On Tuesday, KBOO reported on a report released October 3 by the Compliance
Officer/Community Liaison (COCL), the body tasked with assessing the city's
compliance with the terms of a settlement reached with the US Department of
Justice.
The settlement was reached after the ...
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A felony conviction for small personal-use amounts of a drug can wreak havoc
on a person's life forever and make it incredibly difficult if not
impossible for that person to rehabilitate and re-integrate into society. In
the most recent Oregon legislative session, criminal ...
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World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms, aka Willing Workers on Organic
Farms, (or just plain WWOOF), is a worldwide movement that links
volunteers with organic farmers and growers. The idea is to promote cultural
and educational experiences based on trust and non-monet...
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Puerto Rico is still suffering the consequences of Hurricane Maria and the
somewhat haphazard government aid efforts. Ninety percent of the island is
still without power, and clean water is near impossible to find, not to
mention fuel to boil questionable water.
A group of...
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Making Contact's Community Storytelling Fellow Vincent Medina is a Chochenyo
Ohlone Native American who is a part of a young generation working to
revitalize the Chochenyo language for future generations. Making Contact's
Community Storytelling Fellow Isabella Zizi is a ...
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Join us as we discuss once again the risks that teachers take when they point
out workload concerns that make it impossible to adequately serve their
students and do their jobs. Today we are joined on the phone by Elizabeth
Dominguez, a teacher from Santa Maria, California...
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"What did I have to offer a world that was forgetting? My memory! How could
my memory help? By offering comparisons! By telling the young what once was.
By considering our losses! I found the more I remembered, the more I could
remember! Millions of things."
--The Old M...
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On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Mic Crenshaw, KBOO's station co-manager, was
kind enough to interview me for the weekly News from the BOO feature that
he curates along with Delphine Criscenzo.
Stay tuned for the transcript.
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Tune in to Voices from the Edge talk radio today, Lisa Loving is in for JoAnn
A Hardesty. Our guests are organizers with Portland Tenants United, speaking
on yesterday's City Council meeting.
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One of the major threads of this project is an attempt to connect us as
listeners to our ears and our lives a little bit more.
A literal threshold shift is when your hearing perception changes while
moving between environments with drastically different volume levels. Most ...
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