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Healthcare vote postponed by US Senate

Airs at: Tue, 06/27/2017 at 4:45pm
Produced for Evening News
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had hoped to complete the American Health Care Act before the Senate broke for the Fourth of July recess. Polls showed that Americans were overwhelmingly opposed to the bill, and the Kentucky republican knew that it would be better to ... Read more

The Everything Guide to Integrative Pain Management with Dr. Traci Stein

Airs at: Mon, 07/17/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Healthwatch
  Living with pain can be a daily struggle. If you are suffering from chronic pain, sometimes even small tasks can be difficult to accomplish. But there is hope. With The Everything Guide to Integrative Pain Management, you'll learn about the different options for managing... Read more

Lyme Disease and its Treatment

Airs at: Mon, 07/10/2017 at 11:00am - 11:30am
Produced for Healthwatch
Lyme disease affects more than 300,000 people in the United States, costs $1.3 billion to treat each year and is the sixth most common reportable infectious disease in the United States. It is named after Lyme, Conn., where it was first discovered 40 years ago. Lyme diseas... Read more

Interview with Andrew from VIRTUAL ZERO

Airs at: Fri, 06/23/2017 at 5:15pm - 5:30pm
Virtual Zero tarted originally in 1997 as Irish Monkey. After a decade long hiatus from music, Andrew reestablished Virtual Zero with the intent of using new and old material. The music is inspired by 90s hard rock. Their sound is completely independent of the Portland musi... Read more

Activist Group Uses Virtual Reality Cameras to Document Animal Abuse

Airs at: Thu, 07/06/2017 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for Evening News
Today, the animal rights activist group Direct Action Everywhere, or DxE, released a new type of footage from inside an industrial pig farm. Activists infiltrated Circle Four Farms in Milford, Utah, one of the country’s largest pig production facilities. They used newly dev... Read more

Transmuting Historical Trauma

Airs at: Mon, 07/03/2017 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Madness Radio
  What if psychotic experiences express historical and intergenerational trauma? Does one person’s emotional crisis reach beyond their own individual mind? Could synchronicities and meaningful coincidences guide recovery instead of just being “symptoms”? Naas Siddiqui, a ... Read more

Oregon Falling Behind

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2017 at 2:00pm
Produced for Evening News
  A new report released today  ranks Oregon 31st in the nation overall for child well-being. The state has made improvements in its health ranking, but is falling behind in education     Read more

Demystifying Demons

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Jan Haaken interviews Old Mole Clayton Morgareidge about his new book Demystifying Demons: Rethinking Who and What We Are.  Working on the boundary of philosophy and psychoanalysis, it's a volume that one reviewer has called "a spiritual book for atheists" and an "engagi... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for June 26, 2017

Airs at: Mon, 06/26/2017 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for Old Mole Variety Hour
  Frann Michel hosts this episode, which includes these segments:  Bill Resnick interviews Larry Kleinman, co-founder of PCUN, about current immigration issues; Movie Moles Joe Clement & Frann Michel discuss Antz (1998),  a cartoon for workers of all ages; Jan Haaken int... Read more

Unbroken Brain - The Full Monty

Airs at: Wed, 06/21/2017 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Free Culture Radio
Maia Szalavitz is an award-winning journalist and author who covers addiction and neuroscience. Her latest book, the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction uses her own story of recovery from heroin and cocaine addictio... Read more