Legislation

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China's Eco Apocalypse

Airs at: Mon, 01/11/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick talks with China scholar Richard Smith regarding China's economic and environmental problems. Smith's writing is available on Truthout , including his article on China's Communist-Capitalist Ecological Apocalypse. They discuss the recent crisis in China's eco... Read more

Mike Nearman Interview

Airs at: Sun, 01/10/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
Mike Nearman and I talked two years ago, just before he won his seat in House District 23 from Representative Jim Thompson.  He's running for reelection and since then, Nearman has held fast to conservative principles of reduced taxes, dedication to the repeal of the Afford... Read more

California's Prop 49 Aims to Overturn Citizen's United

Airs at: Thu, 01/07/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  News In Depth
KBOO's  Robin Ryan speaks with Common Cause's California Director Kathy Feng about her state's Proposition 49, which aims to send a message to Congress to pass a Constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court's Citizen's United ruling from 2010.   Citizen's United ... Read more

Deregulatory Bills Pass House of Representatives

Airs at: Thu, 01/07/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
Two anti-regulatory bills were approved in House yesterday and today along strongly bipartisan lines. The HB 1155, known as the SCRUB Act, and HB 712, known as the Sunshine for Deregulatory Decrees and Settlements Act, were approved by the Republican majority en-route to a ... Read more

David Gomberg Interview

Airs at: Wed, 01/06/2016 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Between Us
David Gomberg is an Oregon democratic legislator running for reelection in House District 10, a slice of Oregon from Tillamook to Yachats and inland 50 miles.  His passions are community, his business and his family.  Don Merrill talked with David Gomberg about earthquake p... Read more

Domestic Workers' Bill of Rights Takes Effect Tomorrow

Airs at: Tue, 12/22/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Evening News
On January first a law will go into place assigning certain protections and benefits to domestic workers in the State of Oregon, called the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights.  For more KBOO reporter Jared Dancler spoke with Tom Breedlove, an expert on household labor and taxe... Read more

Mass Shootings and Insanity Pleas

Airs at: Mon, 12/28/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Frann Michel talks with Jan Haaken, director of the documentary Guilty Except for Insanity,  about questions around competency and the insanity plea in the Robert Lewis Dear case, the shooting that left three dead at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs in Nove... Read more

The Old Mole Variety Hour for December 21, 2015

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Denise Morris hosts this episode of the Old Mole, which includes Christmas songs by Etta James and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as segments on the climate impacts of the TPP,  the politics of the Peanuts' Christmas cartoon, and the impacts of the women's movement on family life... Read more

Kathleen Gerson on the Unfinished Women's Movement

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Bill Resnick interviews Kathleen Gerson. Gerson teaches at NYU in the Department of Sociology, and is the author of The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work and Family. They discuss the revolution in US life triggered by the women’s movement. Read more

Climate Impacts of the TPP

Airs at: Mon, 12/21/2015 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
Desiree Hellegers hosts a round table discussion on the climate impacts of the Transpacific Partnership, featuring Miya Reback, development and campaign coordinator for 350.org Portland, Kristen Sheeran, Oregon Director for Climate Solutions, and Michael Shannon, Executive ... Read more