Get Real With Rick Dancer

Oregon has a problem. It has a governor who is out of touch, and there's an effort to recall her. We talk about that and other political issues of the day.

Oregon teachers are discovering the hard way that they don't get to be "good" with the murder of Charlie Kirk without backlash., Listen.

Their daughter took her life, and what that did to the family is worth hearing. The very bad, and some good. It's a real-life interview you will learn something.

Republicans will offer an amendment to the governor's budget proposal in tomorrow's special session in Oregon. 87% of Oregonians polled do not support the governor's plan. Democrats and Republicans have a lot to lose if this passes. We talk about that in this podcast.

Oregon's governor is asking the legislature to pass a huge tax increase. 87% of those polled in Oregon are against the tax. So now the governor has to convince her party to pass it. In this podcast, you will learn the strategy involved and what you can do to stop the budget's passage.

There's a huge problem in this country when it comes to voter integrity. One man and a group of truth seekers are doing something about it. With science, facts, statistics, and numbers, they show us how the cheating happens. It's deep, it's bad, and it's fixable.

There are a lot of unhappy people in Oregon, and they want change. Specifically, they want a new leader. Now there's an effort to recall the governor. We talk with the man spearheading the move.

Vote by mail sounds so innocent, but now that Oregonians have lived with it for more than forty years, many aren't so sure anymore. In this episode, we talk with a guy who is gathering signatures to make a change in Oregon.

There's movement in Oregon in terms of bringing school choice to the state. Why and what would that look like? The chief petitioner joins us with an in-depth look at how it works and, most importantly, what it doesn't do.

Oregon is in trouble. The governor is determined to raise taxes, Democrats control the state, and people feel voiceless. In this episode, we talk with a state representative about what's happening, what people can do, whether getting away with vote by mail is the answer, and much more.

It's important to know who came before us. History is a great teacher of things to come. It's not often we get to experience that history, but when we do, it changes our perception of the world, our community, and ourselves. In Stevenson, Washington, students spend five days kayaking 132 miles to Astoria, Oregon. As you will see in this story, yes, it's about retracing the journey of L...

The lack of proper forest management is destroying rural communities in the Pacific Northwest. Mills are shutting down, people are leaving, and schools and county governments are suffering. In this three-part series, we look at how this is impacting a small town in southern Washington.

A friend of mine posted a week or so ago, and what she revealed robbed me of my sleep. Her parents were both killed in a car crash, and a motorcycle group saved the life of her daughter, who was in the backseat.   Michelle Varga is very open and not afraid to feel. I kept reading her story and asked if she'd come share with us what happened and her heartache. 

I'm not a fan of gerrymandering. Democrats used it to destroy Oregon and create a super majority that's killing the state. Now, Texas is talking about redrawing district lines, and I hope they are doing it to be fair; we'll find out. I find it so disengenuous of the Democrats to use this opportunity to be "outraged" when Democrats have been using the same technique to destroy...

A friend of mine posted a week or so ago, and what she revealed robbed me of my sleep. Her parents were both killed in a car crash, and a motorcycle group saved the life of her daughter, who was in the backseat.   Michelle Varga is very open and not afraid to feel. I kept reading her story and asked if she'd come share with us what happened and her heartache. 

We talk about current affairs, affordable housing and more.

When the Forest Service stops managing the forests for all uses, rural communities are the first to feel the impact of such poor decisions. In this series, we expose what's happening by focusing on one small county in Washington State. Remember, the public forests belong to you and me, but right now, anti-logging lawyers and judges are managing our forests. That needs to change.

There are numerous missing people in Oregon right now. Did you know most missing people are white men? It's true. And most of them had drug or alcohol issues. The families of these men wonder if that may be why law enforcement doesn't seem to take their cases very seriously. This is an interesting, raw discussion with some of the families.

Rural Oregonians are done with the state. They want out, but not moving out; they want to change the borders to join Idaho. This is a very interesting idea that's got a lot of steam and some opposition. But before you write it off as crazy, get your facts right here.

There is so much mismanagement of the timber in the Pacific Northwest. The man you are about to meet knows because he's been working in the industry for decades. Take a few moments to find out why it's so important to get the goverment to change the way it currently is doing the timber business.

Skamania County: Caught In The Middle. In a small timber community, nestled on the banks of the Columbia River Gorge, people don’t just feel used, they feel taken advantage of. They can’t harvest enough timber to keep their community alive. They don’t have enough money to educate kids the way they wish they could. And the county services are suffering greatly.  In Episode Two of our Truth About Ti...

Your schools are in financial trouble, your county services bare bones, and everywhere you look is the answer to your problem….The Forest. But you can’t touch much of it. Welcome to Skamania County Washington. On one side, you have the Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area; on the other, the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. And on top of that Federal Timber land set aside for the Spotted...

A few weeks ago, I was in Redmond at a party. I met the woman you are about to meet and quickly realized, in Oregon, she knows where the bodies are buried. There are some other cool things about her, but we'll talk about this in this episode of Get Real With Rick Dancer.

In Oregon voters have given a super majority to Democrats and like nationally they are using that power to destroy the state with higher taxes and laws that are despicable. We talk with a lawmaker about those laws, how the state got to this state, and what can be done about it.

I'm not sure what to think about the whole Iran war possibility....We also go back and talk of the embarrassing moments of COVID stupidity and Voting in Oregon.