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Improving Taxation

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Economist Mary King explains the need for taxes and the  inequities of current property taxes in Oregon,  and she proposes several ways to raise state and local funding to support housing, health care, education, and more.          Why do we need taxes and what can we ... Read more

El Norte

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Movie Moles Laurie Mercier and Frann Michel discuss the 1983 film El Norte. Directed and co-written by Gregory Nava, El Norte is an award winning, independent epic US film, notable for centering the experiences of two indigenous Mayan migrants from Guatemala as they move... Read more

Growing up Undocumented

Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Patricia Kullberg speaks with Luisa Martinez about growing up undocumented in Florida and the deprivation and shame entailed in living as an impoverished Latina without papers. She relates how encountering the ideas of socialism offered her a new perspective on how imper... Read more

Who is Running Portland's City Government

Airs at: Mon, 03/17/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
When voters overwhelmingly passed a new city charter in 2022, optimism abounded that the new form of government would more truly represent all of Portland, not just the business elite who had been running things pretty much for over 150 years. The city was supposed to be... Read more

Putin's Russia - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 03/13/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  As Vladimir Putin flexes his geopolitical muscles at the start of a second Trump term, we revisit our March 2022 conversation with British comics artist Darryl Cunningham, author of Putin’s Russia: The Rise of a Dictator. In this hour-long special, Darryl tracks the ... Read more

Nukes for Needless Energy Take 2

Airs at: Mon, 03/10/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
An unholy marriage between big tech and nukes threatens to upend the Pacific Northwest as we know it. 45 years ago, soon after a serious accident at one of the nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island caused the core to partially melt down, Oregonians overwhelmingly passed ... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for March 3, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jon Nelson hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: The New Military-Industrial Complex: Laurie Mercier speaks with Michael Klare, Five College professor emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, who serves o... Read more

The New Military-Industrial Complex

Airs at: Mon, 03/03/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Laurie Mercier speaks with Michael Klare, Five College professor emeritus of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, who serves on the board of the Arms Control Association and advises other organizations in the field. Klare has written widely on U.S. mili... Read more

The New Face of the Portland City Council

Airs at: Mon, 02/17/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Portland has a new form of city government and one manifestation of this is the most progressive city council the city has seen in years. But beneath the veneer of a new governing structure an old entrenched bureaucracy appears to remain. This came into focus on February... Read more

Democracy Under Siege

Airs at: Thu, 02/13/2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Ann Telnaes has won the Herblock Prize, the Reuben Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for her political cartoons.  Recently, she left the Washington Post after 16 years when the paper spiked her cartoon depicting billionaires bowing down to Trump.  Now Ann is at the center... Read more