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With two weeks remaining, the pace of the 2022 Oregon legislative session is about to quicken.

Angela Kellner is the KLCC host of All Things Considered and a reporter. Angela began as a KLCC volunteer in 1991 when she was in high school. While a student at Lane Community College, she was hired in 1993 for a work-study position in the KLCC Music Department and has been with the station in some role since then. Angela hosted KLCC's world music program Tropical Beat for 11 years from 1994 to 2005 and continues to fill in on a monthly basis.

Chris Lehman joins Angela Kellner to discuss the first week of the 2022 session of the Oregon legislature.

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   The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality released its second annual Wildfire Smoke Trends report. It’s pretty easy to sum up the findings, said Tom Roick, air quality monitoring manager for DEQ. “The number of unhealthy air quality days related to wildfires is definitely increasing across the state, particularly in the last five years,” he said.  It’s not just the number of days with bad air that’s on the rise. It’s also the intensity of the smoke and its geographic reach.   For instance, from 1988 through 2014, the DEQ says Eugene/Springfield didn’t have a single ...