Exactly what caused Twitter to reclassify NPR as "state-affiliated media" earlier this month remains a mystery.

“What are the physical spaces where people come together and share information in your community?” That’s one question from a new report about access to information in Southern Oregon. It’s being published in April by researchers and students at the University of Oregon’s Agora Journalism Center.

The recent shakeup of the newspaper business in the Rogue Valley has created quite a stir.

In October, before the election, I covered a story about election deniers and claims of voting irregularities in Southern Oregon and Northern California.

The year 2023 might be the last year I write this column.

After six years writing about theatre for the Jefferson Journal, it’s time for me to bow out and to leave the stage.

On Sept. 2, 2022 a fire erupted in the Roseburg Forest Products mill in Weed, California. Over the course of this devastating fire, it burned thousands of acres and leveled more than 100 structures. Much of that loss was in Lincoln Heights, a historically Black neighborhood dating to the 1920s.

As we turn the page on another year, JPR’s service to the region continues to evolve.

After the announcement that charges against April would be dismissed or dropped, one social media post suggested that April should have followed the orders of police that day as a way of showing “respect for police officers … trying to do a dangerous job.”

While JPR listeners get a monthly dose of archaeology, for many people archaeology still equals Egyptian pyramids, faraway lands, lassos, and fancy hats.