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The Great Con of AI

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Promoters of Artificial Intelligence claim that AI is going to usher in a new era of prosperity for all. Economist Mary Hart-Landsberg is skeptical. He argues that generative AI, like chatbots, have not only largely exhausted their potential, they pose numerous threats t... Read more

Ann Telnaes and Laura Nix

Airs at: Thu, 06/12/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her political cartoons.  Recently, she left the Washington Post after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires bowing down to Trump.  Now Ann is at the center... Read more

Breaking the Iron Wall on the Lower Willamette River

Airs at: Mon, 06/16/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
The Willamette River is a confluence of social, ecological, economic and historical significance and yet we continue to struggle to protect the very place that sustains us. But we are beginning to see a crack in the iron wall that has ruled the lower Willamette, created ... Read more

Zenith Gets Its Hearing

Airs at: Mon, 06/09/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
  This program originally aired on May 26, 2025   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 Zen... Read more

Big Hopes for the Oregon Journalism Protection Act (SB 686)

Airs at: Thu, 06/05/2025 at 8:00am - 9:00am
The Oregon Journalism Protection Act (SB 686) would create a funding system where social media mega-companies pay local media outlets for the content they use. The hope is that systems like this will slow the downward spiral of local newsrooms. The guests are, in the fir... Read more

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