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More than 2,500,000 acres have burned so far during Oregon’s record-breaking wildfire season. Earlier this summer, smoke from the wildfires led to air quality advisories being issued across most of the state, including in Southern Oregon.    John D. Sutter, an independent climate journalist and assistant professor of environmental media at the University of Oregon, traveled to the region in July for a reporting assignment for The Guardian. He headed to Josephine County, which was tied with Trinity County in California for the highest number of deaths linked to wildfire smoke during a 15-year period ending in 2020, according to a study published last year in the journal Nature.    Sutter spent a week hearing from dozens of residents in places like Cave Junction and Grants Pass, from frontline healthcare workers to medically vulnerable seniors and business owners. Sutter joins us to share some of those perspectives and the toll worsening wildfire smoke is taking on the tight-knit communities he visited and wrote about in his recently published story.   

Eight candidates are running for Josephine County commissioner, Seat 2. Mark Jones and Matt Eide offer their ideas for county leadership.

Six candidates are running for Josephine County commissioner. Two outline competing visions on homelessness, economic growth and local governance.

Four candidates in the Josephine County commissioner race, Seat 2, outline sharply different views on homelessness, government spending and public trust.

Three candidates for Josephine County commissioner outline competing views on spending, public trust, economic development and homelessness ahead of the May primary.

Commissioner Chris Barnett joins the show from Josephine County, we discuss SIGNGATE, why voters should NOT vote to recall him, what happens next on the board. Later I talk with former Sen. Baertschiger who is in the running for Co. Commissioner.

A tale of two Former Senators, Alan DeBoer discussing the Ashland Community Hospital closing controversy, Herman Baertschiger talks the medical challenge, too, and who is running Josephine County - no one ( at the moment)

Joe Knowles' wilderness-survival demonstration had been a huge success, and made him famous. But he'd been dogged by rumors that he cheated. Now, a continent away, he was going to redeem his reputation with a second try ... in Oregon. (Holland, Josephine County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1812e.joe-knowles-survival-guru-528.html)

The city business leaders hoped the Shakespeare Festival would do OK, but just in case it tanked, they insisted that it share the stage with a series of prizefights. The boxing matches bombed badly; luckily, the Shakespeare plays did not. (Ashland, Josephine County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1704a.shakespeare-festival-vs-boxing.html)

America's high-poverty cities and counties have suffered for decades, enduring skyrocketing inequality, the opioid epidemic, rising housing costs, and widespread disinvestment. Governments have offered a variety of failed solutions, from luring wealthy outsiders to slashing public services. But four communities are turning inward instead: Stockton, California; rural Josephine County, Oregon; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Detroit, Michigan. In these diverse places—all of which went broke in the wake of the Great Recession—locals are building networks and trust in one another and their institutions, to promote health, wealth, and opportunity. In Stockton, this meant designing organizations to help residents cope with trauma. In Josephine County, people convinced freedom-loving, government-averse voters to increase taxes. Lawrence is building a new model to secure living wages. Detroit is battling to stabilize low-income housing. What did these strategies look and feel like on the ground? How can other struggling places borrow from their playbooks? And what can the rest of the country do to support towns as they try to help themselves? Stanford Law School's Michelle Wilde Anderson, winner of the 2023 Zócalo Book Prize for The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America, visits Zócalo to talk with Alberto Retana, president and CEO of South L.A.'s Community Coalition, about how a place with the odds against it can draw on historic strengths and resilient residents to thrive. Zócalo Public Square is proud to award the 2023 Zócalo Poetry Prize to Paige Buffington for her poem "From 20 Miles Outside of Gallup, Holbrook, Winslow, Farmington, or Albuquerque." The 2023 Zócalo Book and Poetry Prizes are generously sponsored by Tim Disney. Visit www.zocalopublicsquare.org/ to read our articles and learn about upcoming events. Follow along on X: twitter.com/thepublicsquare Instagram: www.instagram.com/thepublicsquare/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/zocalopublicsquare LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/z-calo-public-square

Michael Sellers, Director of Operations for Josephine County is on to clear the air regarding compensation, contracts, transparency and other allegations raised by Simon Hare. Open phones, D62 quiz and more follow.

