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Digital Disconnect by Robert McChesney (archive)

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  In recognition of the recent passing of media scholar and progressive journalist Robert McChesney (1952-2025), we share archive audio of McChesney talking in 2013 with Bill Resnick about his still-timely book Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet ... Read more

Zenith Gets Its Hearing

Airs at: Mon, 05/26/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
On May 12, The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality held a public hearing, where over 300 people testified against DEQ approving Zenith Energy’s draft Air Contaminant Discharge Permit. This is the last permit Zenith needs to expand its dangerous fuel facility in No... Read more

BLM History

Produced for:  Radiozine
First, Elizaha talks about Martin Luther King JR and his life's work. We discuss the impact of MLK's death on America.  Next, Gabby talks about the celebration of Black History Month. Gabby emphasizes the need to come together and lift each other up rather than bring ea... Read more

Evening News on 05/16/25

Airs at: Fri, 05/16/2025 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On this edition of the KBOO Evening News: The Wisconsin judge charged with interfering with an ICE arrest pleads not guilty, Portland’s music community pushes back against the PCC’s plans to end the Music and Sonic Arts Program, And, the Southeastern Oregon paper the... Read more

Bad Air

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
According to the 2025 Annual Report of the American Lung Association, fifty-five years after the passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, nearly half of US residents breathe unhealthy air. One significant contribution to this problem is the inadequacy of the regulatory app... Read more

Arctic Passages

Airs at: Mon, 05/12/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
While many of us are worrying about how the melting polar ice caps are a warning of climate catastrophes ahead, for others melting ice is turning historical dreams of a navigable Arctic into reality and reshaping rivalries at the top of the world.  On this episode of Lo... Read more

Keeping Oregon Nuclear-Free

Airs at: Mon, 05/05/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In 1980 Oregon voters overwhelmingly passed an initiative that bans any new nuclear reactors until the there is a permanent national nuclear waste repository. Since 1992 when the Trojan Nuclear power plant in Rainier, OR closed, the state has been nuclear-free. But over ... Read more

Zenith Energy's Tortured Tale in Portland

Airs at: Mon, 04/28/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For seven years Portlanders have been trying to stop Zenith Energy's oil trains from threatening the health and safety of our community. After nearly three years of community protests and public meetings, the City of Portland denied Zenith’s application for a Land Use Co... Read more

Assault on the Environment

Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
One of the first executive orders issued by Trump in January was a Whitehouse paper titled "Unleashing American Energy." It promises to restore American prosperity by removing legal barriers, including laws in many states, to the extraction of natural resources. In their... Read more

The Rampage of Data Centers

Airs at: Mon, 04/21/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Where once cows roamed on pastures and fields grew a variety of crops, now the principal crop is data centers. These massive industrial eyesores are becoming a fixture across Oregon’s rural and suburban landscapes. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Fred Huette, ... Read more