Evening News

The race for Portland's next mayor is starting to heat up - with Sho Dozono losing his public funding, accusations have begun to fly between the candidates.KBOO spoke with candidate Sam Adams on his response to Dozono's decision to stay in the race.That was Commissioner Sam... Read more

  The Sierra Club of Oregon is launching a new campaign this week on the Power to Change. KBOO’s Crystal Leighty has more.   Read more

And now, KBOO's Linda Olson-Osterlund brings us this week's Civil Liberties Watch.  This edition focuses on the issue of government surveillance, the loss of personal privacy, and the Freedom of Information Act - or FOIA: Read more

 We’re now joined by mayoral candidate, Sho Dozono. Dozono says he wants to challenge the status quo and says Adams is a "City Hall insider" who believes he is "entitled to the Mayor's job".   Thank you very much, again we've been speaking with Sho Dozono, one of thirteen ... Read more

 Protesters greeted Mexican President Vicente Fox Wednesday night as he spoke at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert hall in downtown Portland.  KBOO reporters Crystal Elinski and Jason Dowd were there.   Read more

 Inside the Arlene Schnitzer Hall, a large crowd heard Fox oppose the war in Iraq, praise the North American Free Trade Agreement, yet criticize the South Texas border wall. Fox appeared courtesy of the World Affairs Council of Oregon.   Read more

 Portland's seriously pissed off grannies were back at the Broadway Military Recruiting Center today, after having taken several months off from their Friday protests.Portland police arrested four people for putting red handprints on the windows of the Recruiting Center.The... Read more

 This week marks the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, and the National Priorities Project has released a state-by-state estimate of what the war has cost.  For Oregon, the price tag is four-point-two (b) billion dollars already spent, and another one-point-eight (... Read more

 This week marks the 4th annual "Sunshine Week", led by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. The focus of the week is to "shed light" on government secrecy, and to call for open government. Patrick Yack is a Florida-based newspaper editor who heads the Freedom of In... Read more

   The City council of New Orleans voted last night to criminalize homelessness -- just two months after deciding to demolish thousands of undamaged, affordable public housing units. Housing activists have called the latest move an outrage that targets the poorest survivo... Read more