By 1899, when Samuel L. Simpson's drinking problem finally got around to killing him, he was essentially Oregon's poet laureate — the Stewart Holbrook of the 1800s. But thirty years earlier, he was just another fresh-faced lawyer, just out of Willamette University's law school. He'd moved to Portland to open his practice, and now he was sitting at his desk in his brand-new office in Portland, sipping a glass of rye and waiting for his first client to walk in the door. No one did. There were just too many lawyers in Portland in 1868. Fresh out of law school, with no social connections, Sam just didn't have a chance. But finally the door did open, and somebody stepped inside. It wasn't a client, though. It was one of the other residents in the boardinghouse he was staying in, a greenhorn from Chicago named Ted Harper. And Harper had a proposition: He wanted Sam to close up his law office and come to Southern Oregon with him. They would spend the summer hunting for a certain ruined cabin with an immense hoard of gold buried inside, deep in the wilderness south of Jacksonville, in a hidden valley boxed in by steep cliffs. Only problem was, Harper didn't know exactly where the valley was. It was possible that they'd search all summer and get nothing for their pains. But Harper did have a letter giving partial directions to the cabin, which his cousin — who'd built the cabin and buried the gold — had dropped dead in the middle of writing. Simpson agreed to the scheme. He was brand new in the law business, had no clients and very few prospects; a summer in the woods, a possible fortune – sure, why not? (Siskiyou Mountains, Josephine County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/20-05b.sam-simpson-lost-cabin-gold.html)

Wild with grief over the death of one daughter, and convinced he had seduced her other daughter, Caroline Briggs attacked schoolteacher John Dalmater in front of his class, shouting 'Shoot the son of a bitch' -- and her son, who'd accompanied her, did so. This episode is being posted a day early just in case we lose connectivity in the forecasted thunder/hailstorm later today. (Kerbyville, Josephine County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1808b.caroline-and-david-briggs-UL-murder-508.html)

Thomas Condon didn't set out to become a geologist; he was a Congregationalist minister with a hobby of collecting fossils. And although over the years his hobby took over, he never lost touch with his ministerial kindliness. (Oregon Caves, Josephine County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1610e.thomas-condon-oregon-caves-415.html)

On Jan. 6, Josephine County Commissioners voted to terminate the lease of the Grants Pass central library. Commissioners have since said they simply want to renegotiate the $1-a-year lease of the county-owned building. This comes after a legal battle last year over whether residents could opt out of the library’s special tax district. It also follows a period of 10 years in which the library system was run by a nonprofit and volunteers, rather than by the county. Josephine County Commissioner Chris Barnett and Jennifer Roberts, president of the Grants Pass Friends of the Library, join us to fill us in.

According to legend, the Triskett Gang underestimated the citizens of Sailors' Diggins, which became a fatal error when they went on a shooting spree downtown. But the $75,000 they stole (if true) has never been recovered. (Waldo, Josephine County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1106d-gold-field-bandits-loot-has-never-been-found.html)

Pat Fahey, candidate for Josephine County responds to the John West conversation from Friday, the recall, parts of the talk he disagreed with. Melissa Henson later from ParentsTV dot org - new study shows big improvements with no cells in school.

Sleep in Heavenly Peace Josephine County chapter leaders talk about building beds

The Supreme Court is soon expected to decide Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case where a town's efforts to remove unhoused people from its parks became “cruel and unusual,” according to lower courts. Guest: Dr. Bruce Murray, chief medical officer for the Mobile Integrative Navigation Team (MINT) in Josephine County, Oregon. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Supreme Court is soon expected to decide Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case where a town's efforts to remove unhoused people from its parks became “cruel and unusual,” according to lower courts. Guest: Dr. Bruce Murray, chief medical officer for the Mobile Integrative Navigation Team (MINT) in Josephine County, Oregon. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Supreme Court is soon expected to decide Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case where a town's efforts to remove unhoused people from its parks became “cruel and unusual,” according to lower courts. Guest: Dr. Bruce Murray, chief medical officer for the Mobile Integrative Navigation Team (MINT) in Josephine County, Oregon. Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josephine County Commissioners, unhappy with the 4-H program, did not collect the property tax that provides the regular income for extension in the county.

A Canadian company bought rights to mine nickel at Eight Dollar Mountain in the Illinois Valley. Conservationists have concerns.

Stop Bigger Government counters the case for changes to the Jackson County Board of Commissioners.

