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Why Big Companies Don't Need To Make Or Own Things

One of our country's leading car-hire companies does not own the cars it hires. Likewise, some of the major players in the overnight lodging business do…

The FBI arrested Richard Harris in south Florida this month in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

3rd Oregon Man Arrested In Connection With US Capitol Insurrection

Richard Lee Harris was arrested on March 18. He's being held in Florida's Broward County Jail and facing charges in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Video from a Dec. 21 rally in Salem also appears to show him pushing a journalist outside the Oregon Capitol.

Palo Alto resident Margaret Park, 91, is accompanied by her son to the waiting area after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Levi’s Stadium on Feb. 9, 2021. The 49ers arena opened on Tuesday as a vaccine distribution site for Santa Clara County residents 65 and older and is expected to inoculate up to 15,000 people per day once supplies become available.

Vaccine Appointments In California May Be Backed Up For Several Weeks

The CEO of Blue Shield predicts it will take until the end of April to ease California’s backlog. “When you make millions of people eligible overnight, there’s not millions of appointments immediately available,” he told CalMatters.

Gov. Kate Brown shared a message Monday, March 29, the mark the "official" return to in-person instruction for Oregon students.

Oregon Governor Welcomes Students Back To In-Person Classes, Via Livestream

“Today, Oregon officially returns to in-person instruction, just one year after we closed school buildings,” Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Monday in a Facebook Live event.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC's director, said Monday that she is "scared" by the rising number of coronavirus cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States.

CDC Director Fears 'Impending Doom' If U.S. Opens Too Quickly

"Just please hold on a little while longer," said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, warning of a possible fourth surge. U.S. coronavirus cases are up 10% over the previous week.

At the funeral of the late congressman and civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., last year, former President Barack Obama called on the Senate to eliminate the filibuster, if needed, to secure voting rights.

Why Possibly Changing The Filibuster Brings Threats Of Political 'Nuclear' War

The procedure has evolved at many points in history, clearing breakthroughs on civil rights and a recent GOP judicial spree. Those issues show why the two parties see changing it now as existential.

As It Was: Groundwork on First Southern Oregon Railroad Begins in 1863

Railroad history in Southern Oregon is often thought to have had its beginnings in the 1880s, but the groundwork began nearly 20 years earlier. A…

A 2019 file photo of the the Oregon House of Representatives. The legislative body has canceled planned floor sessions for a week following two confirmed cases of COVID-19.

Oregon House Faces More Delays After Second Capitol COVID-19 Diagnosis

House Speaker Tina Kotek canceled two planned floor sessions Monday. Partisan disputes have already led to a backlog of bills in the chamber.

Syrian-American pianist and composer Malek Jandali, photographed on May 16, 2015 in Dubai.

Composer Malek Jandali Considers Syria's Civil War, A Decade On

A simple piece that composer Malek Jandali wrote in 2011 became inextricable from the early protests in Syria. For a decade now, that connection has informed and invigorated his life and work.

JPR Live Session: OK Go

With a career that includes award-winning videos, New York Times op-eds, a major label split and the establishment of a DIY trans-media mini-empire…

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