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  On this episode of Running On Air, Portland District 2 candidates Elana Pirtle-Guiney and Jennifer Park sit down with KBOO's Althea Billings to talk about their priorities for N/NE Portland, collaborating on solving the city's problems, taking climate into account into a... Read more

You may have heard — there was a presidential debate. The Former Guy didn’t fare so well. Among his highlights was the regurgitation of a baseless (and, need we say, racist) slur against Haitian immigrants in Ohio. As with other acts of stochastic terrorism, the results are... Read more

More excerpts form Kliph Nesteroff's History of American Comedy, The Comedians:: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy. This month we return to Kliff Nestoroff's exstensive history of American comey with a  look at the rise of Las Vegas as a center ... Read more

Please join us on Monday, September 15th at 6:30 pm on KBOO Community Radio for Prison Pipeline as we talk with actor Paul Susi and composer Anna Fritz about their performance of An Illiad which has been travelling to correctional facilities around Oregon and is about to go... Read more

Please join us on Monday, September 15tht at 5:30 pm on KBOO Community Radio for KBOO News In Depth this week with Moira Marquis about Prisoned Banned Books Week Sept 15th -21st. This national campaign aims to raise awareness that prisons are the largest censors in the US. ... Read more

Fortunato returns once again to help raise meembership with a music filled two hours. Also featured, an excerpt from tonight's Gremlin Time later this evening at 11pm on KBOO, which will present a chapter from Kliff Nestoroff's History of American Comedy. Featured musical a... Read more

The American strategy to exterminate the indigenous people who lived on this continent before the European settlement was many pronged. One of its elements was to entice immigrants from Eastern Europe to come to America with the offer of receiving free land to farm. This of... Read more

Before arriving in Portland in 2008, and eventually being dubbed "Portland's People's Photographer," the radical queer white elder activist Kendall had already had a wide-ranging life as an educator and organizer. From a childhood of poverty and abuse in Appalachia, Kendall... Read more