Charles Fiester lay there on his cot, eyes open, staring at nothing, pretending to be catatonic, for 515 days ... knowing that when his ruse was discovered, he'd be hanged. (Kerby, Josephine County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1803a.fiester-murderer-faked-insanity-515-days-485.html)

 The Grants Pass City Council recently passed an ordinance limiting the amount of time homeless service organizations can spend helping unhoused people in city parks and on other public property. Service providers would have to register with the city and provide data on the number of people they serve. The ordinance still needs the mayor’s signature to become law.  Sara Bristol is the mayor of Grants Pass, and Cassy Leach is the executive director of MINT, a homeless services provider that serves Josephine County. They both join us to talk about the ordinance and the challenges facing unhoused people in the region.

Mike Pelfrey discusses his success at getting Josephine County to pull his property out of the library district. COuld this be a trend? Later Mark Hutto from J. Austin, Fortune Reserve Dot Com talks about the gold market trends.

We are taking a quick break from our usually scheduled programming due to sickness, so in this super short episode I'm heading off on a solo venture where we examine 3 missing persons cases from Oregon. Join me to see if we can find answers for the family and friends of Cynthia Martinez, Michael Bryson and Fauna Frey.  Sources:14 months after his disappearance, Michael Bryson's family and friends still actively searching from The Spokesman-ReviewMichael Bryson from DisappearedTwo years after Cynthia Martinez vanished, her family still searches for answers from Statesman JournalCynthia Crystal Martinez from NamUsWhat Happened to Fauna Frey? New Clues Uncovered from Newsweek (car photos can be seen in this article)Family, friends continue desperate search for missing Oregon woman Fauna Frey who disappeared in June from NBC News2 years after Fauna Frey went missing, Josephine Co. authorities are still searching from NBC NewsThe Disappearance of Fauna Frey from DisappearedFauna Frey, Last Seen in Grants Pass, Oregon, Still Missing After Four Years from That Oregon LifeListen to the Here One Minute, Gone the Next PodcastSee a list of Missing Women in Josephine County according to Oregon.govSee ya next Wednesday! Intro/Outro Music: A Creepy Music from Music UnlimitedInstagram: @wickedwithinpodcastWebsite: wickedwithinpodcast.com

Cat Bonney has lived in Oregon most of her life, with a brief stint in Texas, So Cal and a year overseas. She's had her own commercial/graphic arts business since college — which she started out of a desire to NOT remain at the college-assigned job in the kitchen, having to wake early to make breakfast for all of her college peers… After college, she came home for a two-week vacation, expecting to return to Texas,  but during that time, her plans changed due to a health crisis with her boss. Liking the climate here and her mom living close,  she decided to make Southern Oregon her permanent home. Cat and her wife live on the family ranch with a dog and a couple of cats, not to mention the neighborly sheep, cows and llama for security. Along with their marketing business, Webb Mountain Arts, and her contract as the Executive Director of a local non-profit, Common Connections, Cat is using her years of real estate appraisal experience to help Common Connections and Mid Rogue Foundation (another local non-profit) to manage the Housing Repair & Rehabilitation Program for low and moderate income homeowners in Josephine County. She is also an avid volunteer in various community programs, and as a business owner, she's involved in the Grants Pass & Josephine County Chamber of Commerce. Cat truly believe's that to make our community the way we want it, we must be involved at a personal level. For more on Cat's work, checkout the links below! Common Connections – http://www.commonconnections.org/ Webb Mountain Arts – http://www.WebbMountainArts.com

Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, just-impeached Texas Attorney General Paxton sued Dem stronghold Harris County in 2020 to block the use of universal mail-in ballots, and he's bragging about it.Then, on the rest of the menu, after one hundred fifteen years, the Josephine County, Oregon Board of Supervisors defunded 4-H for being Woke; Tuberville's national security adviser resigned after a report on his role in stalling military promotions; and, a California judge dismissed all charges against Pacific Gas & Electric in connection to a 2020 fatal wildfire that destroyed hundreds of homes and killed four people, including an 8-year-old.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a priceless painting looted by Nazis during World War II has returned to Poland from Japan; and, an unprecedented wildfire on Canada's Atlantic coast is still burning after five days.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851Metro Shrimp & Grits3 cups water2 teaspoons salt1 cup coarsely ground grits2 cups whole milk2 pounds uncooked 22 to 26 count shrimp, peeled and deveinedsalt to taste1 pinch hot smoked Hungarian paprika, or to taste1 lemon, zest and juiced2 tablespoons lemon thyme1 pound andouille sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices5 slices hickory smoked bacon1 medium green bell pepper, chopped1 medium red bell pepper, chopped1 medium yellow bell pepper, chopped1 cup chopped onion1 teaspoon minced garlic¼ cup butter¼ cup all-purpose flour1 cup chicken broth1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce1 cup shredded sharp Tillamook Cheddar cheeseBring water and 2 teaspoons salt to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk grits into the boiling water, and then whisk in half-and-half. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, until grits are thickened and tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Set aside and keep warm.Sprinkle shrimp with salt and hot smoked paprika to taste. Add lemon juice, toss to combine, and set aside to marinate.Place sausage slices in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring occasionally, until browned, 5 to 8 minutes. Remove sausage from the skillet.Add bacon to the same skillet and increase heat to medium-high. Cook until evenly browned, about 5 minutes per side. Transfer bacon to paper towels to drain, then chop or crumble when cool enough to handle. Leave bacon drippings in the skillet.Add bell peppers, onion, and garlic to the bacon drippings; cook and stir until onion is translucent, about 8 minutes.Stir cooked sausage and marinated shrimp into the skillet with the cooked vegetables. Turn off the heat and set aside.Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Whisk in flour, stirring to create a smooth roux. Turn heat to low and cook, stirring constantly, until mixture is golden brown in color, 8 to 10 minutes.Pour the roux over the sausage, shrimp, and vegetables. Place the skillet over medium heat, add chicken broth, bacon, and Worcestershire sauce, and stir to combine. Cook until sauce thickens up and shrimp turn opaque and bright pink, about 8 minutes.Just before serving, mix sharp Cheddar cheese into grits until melted and grits are creamy and light yellow. Serve shrimp mixture over cheese grits. Sprinkle lemon zest and lemon thyme over shrimp and grits.Bon Appétit!JP

The city business leaders hoped the Shakespeare Festival would do OK, but just in case it tanked, they insisted that it share the stage with a series of prizefights. The boxing matches bombed badly; luckily, the Shakespeare plays did not. (Ashland, Josephine County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1704a.shakespeare-festival-vs-boxing.html)

Reimagining Discarded America. Michelle Wilde Anderson, author and Larry Kramer Professor of Law at Stanford School of Law, joined the podcast to talk about her book, The Fight to Save the Town. She highlighted and discussed the chapters related to Stockton, CA; Josephine County, OR; Lawrence, MA; and Detroit, MI. Host: Lauren Palmer  

Joe Knowles' wilderness-survival demonstration had been a huge success, and made him famous. But he'd been dogged by rumors that he cheated. Now, a continent away, he was going to redeem his reputation with a second try ... in Oregon. (Holland, Josephine County; 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1812e.joe-knowles-survival-guru-528.html)

Chris is a family and work focused person, looking to make the most of my days, all of them. He is excited about the potential of Woodland Charter and the direction it is headed. It is a positive educational organization with many motivated families and supporters who are helping the school continue to grow and thrive and a vision for beauty, purpose and excellence. The students at Woodland are so joyful, and excited about the learning and community it provides. And it is the students that surround us all with such hope and such purpose everyday. Chris enjoys biking, running, hiking and healthy cooking with local agriculture. He also loves to explore all the county parks for disc golf, playgrounds, hikes, river access and berry picking. Chris recently connected with Barnstormers Theater to act in The Christmas Story with his middle son Kai. We play lots of games as a family, love to play, and be together. Josephine County is a great backdrop for this! Another great thing about being in Southern Oregon is the fact that I get to spend my work day with my children. I take them to work each day, and I get to see them being school children, then take them home. We really love the 3 day weekends, and it does create an amazing work life balance, and allows us to enjoy exploring this lovely region, playing outside and inside. We do work hard everyday at Woodland Charter School, I am committed to being a hard working school leader and my children are committed to being hard working students. Recently I connected Woodland Charter School with Mt. Ashland and we have a Youth Ski Program that takes place on Fridays in January and February. Cathedral Hills Trail - Grants Pass Rogue Community College Limpy Creek - Redwood Hwy Dollar Mountain Trail - Grants Pass Grants Pass Grower's Market Iguana Comics - Grants Pass Oregon Books - Grants Pass Old Town Antique Mall - Grants Pass Second Chance Thrift Store - Grants Pass Josephine County Library True Juice - Grants Pass Ma Mosa's Restaurant - Grants Pass Tamales Con Alma Cocina - Grants Pass

