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The Jefferson Exchange

Jefferson PR

JPR's live interactive program devoted to current events and newsmakers from around the region and beyond.

Location:

Ashland, OR

Networks:

Jefferson PR

Description:

JPR's live interactive program devoted to current events and newsmakers from around the region and beyond.

Language:

English

Contact:

Jefferson Public Radio 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR 97520 541-552-6782


Episodes

A mother discovers homeless teens and works to help them

4/15/2024
Vicki Sokolik helps homeless teens and wrote about it - If You See Them: Young, Unhoused, and Alone in America.

Duration:00:30:28

Northern California youth advocates flock to Mendocino County to talk issues

4/15/2024
Youth Empowerment Summit coming to Mendocino County (April 20, 9:30 AM-2 PM).

Duration:00:15:39

Phoenix artist is guest Number One in new JPR program focusing on arts

4/12/2024
Artist Beca Blake is the subject of new arts program.

Duration:00:14:35

Oregon State's hemp center gets grant to work with tribes

4/11/2024
Oregon State University got a grant to work with Oregon tribes on hemp projects

Duration:00:15:30

As Tax Day approaches, an Oregon nonprofit floats an idea to change the 'kicker'

4/11/2024
Oregon Center for Public Policy wants higher-dollar kickers to go to lower-dollar earners

Duration:00:10:48

Jackson County continues to struggle with crowded and outdated animal shelter

4/11/2024
Jackson County Health & Human Services director talks about issues at the shelter.

Duration:00:14:58

Federal timber cuts in the BLM Medford District: The conservationist position

4/10/2024
Conservation groups challenging the Bureau of Land Managment's Integrated Vegetation Management plan.

Duration:00:15:13

Federal timber cuts in the BLM Medford District: The timber industry position

4/10/2024
Corey Bingaman, a field forester for American Forest Resource Council, joins us with the industry view of the BLM plans.

Duration:00:15:19

Water quality experts largely unconcerned about heavy Klamath River sediment

4/10/2024
The Klamath River is resettling and water quality is transforming as dams are removed.

Duration:00:09:41

A month to focus on people abused and neglected: 'Start by Believing"

4/9/2024
Community Works Domestic & Sexual Violence Resource Center is bringing several organizations together for an afternoon in Medford, April 16th, to get familiar with the services available in the area, and to get familiar with the Start By Believing campaign.

Duration:00:15:41

The man banished from Oregon for defending the native people

4/9/2024
Historian and archivist Jan Wright about her book on John Beeson, Oregon Outcast.

Duration:00:15:30

Native American students host powwow at Southern Oregon U

4/9/2024
Southern Oregon University Native American Student Union hosts a pow wow April 13- 14 2024

Duration:00:10:32

The people you never heard of, and how they changed reproductive rights in America

4/8/2024
Felicia Kornbluh book A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.

Duration:00:30:28

Snowpack is good, but researchers suggest new ways to measure it

4/8/2024
OSU researchers want to measure snowpack in a new way.

Duration:00:15:39

New Oregon law allows the removal of racist language from property deeds

4/4/2024
Oregon now has a law providing a process for people to remove racist language from deeds.

Duration:00:15:32

Underground History's sibling project gets infusion of federal funding

4/4/2024
The Oregon Chinese Diaspora Project based at the Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropologyreceives grant from federal government.

Duration:00:11:05

To the camps and back: 'From Thorns to Blossoms'

4/4/2024
Mitsuko Asai's book From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace.

Duration:00:15:00

Ashland closes homeless shelter, makes long-term plans for homeless people

4/3/2024
Ashland's homeless shelter is closed for now while the city works on a master plan.

Duration:00:15:12

Return visits with Southern Oregon homeless people finds more seniors on streets

4/3/2024
AllCare Health's work with Homeless people.

Duration:00:15:05

Spring planting (should we?) with the Native Plant Society

4/3/2024
The Siskiyou Chapter of the Native Plant Society of Oregon knows the indigenous plants of the region, and helps people find them, plant them, and enjoy them.

Duration:00:10:24