Government/Politics

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Meet the hosts of Running On Air

Produced for:  Running On Air
    Running On Air is lucky to have all-star hosts from different KBOO shows on the program to help facilitate conversations between Portland's candidates this election season.  Learn a little bit more about them, before the show begins!         Don ... Read more

Healthcare Access and Barriers to Care Among People Incarcerated in US Prisons

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2024 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
On this edition of Prison Pipeline: Healthcare Access and Barriers to Care Among People Incarcerated in US Prisons. Host Doug McVay is joined in conversation by Emily Lupez, MD, MPH, a General Medicine and Primary Care Research Fellow at Cambridge Health Alliance and Harva... Read more

KBOO's Election Agenda 2024

Produced for:  Evening News
  The results are in! Nearly 500 KBOO listeners answered our Election Agenda survey this summer. It all centered around the question, 'what do you want candidates to be talking about as they compete for votes?' With this information, we’ve created KBOO’s 2024 Election Agen... Read more

Global Citizen International Digest with Prof. Mel Gurtov

Airs at: Thu, 08/29/2024 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News
In this episode, the elusive Middle East peace, the Ukrainian incursion in Russia, US nuclear and drone strategy vs. China, and more. Read more

Oregon’s Climate Protection Program at Risk

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Oregon's Climate Protection Program (CPP) 2024, overseen by the Department of Environmental Quality, aims to reduce 80-90% of harmful emissions from the state’s largest polluters by 2050.  Implementation of the CPP was delayed for three years on a technicality following a l... Read more

Capitalism and Climate Change

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
In order to prevent climate catastrophe of unimaginable proportions, global leaders have looked to market forces to effect the transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy. But market forces, argues economist Marty Hart-Landsberg, aren’t working. Hart-Landsberg looks bac... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for August 26, 2024

Airs at: Mon, 08/26/2024 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Patricia Kullberg hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes the following segments: Justice and Palestine: On July 19, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its opinion that Israel’s occupation and annexation of the Palestinian territories are u... Read more

A Look Back at Seattle Hempfest

Airs at: Wed, 08/21/2024 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week on Century of Lies: A Look Back At Seattle Hempfest. In August 1991, a group of weed activists and freedom lovers gathered in Volunteer Park in Seattle, Washington for the Washington Hemp Expo. From these modest beginnings grew the largest protestival in the world... Read more

Wolves: Victims, Not Villains

Airs at: Fri, 08/23/2024 at 10:00am - 10:30am
Produced for:  Voices for the Animals
  Back in February a Wyoming man named Cody Roberts deliberately ran over a wolf in his snowmobile, traumatically injuring the animal. Instead of immediately putting the wolf out of its misery, he taped its mouth shut and posed for pictures with it. He then dragged the poo... Read more

Petroleum 238

Airs at: Mon, 09/02/2024 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
A little known fact about oil and gas drilling is that a lot more comes up from the depths of the earth than just oil or gas. Much of this waste is toxic and radioactive. And the fracking boom has only worsened the problem. On this episode of Locus Focus we talk with Justin... Read more