Amanda Peacher
Amanda Peacher is an fellow reporting and producing in Berlin in 2013. Amanda is from Portland, Oregon, where she works as the public insight journalist for . She produces radio and online stories, data visualizations, multimedia projects, and facilitates community engagement opportunities for OPB's newsroom.
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A new report shows that the COVID-19 recession has households in the Mountain West facing high hardship rates, especially when it comes to rent and food... -
For days now, wildfire smoke has degraded the air quality in much of the Mountain West, and that unhealthy air is forcing tough decisions for schools... -
Tami Peay's husband is incarcerated in a Utah state prison for an illegal drugs conviction, and she hasn't seen him in more than four months. She used... -
The coronavirus pandemic has forced small businesses to deal with a lot of challenges they don’t normally confront. “We have dealt with everything from... -
Dr. Bret Frey is an emergency room physician in Reno, Nevada, and he likens working in health care right now to fighting in a war. "I always thought... -
Scientists at Colorado State University have developed a way to make sure blood transfusions don't transmit the COVID-19 virus, according to a new study . -
The National Bureau of Economic Research announced Monday that the U.S. economy officially entered a recession in February. -
There have been more than 40,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases in prisons and jails across 47 states. Only Idaho and Wyoming, as well as Hawaii, have yet to... -
As employers continue to lay off workers at unprecedented levels, every state in the Mountain West has some kind of rent assistance program in place.... -
A little boy in an orange shirt walks up to a grab-and-go meal site at an elementary school in Salt Lake City, Utah. A school worker wearing a mask uses...
