Economy

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Lessons from Nature's Water Management

Airs at: Mon, 07/07/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Nature has ingenious methods of managing and delivering water in all its phases: precipitation, evaporation, absorption by plants, wetlands, rivers and lakes, and infiltration that recharges groundwater and aquifers. Yet in most urban environments, stormwater is seen as ... Read more

Labor vs ICE

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
Nydia Caballero, union electrician, and Geovanny Tolentino, union teacher, discuss what's behind Trump's mass deportation campaign, popular resistance and the role of labor unions in this fight. Read more

Cow Poop Won't Solve the Climate Crisis

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program aired originally on April 7, 2025 Concentrated Animal Feed Operations have been around for a few decades. Basically concentration camps for cattle, pigs and chickens, these factory farms not only torture animals but also are major polluters and a principal... Read more

Breaking the Iron Wall on the Lower Willamette River

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Willamette River is a confluence of social, ecological, economic and historical significance and yet we continue to struggle to protect the very place that sustains us. But we are beginning to see a crack in the iron wall that has ruled the lower Willamette, created ... Read more

Entertainment

Airs at: Fri, 06/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
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Zenith Gets Its Hearing

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on May 26, 2025   On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit Zen... Read more

Big Hopes for the Oregon Journalism Protection Act (SB 686)

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
The Oregon Journalism Protection Act (SB 686) would create a funding system where social media mega-companies pay local media outlets for the content they use. The hope is that systems like this will slow the downward spiral of local newsrooms. The guests are, in the fir... Read more

Evening News on 06/04/25

Airs at: Wed, 06/04/2025 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On this edition of KBOO's Evening News: About 20 percent of people currently enrolled in Medicaid could lose it if Trump's Reconciliation bill is passed by the Senate OPB and Lewis and Clark University are partnering to help journalists use the Oregon Public Records l... Read more

Thermal Energy Networks

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In a growing number of communities across the United States, gas utilities, supported by state legislatures, labor unions, environmental groups and other stakeholders, are exploring Thermal Energy Networks (TENs) to decarbonize buildings and create clean energy jobs. TEN... Read more

Building the World We Believe In

Airs at: Mon, 06/02/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In these disturbing times as we watch democracy crumble and wonder whom the oligarchs will go after next, how do we ground ourselves in the work we need to keep doing? First they come for the immigrants, then international students and now FBI agents are showing up at th... Read more