Think Out Loud

Think Out Loud

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OPB's daily conversation covering news, politics, culture and the arts. Hosted By Dave Miller.

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episode REBROADCAST - Classicist Mary Beard explains what we know and don’t know about ruling the Roman Empire artwork
REBROADCAST - Classicist Mary Beard explains what we know and don’t know about ruling the Roman Empire

Even though the Roman empire came to an end thousands of years ago, we still tell stories about the emperors who ruled during that time. From Caligula, who threatened to make his horse a senator, to Nero, who killed his own mother and set fire to the city to make room for his palace, classicist Mary Beard argues that the stories we tell about the Roman emperors might say more about us than they do about the emperors themselves. We spoke with Beard in October 2023 about her latest book, “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World,” which attempts to break down what we can actually know about the lives of the emperors and how they ruled.

I går - 52 min
episode Portland nonprofit helps fulfill ‘musical last wishes’ for people at end of life artwork
Portland nonprofit helps fulfill ‘musical last wishes’ for people at end of life

Swan Songs Portland [https://www.swansongs.org/portland] has a simple but powerful mission: to provide free, intimate concerts for people at the end of their lives and pay local musicians to perform them. The nonprofit fulfilled its first concert request last autumn when it hired a mariachi band to play for a person terminally ill with cancer, surrounded by her friends and family. It is the first affiliate of Swan Songs [https://www.swansongs.org/about], which was founded in Austin, Texas 20 years ago.   Currently serving Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties, SSP has nearly 50 musicians – and growing –  it can call on short notice to perform an array of requested musical styles, from Beethoven to Bob Dylan-esque folk and rock. Jim Friscia is Swan Songs Portland’s board president and concert planner. Karyn Thurston is a musician and  board member of SSP who performs with her partner, Ben Grace, in the folk music duo Story & Tune. They join us, along with Terri Burton, who had requested a concert for her dying mother that Grace performed earlier this year.

03. jul. 2025 - 22 min
episode Why hundreds of millions in federal relief for 2020 Oregon fire victims remains unspent artwork
Why hundreds of millions in federal relief for 2020 Oregon fire victims remains unspent

Oregon got a huge federal grant after the devastating 2020 Labor Day fires left thousands of people without homes, as Nigel Jaquiss reported for the Oregon Journalism Project, but most of it still remains unspent. In Southern Oregon, Representative Pam Marsh, D-Ashland, has been talking with the Oregon Housing and Community Services, the state agency in charge of getting the money to people who need it. The director of OHCS, Andrea Bell, says all the money is now committed to various projects and is working with her agency to speed the process. Bell and Marsh  join us to tell us more about who has gotten this federal aid, who is still waiting and how they’re each thinking about the potential disaster threats from future fire seasons.

03. jul. 2025 - 13 min
episode Oregon Democratic Rep. Maxine Dexter on Medicaid cuts in GOP tax and spending bill artwork
Oregon Democratic Rep. Maxine Dexter on Medicaid cuts in GOP tax and spending bill

After a marathon session on Wednesday night, Republican lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are poised to pass a massive tax and spending bill which President Trump has said he wants to sign on July 4. On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate passed their version of the bill after a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance. The bill passed by the Senate is expected to add $3.3 trillion to the federal deficit, according to the Congressional Budget Office, while making steep cuts to Medicaid benefits to help pay for trillions of dollars in tax cuts.    In Oregon, roughly 1 in 3 residents get their insurance through Medicaid. According to Oregon Health Authority’s Medicaid director Emma Sandoe, an estimated  100,000 to 200,000 Oregonians could lose their Medicaid benefits [https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/04/republican-tax-bill-could-slash-billions-for-oregon-health-plan-state-officials-say/] under the bill. On Wednesday, Gov. Tina Kotek and former Gov. John Kitzhaber, the architect of Oregon’s state Medicaid program, urged U.S. Rep. Cliff Bentz [https://www.opb.org/article/2025/07/02/kotek-kitzhaber-oregon-cliff-bentz-republican-rep-vote-against-medicaid/]of Oregon’s 2nd Congressional District to vote against the bill. Bentz is the sole Republican member of Oregon’s Congressional delegation and roughly 40% of the residents in his district are enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan. Democratic U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter of Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District is a pulmonary and critical care physician by training who testified against the bill on Capitol Hill and introduced amendments to it [https://dexter.house.gov/media/press-releases/republicans-block-dexters-amendments-protect-medicaid-food-assistance-clean]which were blocked by Republicans. She joins us to talk about the impacts of the Medicaid cuts for Oregonians and the new work and recertification requirements for Medicaid enrollees. “Think Out Loud” also made multiple attempts to request Rep. Bentz to participate in this conversation.

03. jul. 2025 - 16 min
episode What the Mississippi River can learn from the Columbia and vice versa artwork
What the Mississippi River can learn from the Columbia and vice versa

Last week, stakeholders from the Upper Mississippi River toured the Columbia and Snake River to see what is similar and different from the two water systems. Last year, stakeholders from the Pacific Northwest visited the Mississippi in this continued collaboration [https://capitalpress.com/2025/05/02/mississippi-river-stakeholders-to-tour-columbia-snake/] between the two rivers. Michelle Hennings is the executive director of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers. Gary Williams is the executive director of the Upper Mississippi Waterway Association. They both join us to share what the Columbia and Mississippi River can learn from each other.

02. jul. 2025 - 12 min
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