On @ThinkOutLoudOPB at noon, it's conversations about energy efficiency, future of wild horse populations, and PDX's bike infrastructure.

Hear how Oregon plans to hit its goal of 30,000 electric vehicles on the road by 2015. At 6:50 & 8:50am.

Pay a visit to researchers in Eastern Oregon who are using unmanned aerial vehicles to study ... potatoes. That's at 6:50 & 8:50am

We'll talk to the Portland Zoo's Director of Elephant Habitats, retiring after 42 years, at 6:50am & 8:50am this morning.

Not having a HS diploma can cause big problems. 300K+ Oregonians did not finish high school. Story at 4:45pm. #education

A new musical about Stu Rasmussen, mayor of Silverton, OR, and America's only transgendered mayor. Story at 6:50am & 8:50am.

Is a dispute over coordinated care organization in Salem threatening to derail OR's healthcare transformation? @ThinkOutLoudOPB at noon.

A limit on federal financial aid hits Oregon teens hard if they haven't earned a standard HS diploma. Story at 4:45. #Education

On @ThinkOutLoudOPB at 12, conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston on fine print of our financial lives

There might not be enough water for everybody in the Klamath River in this dry year. Details at 6:50am & 8:50am during Morning Ed.

What should plan to end homelessness in Multnomah Co focus on? Also, proposed suicide barrier on PDXs Vista Bridge. @ThinkOutLoudOPB at noon

What happens when our exported coal is burned abroad? How US coal could contribute to worldwide climate change, at 6:50am & 8:50am.

Our series "East of 82nd" begins this am at 6:50/8:50 w/look at availability of fresh, affordable food. Home to 40% of city's kids.

Tomorrow on @ThinkOutLoudOPB - analysis of expected #SCOTUS rulings Wed on two much-anticipated same-sex marriage cases. At noon

We continue our series on East Portland's neighborhoods, some of the most dangerous streets for pedestrians & kids. Story: 6:50, 8:50am.

On @ThinkOutLoudOPB at noon: conversations about the #DOMA and Prop 8 decisions, with a focus on their impacts in the Pacific NW.

.@ThinkOutLoudOPB is live from Salem at 12, as leg session enters home stretch, talking to reporters and house leadership.

A closer look at where lawmakers go when they go on foreign trips, what the trips are for, and who pays - at 6:50am during MORNING EDITION

.@ThinkOutLoudOPB at noon is on radio & TV (PLUS): TOL news roundtable; OSU professor on dams in China, summer reading for young adults

Drought in the Klamath Basin, the budget deal in WA state, and the possibilities are for a new Interstate bridge: @ThinkOutLoudOPB at 12