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Queer Open House & Recruitment for The Other Team, Queer Youth Radio Show

Calling all Portland area youth:: do you identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning or are an ally to the queer community? KBOO is hosting two open houses for The Other Team recruitment: Sunday Dec 20 from 3-5 pm and Monday Dec 28 from 5-7 pm. We need YOU... Read more

Voices from the Edge: What's behind Oregon's domestic violence murders-suicides?

Airs at: Thu, 12/10/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Voices from the Edge
Fourteen Oregonians died last month in five murder-suicides and one attempted murder suicide. Why this sudden outbreak now of men using guns to murder their spouses, ex-spouses and themselves when domestic violence homicides in Oregon have been on the decline? In 1997, 22 d... Read more

Dietician Nancy Sullivan talks about nutrition and diet in hospice care.

Airs at: Mon, 12/07/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Radiozine
Health and Healthcare Forum with host Roberta Hall. Robert Hall hosts Part One of a two-part interview with dietician Nancy Sullivan, who works with people in hospice.  Read more

Lori Gregory, caretaker of Rojo the Llama, talks about animal-assisted therapy.

Airs at: Wed, 11/25/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Erik Jorgensen hosts. His guests are Lori and Shannon Gregory, caretaker of Rojo the Llama, who will talk about animal-assisted therapy. Read more

Jerry Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog on the Sad State of the Health Care Debacle

Airs at: Tue, 11/24/2009 at 12:00am
Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris  Jerry Flanagan of Consumer Watchdog joins Abe and Joe for a perusal of the health care legislation that has emerged from the House and that which should shortly be produced by the Senate.  Surprise -- the insurance industry is going to g... Read more

November 23 Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Do higher taxes make for fewer jobs -- or more?  Is Congress debating real healthcare reform -- or just another corporate bailout?  Is PTSD a good way to think about how people are  affected by violence?   This show takes on these questions, with host Tom Becker, Old Mole r... Read more

The Politics of PTSD

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Is PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) a useful concept  for thinking about how people deal with a society saturated in violence?   What is gained by using it to treat soldiers suffering from the results of battle mayhem?  Can it be extended  to understand women in abusi... Read more

Healthcare Reform -- or Deform?

Airs at: Mon, 11/23/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
 Is the Healthcare bill now being debated in Congress a step in the right, or in the wrong, direction?  In this piece by long-time health professional Carol Miller, read here by Tom Becker, it's another corporate bailout that will make real reform more difficult to achieve.... Read more

Brandi Tuck from the Goose Hollow Family Center talks about Homeless Issues

Airs at: Wed, 11/18/2009 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Wednesday Talk Radio
 Brandi Tuck from the Goose Hollow Family Center talks about Homeless Issues Wednesday Morning Talk Radio Hosted by Erik Jorgenson Today's guest is Brandi Tuck, Executive Director at the Goose Hollow Family Center, which opened for the season on November First.  Brandi was r... Read more

John Perkins and Hoodwinked Live in Studio

Airs at: Tue, 11/17/2009 at 12:00am
 Hosted by Abe Proctor and Joe Uris Author and former "economic hit man" John Perkins joins Abe and Joe for a look behind the mirror at the coporations who have made America into history's first truly global empire. Perkins examines why global financial markets collapsed, ... Read more