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  KBOO's zine, the BOO Beat, is back with a second issue, featuring KBOO's program guide, interviews with local activists and community members, spotlights on local businesses, and on-the-ground reporting. Our publication has its finger on the pulse of Portland, and you... Read more

  Places to find food for those who lost SNAP benefits: (Compiled via Willamette Week, The Portland Mercury, Oregon Live, KGW)   OREGON FOOD BANK Searchable database of places providing hot meals, boxes of groceries, and other goods. Search by zip code Expect to call a... Read more

  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole which features the following segments: Crisis in Higher Ed: What’s at stake for the city of Portland if its flagship university is strangled by budget cuts? Laurie Mercier speaks with Bill Knight, Associate Profess... Read more

This program aired originally on November 3, 2025 The landscape of Washington County has been transformed from one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world into a maze of gargantuan data centers. On this episode of Locus Focus we continue the tale of how t... Read more

The Beaverton Education Association United Slate is challenging the current BEA leadership in a February union election.  Adam Oyster-Sands and Lauren McCartney discuss their struggle to bring an organizing culture, high participation,  transparency, and joint community-... Read more

Join Prison Pipeline hosts Emma Lugo, Karen James, Doug McVay & Adam Carpinelli as they reflect on 2025 and look ahead to the New Year. Read more

This Pastures of Plenty is the last Folk Strip show of 2025.  Please tune in early morning December 31st (5:30 till 7:00).  That's the last day of the year, and also  the last day for our end-of-the-year fund raiser 'KBOO Fights Back'.  The show is filled with a variety ... Read more

Join us for Cascadia Coffeehouse on this first Friday morning of January when we'll enjoy some exciting new music from John Reischman & the Jaybirds, Courtney Hartman, Muireann Bradley, the Foreign Landers, mandolin player Jesse Appelman, Wyndham Baird, Bryan McDowell, t... Read more

Today, Jeff Godsil relives Eastwood's Unforgiven, Britta Gordon surveys the mysteries of Trenque Lauquen, and Mona Bowen discusses Swirl, Plu3ribus, Wake  Up Dead Man, The Last Frontier, and Blue Moon. Read more