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Kathleen O'Brien Interview

Airs at: Sat, 05/17/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Kathleen O'Brien is a Democrat running for the seat in House District 42.  She talked with Don Merrill about her passion for the rights of the disabled, her desire to advance the Progressive agenda in the Oregon legislature and her determination to better support teachers a... Read more

GMO-Labeling Initiative Approved by State Supreme Court

Airs at: Thu, 05/08/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
After receiving the approval of the Oregon Supreme Court today, a group trying to get a GMO-labeling initiative on the November ballot is poised to begin gathering signatures. For more on the initiative, KBOO’s Sam Bouman spoke to Sandeep Kaushik, a spokesman with Oregon ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour 31 March 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Hosted as well as engineered by Joe Clement, this episode features discussions of Education, Labor, Aging, Reading, Psychiatry and Cinema:  Bill Resnick talks with Portland State University Professor Patricia Schechter about faculty labor struggles and neoliberal education;... Read more

Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Jan Haaken talks with Grace Silvia about the Rethinking Psychiatry Film Festival.  The organization Rethinking Psychiatry is an activist organization trying to shift away from pathologizing and toward recognizing a variety of ways of being in the world, toward recognizing t... Read more

Book Mole: Lively Memoir

Airs at: Mon, 03/31/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Larry Bowlden reviews Penelope Lively's not-quite-memoir Dancing Fish and Ammonites, dispatches from Old Age, which, unlike much writing on later life, focuses on what is left rather than what is lost with age. Larry surveys a number of works from Lively's prizewinning lite... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour March 24 2014

Airs at: Mon, 03/24/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick hosts this show and we hear: Bill talks with Bob Peterson of Rethinking Schools about the corporate agenda against public education, and how advocates for real education are and must continue to resist it. Joe Clement talks with Anna Coote of the New ... Read more

Joan Foley: Community Radio Down Under

Produced for:  Experience Points
Joan Foley, Chairperson of Hedland Community Radio in Port Hedland, Western Australia, will talk about her all-volunteer station, her childhood radio experiences, her passion for inclusion, and why community radio is especially important in Australia. Give Hedland Radio a ... Read more

susan's bullying story

Airs at: Thu, 02/20/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  BOO Wire
this is a story about  susan cecil  being bullied  at  school. and at  green thumb. my advice to anyone who has ben bullied  before.   say please do not  bully me .   hey ,  big guy ,  pick on somebody your own size. yell  and  scream . tell  your parents,  anyone  you can  t... Read more

ACLU Fights DEA's Attempt to Access Oregonians' Prescription Records

Airs at: Thu, 01/16/2014 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
The ACLU of Oregon has joined a suit brought before a federal judge by the state of Oregon in an attempt to prevent the DEA from accessing the data gathered by Oregon's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program without a warrant. The program holds millions of prescription record... Read more

TriMet to Vote on Transfer Time Increase

Airs at: Thu, 12/05/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
TriMet is going to vote next Wednesday on whether to increase transfer times for one-way tickets to 2.5 hours, up from 2 hours, to better accomodate round trips. This would also clarify their official stance on one-way tickets, which is that round trips are not encouraged b... Read more