Emerging from a brief social media disengagement - which I highly recommend - with some professional news: I've started a new job as the Pacific Northwest bureau chief for The New York Times. Looking for story ideas, news alerts, background info, pet theories, restaurant recs, travel tips etc.

Lost Patients is a stupendous piece of reporting. And I edited Salmon Wars, so … oh hey, wow, that’s so cool! Yay us!

Happy opening day to all who celebrate. If you need me over the next seven months, you can find me worshiping at the Church of Baseball.

"In interviews with OPB, almost a dozen current and former Forest Service employees said they feared this loss of workers will be catastrophic for the fire season ahead."

How much news has been happening during the Trump administration? OPB's Tiffany Camhi takes a look at just one area: education. 20 major policy changes in the first 30 days.

Have information you think the public should know about the Census Bureau or other parts of the federal government? I'm a @npr.org correspondent who's available via the encrypted messaging app Signal at hansi.01

The best thing about the Super Bowl is that it means baseball is near.

Right now summed up in one story: www.opb.org/article/2025...

I would like to read a scientific study analyzing the strange phenomenon in which people get in line at an airport Starbucks and completely forget how to order coffee.

Joking aside, I kinda think this is exactly how you want important votes over leadership to go with the new-and-maybe-improved-who-actually-knows-for-sure Portland City Council. Messy but mostly in the open? With the political and philosophical lines clear to everyone paying attention?

I like to imagine Ted Wheeler, Charlie Hales, Sam Adams, Tom Potter and the ghost of Vera Katz are sitting in a bar somewhere watching this together. And laughing. So hard.

Are you like me, and you're feeling very, very tired headed into the end of the year, and then you edited this smart rundown of all the big PNW news from 2024, and then you felt even more very, very tired but at least remembered why?

Rene Gonzalez, who came into office as a city commissioner largely on a platform of being supportive of Portland police, has now threatened to sue the city because police have not made an arrest in an arson case involving his father's car.

This would hurt us at OPB, but it was absolutely decimate smaller public media orgs in rural areas. If I was a cynic, I’d say that is maybe part of the plan: remove anything that isn’t non-mainstream propagandist media in places that already tilt right. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/b...

This story is the best thing I've edited all week. “I just hope everybody’s kind to me next year and nobody is bullying me,” wished 9-year-old Crosby.

"City officials throughout Oregon say they need more leeway to clear homeless camps as the state grapples with a housing crisis that shows no signs of abating. Now they’re taking aim at a 2021 law they say stands in their way."

OK, so he got one thing right.

Weird day to be a Tar Heel.

If you missed it, here's the OPB story www.opb.org/article/2024... Also, if you care about REAL local news and journalism, you should support the outlets you care about. bikeportland.org/support

This is your reminder to listen to Hush — the best show you've never heard because, well, @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and I are lower class podcasters: www.opb.org/show/hush/

This is the worst Terminator sequel yet.

With Literary Arts and Mother Foucault’s both moving to locations across the street from each other on SE Grand, we’re close to seeing a bookstore district emerge www.wweek.com/arts/books/2...

The actual people hurt by decisions like this would be the smallest stations in rural areas that depend more heavily on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The biggest value of public media over the past 2 decades is serving growing news deserts where for profit media has collapsed.

Probably one of the biggest environmental discussions in the waning days of the Biden administration is what will happen with Oregon's Owyhee Canyonlands.

This is getting very bad.

Thoughtful look at the science around water fluoridation and the politics of it in Oregon, the third-least fluoridated state. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...

Oregon now has 100,000 electric vehicles on the road, a sharp increase from just a few years ago, but also less than half of the state's goal by the end of next year.

Just a reminder to the tens of thousands of Oregon residents who buy their own health insurance. Open enrollment runs Nov. 1 through Jan. 16. But you need to sign up by Dec. 15 to have coverage starting Jan. 1.

As an e-bike rider, I believe this is true, except it's also quite possible every current e-bike rider dies first because our cities cannot keep the danged bike lanes free of leaves.

As a massive project to build a new bridge across the Columbia River comes closer to reality, the residents of Hayden Island say they're going to get the shortest straw.

Small bit of career news. (Do we do that here? Is ‘career news’ rather than ‘personal news’ what we collectively decided back in the Bad Place?) Very excited to go get smarter & come up with new ways to serve OPB’s audience, and yes, I know I need a new headshot.

We've got a great job closing soon at OPB: acoordinating editor to run the Northwest News Network, a collaboration of public media orgs across the Pacific Northwest. Msg me at [email protected] if you are interested or know someone who might be a good candidate workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau....

I've been on Bluesky one day, and the content is already so relevant to my life. (Listen to the Yankees and the Mariners on the radio, consistently disappointed by both teams.)

Oh, hello. Fancy meeting you here. It's going to take me a while to be convinced you're not all Russian bots designed to undermine my trust in civic institutions while also feeding my dopamine addiction for clicks. (I'm not scarred at all by the past few years. NOT AT ALL.)