Podcast Episodes

What A Non-Portlander Wants To Know About Portland

Usually, on the show, host Claudia Meza asks the questions. But today, David Plotz, co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest podcast and CEO of City Ca…

3 years, 3 months ago

What Portland’s ER Doctors Are Worried About

Oregon is officially in a COVID lull, but Portland’s hospitals are still struggling. Today on the show, Dr. Esther Choo, an ER doctor and associate p…

3 years, 3 months ago

A Day in the Life of a Portland Bridge Operator

Portlanders spend a lot of time crossing the 12 local Willamette River bridges. But have you ever wondered: who are the people in charge of lifting t…

3 years, 3 months ago

Why Walking in Portland Is So Dangerous

More pedestrians were killed by cars in Portland in 2022 than in any of the past 70 years. And a Multnomah County report a few years ago also found t…

3 years, 3 months ago

Is Portland Killing Its Food Cart Culture?

Food carts are easily the beating heart of Portland’s food culture, but they’re facing a new challenge. An Oregon law about managing wastewater went …

3 years, 3 months ago

Why Can’t Oregon Effectively Teach Children To Read?

A lot of Oregon students are having a hard time reading. We’re talking more than 60% of third graders and over half of seventh graders. But what if t…

3 years, 4 months ago

Has Portland’s Live Music Scene Fully Recovered?

January has been officially declared Portland Music Month. And now 21 venues have come together to put on hundreds of shows in a month-long music fes…

3 years, 4 months ago

When Will the Blazers Win a Championship?

Today on the show, Dia Miller from Shooting Hoops, a Trail Blazers podcast she co-hosts with Adam Drexler (yes, that’s Clyde Drexler’s son), is givin…

3 years, 4 months ago

The Best (And Worst) of Portland Dive Bars

The Portland dive bar scene is just built differently. 

It’s cold and wet here for a good chunk of the year, so when we seek refuge from the elements,…

3 years, 4 months ago

Where to Eat in Portland This Year

A lot of great new stuff is coming to Portland in the form of food. Brooke Jackson-Glidden, the editor of Eater Portland, gives us her top picks for …

3 years, 4 months ago