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As you drive through the eastern end of the Columbia Gorge into the plateaus of Eastern Oregon suddenly the scenery shifts from spectacular wild land formations on either side of the river to a swirling web of industrial infrastructure – massive high voltage towers conn...

Kevin Reed, president of the Service Employees International Union local 503, sublocal 89 at Portland State University, representing non-faculty, classified workers, explains the difficulties of bargaining with a PSU administration unwilling offer compensation to keep up...

Until 1991 Portland dumped its garbage in a wetland in the St. Johns neighborhood. After the dump closed the land was restored to become Smith and Bybee Wetlands Natural Area. So where did the garbage go after that? Now it goes to a Metro transfer station from where it i...

In an extremely close race, hard right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella was just elected as Colombia’s new president. Norm Diamond speaks with Alex Diamond about why Colombianos supported the right, what the left could have done, US interference in the election, and wh...

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Trillions for the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex: President Trump recently proposed a record $1.5 trillion dollar military budget, declaring that it will be paid for ...

By Toby Douglas Portland Parks and Rec’s Summer Free For All has begun. Every year the Summer Free For All offers family friendly events, for no charge, at different parks across the city, with more than 50 programs are offered in the coming weeks. That includes movie n...

Alex Cox is a legendary filmmaker, teacher, and author whose films include Repo Man, Walker, and Sid and Nancy, and whose books include Ten Thousand Ways to Die and X Films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker. Originally from the west of England, Alex became famou...

Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, our city’s premier music event, starts next Thursday, July 2nd. Founded back in 1988, the Festival fills Waterfront Park over the July 4th holiday weekend with three days of live music, ending with the city’s grandest fireworks displ...

On this edition of Century: Treatment Initiation in the Emergency Department. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Professor Kathryn Hawk, MD, MHS. Dr. Hawk is an attending physician in the Yale New Haven Hospital Emergency Department and an Associate Professor in...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline, airing Monday, June 22nd at 6:30 p.m. on KBOO Community Radio, we speak with wrongful conviction advocate and podcaster Sarah DeArmond about the case of Frederico Lowe-Bey, a Missouri man who has spent nearly four decades behind bars w...

Travis Leatham and Isaac Stokka, members of the Workers Union of Disability Rights Oregon, discuss their struggle for transparency, a voice at work, fair compensation and why they are ready to strike.

The Human Access Project (HAP) was founded in 2010 on the simple belief that Portlanders should be able to swim in their river. Since then the organization has worked on a variety of fronts to transform the Willamette River’s image from a polluted waterway best avoided, ...

Main stories in this episode; the shaky Iran deal; Lebanon: a deal breaker?; Trump's ongoing threats to Canada

On this edition of Free Culture Radio: Ending AIDS. The Joint United Nations Programme against HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) released a report June 12 which shows that a combination of factors is threatening to reverse years of gains in the AIDS response. Angeli Achrekar, Assistant ...

On this edition of Century: The Math of Fentanyl. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Morgan Godvin, a researcher, writer, harm reduction advocate, and co-author an article entitled “Estimating the daily milligrams of morphine equivalent of illicit fentanyl use...

Join us this Tuesday at 6:00 PM on Transpositive, airing on KBOO Community Radio 90.7 FM in Portland and streaming worldwide. On this week's program, we reflect on the tragic death of 19-year-old University of Washington student Juniper Blessing, a transgender woman whos...

In this episode, "Ukraine is Winning," analyzing Ukraine's comeback and Russia's fading hopes in the war.

James and Nate welcome Chris Plaisted of the award winning Board Game Hot Takes podcast to the show. They discuss making a podcast, how tastes change over time, theme and story immersion, and whatever else the conversation veers towards (and maybe none of those things, w...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline, airing Monday, June 15th at 6:30 p.m. on KBOO Community Radio, we speak with Nazgol Ghandnoosh of The Sentencing Project about a new report examining how criminal records contribute to longer prison sentences and deepen racial inequiti...

The POWER Act, a new law to insulate Oregonians' energy bills from data centers, will be rolled out soon. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Sarah Wochele, the Citizen Utility Board's Equity Analyst & Advocate, about some of the remaining challenges that we nee...

Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments:   The Hidden History of Juneteenth: This week marks the celebration of the emancipation of African-Americans from slavery, a federal holiday known as Juneteenth. Trump would...

