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

Featured tonight are Two Classic Radio Dramas. First aired in 1949, Edward G. Robinson stars in this episode of the CBS Radio series Suspence adapted from the film noir classic Night Has A Thousand Eyes.  The original story, by Cornell Woolrich, follows a young couple de... Read more

On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and nearly 50 other protestors and civil rights leaders were arrested after leading a Good Friday demonstration as part of the Birmingham Campaign, designed to bring national attention to the brutal, racist treatment suffered... Read more

I had the great pleasure of interviewing Eugene-based writer Cai Emmons five times for KBOO, before she ended her life, through Oregon’s Death With Dignity program, in January 2023. Cai was diagnosed with bulbar onset ALS in early 2021, at the age of 70. It’s a debilitat... Read more

Last year four of the dams on Klamath River were removed.  The largest dam removal project in United States history, this is a remarkable test case to show how nature and people can thrive on free-flowing rivers. But there are still many dams around the United States and... Read more

  The Reverend Martin Luther King once said: "We may have all come on different ships, but now we're in the same boat." Were he alive, MLK would have been the first to condemn the state terror campaign currently inflicted on our immigrant communities. Surely he would ha... Read more