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   As school boards have garnered lots of press as a battleground for topics such as curriculum reform, racial justice, and book bans, it’s surprising more youth are not trained and asked to become school board representatives today. KBOO reporter, Eoin Bastable recently ... Read more

Fortunato returns for another week, with a program of music and comedy to help you start the week. Featuring Cal Tjader, Jimmy Heath, Sarah Vaughan, Tommy Castro, Billie Holiday, Cy Oliver, Jeff Beck, Lynard Synrd,  Bob & Ray, and many more. Read more

  This program aired originally on 7/11/2022 Portland and other Oregon municipalities are required to inventory their employment land periodically as part of the comprehensive planning process.  For decades the city has decided during each inventory process that it needs ... Read more

Nearly every year since the 1990s the U.S. Congress has increased the appropriation for the Border Patrol and the whole apparatus of border protection. Yet every year increasing numbers, mostly from the Americas but also from all over, gain entrance by evading the enforcers... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Border Patrol: Nearly every year since the 1990s the U.S. Congress has increased the appropriation for the Border Patrol and the whole apparatus of border protection. Yet every ... Read more

Book Mole Frann Michel reviews The Corner That Held Them, published in 1948, the sixth novel by British queer communist musicologist and writer Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893–1978). Set mostly in a 14th-century Benedictine convent between the Black Death of 1349 and the Peasa... Read more

Movie Moles Jan Haaken and Denise Morris talk about the film Tár, a 2022 psychological drama directed by Todd Field and starring Cate Blanchet. The film charts the downfall of fictional composer and conductor Lydia Tár.  Jan and Denise take up the mixed reviews and reaction... Read more

This week on Century of Lies: Rural Reforms and Human Rights in Colombia. The UN Security Council met to consider rural reforms and the rights of indigenous and African-descended people in the context of the Colombian peace process. We hear from Armando Wouriyu Valbuena, Se... Read more

  Our Featured Goddesses this week:  Blue Ruin - A punk/metal band originally formed in New Zealand and now based out of Germany.There have been other bands with this name, but these women are totally original. These "five rad, bad babes" just released a brand new album "... Read more

Dr. Jeff Horacek is the founder and medical director of Healthy Connections in Hood River, Oregon. For over 20 years, Dr. Jeff Horacek spends each day helping people transform their health. Board certified in Internal Medicine in 1995 after graduating with honors from the U... Read more