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Ballot Initiatives from A to Z: Get Out and VOTE, Dammit!!!

Airs at: Tue, 10/26/2010 at 12:00am
Vote, dammit! Abe and Joe run down the ballot initatives for the Nov. 2 election.  Got ballot measures? Oh, yes you do. Abe and Joe parse the initiatives up for a yea or nay vote in the November 2 election in Portland. Also, FOX News stinks.   Read more

Well Read Red: Mortgage Morass

Airs at: Mon, 10/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Tom Becker reads from Paul Krugman's October 14th Op-Ed in the New York Times, "The Mortgage Morass," which reflects on a wave of potentially illegal home-seizures and how this takes us back to "the days when noblemen felt free to take whatever they wanted, knowing that pe... Read more

Voter-Owned Elections

Airs at: Mon, 10/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
 Bill Resnick talks with Janice Thompson of Common Cause about publicly-financed politics and voter-owned elections, and specifically how Portland Ballot 26-108 ensures them. Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour October 18th

Airs at: Mon, 10/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Today's Old Mole - hosted by Tom Becker - features conversations about alternative electoral systems emerging in the US; the relationship between domestic violence and economic hardship; voter-owned elections; and horror stories of defrauded home-owners. Below are links t... Read more

Updates on Mumia and November elections

Airs at: Mon, 10/18/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Prison Pipeline
We heard from Shawn Carnahan, who provided updates on Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Erika Spaet who shared the position Partnership, Safety and Justice has taken on some of the the November election issues. If you appreciate Prison Pipeline and the other fine programs presented on K... Read more

Positively Revolting on 10/08/10 - David C. Korten

Airs at: Fri, 10/08/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Positively Revolting
Positively Revolting guest author David C. Korten discusses  moving on from this economy that is broken, to a new economics based on the real wealth of strong communities, shared prosperity, a healthy environment, and citizen democracy.   Read more

Voices from the Edge on 10-14-2010

Airs at: Thu, 10/14/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
  Full View #cg_msg_content #cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } Ballot measures and bucks: a look at the scramble for tax dollars New emergency response systems for the fire bureau. Funding for the historical society. Additional revenue to cover manda... Read more

The Underground History of American Education

    Prologue The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbnes... Read more

Voices from the edge on 10-7-2010

Airs at: Thu, 10/07/2010 at 12:00am
Produced for Voices from the Edge
Should the Portland Police be subject to random drug testing? Jo Ann and Dave discuss the City of Portland's proposal to require random drug-testing of Portland police officers. The conversation doesn't end when the program does. You can join in additional discussion of th... Read more

Voices from the Edge on 09/30/2010

Airs at: Thu, 09/30/2010 at 12:00am
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#cg_msg_content div { margin: 0px; } Lies, damn lies and export statistics: A conversation about the impact of free trade agreements on our communities President Obama recently announced plans to push through the Korea Free Trade Agreement immediately after the November... Read more