on the COVID-19 shot, the pandemic
Dec 17, 2020
What a serial stalker case says about Portland's police woes
Dec 14, 2020
The Seaside man who survived a great white shark attack
Dec 09, 2020
In a challenging year, help those who are making a difference
Dec 07, 2020
Oregon missed red flags at workplaces that became COVID-19 hotspots
Nov 30, 2020
Boy Scouts face 95,000 abuse claims in fallout from Portland case (rebroadcast)
Nov 23, 2020
The COVID-19 resurgence and Oregon’s new 'freeze'
Nov 16, 2020
What's in store for Portland's acclaimed food scene?
Nov 09, 2020
Oregon passed a historic drug decriminalization measure. Now what?
Nov 05, 2020
Election night recap: What went down in Oregon's biggest races
Nov 04, 2020
Explaining vote-by-mail, plus how we call election winners
Oct 26, 2020
Previewing the 2020 election
Oct 19, 2020
What's in store for Oregon's economy?
Oct 12, 2020
Portland mayoral debate: Ted Wheeler vs. Sarah Iannarone
Oct 09, 2020
The road ahead for southern Oregon cities devastated by the Almeda fire
Oct 05, 2020
TriMet's leader on the pandemic, wildfires, the future
Sep 28, 2020
Oregon's catastrophic fires: Covering the Clackamas County evacuations
Sep 21, 2020
Climate change, timber management and the 'unprecedented' wildfires
Sep 15, 2020
Santiam River survivors: How a Gates couple and their dogs escaped the wildfire
Sep 11, 2020
100 days of protests
Sep 07, 2020
'I'm a Brown man...you're white'
Sep 02, 2020
Oregon at 6 months into COVID-19 crisis
Aug 25, 2020
Shots fired: The story of 40 Portland police fatal shootings
Aug 18, 2020
Jim Tankersley of the New York Times
Aug 10, 2020
The predictable computer failure at the Oregon Employment Department
Aug 05, 2020
How an obscure public agency protects Oregon's timber industry
Aug 04, 2020
Covering the Portland protests: Feds, tear gas and the ‘powder keg’
Jul 30, 2020
Why people of color in Oregon are disproportionately hit by the coronavirus
Jul 22, 2020
Reopening — and renaming — Portland's schools
Jul 16, 2020
Toro Bravo's demise and Portland's restaurant reckoning
Jul 09, 2020
Portland State's police chief on being a Black police officer right now
Jul 06, 2020
UO’s anticipated new Hayward Field sits empty
Jun 29, 2020
Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty on what's next for police reform
Jun 22, 2020
How a forgotten timber tax cut cost Oregon billions
Jun 15, 2020
Beyond the protests
Jun 08, 2020
Turmoil at Oregon's Employment Department
Jun 01, 2020
The end of death row
May 25, 2020
Elections recap: Top takeaways on key races
May 21, 2020
Emily Powell on the future of Powell's Books
May 20, 2020
Remembering Mount St. Helens 40 years later
May 18, 2020
Students on the edge during the coronavirus pandemic
May 11, 2020
The road to reopening Oregon
May 08, 2020
Previewing Portland's action-packed City Council races, state politics
May 04, 2020
Tale of two assisted living centers at heart of the coronavirus pandemic
Apr 27, 2020
Oregon's poet laureate finds poetry in the pandemic
Apr 20, 2020
What we know and don't know about Oregonians with coronavirus
Apr 13, 2020
'Seabiscuit' author Laura Hillenbrand on her COVID-19 scare
Apr 10, 2020
Two sports reporters on a world without sports
Apr 06, 2020
Editor Therese Bottomly on covering the coronavirus and more
Mar 30, 2020
Coping through social distancing
Mar 25, 2020
Coronavirus: The educational, social and economic fallout in Oregon
Mar 23, 2020
Can Portland's restaurant scene weather the coronavirus?
Mar 18, 2020
Inside Italy's coronavirus lockdown; Oregon Legislative recap
Mar 15, 2020
Covering the coronavirus and the unknown
Mar 09, 2020
The coronavirus response in Oregon
Mar 04, 2020
Concordia University's catastrophic deal with one company
Mar 02, 2020
The fight for the Boy Scouts' secret abuse files
Feb 24, 2020
A Portland psychiatric hospital's struggles
Feb 17, 2020
Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn: A national crisis unfolds in Yamhill, Oregon
Feb 10, 2020
Will Republicans walk out of Salem again?
Feb 03, 2020
How Catlin Gabel school abuse scandal came to light
Jan 27, 2020
What to expect in Jeremy Christian's murder trial
Jan 20, 2020
Another leadership shuffle at Portland Police Bureau
Jan 13, 2020
Meet the daredevil driver of an Oregon speed racing team
Jan 06, 2020
Oregon's biggest stories of 2019: Gordon Sondland, Republican walkout and more
Dec 30, 2019
What's the best Portland brewery right now?
Dec 23, 2019
Will Oregon's economic good times continue to roll into 2020?
Dec 16, 2019
Vision Zero and Portland's surge in traffic fatalities
Dec 09, 2019
The man behind Darcelle XV, Portland's iconic drag queen
Dec 02, 2019
Brad Schmidt on his investigation into radon in public housing
Nov 25, 2019
Gordon Sondland goes to Washington
Nov 21, 2019
Ted Sickinger on Oregon's failing forests
Nov 18, 2019
Jeff Manning on Gordon Sondland
Nov 11, 2019
Molly Harbarger on a new approach to homeless camp cleanups
Nov 04, 2019
Tania Culver Humphrey: Mercy Corps, faith, and light amid the darkness
Oct 28, 2019
Michael Russell - An Interview with The Oregonian's food critic
Oct 21, 2019
Trailer
Oct 16, 2019