KGW’s Straight Talk with Laural Porter
Tim Gordon/KGW
4.6from 25 ratings
- 306
- Episodes
- 128
- Transcribed
- 25
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 267M
- YouTube views
About KGW’s Straight Talk with Laural Porter
Straight Talk is a weekly program that takes a deeper look into the topics and conversations that are affecting communities in Oregon and SW Washington. KGW's Tim Gordon leads insightful interviews and provides candid conversations with local politicians and community leaders. "KGW's Straight Talk" is also a podcast available on all major podcast platforms.
- Publisher
- Tim Gordon/KGW
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 4 Oct 2019
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
128 of 306 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Multnomah County Homeless Services Director outlines progress and challenges in housing crisis
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Battle over Washington's 'millionaires tax' heats up as election nears
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Portland Fire president discusses team's strong first season and how to build on the momentum
Inside a recent episode
Multnomah County Homeless Services Director outlines progress and challenges in housing crisis
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that was the initial goal of SHS for over 10 years. And so five years in, we've already exceeded that. We've prevented more than 20,000 households from experiencing homelessness. Again, double what was the initial goal for supportive housing services tax. So we've been able to make tremendous progress. Unfortunately, there is all those pressures that I was talking about in terms of affordability, housing affordability, rising costs. from inflation and stagnant or decreasing wages relative to those costs. So we're seeing the problem worsen and it's incredibly frustrating for me working in this work to see our work being overrun by those challenges and just from a human standpoint that we continue to see people suffer on our sidewalks is, to me, it's unacceptable that we've allowed this as a nation. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on KGW’s Straight Talk with Laural Porter
Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Nathaniel VerGow
- April Sims
- Jaime Herrera Beutler
- Reuven Carlyle
- Clare Hamill
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 267,101,518
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 21 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.3 / 5
- 4 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 64 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 58
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 82
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The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
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