Evening News

The Portland Department Of Transportation has proposed a new and safer lane for downtown cyclists.           It’s called the buffered bike lane and it will be tested on southwest stark and oak.           This is in addition to another enhanced cycling lane referred to as th... Read more

 With a 6 cent increase in fuel taxes, a new bill passed in Salem today will pay for the improvement of state transportation systems. But some say its projects are misguided. Kboo’s Lila Tetzlaff explains. Read more

Thursday May 21: Jenka Soderberg interviews Cindy and Craig Corrie, parents of Rachel Corrie, a 23 year old peace activist who was killed on March 16, 2003 when she was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian doctor's home.  C... Read more

Barack Obama has chosen a new Supreme Court Justice to replace David Souter.  KBOO’s Stefan Kamph has more: Read more

A measure has been introduced into the Oregon State Legislature which would close the Oregon School for the Blind. Sara fay Goldman spoke with Art Stevenson, President of the National Federation of the Blind of Oregon about the importance of the upcoming vote. Read more

Advocates of a single payer healthcare system held a silent protest yesterday at a town hall in forest grove. the event, which focused on healthcare issues, was hosted by senator ron wyden. Kboo’s rebecca Nay spoke with Philip Kauffman from the group Single Payer Action. Read more

This week the Z Media Institute is hosting The Radical Media Convergence from May 27th to May 29th in Seattle. The free convergence will have forums, classes, community tours and workshops for people interested in using the media to bring more love and peace to the world. K... Read more

Canadian courts have, for the first time, convicted someone for war crimes committed in another country. Though the Canadian government is not calling their law ‘Universal Jurisdiction’, today’s ruling has a lot of similarities with a Spanish law that has allowed that count... Read more

A group of protesters from People for the Ethica Treatment of Animals stood outside of Lowe’s this afternoon protesting the store’s sale of Cruel Mouse-Traps. The Group caught a fair bit of attention with their bikini-clad model pretending to be a mouse caught in a glue-tra... Read more

Today is the third day of a United Nations Summit for Indigenous Issues.  As part of the summit, indigenous activists marched to several embassies to demand policy changes toward native people and biodiversity. KBOO’s Jenka Soderberg spoke with Ann Peterman of the Global Fore... Read more