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Measure 112 offers Oregon voters a chance to eliminate constitutional exceptions for slavery

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2022 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Oregonians will have the opportunity to remove a "slavery loophole" from the Oregon State Constitution at the midterm election ballot this November.  Measure 112 would remove slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for a crime. It's language that's echoed in th... Read more

Portland Commissioner candidates Hardesty and Gonzalez on housing and homelessness

Airs at: Wed, 10/05/2022 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Portland City Commission Position 3 candidates Jo Ann Hardesty and Rene Gonzalez spoke to Street Roots about how they would like to address the affordable housing and homelessness crisis in Portland.  KBOO's Althea Billings speaks to K. Rambo, Editor-in-Chief at Street R... Read more

2022 Oregon governor candidates debate education funding

Airs at: Thu, 10/06/2022 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  Oregon has a remarkable three way governor race on the ballot in November 2022. Current governor Kate Brown is term limited, so the candidates are Democrat Tina Kotek, Independent Betsy Johnson and Republican Christine Drazan. The candidates met in a debate this week, mo... Read more

The Gap: Mingus Mapps' Charter Alternative and things you didn't invent actually

Airs at: Fri, 10/07/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  The Gap
  On this episode of the Gap, Tammy and Althea cover some recent news, national and local. We discuss Biden's federal marijuana reform, dyeing a waterfall for a gender reveal, and we go deep on Portland midterm election news. City Commissioner Mingus Mapps has revealed his... Read more

The Gap: Portland Charter Change Measure 26-228 and Getting Curious

Airs at: Fri, 09/30/2022 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  The Gap
  On this episode of the Gap, Tammy and Althea interview Damon Motz-Storey, the Communications Manager for Portland United for Change, which is advocating for the passage of the Portland Charter Change measure, Measure 26-228.  We discuss the process that led to the ballot... Read more

Putin's Nuclear Threat & MAD - It's Roots in the Colonial Origin Story

Airs at: Thu, 09/22/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
Putin's declaration yesterday that "those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the weathervane can turn and point towards them," the threat of a nuclear catastrophe looms again. Here in Portland, Oregon, we live downstream from the Hanford Nuclear s... Read more

How the Media Fumbles Covering White Supremacist Extremism

Airs at: Thu, 09/15/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
  From climate change to armed insurrection, how has the media done? Has it provided more than just the much-derided practice of "bothsideism?" And what role do journalistic norms of objectivity, often interpreted by editors and reporters, giving at least two sides to eve... Read more

Election Deniers and the Midterms

Airs at: Thu, 09/08/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
In this episode we will take a look at not only how election deniers are faring in primaries (which we’ve previously covered on this show) but how the framework of denialism is playing out. Both for it’s adherents and in polling of American voters. Read more

Portland's Proposed City Charter Change Part 3

Airs at: Mon, 09/12/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Now that election season is really upon us, it's a good time to take another look at the proposed changes to Portland's city charter, which will be on this November's ballot. These changes will be quite dramatic, not only changing our  city government from a commission to a... Read more

Why Arizona Matters: GOP Extremism & "Great Replacement" Hysteria

Airs at: Thu, 09/01/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  American Standoff
  American Standoff, live in-station, with host Jackeline Keeler.  In this episode, we will take a look at how Trump's Big Lie is gaining ground in Arizona, a battleground state that host Keeler has covered and which includes a large part of the Navajo Nation, of which she... Read more