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Continued coverage of Kavanaugh Hearing

Airs at: Thu, 09/27/2018 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
KBOO will provide LIVE coverage via Pacifica of the Thursday morning Confirmation Hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Doctor Christine Blasey-Ford is scheduled to testify, and Judge Kavanaugh will enter afterwards to answer.  KBOO's exclusive Portland radio coverage... Read more

Live coverage of the Dr. Blasey Ford / Kavanaugh hearings

Airs at: Thu, 09/27/2018 at 7:00am - 12:00pm
KBOO will provide LIVE coverage via Pacifica of the Thursday morning Confirmation Hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Doctor Christine Blasey-Ford is scheduled to testify, and Judge Kavanaugh will enter afterwards to answer.  KBOO's exclusive Portland radio coverage... Read more

The Diane Wade House

Airs at: Mon, 10/01/2018 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for:  Radiozine
  This fall, Multnomah county and Bridges to Change, a local non-profit, will open a new program dedicated to curbing the disparities for African American women involved with the Justice system. The Diane Wade House program "will be the first-of-its-kind transitional hous... Read more

9/11 Unmasked, Part 4: Fran Shure and the Problem of the Media

Airs at: Tue, 09/25/2018 at 12:00am
  This is the fourth of my four-part series on the 9/11 Consensus Panel, whose work was released in book form on September 11th, 2018. [Note: Amazon, as of September 25th, now reports the book as "Temporarily out of stock" even as the publisher says Amazon has many copies ... Read more

Afghanistan, Iraq, & Yemen: Finding Hope in Countries Devastated by U.S. Policy

Airs at: Wed, 09/26/2018 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Political Perspectives
  Join peace activist Kathy Kelly and host Lisa Loving for an hour on colonialism and nonviolence in the face of war, this Wednesday morning at 9. Back in the 1990s, Kathy was founder of Voices in the Wilderness, where she traveled with local activist Dan Handelman of Peac... Read more

#DisarmPSU Rally

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 5:00pm - 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
A rally and march was hosted today at Portland State University. The outcry comes after Jason Washington, a black man, was gunned down by PSU police officers James Dewey and Shawn McKenzie in late June. The mission of the event was to bring justice for Washington and preven... Read more

Looking Ahead to the Portland Psychedelic Conference

Airs at: Mon, 09/24/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
    The First Annual Portland Psychedelic Conference is coming up on October 27th, at the Alberta Abbey in Northeast Portland. KBOO reporter Sam Bouman sat down today with an organizer and two of the speakers who will be at the conference to find out more. Doctor Alissa ... Read more

Reducing Harm, Saving Lives: California Assembly Bill 186

Airs at: Sun, 09/23/2018 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies we look at California's Assembly Bill 186, which would allow the city and county of San Francisco to establish a supervised consumption facility that would prevent drug overdose deaths. Governor Jerry Brown has until September 30 to sign the mea... Read more

The Day to Day Fight to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in Oregon

Airs at: Thu, 09/20/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  The State of Oregon is partnering with school districts and education service districts across the state to reduce chronic student absenteeism. Chronic Absenteeism is different from traditional concepts like truancy or delinquency, and aims to capture all absences from a... Read more

Worker Cooperatives

Airs at: Fri, 09/21/2018 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
  A deep dive into the worker cooperatives movement: a broad selection of organizations, activists, and cooperatively-structured workplaces that advocate for and embody workplace and economic democracy. The 21st century has seen an explosion in interest around worker coope... Read more