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Portland's Sunday Parkways

Airs at: Tue, 06/16/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Locus Focus
 Hosted by: Barbara Bernstein   How Sunday Parkways reduce carbon emissions, build community, and raise Portland's Happiness Quotient. This week Linda Ginenthal with Transportation Options joins Locus Focus host Barbara Bernstein to talk about Sunday Parkways. Modeled after... Read more

Yesterday's Householding--Still Viable Today?

Airs at: Tue, 06/09/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for: 
Join Harriet and Marge with Guests Virginia Yoder (81) and Sarah Deumling (62) to hear about their remarkable lives and ongoing commitment to the ethic and life as householders.  Sarah Deumling manages a 1400 acre sustainable forest and Virginia Yoder has lived on the same ... Read more

What do Lents residents really think of Randy Leonard's baseball stadium deal?

Airs at: Wed, 06/10/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
At last month's meeting of the Lents Neighborhood Association, Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard told a less than enthusiastic audience that "Having a Triple A baseball stadium would be the best thing we could ever have happen in Lents." While criticism of the stadiu... Read more

UN Climate change conference begins

Airs at: Wed, 06/10/2009 at 5:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News
As the United Nations Convention on Climate Change holds its annual meeting in Bonn, Germany this week, a coalition of environmental groups have called for comprehensive climate reduction goals. Read more

INTERVIEW WITH JIM ENNES PART 1 - SURVIVOR 1967 ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE USS LIBERTY.

Airs at: Sun, 06/07/2009 at 5:00pm
Following his enlisted tour, he worked as an investigator for Retail Credit Company (now known as Equifax Corporation) while attending San Francisco State College at night on the GI Bill. Upon receiving his degree in business administration he applied for Naval Officer Cand... Read more

What do Lents residents really think of Randy Leonard's baseball deal?

At last month's meeting of the Lents Neighborhood Association, Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard told a less than enthusiastic audience that "Having a Triple A baseball stadium would be the best thing we could ever have happen in Lents." While criticism of the stadiu... Read more

USS Liberty: Survivors of the 1967 Israeli attack

Airs at: Sun, 06/07/2009 at 5:00pm
James Marquis Ennes, Jr., a survivor of the 1967 attack by Israel on the American intelligence ship USS Liberty and one of the creators of The USS Liberty Memorial Web Site, is an American citizen and a retired career US Naval Officer. He was born in New Jersey in 1933 and ... Read more

Mayor Sam Adams and Portland's new Climate Action Plan

Airs at: Tue, 06/09/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
While Portland may be ahead of the curve in taking on the challenge of climate change, there's still a lot of work to be done. Portland was one of the first American cities to take climate change seriously. In 2007, Portland was the only large metro area in the U.S. that ... Read more

Bad, NYT, Bad... Health Care... and LNG in Oregon

Airs at: Mon, 06/08/2009 at 5:00pm
 Hosts Abe Proctor and Joe Uris look at a handful of issues on the national radar, including another case of journalistic malpractice from the New York Times, the twists and turns of the health care battle on Capitol Hill, and the tale of lawmakers on the take in Oregon's l... Read more

USS Liberty: Interviews by Dr Stanley Monteith - Liberty Radio - PART 2

Airs at: Sun, 06/07/2009 at 5:00pm
Dr Monteith of Liberty Radio interviewed two survivors of the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty.   The Liberty was attacked in International waters by the Israelis on June 8, 1967.   The name of the survivor who was interviewed is Gary Bummett.   Read more