Erik Neumann
Erik Neumann is OPB’s Southwest Washington Bureau Chief. He has more than a decade of experience as a radio reporter, writer and editor. Before working at OPB, he was the news director at Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Oregon and a health care reporter at KUER in Salt Lake City, Utah. Erik has a master’s degree from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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The state audit shows that the district faced a widening gap between revenue and expenses as costs climbed over the past four years. -
The Instagram account included images described as ‘damaging’ depicting high school staff. -
Southwest Washington Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’s centrist politics are being seen as a template for the 2026 midterms. -
Workers laid off because of the government shutdown may be eligible for state employment benefits. -
As many as 250,000 residents could lose Medicaid coverage in Washington. That reduction would mean fewer patients can pay at hospitals that are already struggling. -
The Chinook Indian Nation of Southwest Washington has been trying to get federal recognition from the U.S. government since the mid-90s. -
Some officials worried this could be the ‘poison pill that stops the bridge.’ -
Manufactured home parks have undergone a national trend in recent years, shifting from the hands of small landlords to real estate investors. Residents say they’re being priced out. -
Three southwest Washington cities will soon decide whether health concerns about adding fluoride to their city drinking water outweigh the oral health benefits. -
While there is political agreement that the bridge is a source of congestion, the replacement program has critics as well as champions, and its future is not certain.