Wild with grief over the death of one daughter, and convinced he had seduced her other daughter, Caroline Briggs attacked schoolteacher John Dalmater in front of his class, shouting 'Shoot the son of a bitch' -- and her son, who'd accompanied her, did so. (Kerbyville, Josephine County; 1870s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1808b.caroline-and-david-briggs-UL-murder-508.html)

Thomas Condon didn't set out to become a geologist; he was a Congregationalist minister with a hobby of collecting fossils. And although over the years his hobby took over, he never lost touch with his ministerial kindliness. (Oregon Caves, Josephine County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1610e.thomas-condon-oregon-caves-415.html)

Brandy works as a Case Manager and JoCo Team Lead with Maslow Project in Grants Pass where the goal is to empower homeless youth and families to engage and thrive independently, in all aspects of life, by providing supports that stabilize and strengthen resiliency. She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology at Portland State. Brandy is also on the leadership team of the Equity Project of Josephine County functioning as the secretary. She was born in California and moved to Southern Oregon when she was 3 years old, moved to CA for a few years and has now found herself back in OR. Brandy enjoys training horses and hanging out with her red heeler dog. JCEP Mission: *Increase the accessibility and impact of Josephine County-based equity activities *Inspire collaborative action and mutual support *Amplify the voices of marginalized community members *Raise awareness about systemic inequities *Build community and connectivity. Jackson County Maslow Project: 541-608-6608 Donations needed: Sleeping bags, tents, warm clothing,etc. Brandy Stromme @ Josephine County Maslow Project - 541-841-1974 Project Youth+ Grants Pass Equity Project of Josephine County Facebook Page joco@equityproject.com Cathedral Hills Trail System - Grants Pass Pacifica - A Garden in the Siskiyous - Williams Josephine County Fish Hatchery

Kelli Kennedy, mother of an assault victim student at Hidden Valley H.S. in Josephine County. We discuss, she raises her concerns. Later, candidate for Jo County Sheriff, Jonathan Knapp. We dig into his background, how to fund, run the dept.

Decades of cuts to local government amidst rising concentrations of poverty have wreaked havoc on communities left behind by the modern economy. Some of these discarded places are rural. Others are big cities, small cities, or historic suburbs. Some vote blue, others red. Mostly, their governments are just broke. Stanford Law School Professor Michelle Wilde Anderson says that 40 years after the anti-tax revolution began protecting wealthy taxpayers and their cities, high-poverty cities and counties have run out of services to cut, properties to sell, bills to defer, and risky loans to take. In The Fight to Save the Town, Anderson traveled to four blue-collar communities that are poor, broke, and progressing—Stockton, California; Josephine County, Oregon; Lawrence, Massachusetts; and Detroit, Michigan. She shares how networks of local leaders and residents are coming together to face this crisis head on and working toward innovative solutions to deal with pressing issues, including gun violence, housing and unemployment. Hear more about the fight to save our communities at the local level and create wealth equity for all. SPEAKERS Michelle Wilde Anderson Professor of Property, Local Government, and Environment Justice, Stanford Law School; Author, The Fight to Save the Town: Reimagining Discarded America In Conversation with Pamela Karlan Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law and a Founder and Co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Stanford Law School. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on September 19th, 2022 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By 1899, when Samuel L. Simpson's drinking problem finally got around to killing him, he was essentially Oregon's poet laureate — the Stewart Holbrook of the 1800s. But thirty years earlier, he was just another fresh-faced lawyer, just out of Willamette University's law school. He'd moved to Portland to open his practice, and now he was sitting at his desk in his brand-new office in Portland, sipping a glass of rye and waiting for his first client to walk in the door. Finally the door did open, and somebody stepped inside.... (Siskiyou Mountains, Josephine County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/20-05.sam-simpson-lost-cabin-gold.html)

The “lost cabin gold mine” is a certifiable Western trope. If every ounce of legendary gold buried in an old log cabin became real and hit the banks at the same time, it would probably crash the international markets. They make for fantastic stories, though. And often the gold isn't the only thing being hidden. Plus, of course, the fact that they might — just might — be real adds a distinctive spice to them. One of the most interesting and colorful Lost Cabin Gold Mine stories is the one that supposedly took place in the hills south of Jacksonville in 1853. In this case, it's not a mine that's been lost — it's a vault: a small stone-lined crypt stuffed with millions of dollars' worth of freshly dug gold, and guarded by whatever remains of the skeletons of two long-dead men. (Siskiyou Mountains, Josephine County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/20-05.sam-simpson-lost-cabin-gold.html)

