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Normal 0 The Portland City Council recently passed a resolution asking the federal government to re-examine studies on health impacts of cell phone towers. Respect P-D-X is a local group that has been working against new cell phone tower construction in residential neig... Read more

  Last night, Portland residents gathered at a school board meeting to protest the Starbase program. The program, which the city has participated in since nineteen-ninety-three, sends students to a military base for a week, to study math and science. Here are recordings from... Read more

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Community members in Portland gathered Friday evening for a rally for police reform. The rally followed a number of similar protests and meetings following the January killing of an unarmed black man in northeast Portland. Sheila Warren is one of those who attended Friday’s ... Read more

International Women’s Day is celebrated in the U-S, as well as worldwide. But in New York State, the politicians are not looking so good as role models, when it comes to domestic violence. KBOO’s Crystal Leighty has more…. Read more

U-S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ended her tour of Latin America Friday with a visit to Guatemala, where she insisted that other governments in the region recognize Porfirio (por-FEER-ee-o) Lobo as the President of Honduras. The call came after Clinton announced that t... Read more

 Tonight at six thirty, a rally will be held at Emmanuel Temple in north Portland to organize for the next steps for justice and police reform in the city of Portland. Read more

Next up, a report from last night's JOBS with JUSTICE forum on Labor and Immigration Reform, from KBOO reporter Jamie Partridge. Read more

 Hundreds of students in Portland held a rally today as part of the National Day of Action for Education. After the rally, they marched to the University President’s office and demanded a meeting with the Board of Directors. That demand was granted, and the student organi... Read more

The U.S. pay czar told reporters today that the compensation paid to Wells Fargo’s chief executive raises serious questions. Over the last year, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf received over twenty one million dollars in salary and bonuses. The other top five executives in th... Read more