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Make Valentine’s Day Great Again

Airs at: Sat, 02/15/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
  Dateless again, but that's no biggie, join Lady Danger, in the lovely RIP CITY Hardcore, Pogo, Gogo, poetry, Hiphop, Radioplay, electronic stuff, missed connections and more..... Today isn't for love, it's for the revolution  US League of Women Voters 1920 : The League ... Read more

Beaverton City Council votes to put government restructure on May ballot

Airs at: Wed, 02/12/2020 at 5:30pm
Produced for Evening News
  Beaverton’s City Council voted Monday to add a major change to the city’s governmental structure on the May ballot. This measure would change the center of power in the city's governance, with the Council appointing a city manager to do the administrative work of the cit... Read more

"Building Beyond Policing" Forum with the Care Not Cops Coalition

Airs at: Sat, 02/01/2020 at 11:00am - 1:00pm
    On February 1, 2020, the local activist coalition Care Not Cops held the final event in its "Building Beyond Policing" series of workshops at the PCC Cascade campus. KBOO was there and recorded the first part of the event, a panel discussion focused on alternatives to... Read more

Mark Hass Interview

Airs at: Tue, 02/11/2020 at 6:00pm
Produced for Between Us
Senator Mark Hass is running for Oregon Secretary of State.  He seeks to fill the seat vacated by the death of Dennis Richardson.  He talks with Don Merrill about why he thinks the housing crisis and the homelessness crisis are not as connected as people believe, how he'll ... Read more

Sanho Tree

Airs at: Wed, 02/12/2020 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we're joined by Sanho Tree, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and Director of the IPS Drug Policy Project. Read more

Voter purges, disinformation and where your vote went: a conversation with Thom Hartmann

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2020 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for Evening News, News In Depth
  Why is it that exit polls show one candidate winning, but the results of the election put the opposing candidate in power? This phenomenon, called 'redshift,' is fueled by voter roll purges and provisional ballots, which while seeming to allow for people not on the rolls... Read more

Buscando America on 02/11/20

Airs at: Tue, 02/11/2020 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Produced for Buscando America
En Voces que luxan Karen Torrente habla de Xalxis, Poeta, kantora i Danzante de la cultura azteca. Alrededor de 500 migrantes intentaron entrar a México por el Río Suchiate, ocasionando enfrentamientos con la Guardia Nacional.  Un reporte de Irineo Mujica director de Pueblo... Read more

Community Campaign To Reform Police Contract

Airs at: Mon, 02/10/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with James Ofsink of Portland Forward about their campaign and coalition to change the Portland Police Bureau contract. They consider the status of the contract battle, many non-contractual issues of police policy and conduct, but also proposals for reduc... Read more

Alex Krupkin Interview

Produced for Between Us
Alex Krupkin is registered on the FEC.gov website as a candidate for President of the United States.  He talked with Don Merrill about why self-segregation needs to be the wave of the future, how the US is like a cellular body on the brink of a new evolutionary change, and ... Read more

Larry Horn Interview

Produced for Between Us
Larry Horn is a moderate Republican and one of 15 Oregon residents who is running for President of the United States.  He talked with Don Merrill about why we need to reduce of use of social (or as he calls it, "anti" social) media, how he connects Nazi experiments with "Fa... Read more