NOTICE: In response to the government meeting and gathering bans, Salem City Club has canceled the remaining programs for the 2019-2020 year. We will resume in September for the 2020-2021 year.
Newsletters
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2019-2020 Season
- OUTVOTED AND IGNORED? Rural Perspectives on Oregon's Rural/Urban Divide
- COVANTA MARION: It Seemed a Good Idea at Time
- GUN VIOLENCE: A Public Health Crisis
- Impressions and Perspectives from Your New City of Salem CFO
- On Stage: Salem's Vibrant Theater Community
- It's Complicated: The Politics of Oregon's Rural-Urban Divide
- Charging Ahead: Is Oregon Ready for Electric Vehicles?
- Oregon's Bee Project: What's the Buzz All About?
- 4 Days in Clint: Conditions in a Texas Migrant Child Detention Center
- WILDFIRE: A Hot Topic in the Midst of Climate Change
2018-2019 Season
- Water, Water Everywhere, but Is It Safe to Drink?
- The Oregon Legislature Through the Eyes of Journalists
- The Stewardship of Plastic: Through Manufacture and Consumption
- The Crucial Role of the Arts in Our Community
- Oregon Demographic Trends and the 2020 Census
- Can Oregon Have Its Hydropower and Eat Salmon, Too?
- Oregon Youth: Crisis in Mental Health
- Glaciers: What Are They? Where Are They? Where Are They Going? Why It Matters
- When It Comes to Taxes, Things Really Do Look Different in Oregon
- Evidence Based Medicine: Weighing the Evidence for Effective Health Care
- Reflections on Pearl Harbor Day: Finding Positive Community Stories in the Wake of National Tragedy
- The Opioid Epidemic: How We Got Here and the Way Forward (part two of three)
- Patterns and Meanings of the 2018 National, Oregon and Mid-Valley Election
- A Debate of Ballot Measure 105: Should We Throw Out Oregon's 31-Year-Old Sanctuary Law?
- A Debate of Ballot Measure 104: Should We Limit the Power of Majorities to Raise State Revenue?
- Congressman Kurt Schrader, Mark Callahan and Marvin Sandnes Featured in SCC Forum
- Political Analyst Jim Moore "Reads the Tea Leaves"
2017-2018 Season
- Commercial Air Service
- Sense and Nonsense in Contemporary Discussions of Medicare
- Oregon VS Washington D.C.
- Gerrymandering: Redistricting Battles in Oregon
- What's Up with Recycling?
- Shall We OK $619 Million for Local School Facilities?
- Criminal Justice Reform in Oregon: Working to Ensure Justice for All
- Due to an error our March 9 e-bulletin is not available.
- The Electoral College: Should it Stay or Should it Go?
- Soccer in Salem: The Multi-Dimensional Impact of the Beautiful Game
- Putting a Price on Oregon's Carbon Emissions (Cap and Trade): Is Now the Time?
- State Health Provider Tax to Help Fund Healthcare?
- Salem Keizer Music: Building Community Values
- Transportation Package: What's it Mean to Oregon? What's it Mean to Salem?
- The Equifax Data breach: Ignore at YOUR Own Risk and Possible Peril
- The Past, Present, and Future of Robotics: A Look at the Utilization of Robotics in the Valley and Beyond
- America's Opiate Epidemic: Law Enforcement Efforts to Address the Crisis
- Shall We Vote for the 18.6 Million Dollar Library Bond?
- Oregon's Financial Situation: Where we are and where we are going
- 50 Times Three: 150 Years of Civic Service
2016-2017 Season
- Oregon's Financial Dilemma: Current Inside Perspective
- Child Welfare: Global to Local
- Pot Revisited
- Housing and School: Programs Actively Working to Help the Homeless
- A Profile of Salem's Homeless Population and Our Unique Challenges
- Editing Your Newsfeed: Facts, Alternative Facts, Propaganda and Just Plain BS
- A New Path in Salem-Keizer Secondary Education
- There's Somebody New in the Neighborhood, a personal look at Refugee Resettlement in OR & the Salem Community
- D.B. Cooper & the Expoding Whale: Folk Heroes of the Northwest
- Policy and Impact: Healthcare Reform in Oregon
- How has Oregon's unique motor voter law affected the general election?
- A Postmortem on the 2016 Elections: What Happened?
- Secretary of State Candidate Forum
- Fifth Congressional District Candidate Forum
- A Debate on the Police Facility
- 1966-2016: Medicare at 50 and Its Future
- A Debate: What Will Measure 97 Really Do?
2015-2016 Season
- Privacy (or Not) in a Digital Age, May 26, 2016
- Who is Watching Over Oregon's Forests, May 20, 2016
- The Fine Art of City Management, May 6, 2016
- Influence in Design, April 22, 2016
- Mayoral Candidates Debate, April 8, 2016
- The Modern Lobbyist: Information, Insight and Influence, March 18, 2016
- The Social Determinants of our Health, March 9, 2016
- Environmental Threats to Oregon's Ocean and Coastal Ecosystem, March 4, 2016
- Higher Education in Transition, February 19, 2016
- Marion County: Justice Re-Investment for Public Safety and Public Good, February 5, 2016
- Understanding Oregon PERS, January 22, 2016
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Look at the TPP Through an Oregon Lens, January 8, 2016
- From Speed Graphics to Drones...Photojournalist Ron Cooper Looks at 40 Years of Photography December 11, 2016
- The ABC's of Common Core, November 20. 2015
- When Cascadia Strikes: Do you really know what to do? November 6, 2015
- Agriculture Series: Part 3 Faces of Agriculture: Delivering the Fruits of Their Labor, October 30, 2015
2014-2015 Season
- May 4, 2015
- April 13, 2015
- March 30, 2015
- March 16, 2015
- March 2, 2015
- February 16, 2015
- February 2, 2015
- January 12, 2015
- December 29, 2014
- December 1, 2014
- November 10, 2014
- October 27, 2014
- October 13, 2014
- September 29, 2014
- September 15, 2014
- September 1, 2014
- August 19, 2014
- July 2, 2014
2013-2014 Season
- April 21, 2014
- April 7, 2014
- March 24, 2014
- March 10, 2014
- February 24, 2014
- February 10, 2014
- January 28, 2014
- January 13, 2014
- December 30, 2013
- November 25, 2013
- November 11, 2013
- October 28, 2013
- October 14, 2013
- September 30, 2013
- September 16, 2013
- September 3, 2013
- August 20, 2013
2012-2013 Season
- June 28, 2013
- May 6, 2013
- April 22, 2013
- April 8, 2013
- March 25, 2013
- March 11, 2013
- February 25, 2013
- February 11, 2013
- January 28, 2013
- December 26, 2012
- December 3, 2012
- November 19, 2012
- October 29, 2012
- October 8, 2012
- October 1, 2012
- September 17, 2012
- August 27, 2012
- July 31, 2012
2011-2012 Season
- May 29, 2012
- May 7, 2012
- April 23, 2012
- April 9, 2012
- March 26, 2012
- March 5, 2012
- February 20, 2012
- February 6, 2012
- January 23, 2012
- January 9, 2012
- December 27, 2011
- November 28, 2011
- November 7, 2011
- October 24, 2011
- October 10, 2011
- September 26, 2011
- September 12, 2011
- August 17th, 2011
2010-2011 Season