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Presswatch on 04/16/20

Airs at: Thu, 04/16/2020 at 9:00am - 9:30am
Produced for:  Presswatch
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Farmworkers excluded from stimulus benefits; guestworkers may be left without as well

Airs at: Wed, 04/15/2020 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  Donald Trump and his political allies have excluded over a million farmworkers in the U.S. from receiving any benefits under the recent CARES Act. These farmworkers live and work in conditions where the spread of the virus is an immediate danger. Now, Trump’s Secretar... Read more

News update for 4/15/20

Airs at: Wed, 04/15/2020 at 4:30pm - 4:45pm
Produced for:  Daily News Headlines
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America: The Farewell Tour w/ Chris Hedges - Ep 60

Airs at: Wed, 04/15/2020 at 6:30am - Wed, 04/22/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Fortress On A Hill
Chris Hedges is a columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 12 books, inc... Read more

Position 4 challenger Keith Wilson offers creative solutions for transportation problems in Portland

Airs at: Tue, 04/14/2020 at 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  While in-person campaigning for local office is temporarily suspended, the race is still very much on. One challenger for Portland City Commission Position 4 is Keith Wilson. Wilson is a second generation Portlander and businessman with expertise in transportation, runni... Read more

Ripples in all directions: Basic Rights Oregon, hope as a practice, Youth HIV Awareness Day

Airs at: Tue, 04/14/2020 at 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Preference
‘People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a ri... Read more

John Lively Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
John Lively is a democrat running for Oregon House District 15.  He talked with Don Merrill about how he has survived as a moderate in an atmosphere of rank partisanism, why he believes strongly in the healing power of holistic medicine and how he has special empathy for th... Read more

Oregon Independent Party adopts new voting method: Score Then Automatic Runoff

Airs at: Fri, 04/10/2020 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    A new method of voting is being used by the Independent Party of Oregon in their 2020 Primary Election. STAR voting, which stands for Score Then Automatic Runoff, was first proposed by Mark Frohnmayer, who is also the founder of the Equal Vote Coalition. KBOO's Yas... Read more

Alex Spenser Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Alex Spenser is a democrat running for US House of Representatives District 2.  She talked with Don Merrill about how her former boss motivated her to take her place in the congressional race, how the rural - urban divide is a myth and why she believes the key to leadership... Read more

Miriam Cummins Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Miriam Cummins is a democrat who is running for Oregon House District seat 15.  She talked with Don Merrill about why the issue of DACA is still important even though it's not being talked about a lot right now, why she thinks the voters of her district might be ready for a... Read more