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Michael Dunne: I’m Michael Dunne. One of the underappreciated joys of living in our community is how many wonderful and scenic back roads we have: miles and miles of twisty, turny roads that unveil amazing rural and wilderness areas. That is, of course, until you turn onto one of these roads and sink into a pothole the size of a freezer. For many of these rural roads in Lane County, no one, no municipality or government, is coming to fix them. Today on the show, you’ll hear from a reporter who traveled these roads and talked to the citizens who have to live with them. In the second part of the show, you’ll hear from a finance professor at the University of Oregon, who will explain to a financial Luddite, me, what the recent trillion-dollar SpaceX IPO means for all of us. Ben Botkin is a government reporter for The Lookout: Eugene Springfield. Ben, thanks so much for coming in and talking with us.
Ben Botkin: Thanks for having me…