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China is now the biggest debt collector in the developing world, report says - OPB

1 week ago | opb.org | Scott Neuman

Developing countries owe billions to China, which threatens to undermine poverty reduction efforts and fuel instability, according to a new report from Australia's Lowy Institute.
As Trump targets elite schools, Harvard’s president says they should ‘stand firm’

1 week ago | opb.org | Steve Inskeep |Obed Manuel |Reena Advani

With elite U.S. universities in President Trump’s crosshairs, the leader of Harvard University says institutions need to double down on their “commitment to the good of the nation” and be firm in what they stand for. The Trump administration, acting on its claims that Harvard has failed to stamp out antisemitism on campus, froze more than $2 billion in research grants and contracts in April and attempted to revoke the school’s ability to enroll international students last week.
Renewed investigation leads to criminal charges against wife of Portland identity theft victim

1 week ago | opb.org | Kaylee Tornay

Multnomah County grand jury indicted the wife of a Portland woman on identity theft and forgery charges this month, a reversal after Portland police dropped its investigation last year because of a “lack of tangible leads.”Laura McCabe faces seven felony charges related to alleged identity theft against her wife, Danielle Del Prado, who told InvestigateWest her story in September after the criminal investigation stalled.
Eugene Chamber of Commerce calls the city’s new stormwater fee ‘a step in the right direction’

1 week ago | opb.org | Zac Ziegler

City of Eugene stormwater infrastructure in recently constructed in downtown Eugene in fall, 2024. An increase in the city's stormwater fee will help Eugene close about half of its budget shortfall.
Restoring the river’s memory: Quartz Creek project reconnects river for habitat and water quality

1 week ago | opb.org | Rachael McDonald

A view of Quartz Creek, where work is underway to clear the banks so that the water can spread out and meander. A major earth-moving project is underway along the McKenzie Highway east of Eugene-Springfield. The work is meant to restore the McKenzie River to its more meandering character to improve wildlife habitat and water quality. Like many rivers, the McKenzie and its tributaries have been engineered by humans to follow a desired path.
Portland added people last year for the first time since 2020, population estimates show

1 week ago | opb.org | Kyra Buckley

FILE - Portland, Ore., as seen from Pittock Mansion on June 8, 2021. Kristyna Wentz-Graff / OPBPortland’s population decline appears to be reversing. Estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau and Portland State University show the city’s population increased last year. It comes after shedding more than 10,000 people in the years immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘The Evergreen’: Portland’s ‘frog taxi’ helps amphibians cross the road

1 week 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.
How did George Floyd’s murder change policing and criminal justice? Three leaders reflect

2 weeks ago | opb.org | Michel Martin |Destinee Adams

A woman looks at a mural on the wall of Cup Foods during a vigil for George Floyd on May 25, 2022 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Stephen Maturen/Getty ImagesThe death of George Floyd lit a fire in the U.S. in the summer of 2020 — and the years that followed. Floyd died after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than 9 minutes. Images caught on cellphone video circulated around the world — moving millions to protest, demonstrate and march in the months following Floyd’s death.
How prescribed burns are reshaping Southern Oregon forests and communities

2 weeks ago | opb.org | Juliet Grable

On a Friday morning in early May, flames crawled up a mountainous slope above Highway 66 in the Green Springs near Ashland, Oregon. Smoke billowed above the road, nearly obscuring the people tending the fire: some wore official wildland fire gear, others dressed in jeans and t-shirts. But this wasn’t a wildfire — it was neighbors working together to protect their community.
Portlanders join nationwide action to commemorate 5th anniversary of George Floyd’s death

2 weeks ago | opb.org | Joni Auden Land

Dozens of people gathered at Revolution Hall in Southeast Portland on Saturday in remembrance of the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death. Multiple speakers at the event said there has not been enough reform since Floyd’s murder, despite widespread protesting and changes at the local level. “Black people are not people to be afraid of,” organizer Cameron Whitten said.