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15 TRIPP-P 24Jan2020

Airs at: Fri, 01/24/2020 at 11:45pm - Tue, 02/28/2023 at 11:45pm
Produced for:  TRIPP-P
TRIPP-P sits down with a Data Analyst, Research Activist and Global Integrated Systems Engineer named MK, also known as Nerdletta online, to discuss housing and property development both in the local Portland market and globally.   Nerdletta offers insight into the curren... Read more

January 28, 2020: Ten Year Anniversary of Aaron Campbell; and Group in Wyoming Calls for Justice and Police Oversight

Airs at: Tue, 01/28/2020 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
      On this week's show, we hear from the Stop the Violence event held on Saturday, January 25 at Maranatha Church in NE Portland, marking the ten-year anniversary of the police killing of Aaron Campbell. Campbell's death was the latest in a series of police killings t... Read more

Local Folks Podcast Season 3: Helping the Homeless, Episode 5

Airs at: Sat, 02/01/2020 at 6:15pm
Produced for:  Local Folks
Where can homeless people go when they need a pair of dry socks or a pair of shoes, a piece of twine to tie something together, a tool to repair their bicycle, or help getting a new ID? One place to go in Corvallis is Project Action, housed in the Corvallis Daytime Drop-in ... Read more

Jeff Smith Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Jeff Smith is a Republican who is running for the US House of Representatives in District 2 in the 2020 election.  He talked with Don Merrill about what his party needs to do to flip 100,000 independent voters in Multnomah county, whether he is splitting the vote in favor o... Read more

Kyle Krohn Interview

Produced for:  Between Us
Kyle Krohn is a candidate for Position 11 of the Oregon Court of Appeals.  He talked with Don Merrill about criticizing the tendency of the court to not explain its rulings, the trouble he got in for doing that, how he can prove he is the most productive appellate attorneys... Read more

Lents renter survey demonstrates tenant vulnerabilities and insecurities

Airs at: Mon, 01/27/2020 at 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On Saturday, the results of a summertime survey of renters in the Lents neighborhood were announced. It found that while most households are stable-- in that the tenants haven’t moved recently-- they are worried and vulnerable. Limited budgets and possible rent increase... Read more

Methamphetamine documentary director highlights the reasons behind addiction

Airs at: Thu, 01/23/2020 at 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Canadian paramedic and filmmaker Rodney Bodner is the producer and director of a recently released documentary entitled “Methamphetamine: Community Under Siege.” Bodner spoke with Melissa Hood about the goals of the film. Read more

Interview with Gabrielle Guedon

Airs at: Fri, 02/07/2020 at 9:30am - 10:00am
Interview with Gabrielle Guedon, Director of Oregon Self-Advocate Coalition Read more

Hindsight 2020: A Look Back at 2017

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2020 at 10:00am - 11:00am
    In the spirit of Hindsight 2020, we look back at some of KBOO volunteers' reporting about police from the first year of the current administration. The stories in this hour cover roughly the period from January 2017 to February 2018, and contain descriptions of police... Read more

Rose City Retrospective, a Hindsight 2020 production

Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2020 at 9:00am - 10:00am
  A decade is a lot of time to digest, so we’re biting off a more manageable chunks of time, three years, starting after the 2016 election. In this short hour, not everything can be covered, but with the benefit of hindsight we can look at the past and see some patterns em... Read more