Conrad  Wilson
Conrad  Wilson

Conrad Wilson

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Conrad Wilson is a reporter and producer covering criminal justice and legal affairs for OPB.

Prior to coming to OPB, he was a reporter at Minnesota Public Radio. Before that he ran the news department at an NPR affiliate in Colorado. His work has aired on "Marketplace" and NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered." He has also written for Mashable, The Oregonian, Business Week, City Pages and The Christian Science Monitor.

Conrad earned a degree in international political economics and journalism from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

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Oregon man convicted of 1980 murder of college student

A judge found Robert Arthur Plympton, 60, guilty of one count of first-degree murder and four counts of second-degree murder. Barbara Tucker was 19 years old at the time she was killed. Her body was discovered more than 40 years ago in a wooded area near Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, by students on their way to class, according to the Multnomah County District Attorney's Office.



Oregon governor will sign bill to recriminalize drugs, expand treatment

There was little question about whether Gov. Tina Kotek would sign House Bill 4002, which overwhelmingly passed the Legislature last week. The governor’s announcement that she would sign the bill late Thursday brings certainty to the reality that Oregon’s drug decriminalization experiment is over.







What Oregon’s drug crisis looks like on the streets of Portland: Overdoses every day

State legislators will spend much of the next month debating whether to scrap Measure 110, Oregon's voter-approved effort at drug decriminalization. Their decision will directly impact the first responders who deal with drug addiction on the streets of Portland. But has decriminalization caused the spike in overdoses and public use, or has it simply made the crisis impossible to ignore?

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