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A family waves at a teacher driving by during a pandemic parade for Elmonica Elementary families. COVID-19 has left many schools throughout Oregon short on teachers and staff, leading the state to relax standards for substitute teacher hiring. But many districts are not hiring those emergency substitute teachers.

Here's what happens when there's more demand than supply for substitute teachers in Oregon

Oregon schools have been hiring substitute teachers to help fill staff shortages due to COVID-19.

President Biden has said he plans to make his mind up about who to nominate to the Supreme Court by the end of February.

These are the people believed to be front-runners for Biden's Supreme Court pick

President Biden has pledged to choose a Black woman to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court — and the White House is looking at a broad list of potential candidates.

Ibrahim Songne, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, opened a pizza spot called IBRIS in the Italian town of Trento. He overcame local prejudices — and now has been named to a list of the world's top 50 pizzerias.

An African immigrant's pizza wins global raves — and overcomes Italian prejudices

Ibrahim Songne's pizza place triumphed over local anti-immigrant sentiments — and now has earned a spot on a worldwide top 50 pizza list! To think — he didn't even like pizza when he first tried it.

A patient sits in bed on the COVID-19 ward at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle earlier this month. COVID patients are filling up acute care units here and at hospitals across the country, even though omicron tends to cause milder cases.

Why omicron is crushing hospitals — even though cases are often milder than delta

People who get infected with omicron are less likely to go to the hospital, go on a ventilator or die. But with the current huge volume of patients, hospitals are still struggling to treat them all.

2019 Labor Day Specials

Labor Day finds most of the Exchange crew... not laboring. But we worked in advance to provide you with a couple of quality hours of interviews. At 8:…

As It Was: Editor Espouses White Supremacy in Grants Pass, Ore.

White supremacy had an outspoken advocate in backwater Grants Pass, Ore., between 1924 and 1927 in the form of a short-lived newspaper published by J.J.…

How To Manage Wolves Without Guns

Gray wolves are back in Western Oregon, which is celebrated by conservationists. Not everyone likes the return of wolves to the region, but they have to…

Old Scandal Becomes Modern Novel For Ashland Writer

Earlier generations of American readers thrilled to the tales of brave locomotive engineers on the railroads, the airline pilots of their day. A Rogue…

Exchange Exemplar: The Complexity Of The Old-Growth Ecosystem

Science has a better grasp over time of how old-growth forest ecosystems work. But the study area is relatively small, given how much of the ancient…

A volunteer barber cuts an unhoused person's hair at Trinity Church in Riverside. Those who are unhoused come once a week to the church where they are offered haircuts, clothes, food and a shower.

Will a worker shortage disrupt California's homeless strategy?

Burnout and COVID is causing California homeless service workers to leave. Low pay makes it difficult to recruit new ones. But they’re essential to the state’s plans to reduce homelessness.

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