Nestled on the banks of the Rogue River, in Josephine County, there is a farm owned by a woman who, about 10 years ago as her friends sought their professional paths in Portland, she knew her place was in the cannabis culture of Southern Oregon. Today she operates an all-organic, environmentally sustainable, community-orientated business, and, even with the challenges facing the industry right now, her life is not only great... it's Güd! This episode, we speak with Jessica Clements, owner and operator of Güd Gardens

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Michelle Wilde Anderson is an award-winning Professor at Stanford Law School and an expert on poverty, inequality, and local government. Her new book The Fight to Save the Town (published by Simon and Schuster in June 2022) prominently features Josephine County as she describes signs of progress in places in America with high poverty and broke governments (the book also looks at Stockton, CA, Lawrence, MA, and Detroit, MI).   In this episode, Michelle provides a portrait of Josephine County and the people who live there--and what makes the place so interesting. We talk about the origin of poverty in southern Oregon, the caliber of people running for local office, and how communities provide "public safety" when the government fails to. Perhaps most importantly for our listeners, we talk about the lessons we can learn from Josephine County, a deeply conservative place with anti-government tendencies, where they finally passed a series of local levies after years of failed attempts. Michelle offers a more hopeful "counter-narrative" to what's happening in Josephine County than what you'll read in most papers.    Here is a short blurb on The Fight to Save the Town: The book "focuses on the dismantling and rebuilding of local government in high-poverty communities. Rooted in narrative portraits of urban and rural poverty, the book describes the fallout from decades of cuts to local government amidst rising segregation by income and race." We can't recommend the book enough -- it is engaging, sobering, and uplifting all at once.   Michelle's Recommendations on Organizations to Support: Riverstar Performing Arts The Four Way Community Foundation Illinois Valley Community Development Organization

Southern Oregon has provided much of the cannabis for adult and medicinal use for years. CEO and co-owner of East Fork Cultivators, Mason Walker is here to talk about being a good neighbor, a good steward of the land, and dealing with cartel-driven grow operations in Josephine County.

Convinced his only neighbor was out to get him, solitary trapper and paranoid former prospector “Crazy Hugo” ambushed him with a rifle; the state prison became his retirement home. (Near Agness, Josephine County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/o1105b-crazy-hugo-hermit-of-craggies.html)

Charles Fiester lay there on his cot, eyes open, staring at nothing, pretending to be catatonic, for 515 days ... knowing that when his ruse was discovered, he'd be hanged. (Kerby, Josephine County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1803a.fiester-murderer-faked-insanity-515-days-485.html)

According to legend, the Triskett Gang underestimated the citizens of Sailors' Diggins, which became a fatal error when they went on a shooting spree downtown. But the $75,000 they stole has never been recovered. (Sailors' Diggins, Josephine County; 1850s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/o1106d-gold-field-bandits-loot-has-never-been-found.html)

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the market for hemp production in the U.S. was worth more than $820 million last year. Oregon is one of the top 10 hemp-growing states in the nation, with most of the cultivation taking place in Jackson and Josephine Counties. But a moratorium on new licenses to grow hemp in those two counties and a crackdown by state lawmakers on illegal marijuana that has found to be grown on some licensed hemp farms have led some entrepreneurs to question the future of hemp in Oregon. Joining us to discuss the challenges their industry faces are Mason Walker, the co-owner and CEO of East Fork Cultivars, a farm in Josephine County which grows both hemp and marijuana, and Paul Murdoch, the owner and CEO of Horn Creek Hemp, a family-run hemp farm in Jackson County. The hemp industry was worth almost one billion dollars last year, and Oregon is one of the top-ten hemp growing states in the country. But recently, fears of illegal cannabis grows have lead to a moratorium on new hemp licenses in two Oregon counties. We'll talk with two hemp growers about the future of the industry in the state.

An estimated 5 Oregonians die every week from an opioid overdose. Two settlements from two different lawsuits mean the state is due to receive a combined $426 million for opioid treatment and prevention. We hear from Alex Cuyler, the intergovernmental relations manager for Lane County, and Wally Hicks, legal counsel for Josephine County, on how opioids affect their communities and what the money will mean for the future.