Wednesday Talk Radio

Our immigrant and refugee English learning community is not well served by the institutionalized language programs. A new company puts Spanish speakers together with English speakers so both groups can learn the language they want. Host Lisa Loving welcomes Patrik Angstrom-... Read more

 Hosted by Lisa Loving As per Senate Bill 111, law enforcement agencies around Oregon are drawing up guidelines for investigating incidents involving Police use of Deadly Force. What are the key policy pieces on the table? Lisa Loving speaks with Multnomah County Sheriff L... Read more

 Hosted by Lisa Loving Should the US Patent Office get to decide your racial identity? Lisa's guests are Chinatown Dance Rock band TheSlants on their struggle to name their band any damn way they please.     Read more

Host Sue Supriano speaks with Anthony Johnson, the Clinical Director of Oregon Green Free and the political Director of Progressive Reform of Oregon, and Sara Duff, board member at the Institute for Cannabis Therapeutics and Human Resources Director at Oregon Green Free. O... Read more

 Hosted by Lisa Loving   Iron Tribe: a local re-entry program built by ex-offenders.   In the studio today are Bear, Shawn, and Jason.  Joining us by phone is Corbett. Now 200 members strong, they’ve built a re-entry program for themselves, from scratch. Is bootstrappi... Read more

 Host Lisa Loving speaks with Gerry Pollet, Executive Director of Heart of America Northwest. The Japanese reactor crisis has important implications for Northwest:   The explosion Sunday night at Reactor 3 involved a reactor using Plutonium fuel. Heart of America Northwest... Read more

Dan Johnson hosts a discussion of hunger in Oregon. His guests are Jessica Chanay, Deputy Director for Hunger Free Oregon and Jean Kempe Ware of the Oregon Food Bank. CD-2143  Read more

Dan Johnson hosts a discussion of hunger in Oregon. His guests are Jessica Chanay, Deputy Director for Hunger Free Oregon and Jean Kempe Ware of the Oregon Food Bank. Read more

 Hosted by Lisa Loving. Today's Guests are Mark Moscato and Amanda Tillstrom from the Dill Pickle Club in Portland.  This newly formed Club is dedicated to uncovering Portland's forgotten history and compelling -- albeit dry -- policy issues. Their newest publication is a ... Read more

Congress this week is fighting to come up with a temporary budget solution to keep open the government's doors while the two parties in power struggle over their competing political interests. Can the United States break out of the Republicrat/Demublican stalemate? Ou... Read more