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Agency with Choice: Interview with Alice Longley Miller with SEIU

Airs at: Fri, 03/01/2024 at 9:30am - 10:00am
  Agency with Choice is part of SB1521, an Oregon bill put out by SEIU proposing a new option for caregiving for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Read more

PDX Progressive Talk Radio

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2024 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  PDX Progressive Talk Radio - Wednesday, February 28, 2024 News Rundown:  Summer Alert! PBOT Announced “Over $100 million in transportation investments across the city and on several of Portland’s most dangerous streets.” That’s a quote from the Portland.gov website.... Read more

Two Steps Back

Airs at: Wed, 02/28/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: Two Steps Back. The state of Oregon’s groundbreaking Measure 110, a ballot initiative overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2020 that decriminalized small-scale simple possession of some drugs and provided funding for vital services, is on the ... Read more

What's Next with NEXT?

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Several years ago NEXT Energy (now NXT) proposed to build a renewable diesel refinery and rail yard at Port Westward, a spectacular point of land protruding into the Columbia River Estuary near the town of Clatskanie. The proposal was enthusiastically supported by the Port ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for February 26, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 02/26/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Palestinian Film Fest: As Israel's genocidal war on Gaza continues, so too does global resistance to the war and to Israeli occupation of Palestine. Jan Haaken talks with Shams ... Read more

Protecting Mature and Old Growth Forests

Airs at: Mon, 03/04/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, which oversee most of the nation’s Mature Old Growth forests, continue to defy overwhelming public support for protection, scientific calls for a moratorium on logging, and the presidents’ initial direction to develop conser... Read more

Why Create a State Bank?

Airs at: Thu, 02/22/2024 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Please join us for on KBOO Community Radio on Thursday, February 22nd as we talk with Kellie McWilliams of Cultivating Solutions, formerly the Rural Engagement Project, and Madeline Merritt, Chair of the Oregon Public Banking Alliance. Public banking stretches tax dollars ... Read more

De Facto or De Jure

Airs at: Wed, 02/21/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Free Culture Radio
On this edition of Free Culture Radio: De Facto or De Jure. The drug war is fundamentally unsustainable. We keep throwing more and more money into the effort, made all kinds of minor repairs to the system to try and keep it going like treatment alternatives to incarceration... Read more

Fumes in Focus: Visualizing Air Pollution from Gas Stoves

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on January 15, 2024 Lawmakers and advocates have called upon Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum to launch an investigation into NW Natural for misleading consumers about the health impacts from gas. In their letter to Rosenblum they det... Read more

Lawsuit: Washington County Fails People with Disabilities

Airs at: Mon, 02/19/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Host Karen James speaks with Dave Boyer, managing attorney with Disability Rights Oregon, who filed a lawsuit against Washington County, Oregon’s 2nd largest county. The federal lawsuit was filed after a year-long investigation alleging that when someone in the County exper... Read more