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Old Mole Variety Hour for June 21, 2021

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Norm Diamond hosts today program which includes the following segments: Radical Re-envisioning of Life on a Hot Planet: Bill Resnick interviews Richard A. Smith, a historian of modern China, and also an environmentalist activist who co-founded the organization System Cha... Read more

Race-norming

Airs at: Mon, 06/21/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Our well-read red, Patricia Kullberg, shares a piece by Dave Zirin on the National Football League’s race-norming of cognitive testing, which has meant that Black players must be more cognitively impaired than their white counterparts to qualify for the same compensation fo... Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court announces it will hear Mississippi's case to ban abortion after 15 weeks

Airs at: Mon, 06/07/2021 at 5:30pm - 6:00pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  On May 17th, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear a case from Mississippi regarding a law to ban most abortions after 15 weeks. Beginning likely in October, the majority conservative court will hear an abortion case about the pre-viability of a fetus for th... Read more

Century Does Psychedelics

Airs at: Wed, 06/09/2021 at 12:00am - 12:30am
Produced for:  Century Of Lies
This week: Century does psychedelics. We hear from Professor Peter Hendricks, PhD with the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on special considerations for evaluating psilocybin-facilitated treatments in vulnerable populations; and from Jazmi... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour

Airs at: Mon, 06/07/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Coming up on Monday, June 7   In November, Oregon became the first state to legalize the use of psilocybin, the main active ingredient in “magic mushrooms,” for mental health treatment in supervised settings. The field of psychedelic-enhanced therapy has gained particular... Read more

Research shows Medicare is better than private health insurance

Airs at: Wed, 06/02/2021 at 5:30pm - 5:45pm
Produced for:  Evening News, News In Depth
  People who have employer-provided or privately purchased health insurance are more likely to experience medical debt, and more likely to postpone care because of cost, compared with people who are covered by public insurance, such as Medicare or Medicaid. Those are some... Read more

Vaccine Hesitancy among Healthcare workers

Airs at: Mon, 05/31/2021 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  Vaccine Hesitancy among Healthcare workers. Sharon Grant looks at Vaccine Hesitancy among Healthcare workers. Sharon was a longtime public employee with Multnomah County and worked on vaccine hesitancy community campaigns for the health department.  Read more

Pandemic prompts a second look at existing healthcare coverage

Airs at: Thu, 05/27/2021 at 5:15pm
Produced for:  Evening News
  As the COVID 19 pandemic continues, people in Oregon and Washington may want to take a second look at their health care coverage.  And if they don't have health insurance, there's an opportunity to get it now for less money through the American Rescue Plan.  In this inte... Read more

The Gap: Oregon's Vaccine Lottery and Changing Mask Attitudes

Airs at: Fri, 05/28/2021 at 8:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  The Gap
  On this episode of the Gap, Tammy and Althea discuss the newly announced lottery for Oregonians who get their first vaccine dose before June 28th. Statewide, there's $1 million up for grabs and $10k in each county. Even folks under 18 have a drawing of their own, to win ... Read more

Manitoba provincia Canadiense con más contagios que EU y México y las minorías indígenas son más afectadas, Escasez de Oxígeno en 19 países, Vacunas gratuitas en Plaza Paisanos 05/27/2021

Airs at: Thu, 05/27/2021 at 12:00pm - 12:15pm
Produced for:  Noticias en español
Breve Informativo sobre el COVID-19 de las últimas noticias locales, nacionales e internacionales sobre el COVID-19, relevantes para la comunidad latina de Oregon. Hoy jueves 27 de mayo del 2021.    Se han recuperado y sobrevivido al COVID-19, más de ciento cincuenta y un ... Read more