Jenn Chavez
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1 month ago |
opb.org | Jenn Chavez |Noah Thomas
Chris Foltz works on an ice sculpture with a chainsaw as team member Dean Murray looks on in Fairbanks, Alaska, in this photo from Feb. 20, 2023. The sculpture, called "The Wild Child," was the team's entry in the multiblock division of the 2023 World Ice Art Championships. You might encounter an ice sculpture of a swan at a fancy banquet, or an ice luge on a night out. But have you ever seen an 18-foot-tall punk baby with a mohawk made of ice?
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2 months ago |
opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Jenn Chavez |Mia Estrada |Lillian Karabaic
"Everyone thinks of every ice resurfacer as though it's Zamboni. Mine is an Engo," said Tanya March, who drives the Engo at the Lloyd Center Ice Rink on Dec. 18, 2024. In our “At Work With” series, OPB talks with Pacific Northwesterners about their interesting jobs and asks them your questions about what it’s like to do what they do.
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2 months ago |
opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Jenn Chavez
Yovana Benancio works with families experiencing homelessness to help them meet their basic needs and connect them with stable housing. Benancio stands outside the Path Home building on January 9, 2025. In some ways, people experiencing homelessness are very visible in Portland. But according to Yovana Benancio, families with children are often hidden. “No one knows the true number of the families and children that are in Multnomah County that are experiencing homelessness,” she said.
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Jan 13, 2025 |
opb.org | Jenn Chavez
Staff from the digital news outlet Ashland.news carried these picket signs in support of local news in Ashland's 2024 Fourth of July parade. The outlet's editor, Bert Etling, used to work for the Ashland Daily Tidings, a local newspaper that closed in 2023. That paper's former website has now been taken over by AI-generated content. Almost every day, new articles are being posted to the website of the Southern Oregon newspaper Ashland Daily Tidings, founded in 1876.
‘The Evergreen’: Oregon’s old forests keep getting cut down, despite Biden’s promise to protect them
Nov 18, 2024 |
opb.org | Mia Estrada |Jenn Chavez |McKenzie Funk
Reeder, left, and Madeline Cowen, an organizer with the environmental group Cascadia Wildlands, measure an old-growth tree in the Yellow Creek area. Leah Nash, special to ProPublicaOn Earth Day in 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect mature and old growth forests on federal lands. But more than two years later, these forests were still being cut under the Biden administration’s watch.
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