Wednesday Talk Radio

  From a recent Willamette Week article, Oregon Considers a New Approach to People in Mental Crisis   Oregon House Bill 2980 would provide funding for three "peer respite centers"—short-term, homelike facilities for people experiencing mental health crises. Currently... Read more

  Today's guest, Mitch Jones, mjones@fwwatch.org, is policy director of Food & Water Watch, which recently released a statement on the Texas power debacle: “The climate change-supercharged deep freeze covering Texas has left millions without power and water. The failure ... Read more

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  Now, before you jump to conclusions, hear me out! I (host Paul Roland) got the idea for this show after I came across a stimulating article ("Why I Teach White History Month in February") by an African-American activist and writer from Chicago. Diallo Kenyatta (who I ... Read more

  On Monday, January 18, the City of Portland gave notice that it would cut off services within a month to the five-year-old self-governing Hazelnut Grove tiny house village of formerly houseless people, and that the remaining 10 or so residents would have to move. The ... Read more

  As Trump visits the obviously symbolic town of Alamo, Texas and celebrates his border wall, in brazen denial-defiance of the fall-out from the siege of the Capitol, 2nd Wednesday co-host Jacqueline Keeler and regular host Paul Roland look at the events of the past wee... Read more