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As Portland Re-envisions Itself

Airs at: Mon, 06/30/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Portland now has a new form of government and a revamped city council that in many respects represents the new vision that created this change in our city government. But many tensions remain between some of the city council visionaries and an established way of thinking... 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

Entertainment

Airs at: Fri, 06/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Radiozine
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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

Evening News on 06/04/25

Airs at: Wed, 06/04/2025 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On this edition of KBOO's Evening News: About 20 percent of people currently enrolled in Medicaid could lose it if Trump's Reconciliation bill is passed by the Senate OPB and Lewis and Clark University are partnering to help journalists use the Oregon Public Records l... Read more

Thermal Energy Networks

Airs at: Mon, 07/14/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In a growing number of communities across the United States, gas utilities, supported by state legislatures, labor unions, environmental groups and other stakeholders, are exploring Thermal Energy Networks (TENs) to decarbonize buildings and create clean energy jobs. TEN... Read more

Building the World We Believe In

Airs at: Mon, 06/02/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
In these disturbing times as we watch democracy crumble and wonder whom the oligarchs will go after next, how do we ground ourselves in the work we need to keep doing? First they come for the immigrants, then international students and now FBI agents are showing up at th... Read more

Emergency Workplace Organizing and Workers Organizing Workers

Airs at: Mon, 05/26/2025 at 6:00pm - 6:30pm
Produced for:  Labor Radio
The "Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee" and "Workers Organizing Workers" are both projects of the Democratic Socialists of America to train and mentor workers wanting to organize a union at their workplace or get a new job in a strategic industry to organize a uni... Read more

Evening News on 05/23/25

Airs at: Fri, 05/23/2025 at 5:00pm - 5:30pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  On this edition of the KBOO Evening News: Portland's City Council approves a 8.5 billion dollar budget Then, Governor Tina Kotek discussing ways to ban phones in schools Finally, Harvard sues the Trump Administration over federal bans on admitting foreign students to s... Read more