While the Mayor and the City Council make plans for cutting services, other members of the community are planning a budget that would increase the services that make for a civilized city. Old Mole Bill Resnick talks with two activists involved in the People's Budget Project, Megan Hise and Shamus Cooke.
but Pattern Recognition knows all about you…What do Santa Clara County, the Southern Pacific Railroad andtoday relate to one another?Think fast or it will be tomorrow... Think slow and it will be Pattern Recognition.Don’t think at all and it will be next stop Santa Clara.
Earlier today, The Oregon state Senate repassed House Bill 2896, which prohibits teenagers under the age of eighteen from using tanning bed facilities without a note from a physician. The bill was sponsored by senator Elizabeth Steiner Hayward. In Early March, the Oregon House passed the bill. But later the Senate decided to allow seveteen-year-olds to use commercial tanning beds with parental consent. The House did not concur with this amendment, and brought the bill back in its original form to the senate this morning, where it passed. KBOO’s Audrey Davis has more:
Renowned Oregon Governor Tom McCall would have turned 100 years old this year. To commemorate this larger-than-life figure, Know Your City (formerly the Dill Pickle Club) commissioned a comic book about McCall's controversial decision to fund the Vortex I rock festival in 1970, which drew anti-war activists away from an American Legion convention in Portland. Author Sarah Mirk, who created the comic with artist Daniel Duford, joins Kick-Ass Oregon History founder Doug Kenck-Crispin to regale listeners with the history they didn't learn in school. Sarah will also share details about how to participate in the newest Know Your City project, Comics for Change.
The 2013 Village Building Convergence, another crossroads in time, and Succession, the ecosystem’s millichambered hourglass, keeping track of time. Ticking off tracks in time running scalar sand through lacy finders; Pattern reflected on pattern, rain falling on infinite isinglass winter morning
At the Crossroads…Go ask Robert Johnson…10, 15, 20 thousand years ago, our hunting/gathering ancestors at the spot where their paths met, exchanged food, weaponry, seeds, sperm and perhaps,
This is a recording of the meeting from the point when members moved outside to its conclusion. Wind noise and distance of some speakers from recorder affect quality. The written transcript, along with Board comments will be posted by KBOO. The written transcript has six time cues. Both the audio file and the written transcript begin at time zero for easy cross referencing.
KBOO's Jennifer Kemp spoke with a representative from US Pirg who explains the phenomenon of large corporations creating off shore tax havens to avoid paying US taxes. He explains that large corporations have gotten little resistence from Congress for their reluctance to pay taxes because they have such a strong lobbying presence. He also elaborates on what actions US Pirg is taking to protest corporate tax evasion.