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Multnomah County Board of Commissioners/MCAS Response

FULL TEXT OF MULTNOMAH COUNTY COMMISSIONERS / MCAS RESPONSE  TO VOICES FOR THE ANIMALS INQUIRY ABOUT ONGOING ISSUES AT MCAS AS OBSERVED BY VOLUNTEERS   The lack of concrete improvements in the conditions for animals living at the shelter. That is not true. Animal Servic... Read more

Talking Earth with Walt Curtis: May 8, 2023

Produced for:  Talking Earth
Tonight's edition features host Walt Curtis and board-op Patrick Bocarde reading poems from Percy Bysshe Shelley and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others, as well as a recording from Langston Hughes.  The Countercultural literary history of Portland is also discussed at le... Read more

Fostering Community Connections

Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Happy May Day! Please join us on Monday, May 1st at 6:30 pm for Prison Pipeline on KBOO Community Radio as we talk with Kayla Victor of the International Prisoners' Family Conference about their upcoming workshop in Portland titled "Fostering Community Connections" on May 4... Read more

KBOO is Hiring: Station Manager

KBOO is Hiring: Station Manager Please submit resume and cover letter by April 7th, 2023 11:59 pm (Deadline extended!) to hiring@kboo.org or mail/bring your resume and cover letter to: Hiring Committee 20 SE 8th Ave. Portland OR 97214 DEADLINE TO APPLY IS Friday, April 7... Read more

In Memory of S.J. Oxendine

Dear Community, We are saddened to inform you that KBOO has lost a beloved volunteer, DJ, reporter, and friend: S.J. Oxendine. S.J. was a part of the Blues Junction Collective. He hosted every 3rd Saturday from 5 to 7pm. S.J. was one of those super volunteers that was alw... Read more

Join KBOO for a Teach-in on Portland Measure 26-228 this Friday!

Join KBOO Community Radio and Hosts of "The Gap" Althea + Tammy for a very special Teach-in on Portland Measure 26-228 When + Where: Friday, October 28th, 5:30 p.m. at Rose City Book Pub  1329 NE Fremont St, Portland, OR 97212 We hope to see you there! We'll hear from s... Read more

Spinitron Auto-Recognition

As of October 7th, 2022, We are testing out a Spinitron Add-on that uses Automated Recognition to create playlist for you! Similar to the app Shazam, Spinitron uses ACR Cloud to detect musical broadcast and log them into your playlist. We are still learning how this all wor... Read more

Native American Heritage

    ✦   Here at KBOO, we celebrate Native American Heritage, as we honor the Indigenous people whose traditional and ancestral homelands we stand on: the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Watlala bands of the Chinook, the Tualatin Kalapuya and many other Indige... Read more

KBOO's 2022 Citizen's Agenda Survey is out now!

Produced for:  Evening News
  It's 2022, and this midterm election season, KBOO is doing our election coverage a bit differently. We want to know what our listeners and community is most concerned about. What do you want candidates to be talking about? Are you most concerned about housing, the enviro... Read more

Celebrating the Thin Green Line: KBOO's Special Earth Day Webinar

Produced for:  Locus Focus
For two decades communities across the Pacific Northwest have been inundated with proposals to build mega coal, oil and fracked gas terminals and pipelines from Coos Bay to the Salish Sea. And for two decades these communities have risen up to stop these projects. Now most ... Read more