Julie Sabatier

1 month ago | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Jule Gilfillan |Brooke Herbert

Red-legged frogs cross a busy Portland highway with help from the “Frog Taxi.”There’s a population of Northern red-legged frogs that make their home in Portland’s Forest Park. In late winter and early spring, they come down to the nearby Harborton wetland to breed. There’s only one problem: the frogs have to cross Highway 30 to get from Forest Park to the wetland and back.

1 month ago | opb.org | Dirk Vander Hart |Julie Sabatier

OPB Politics NowOPB StaThe Oregon Legislature is racing toward a conclusion in the coming weeks. On this week’s episode of “OPB Politics Now,” we’re going to bring you a special episode from our OPB colleagues and friends at “The Evergreen” podcast. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at what our lives are like down at the state Capitol in Salem. Usually, OPB politics reporter Dirk Vanderhart is bringing you the news on this podcast. This week, you’re going to get a glimpse into how he finds it.

1 month ago | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Dirk Vander Hart

House Minority Leader Christine Drazan, R-Canby, and other GOP lawmakers address reporters in front of Oregon Department of Transportation headquarters. Right now, there’s a lot happening in the State Capitol that will affect all Oregonians in some way. And because it’s an odd-numbered year, which means the Oregon Legislature has a session that stretches from January to June, we’re nearing the busiest time of the legislative session.

2 months ago | opb.org | Julie Sabatier |Lillian Karabaic |Mia Estrada

Bryan Chamblin in a garbage truck at Pride Disposal on Feb. 28, 2025 in Sherwood, Ore. For our latest “At Work With” episode, where we talk to Pacific Northwesterners with interesting jobs and ask them your questions about what it’s like to do what they do, we bring you along as we visit a queseria where Mexican cheese is made, hit the streets at dawn with a garbage collector and meet a biologist whose job it is to protect birds at the airport.

2 months ago | opb.org | Julie Sabatier

A very small section of a large painting done by Van Le's late father, Le Quang Vinh, taken on March 27, 2025. Le and her uncle Allen Luong are coordinating a series of exhibits to showcase her father's paintings. This month marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. It’s also the anniversary of many Vietnamese families arriving to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest.