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Jim Thalman, our guest this week, retired some years back after a long career in Utah and Oregon. Jim’s 33 years in the newspaper business included time at the Herald-Journal in Logan, the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, the Deseret News in Salt Lake City and he even did some writing for City Weekly. Jim’s a journalist’s journalist – pretty much the highest praise you can bestow on someone. Thalman published a novel, "Then Again," a coming-of-age story about a farm kid raised in Vermillion, Utah.

Erik Burke, the director of the Eugene chapter of Friends of Trees, stops by the show to talk all things trees in Eugene and what you can do to help.

Where I read letters from Bella Corette, Barbara Miller and Robert Van Iderstine.

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Samantha Krop, one of our community columnists and a grassroots organizer for Cascadia Wildlands, has a new column coming out Saturday. We talk a little bit about that.

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RG CAFE 541 stalwart Matthew Denis comes on the show to talk about what it means to be a socially distanced reporter, what lights him up and how CAFE 541 comes together.

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Jesse Springer draws political cartoons focused on Oregon and Oregon politics. You can see his work every Saturday in The Register-Guard.

No interview this week, so we're doing some shop talk featuring The Elements of Style.

Samantha Krop is a grassroots organizer for Casadia Wildlands.

Chandra LeGue works for Oregon Wild and is the author of Oregon's Ancient Forests: A Hiking Guide.

Juan Carlos Valle stops by the show to talk about his column about the search for a new city manager in the city of  Eugene.

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Amanda Astor, who is now a monthly #IMO columnist for the RG, talks about the guest view she wrote a few weeks ago. 

Welcome to LTE, a podcast brought to you by The Register-Guard opinion page. Brendan O'Meara, the assistant opinion page editor, speaks with columnists and community leaders about what they're writing about and what's on their minds.