Kate Davidson
Reporter | OPBKate Davidson is OPB鈥檚 business and economics reporter.
Kate has deep experience reporting and producing for public media. Before moving to Oregon, she was a regular contributor to "Marketplace", a reporter at Michigan Radio focused on economic change in the industrial Midwest and a producer at NPR.
She has master鈥檚 degrees from the University of California-Berkeley and Columbia University, where she was a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism. She won a national Edward R. Murrow award for her NPR documentary, "Saints and Indians", which told the stories of Navajo children sent to live with white Mormon foster families across the West.
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The Banks High School mascot 鈥� with its feathers and painted face 鈥� is heading for a culturally appropriate makeover.
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Oregon's new law requiring background checks for private gun transfers just went into effect. Some sheriffs say they won't enforce it.
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It鈥檚 been a year since Washington started its recreational marijuana industry and the cannabis industry has made its mark across the state in the past year.
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New Oregon legislation makes it easier for people who say they鈥檝e been wrongfully convicted of aggravated murder and other serious crimes to access DNA testing. -
More than half of Oregon鈥檚 counties are now officially in a state of drought 鈥� 19 of them, at last count, compared to nine last year. -
The Oregon section of a regional network for recharging EVs is now complete.
