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Hosted by: 
Barbara Bernstein
Produced by: 
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Every Monday from 10:00am to 11:00am.


 

A weekly conversation about our place on the planet. Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein talks with local, regional and national experts, activists and policy makers about climate change, food policy, land use, salmon restoration, forest management and all the other things that matter in our environment.

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Activism, Agriculture, Science/Technology, Food, Global Affairs, Government/Politics, Environment/Climate
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Robert Johnson and "Too Big To Bail: the 'Paulson Put', Presidential Politics, and the Global Financial Meltdown"

Airs at: Tue, 03/24/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In the past week there has been intense outrage over AIG executive bonuses and other manifestations of corporate greed. How do we go beyond the angry mob mentality? Guest Rob Johnson, who co-wrote "Too Big to Bail: The 'Paulson Put,' Presidential Politics, and the Global Fi... Read more

Locus Focus

Airs at: Wed, 03/18/2009 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Between Ross Island and the east bank of the Willamette lies the Holgate Channel, a patch of natural paradise only a couple miles south of downtown Portland. Sitting above the river on the eastbank, with osprey and eagles and blue herron as your companions, you have no idea... Read more

Wake-Free on the Willamette

Airs at: Tue, 03/17/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Why we need to make the Holgate Channel & Ross Island Lagoon wake-free or non-motorized zones - and what that means. Between Ross Island and the east bank of the Willamette lies the Holgate Channel, a patch of natural paradise only a couple miles south of downtown Portland... Read more

Locus Focus

Airs at: Wed, 03/11/2009 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Bush administration is now history but its legacy continues to tear the world apart. Senator Patrick Leahy wants to create a Truth and Reconciliation Commision, modeled after ones in South Africa and Latin America - to probe the potentially criminal actions of this admi... Read more

Roberto Rodriguez on Holding the Bushies Accountable

Airs at: Tue, 03/10/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 Hosted by: Barbara Bernstein Now that the Bush Administration is history, how do we hold Bush and his advisors, and their cronies in the financial sector who melted down the economy, accountable for high crimes and misdeamors? The Bush administration is now history but its ... Read more

Locus Focus

Airs at: Wed, 03/04/2009 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Thirty years ago this country's nuclear program came to a halt after the disasterous accident and meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania. Since then we are still debating how to safely store in perpetuity countless tons of high level radioactive ... Read more

Arjun Makhijani on the Nuclear Power Fiasco

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Thirty years ago this country's nuclear program came to a halt after the disasterous accident and meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania. Since then we are still debating how to safely store in perpetuity countless tons of high level radioactive ... Read more

Locus Focus on 02/25/09

Airs at: Wed, 02/25/2009 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Pratap Chatterjee talks about why the privatized, outsourced military Barack Obama has inherited from the Bush administration will prove a done deal.  Pratap Chatterjee's article, "The Military's Expanding Waistline, What Will Obama Do with KBR?," appears at http://www.to... Read more

Pratap Chatterjee on our Privatized, Outsourced Military

Airs at: Tue, 02/24/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 Pratap Chatterjee (CorpWatch) talks about why the privatized, outsourced military Barack Obama has inherited from the Bush administration will prove a done deal.  Pratap Chatterjee's article, "The Military's Expanding Waistline, What Will Obama Do with KBR?," appears at h... Read more

Locus Focus

Airs at: Wed, 02/18/2009 at 8:00am - 9:00am
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President Obama has just signed an 787 billion dollar stimulus package into law. So what does it all mean and what can we hope for? Locus Focus Resident Economist Chuck Collins joins Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein to discuss the political and psychological implications ... Read more