Desiree Hellegers talks with Jules Boykoff, Professor of Politics and Government, prolific writer and commentator, and former professional soccer player, about his new book Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing, and the FIFA Greed Machine (OR Books, 2026). The book...

This Pride Month, it is important to march in solidarity with a movement that carries liberatory potential for all of us. At the same time, it is important to recognize how attacks on LGBTQ+ people take varying forms. Each identity in the Rainbow is its own Rorschach car...

This week marks the celebration of the emancipation of African-Americans from slavery, a federal holiday known as Juneteenth. Trump would rather Juneteenth not be a holiday at all. Like all authoritarian regimes, Trump has worked to suppress history he doesn’t like, incl...

Craig Florence has been called 'Byronesque' by The Huffington Post, though most people around him just call him 'Craig'. Having traveled around the world and lived in such far-flung places as Buenos Aires, Cairo, Cornwall, and Paris, where he did a stint at the famed Sha...

Today we're talking with Edan Krolewicz, creator of the 'Rip City Not Rip Off' campaign, pushing for a better Moda Center renovation deal between the City of Portland and the Blazers ownership. Althea and Reed have had this as a pet issue for some time, and it turns o...

David Rees is the creator of the satirical clip-art comics collections My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable and Get Your War On and a supporter of land-mine removal efforts in Afghanistan.  In this encore episode, David brings his project How To Sharpen Pencils, a h...

On today’s show, we welcome Vincent Chu, author of the debut novel Nice Places from Forest Avenue Press. Vincent’s the author of the story collection Like a Champion and his fiction has appeared in Muumuu House, STILL Magazine, Pithead Chapel, PANK Magazine, and other jo...

On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Hepatitis C in Jails. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Lin Zhu, MBBS, PhD. Doctor Zhu is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Services Research and Policy, and Co-Director of Public Health Roundtables in the Depa...

Join us as we talk with AAUP-PSU leaders Karlyn Adams-Wiggins and Bill Knight about the attacks on public higher education and PSU and how their union has been fighting back. Then join the rally June 16th!  RSVP – BoT and SEIU Fair Contract Now rally – Urban Plaza

There is a hole in the Ross Island Lagoon the size of Portland’s Moda Center, the result of decades of gravel mining. That hole is responsible for dangerous algae blooms in the lagoon that often spread out into the Willamette River, making the river hazardous for people ...

Frann Michel hosts this episode which includes these segments:   PSU: Laboring for Education and Freedom Laurie Mercier speaks with Bill Knight, Associate Professor of English at Portland State University and president of the PSU American Association of University Pr...

Laurie Mercier speaks with Bill Knight, Associate Professor of English at Portland State University and president of the PSU American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and Jessica Rodriguez-JenKins, who is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work...

On Tuesday, May 6 at 8:00am, KBOO Community Radio program host Emma Lugo brings listeners a special election conversation featuring the Democratic candidates running for Oregon House District 27. The discussion features Ashley Hartmeier-Prigg and Tammy Carpenter in an in...

Nate digs into why James hates winning games and they continue the them discussion from the previous episode.

Host Karen James speaks with Stefani Davis, CLEAR Clinic and Gus Patel-Tupper, Supervising Attorney with UC Berkeley Law Policy Advocacy Clinic about “The Price of Justice in Oregon, Rethinking Court-Ordered Monetary Sanctions” a new report written with the Oregon Justic...

The Willamette River begins its course as two forks merge south of Eugene, to form the major river in NW Oregon. From its pristine origins the Willamette flows as a recognizable river through small cities, forests and farmland, until it reaches Portland. There it becomes...

Portland is gifted to have a mighty river flowing through the heart of the city. Unfortunately for more than a century this priceless resource has been abused, degraded and polluted, and for many decades Portlanders turned their backs on the Willamette River. But things ...

Legendary labor organizer, Ellen David Friedman, chair of the Labor Notes board and coordinator of the United Caucuses of Rank-and-File Educators (UCORE) has just released her first book: "Keep Going: A Guide to Organizing When It's Hard".  In this interview Friedman sha...

This week on "That Vegan Show," join me as I interview Lindsey Quinn to find out all of the wonderful and innovative ways that the Oregon Dog Rescue is helping dogs in our community and beyond! Lindsey Quinn has been following her passion of uniting people and canines at ...