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Are there things you do to prepare for a disaster -- or even the end of the world? We are live in the studio with Ariel Gore, with Jenny Forrester she has edited The People’s Apocalypse – their book launch is at Powell’s this Thursday, Oct. 25 @ 7:30pm, Powell’s Books on Ha... Read more

Consumer issues -- Our guest is business and finance journalist Fran Hawthorne on her new book,  Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love. The book is a greenwashing investigation looking behind the scenes at six companies—Apple, Starbucks, Trader Jo... Read more

Presidential biography time. But this one has a twist: What if you were President Obama's shrink? Justin Frank, M.D., a practicing psychoanalyst and the author of the New York Times bestseller Bush on the Couch, lays it out on what's going on under the surface of the Presid... Read more

Host Lisa Loving's guest is investigative reporter Elizabeth Grossman, talking about new research on chemical exposures in food, bisphenol A, cancer and other health effects. Her newest article for The Atlantic looks at how lobbyists are spinning the research. Rachel's Frie... Read more

An unprecedented list of mainstream leaders have now endorsed the Oregon Cannabis Tax Act: former Secretary of State Bill Bradbury, Rep. Peter Buckley, the Oregon House Ways and Means co-chair; Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard. Even the Northwest Regional NAACP Conf... Read more

 Host Lisa Loving and community activist JoAnn Hardesty take a look at the US Department of Justice report on the Portland Police Bureau. Read more

The Presidential Election: To Vote or Not to Vote! What are you planning on doing! Are you dreading the upcoming election, unhappy with Obama, No on Romney and you don't think the third party candidates for the Green Party or the Libertarian candidates have a chance. Will ... Read more

Is it possible to depict the banking crisis in a circus show? Our guests are Keith Hennessy of Circo Zero and friends, whose physical theater show about the economy is at the PICA TBA performance festival this weekend; and arts producer Sean Ongley. Photos: Robbie Sweeney Read more

Let's send a message to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte -- listeners what issues are you dealing with in your life right now? Call us up and share your story and I'll send the podcast of this show to Oregon Democratic Party delegates, every member of the Ore... Read more